| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.146 | Have empty left their orbs and shot their fires | Haue empty left their Orbes, and shot their Fires |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.180 | when I have made it empty. | when I haue made it emptie. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.94 | That in civility thou seemest so empty? | That in ciuility thou seem'st so emptie? |
| As You Like It | AYL V.i.41 | of a cup into a glass, by filling the one doth empty the | of a cup into a glasse, by filling the one, doth empty the |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.70 | Fear not, 'tis empty of all things, but grief: | Feare not, 'tis empty of all things, but Greefe: |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.113 | This Cloten was a fool, an empty purse, | This Cloten was a Foole, an empty purse, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.165 | empty: the brain the heavier for being too light; the | empty: the Brain the heauier, for being too light; the |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.129 | His purse is empty already. | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.131 | Yea, on his part I'll empty all these veins | In his behalfe, Ile empty all these Veines, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.33 | empty the jordan – | (emptie the Iordan) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.61 | Can a weak empty vessel bear such a huge full | Can a weake emptie Vessell beare such a huge full |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.95 | Dost thou so hunger for mine empty chair | Do'st thou so hunger for my emptie Chayre, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.153 | That England, being empty of defence, | That England being emptie of defence, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iv.66 | I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a | I did neuer know so full a voyce issue from so emptie a |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iv.67 | heart; but the saying is true, ‘ The empty vessel makes | heart: but the saying is true, The empty vessel makes |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.248 | Were't not all one, an empty eagle were set | Wer't not all one, an emptie Eagle were set, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.4 | And dead men's cries do fill the empty air, | And dead mens cries do fill the emptie ayre, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.268 | Will cost my crown, and like an empty eagle | Will cost my Crowne, and like an emptie Eagle, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.69 | More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes | More worth, then empty vanities: yet Prayers & Wishes |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.10 | That chair stand empty, but we all are men | That Chayre stand empty: But we all are men |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.i.26 | Like to the empty ass, to shake his ears | (Like to the empty Asse) to shake his eares, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.128 | Fill thou the empty hollows of mine ears | With the sweete hearing of thy poetrie. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.88 | Made forth, as when the empty eagle flies | Made forth, as when the empty Eagle flies, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.169 | Until their empty veins be dry and sere. | Vntill their emptie vaines be drie and sere |
| King John | KJ V.i.40 | An empty casket, where the jewel of life | An empty Casket, where the Iewell of life |
| King Lear | KL I.i.153 | Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sounds | Nor are those empty hearted, whose low sounds |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.857 | And I shall find you empty of that fault, | And I shal finde you emptie of that fault, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.2.1 | Weep our sad bosoms empty. | & there / Weepe our sad bosomes empty. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.2 | To several subjects: heaven hath my empty words, | To seuerall subiects: heauen hath my empty words, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.63 | A carrion Death, within whose empty eye | a carrion death, / Within whose emptie eye |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.5 | Uncapable of pity, void and empty | Vncapable of pitty, voyd, and empty |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.13 | among the whitsters in Datchet Mead, and there empty | among the Whitsters in Dotchet Mead, and there empty |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.134 | Empty the basket, I say. | Empty the basket I say. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.96 | The fold stands empty in the drowned field, | The fold stands empty in the drowned field, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.53 | The town is empty; on the brow o'th' sea | The Towne is empty; on the brow o'th'Sea |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.173 | Thou doest. Empty old receptacles | thou doest, emptie olde receptacles, |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.59 | Not with the empty hollowness, but weight. | Not with the emptie hollownes, but weight: |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.68 | But empty lodgings and unfurnished walls, | But empty lodgings, and vnfurnish'd walles, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.59 | From cold and empty veins where no blood dwells. | From cold and empty Veines where no blood dwels. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.39 | To find the empty, vast, and wandering air, | To find the empty, vast, and wand'ring ayre: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.469 | Is the chair empty? Is the sword unswayed? | Is the Chayre emptie? is the Sword vnsway'd? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.59 | Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut | Her Chariot is an emptie Haselnut, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.45 | A beggarly account of empty boxes, | A beggerly account of emptie boxes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.39 | Than empty tigers or the roaring sea. | Then emptie Tygers, or the roaring Sea. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.204 | Is empty on the back of Montague, | Is empty on the backe of Mountague, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.176 | My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, | My Faulcon now is sharpe, and passing emptie, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.214 | Was the first man that leaped; cried, ‘ Hell is empty, | Was the first man that leapt; cride hell is empty, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.111 | Barns and garners never empty, | Barnes, and Garners, neuer empty. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.192 | And all out of an empty coffer; | and all out of an empty Coffer: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.i.17 | 'Faith, nothing but an empty box, sir, which, | Faith, nothing but an empty box Sir, which |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.38 | lordship that I returned you an empty messenger. | Lordship, that I return'd you an empty Messenger. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.ii.12 | Like empty purses picked. And his poor self, | Like empty purses pickt; and his poore selfe |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.34 | You are so empty of them. Should not our father | You are so empty of them, should not our Father |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.6.1 | As infants' empty of all thought! | As Infants empty of all thought. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.361 | Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil. | Are empty trunkes, ore-flourish'd by the deuill. |