| Original text | Modern text | Key line |
| IF you shall chance (Camillo) to visit Bohemia, | If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, | WT I.i.1 |
| on the like occasion whereon my seruices are now | on the like occasion whereon my services are now | WT I.i.2 |
| on-foot, you shall see (as I haue said) great difference | on foot, you shall see, as I have said, great difference | WT I.i.3 |
| betwixt our Bohemia, and your Sicilia. | betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia. | WT I.i.4 |
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| Wherein our Entertainment shall shame | Wherein our entertainment shall shame | WT I.i.8 |
| vs: we will be iustified in our Loues: for indeed--- | us: we will be justified in our loves. For indeed – | WT I.i.9 |
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| Verely I speake it in the freedome of my | Verily, I speak it in the freedom of my | WT I.i.11 |
| knowledge: we cannot with such magnificence--- in so | knowledge: we cannot with such magnificence, in so | WT I.i.12 |
| rare---I know not what to say--- Wee will giue you sleepie | rare – I know not what to say. We will give you sleepy | WT I.i.13 |
| Drinkes, that your Sences (vn-intelligent of our insufficience) | drinks, that your senses, unintelligent of our insufficience, | WT I.i.14 |
| may, though they cannot prayse vs, as little | may, though they cannot praise us, as little | WT I.i.15 |
| accuse vs. | accuse us. | WT I.i.16 |
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| 'Beleeue me, I speake as my vnderstanding | Believe me, I speak as my understanding | WT I.i.19 |
| instructs me, and as mine honestie puts it to vtterance. | instructs me and as mine honesty puts it to utterance. | WT I.i.20 |
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| I thinke there is not in the World, either | I think there is not in the world either | WT I.i.32 |
| Malice or Matter, to alter it. You haue an vnspeakable | malice or matter to alter it. You have an unspeakable | WT I.i.33 |
| comfort of your young Prince Mamillius: it is a Gentleman | comfort of your young prince Mamillius. It is a gentleman | WT I.i.34 |
| of the greatest Promise, that euer came into my Note. | of the greatest promise that ever came into my note. | WT I.i.35 |
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| Would they else be content to die? | Would they else be content to die? | WT I.i.40 |
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| If the King had no Sonne, they would desire | If the King had no son, they would desire | WT I.i.43 |
| to liue on Crutches till he had one. | to live on crutches till he had one. | WT I.i.44 |