| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.56 | This his good melancholy oft began | This his good melancholly oft began |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.4 | melancholy man. | melancholly man. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.8 | and sing. I knew a man that had this trick of melancholy | and sing: I know a man that had this tricke of melancholy |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.85 | melancholy? | melancholly? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ix.12 | O sovereign mistress of true melancholy, | Oh Soueraigne Mistris of true Melancholly, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.26 | The melancholy Jaques grieves at that | The melancholy Iaques grieues at that, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.41 | Much marked of the melancholy Jaques, | Much marked of the melancholie Iaques, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.10 | It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques. | It will make you melancholly Monsieur Iaques |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.12 | melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs. More, | melancholly out of a song, / As a Weazel suckes egges: More, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.112 | Under the shade of melancholy boughs, | Vnder the shade of melancholly boughes, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.286 | Monsieur Melancholy. | Monsieur Melancholly. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.3 | They say you are a melancholy fellow. | They say you are a melancholly fellow. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.10 | I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is | I haue neither the Schollers melancholy, which is |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.15 | but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of | but it is a melancholy of mine owne, compounded of |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.20 | When I am dull with care and melancholy, | When I am dull with care and melancholly, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.79 | But moody and dull melancholy, | But moodie and dull melancholly, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.120 | Comes this way to the melancholy vale, | Comes this way to the melancholly vale; |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.203.2 | O melancholy, | Oh Melancholly, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.208 | Thou diedst a most rare boy, of melancholy. | Thou dyed'st a most rare Boy, of Melancholly. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.599 | Out of my weakness and my melancholy, | Out of my Weaknesse, and my Melancholly, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.166 | O'er which his melancholy sits on brood, | O're which his Melancholly sits on brood, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.73 | hath no lean wardrobe. 'Sblood, I am as melancholy | hath no leane Wardrobe. I am as Melancholly |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.77 | What sayest thou to a hare, or the melancholy | What say'st thou to a Hare, or the Melancholly |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.48 | To thick-eyed musing, and curst melancholy? | To thicke-ey'd musing, and curst melancholly? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.4 | That drag the tragic melancholy night; | That dragge the Tragicke melancholy night: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.34 | My mind was troubled with deep melancholy. | My minde was troubled with deepe Melancholly. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.197 | Thy gloomy consort, sullen melancholy? | Thy gloomy consort, sullome melancholie, |
| King John | KJ III.iii.42 | Or if that surly spirit, melancholy, | Or if that surly spirit melancholy |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.134 | My cue is villainous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom | my Cue is villanous Melancholly, with a sighe like Tom |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.227 | So it is, besieged with sable-coloured melancholy, I did | So it is besieged with sable coloured melancholie, I did |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.2 | grows melancholy? | growes melancholy? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.7 | How canst thou part sadness and melancholy, | How canst thou part sadnesse and melancholy |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.66 | Most rude melancholy, valour gives thee place. | Most rude melancholie, Valour giues thee place. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.13 | hath taught me to rhyme, and to be melancholy; and | hath taught mee to Rime, and to be mallicholie: and |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.14 | here is part of my rhyme, and here my melancholy. | here is part of my Rime, and heere my mallicholie. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.14 | He made her melancholy, sad, and heavy; | He made her melancholy, sad, and heauy, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.101 | But fish not with this melancholy bait | But fish not with this melancholly baite |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.90 | heard him so loud and so melancholy. But notwithstanding, | heard him so loud, and so melancholly: but notwithstanding |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.141 | melancholy? | melancholy? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.142 | I melancholy? I am not melancholy. Get you home, | I melancholy? I am not melancholy: Get you home: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.14 | Turn melancholy forth to funerals: | Turne melancholy forth to Funerals: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.5 | He is of a very melancholy disposition. | He is of a very melancholy disposition. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.11 | John's mouth, and half Count John's melancholy in | Iohns mouth, and halfe Count Iohns melancholy in |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.134 | at, strikes him into melancholy; and then there's a | at) strikes him into melancholly, and then there's a |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.196 | Fame. I found him here as melancholy as a lodge in a | Fame, I found him heere as melancholy as a Lodge in a |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.317 | There's little of the melancholy element in her, | There's little of the melancholy element in her |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.50 | The greatest note of it is his melancholy. | The greatest note of it is his melancholy. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.122 | are high-proof melancholy, and would fain have it | are high proofe melancholly, and would faine haue it |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.2 | The sad companion, dull-eyed melancholy, | The sad companion dull eyde melancholie, |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.54 | Yon knight doth sit too melancholy, | yon Knight doth sit too melancholy, |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.91 | And will awake him from his melancholy. | And will awake him from his melancholy. |
| Pericles | Per V.i.221 | Who, hearing of your melancholy state, | who hearing of your melancholie state, |
| Richard II | R2 V.vi.20 | With clog of conscience and sour melancholy | With clog of Conscience, and sowre Melancholly, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.136 | The King is sickly, weak, and melancholy, | The King is sickly, weake, and melancholly, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.45 | I passed, methought, the melancholy flood, | I past (me thought) the Melancholly Flood, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.3 | The weary way hath made you melancholy. | The wearie way hath made you Melancholly. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.32 | As thou canst yield a melancholy seat! | As thou canst yeeld a melancholly seate: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.68 | Saw'st thou the melancholy Lord Northumberland? | Saw'st the melancholly Lord Northumberland? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.86 | Our instruments to melancholy bells; | Our instruments to melancholy Bells, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.131 | And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy. | And melancholly is the Nurse of frenzie, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.204 | A poor unmanly melancholy sprung | A poore vnmanly Melancholly sprung |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.403 | friends, drove him into this melancholy. | Friendes, droue him into this Melancholly. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.33 | My silence, and my cloudy melancholy, | My silence, and my Cloudy Melancholie, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.26 | stain of it. He is melancholy without cause, and merry | staine of it. He is melancholy without cause, and merry |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.87 | melancholy, if you will favour the man, but, by my | Melancholly if will fauour the man, but by my |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.68 | our melancholy upon your head! | our melancholly vpon your head. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.72 | Now the melancholy god protect thee, and the | Now the melancholly God protect thee, and the |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.112 | And with a green and yellow melancholy, | And with a greene and yellow melancholly, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.3 | let me be boiled to death with melancholy. | let me be boyl'd to death with Melancholly. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.195 | being addicted to a melancholy as she is – that it cannot | being addicted to a melancholly, as shee is, that it cannot |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.62 | For she is lumpish, heavy, melancholy, | For she is lumpish, heauy, mellancholly, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.49 | melancholy. | mellencholly. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.36 | The melancholy humour that infects her. | The mellencholly humour that infects her. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.49 | Will dwell upon his object. Melancholy | Will dwell upon his object. Mellencholly |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.759 | aboard a new ship, to purge melancholy and air himself: | aboord a new Ship, to purge Melancholy, and ayre himselfe: |