| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.82 | so all the year! We'd find no fault with the tithe-woman | so all the yeere, weed finde no fault with the tithe woman |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.25.1 | 'Tis not his fault, the spark. | 'Tis not his fault the spark. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.105 | That's all the fault. I spoke with her but once | That's all the fault: I spoke with hir but once, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.74 | What mean you, madam? I have made no fault. | What meane you Madam, I haue made no fault. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.102 | O, that his fault should make a knave of thee, | Oh that his fault should make a knaue of thee, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.2 | Is Antony or we in fault for this? | Is Anthony, or we in fault for this? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ix.16 | Against the flint and hardness of my fault, | Against the flint and hardnesse of my fault, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.44 | Let me the knowledge of my fault bear with me. | Let me the knowledge of my fault beare with me: |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.274 | The worst fault you have is to be in love. | The worst fault you haue, is to be in loue. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.275 | 'Tis a fault I will not change for your best | 'Tis a fault I will not change, for your best |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.341 | one another as halfpence are, every one fault seeming | one another, as halfe pence are, euerie one fault seeming |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.162 | her fault her husband's occasion, let her never nurse her | her fault her husbands occasion, let her neuer nurse her |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.65 | For she will score your fault upon my pate. | For she will scoure your fault vpon my pate: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.95 | That's not my fault; he's master of my state. | That's not my fault, hee's master of my state. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.55 | It is a fault that springeth from your eye. | It is a fault that springeth from your eie. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.109 | That's a fault that water | That's a fault that water |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.206 | A grievous fault. Say, woman, didst thou so? | A greeuous fault: say woman, didst thou so? |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.265 | Shall be the general's fault, though he perform | Shall be the Generals fault, though he performe |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.17 | He's poor in no one fault, but stored with all. | He's poore in no one fault, but stor'd withall. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.226 | A fault on us, your Tribunes, that we laboured, | a fault on vs, your Tribunes, / That we labour'd |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.233 | To voice him consul. Lay the fault on us. | To Voyce him Consull. Lay the fault on vs. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.75 | It is your fault that I have loved Posthumus: | It is your fault that I haue lou'd Posthumus: |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.56 | But that's no fault of his: we must receive him | But that's no fault of his: we must receyue him |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.65 | My fault being nothing – as I have told you oft – | My fault being nothing (as I haue told you oft) |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.29 | Know, if you kill me for my fault, I should | Know, if you kill me for my fault, I should |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.20 | In my good brother's fault: I know not why | In my good Brothers fault: I know not why |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.63 | Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; | Were not in fault, for she was beautifull: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.101 | Take it to heart? Fie, 'tis a fault to heaven, | Take it to heart? Fye, 'tis a fault to Heauen, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.102 | A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, | A fault against the Dead, a fault to Nature, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.36 | From that particular fault. The dram of evil | |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.51 | My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer | My fault is past. But oh, what forme of Prayer |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.211 | My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, | My reformation glittering o're my fault, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.27 | Is guilty of this fault, and not my son. | Was guilty of this fault; and not my Sonne. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.457 | be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a | bee a fault, Heauen helpe the Wicked: if to be olde and merry, be a |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.174 | You must needs learn, lord, to amend this fault. | You must needes learne, Lord, to amend this fault: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.234 | Neither, 'tis a woman's fault. | Neyther, 'tis a Womans fault. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.25 | the fault. Whereupon the world increases, and kindreds | |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.39 | to thee, as to one it pleases me for fault of a better to | to thee (as to one it pleases me, for fault of a better, to |
| Henry V | H5 II.chorus.20 | But see, thy fault France hath in thee found out, | But see, thy fault France hath in thee found out, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.76.2 | I do confess my fault, | I do confesse my fault, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.152 | And I repent my fault more than my death, | And I repent my fault more then my death, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.165 | My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign. | My fault, but not my body, pardon Soueraigne. |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.130 | Ah, that's a foul fault! | A, that's a foule fault. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.286 | O not today, think not upon the fault | O not to day, thinke not vpon the fault |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.54 | it for your own fault, and not mine; for had you been | it for your owne fault, and not mine: for had you beene |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.57 | Or will you blame and lay the fault on me? | Or will you blame and lay the fault on me? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.197 | for his fault the other day, he did vow upon his knees | for his fault the other day, he did vow vpon his knees |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.125 | Pity was all the fault that was in me; | Pittie was all the fault that was in me: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.127 | And lowly words were ransom for their fault. | And lowly words were Ransome for their fault: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.106 | O, 'tis a fault too too unpardonable! | Oh 'tis a fault too too vnpardonable. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.196 | Shall for the fault make forfeit of his head. | Shall for the Fault make forfeit of his head. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.7 | Withhold revenge, dear God! 'Tis not my fault, | With-hold reuenge (deere God) 'tis not my fault, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.35 | Should lose his birthright by his father's fault, | Should loose his Birth-right by his Fathers fault, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.164 | O, monstrous fault, to harbour such a thought! | Oh monstrous fault, to harbour such a thought. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.12 | Ah, what a shame! Ah, what a fault were this! | Ah what a shame, ah what a fault were this. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.43.1 | Whose fault is this? | Whose fault is this? |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.262 | That might have mercy on the fault thou gav'st him; | That might haue mercie on the fault, thou gau'st him: |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.56 | Go, go, good countrymen, and for this fault | Go, go, good Countrymen, and for this fault |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.139 | The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, | The fault (deere Brutus) is not in our Starres, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.4 | I would it were my fault to sleep so soundly. | I would it were my fault to sleepe so soundly. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.80 | If it were so, it was a grievous fault, | If it were so, it was a greeuous Fault, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.150 | What is the other fault, my sovereign lord? | What is the other faulte, my soueraigne Lord, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.196 | Arise, and be my fault thy honour's fame, | Arise and be my fault, thy honors fame, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.2 | Copland, except he can excuse his fault, | Copland, except he can excuse his fault, |
| King John | KJ I.i.118 | And if she did play false, the fault was hers – | And if she did play false, the fault was hers, |
| King John | KJ I.i.119 | Which fault lies on the hazards of all husbands | Which fault lyes on the hazards of all husbands |
| King John | KJ I.i.262 | And so doth yours. Your fault was not your folly. | And so doth yours: your fault, was not your follie, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.22 | Is it my fault that I was Geoffrey's son? | Is it my fault, that I was Geffreyes sonne? |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.30 | And oftentimes excusing of a fault | And oftentimes excusing of a fault, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.31 | Doth make the fault the worse by th' excuse, | Doth make the fault the worse by th'excuse: |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.33 | Discredit more in hiding of the fault | Discredite more in hiding of the fault, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.34 | Than did the fault before it was so patched. | Then did the fault before it was so patch'd. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.71 | The image of a wicked heinous fault | The image of a wicked heynous fault |
| King Lear | KL I.i.15 | bed. Do you smell a fault? | bed. Do you smell a fault? |
| King Lear | KL I.i.16 | I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it being | I cannot wish the fault vndone, the issue of it, being |
| King Lear | KL I.iii.11 | You shall do well; the fault of it I'll answer. | You shall do well, the fault of it Ile answer. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.204 | By your allowance; which if you should, the fault | By your allowance, which if you should, the fault |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.263 | The worships of their name. O most small fault, | The worships of their name. O most small fault, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.87 | Why dost thou call him knave? What is his fault? | Why do'st thou call him Knaue? / What is his fault? |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.139 | His fault is much, and the good King, his master, | |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.190 | Never – O fault! – revealed myself unto him | Neuer (O fault) reueal'd my selfe vnto him, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.69 | If broken, then, it is no fault of mine; | If broken then, it is no fault of mine: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.382 | It were a fault to snatch words from my tongue. | It were a fault to snatch words from my tongue. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.556 | perfect. I made a little fault in ‘ Great.’ | perfect. I made a little fault in great. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.855 | And I will have you and that fault withal; | And I will haue you, and that fault withall. |
| 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, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.157 | Whether it be the fault and glimpse of newness, | Whether it be the fault and glimpse of newnes, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.35 | Sith 'twas my fault to give the people scope, | Sith 'twas my fault, to giue the people scope, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.40 | And some condemned for a fault alone. | And some condemned for a fault alone. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.35 | I do beseech you, let it be his fault, | I doe beseech you let it be his fault, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.37 | Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it? | Condemne the fault, and not the actor of it, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.138 | That's like my brother's fault; if it confess | That's like my brothers fault: if it confesse |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.162 | What's this? What's this? Is this her fault or mine? | What's this? what's this? is this her fault, or mine? |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.453 | I have bethought me of another fault. | I haue bethought me of another fault. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.460 | I thought it was a fault, but knew it not, | I thought it was a fault, but knew it not, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.302 | Shall lose a hair through Bassanio's fault. | Shall lose a haire through Bassano's fault. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.186 | If I could add a lie unto a fault, | If I could adde a lie vnto a fault, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.247 | Pardon this fault, and by my soul I swear | Pardon this fault, and by my soule I sweare |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.87 | That he will not. 'Tis your fault, 'tis your | That he will not, 'tis your fault, 'tis your |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.88 | fault. 'Tis a good dog. | fault: 'tis a good dogge. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.12 | nor no breed-bate. His worst fault is that he is given to | nor no breede-bate: his worst fault is, that he is giuen to |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.14 | but has his fault. But let that pass. – Peter Simple you | but has his fault: but let that passe. Peter Simple, you |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.16 | Ay, for fault of a better. | I: for fault of a better. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.206 | 'Tis my fault, Master Page. I suffer for it. | 'Tis my fault (M. Page) I suffer for it. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.36 | not her fault. She does so take on with her men; they | not her fault: she do's so take on with her men; they |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.8 | complexion of a goose! A fault done first in the form of a | complexion of a Goose: a fault done first in the forme of a |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.9 | beast – O Jove, a beastly fault – and then another fault | beast, (O Ioue, a beastly fault:) and then another fault, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.10 | in the semblance of a fowl – think on't, Jove, a foul fault! | in the semblance of a Fowle, thinke on't (Ioue) a fowle-fault. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.200 | His folly, Helena, is no fault of mine. | His folly Helena is none of mine. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.201 | None but your beauty. Would that fault were mine! | None but your beauty, wold that fault wer mine |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.243 | But fare ye well. 'Tis partly my own fault, | But fare ye well, 'tis partly mine owne fault, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.61 | The fault will be in the music, cousin, if you | The fault will be in the musicke cosin, if you |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.202 | To be whipped! What's his fault? | To be whipt, what's his fault? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.4 | But Margaret was in some fault for this, | But Margaret was in some fault for this, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.66 | Out of their best – is not almost a fault | Out of her best, is not almost a fault |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.54.3 | That is a fault. | That's a fault: |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.278.1 | And new-create this fault? | And new create his fault? |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.332 | Till that the nature of your fault be known | Till that the Nature of your fault be knowne |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.70 | The more my fault | The more my fault, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.142 | This is my fault. As for the rest appealed, | This is my fault: as for the rest appeal'd, |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.5 | Which made the fault that we cannot correct, | Which made the fault that we cannot correct, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.240 | To smooth his fault I should have been more mild. | |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.104 | And minister correction to thy fault! | And minister correction to thy Fault. |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.105 | My gracious uncle, let me know my fault. | My gracious Vnckle, let me know my Fault, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.32 | Intended or committed was this fault? | Intended, or committed was this fault? |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.47 | Alack, my lord, that fault is none of yours, | Alacke my Lord, that fault is none of yours: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.227 | Thy brother's love, our duty, and thy fault | Thy Brothers Loue, our Duty, and thy Faults, |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.106 | My brother killed no man – his fault was thought – | My Brother kill'd no man, his fault was Thought, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.114 | On our entreaties, to amend your fault! | On our entreaties, to amend your fault. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.116 | Know then it is your fault that you resign | Know then, it is your fault, that you resigne |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.119 | him. I am the youngest of that name, for fault of a | him: I am the youngest of that name, for fault of a |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.185 | His fault concludes but what the law should end, | His fault concludes, but what the law should end, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.25 | Thy fault our law calls death. But the kind Prince, | Thy falt our Law calles death, but the kind Prince |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.267 | Miscarried by my fault, let my old life | miscarried by my fault, / Let my old life |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.18 | At the hedge corner, in the coldest fault? | At the hedge corner, in the couldest fault, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.87 | Her only fault – and that is faults enough – | Her onely fault, and that is faults enough, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.142 | Patience, I pray you, 'twas a fault unwilling. | Patience I pray you, 'twas a fault vnwilling. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.185 | As with the meat, some undeserved fault | As with the meate, some vndeserued fault |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.132 | Thy rankest fault – all of them; and require | Thy rankest fault; all of them: and require |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.i.28 | coming. Every man has his fault, and honesty is his. I | comming, euery man has his fault, and honesty is his. I |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.17 | An honour in him which buys out his fault – | (And Honour in him, which buyes out his fault) |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.85 | I must needs say you have a little fault. | I must needs say you haue a little fault, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.146 | Of its own fault, restraining aid to Timon, | Of it owne fall, restraining ayde to Timon, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.290 | That this fell fault of my accursed sons – | That this fell fault of my accursed Sonnes, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.156 | And that shall be the ransom for their fault. | And that shall be the ransome for their fault. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.171 | You killed her husband, and for that vile fault | You kil'd her husband, and for that vil'd fault, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC prologue.30 | Like or find fault; do as your pleasures are; | Like, or finde fault, do as your pleasures are, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.101 | Who, I? Alas, it is my vice, my fault: | Who I? alas it is my vice, my fault: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.142 | ‘Tis Troilus' fault; come, come, to field with him. | 'Tis Troylus fault: come, come, to field with him. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.111 | Ah, poor our sex! This fault in us I find, | Ah poore our sexe; this fault in vs I finde: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.199 | There's something in me that reproves my fault. | There's something in me that reproues my fault: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.200 | But such a headstrong, potent fault it is, | But such a head-strong potent fault it is, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.304 | Have done offence, I take the fault on me. | Haue done offence, I take the fault on me: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.40 | Did in your name receive it; pardon the fault, I pray. | Did in your name receiue it: pardon the fault I pray. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.52 | And pray her to a fault for which I chid her. | And pray her to a fault, for which I chid her. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.2 | all the kind of the Launces have this very fault. I have | all the kinde of the Launces, haue this very fault: I haue |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.317 | Well, that fault may be mended with a breakfast. | Well: that fault may be mended with a breakfast: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.30 | But were you banished for so small a fault? | But were you banisht for so small a fault? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.13 | If I had not had more wit than he, to take a fault upon | If I had not had more wit then he, to take a fault vpon |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.85 | You did continue fault, and that you slipped not | You did continue fault; and that you slipt not |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.59 | Which comes to me in name of fault I must not | Which comes to me in name of Fault, I must not |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.215 | Howe'er the business goes, you have made fault | How ere the businesse goes, you haue made fault |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.49 | That for thy mother's fault art thus exposed | That for thy mothers fault, art thus expos'd |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.2 | A saint-like sorrow. No fault could you make | A Saint-like Sorrow: No fault could you make, |