| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.20 | Merely our own traitors. And as in the | Meerely our owne traitours. And as in the |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.8 | The horse were merely lost; the mares would bear | the Horse were meerly lost: the Mares would beare |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.47 | Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard | Giue vp your selfe meerly to chance and hazard, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.62.1 | But conquered merely. | but conquer'd meerely. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.141 | And all the men and women merely players; | And all the men and women, meerely Players; |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.383 | Love is merely a madness and, I tell you, | Loue is meerely a madnesse, and I tel you, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.402 | nook merely monastic. And thus I cured him, and this | nooke meerly Monastick: and thus I cur'd him, and this |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.303 | Merely awry. When he did love his country, | Meerely awry: / When he did loue his Country, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.11 | Merely through fear, that the strait pass was dammed | Meerely through feare, that the strait passe was damm'd |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.137 | Possess it merely. That it should come to this – | Possesse it meerely. That it should come to this: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.257 | For the very substance of the ambitious is merely the | for the very substance of the Ambitious, is meerely the |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.6 | Have got by the late voyage is but merely | Haue got by the late Voyage, is but meerely |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.162 | And merely to revenge him on the Emperor | And meerely to reuenge him on the Emperour, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.39 | Merely upon myself. Vexed I am | Meerely vpon my selfe. Vexed I am |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.11 | Hourly afflict. Merely, thou art death's fool, | Hourely afflict: Meerely, thou art deaths foole, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.451.1 | Intents but merely thoughts. | Intents, but meerely thoughts. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.451.2 | Merely, my lord. | Meerely my Lord. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.336 | He shall have merely justice and his bond. | He shall haue meerly iustice and his bond. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.213 | that's the scene that I would see, which will be merely a | that's the Scene that I would see, which will be meerely a |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.331 | It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of | It is meerly a Lust of the blood, and a permission of |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.243 | Merely in hate 'gainst any of us all, | Meerely in hate 'gainst any of vs all, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.296 | Are merely shadows to the unseen grief | Are meerely shadowes, to the vnseene Griefe, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.54 | We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards. | We are meerly cheated of our liues by drunkards, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.32 | Be merely poison. Nothing I'll bear from thee | Be meerely poyson. Nothing Ile beare from thee |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.518 | That which I show, heaven knows, is merely love, | That which I shew, Heauen knowes, is meerely Loue, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.147 | Sir, I propose not merely to myself | Sir, I propose not meerely to my selfe, |