| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.193 | needs be born under Mars. | needes be borne vnder Mars. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.20 | Wilt thou needs be a beggar? | Wilt thou needes be a begger? |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.29 | on by the flesh, and he must needs go that the devil | on by the flesh, and hee must needes goe that the diuell |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.183 | Thou this to hazard needs must intimate | Thou this to hazard, needs must intimate |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.90 | needs; the last was the greatest, but that I have not ended | needs: the last was the greatest, but that I haue not ended |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.17 | Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth. | Then must thou needes finde out new Heauen, new Earth. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.123 | Anticked us all. What needs more words? Good night. | Antickt vs all. What needs more words? goodnight. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.10 | Your presence needs must puzzle Antony, | Your presence needs must puzle Anthony, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.49 | He needs as many, sir, as Caesar has, | He needs as many (Sir) as Casar ha's, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.50 | Or needs not us. If Caesar please, our master | Or needs not vs. If Casar please, our Master |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.35.1 | He needs must see himself. | He needes must see him selfe. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.198 | prologue. If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis | Prologue. If it be true, that good wine needs no bush, 'tis |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.199 | true that a good play needs no epilogue. Yet to good | true, that a good play needes no Epilogue. Yet to good |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.60 | What needs all that, and a pair of stocks in the town? | What needs all that, and a paire of stocks in the towne? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.190 | I see a man here needs not live by shifts, | I see a man heere needs not liue by shifts, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ii.21 | They needs must show themselves, which in the hatching, | They needs must shew themselues, which in the hatching |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.6 | To show less sovereignty than they, must needs | To shew lesse Soueraignty then they, must needs |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.10 | Who needs must know of her departure, and | Who needs must know of her departure, and |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.125 | There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave | There needs no Ghost my Lord, come from the / Graue, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.138 | Go, farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool. | Go, Farewell. Or if thou wilt needs Marry, marry a fool: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.188 | Such love must needs be treason in my breast: | Such Loue, must needs be Treason in my brest: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.217 | For who not needs shall never lack a friend, | For who not needs, shall neuer lacke a Frend: |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.ii.19 | last swallowed. When he needs what you have gleaned, | last swallowed, when he needes what you haue glean'd, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.3.1 | Her mood will needs be pitied. | her moode will needs be pittied. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.222 | This presence knows, and you must needs have heard, | This presence knowes, / And you must needs haue heard |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.95 | Needs no more but one tongue for all those wounds, | Needs no more but one tongue. For all those Wounds, |
| 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.ii.24 | Which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear, | Which oft the Eare of Greatnesse needes must heare, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.22 | needs be out of all compass, out of all reasonable | needes bee out of of all compasse; out all reasonable |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.218 | If ye will needs say I am an old man, you should give | |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.98 | Marry, the immortal part needs a physician, but | Marry, the immortall part needes a Physitian: but |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.96 | That thou wilt needs invest thee with my honours | That thou wilt needes inuest thee with mine Honors, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.19 | Now, sir, a new link to the bucket must needs be | Sir, a new linke to the Bucket must needes bee |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.68 | And therefore we must needs admit the means | And therefore we must needes admit the meanes, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.106 | He needs not; it is no hidden virtue in him. | Hee needes not, it is no hidden vertue in him. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.83 | Thou needs must be englutted. Besides, in mercy, | Thou needs must be englutted. Besides, in mercy |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.61 | And, Captain, you must needs be friends with him. | And Captaine, you must needs be friends with him. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.190 | needs be granted to be much at one. But Kate, dost | needes be graunted to be much at one. But Kate, doo'st |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.203 | and thou must therefore needs prove a good soldier-breeder. | and thou must therefore needes proue a good Souldier-breeder: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.116 | If he be old enough, what needs your grace | If he be old enough, what needs your Grace |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.148 | She's tickled now; her fume needs no spurs, | Shee's tickled now, her Fume needs no spurres, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.51 | 'A must needs, for beggary is valiant. | A must needs, for beggery is valiant. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.21 | you needs be hanged with your pardons about your | you needs be hang'd with your Pardons about your |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.191 | A subtle traitor needs no sophister. | A subtle Traitor needs no Sophister. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.125 | It needs not, nor it boots thee not, proud Queen; | It needes not, nor it bootes thee not, prowd Queene, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.5 | And, spite of spite, needs must I rest a while. | And spight of spight, needs must I rest a-while. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iii.43 | Nay, then I see that Edward needs must down. | Nay then I see, that Edward needs must downe. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iii.59 | What fates impose, that men must needs abide; | What Fates impose, that men must needs abide; |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.119 | And must needs say a noble one; which makes me | And must needs say a Noble one; which makes me |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.100 | Your grace must needs deserve all strangers' loves, | Your Grace must needs deserue all strangers loues, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.131 | For he would needs be virtuous. That good fellow, | For he would needs be vertuous. That good Fellow, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.422 | Must I then leave you? Must I needs forgo | Must I then leaue you? Must I needes forgo |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.93.1 | But I must needs to th' Tower, my lords? | But I must needs to th'Tower my Lords? |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.55 | That needs must light on this ingratitude. | That needs must light on this Ingratitude. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.139 | What needs a tongue to such a speaking eye, | What needs a tongue to such a speaking eie, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.109 | That needs no further question; and I know | That needs no further question, and I knowe |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.23 | Coward, what flight? Thou liest, there needs no flight. | Coward what flight? thou liest there needs no flight. |
| King John | KJ I.i.263 | Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose, | Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose, |
| King John | KJ III.i.213 | That need must needs infer this principle, | That need, must needs inferre this principle, |
| King John | KJ III.i.332 | Uncle, I needs must pray that thou mayst lose; | Vncle, I needs must pray that thou maist lose: |
| King John | KJ III.iv.139 | That John may stand, then Arthur needs must fall. | That Iohn may stand, then Arthur needs must fall, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.95 | Your vile intent must needs seem horrible. | Your vilde intent must needs seeme horrible. |
| King John | KJ IV.i.98 | Must needs want pleading for a pair of eyes. | Must needes want pleading for a paire of eyes: |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.79 | His passion is so ripe it needs must break. | His passion is so ripe, it needs must breake. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.104 | must needs wear my coxcomb. How now, nuncle! | must needs weare my Coxcombe. How now Nunckle? |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.143 | Are punished with. The King must take it ill | The King his Master, needs must take it ill |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.218 | Which I must needs call mine. Thou art a boil, | Which I must needs call mine. Thou art a Byle, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.261 | Allow not nature more than nature needs – | Allow not Nature, more then Nature needs: |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.264 | Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, | Why Nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.286 | And must needs taste his folly. | And must needs taste his folly. |
| King Lear | KL IV.v.15 | I must needs after him, madam, with my letter. | I must needs after him, Madam,with my Letter. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.14 | Needs not the painted flourish of your praise. | Needs not the painted flourish of your praise: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.199 | A toy, my liege, a toy. Your grace needs not fear it. | A toy my Liedge, a toy: your grace needes not feare it. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.237 | Fie, painted rhetoric! O, she needs it not! | Fie painted Rethoricke, O she needs it not, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.267 | Dark needs no candles now, for dark is light. | Dark needs no Candles now, for dark is light. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.545 | Well said, old mocker. I must needs be friends with thee. | Well said old mocker, / I must needs be friends with thee. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iii.2 | He needs not our mistrust, since he delivers | He needes not our mistrust, since he deliuers |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.70 | More needs she the divine than the physician. | More needs she the Diuine, then the Physitian: |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.29.2 | Or so much as it needs | Or so much as it needes, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.48.1 | Must he needs die? | Must he needs die? |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.30.1 | Must needs appear offence. | Must needs appear offence: |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.2 | needs buy and sell men and women like beasts, we shall | needes buy and sell men and women like beasts, we shall |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.123 | On him so near us? This needs must be a practice. | On him so neere vs? This needs must be a practise: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.29 | I must needs tell thee all. She hath directed | I must needes tell thee all, she hath directed |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.14 | There must be needs a like proportion | There must be needs a like proportion |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.18 | Must needs be like my lord. If it be so, | Must needs be like my Lord. If it be so, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.202 | Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there. | Must needes giue sentence 'gainst the Merchant there. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.83 | wildly, and would needs speak with you presently. | wildely, and would needs speake with you presently. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.90 | Till then, farewell, sir. She must needs go in; | Till then, farewell Sir, she must needs go in, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.ii.8 | That's good too. But what needs either your | That's good too: But what needes either your |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.82 | you must needs play Pyramus. | you must needs play Piramus. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.119 | That must needs be sport alone; | That must needs be sport alone: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.346 | No epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no | No Epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.348 | there needs none to be blamed. Marry, if he that writ it | there need none to be blamed. Marry, if hee that writ it |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.187 | an thou wilt needs thrust thy neck into a yoke, wear the | and thou wilt needes thrust thy necke into a yoke, weare the |
| Othello | Oth I.i.103.2 | But thou must needs be sure | But thou must needs be sure, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.348 | purse. If thou wilt needs damn thyself, do it a more | purse. If thou wilt needs damne thy selfe, do it a more |
| Othello | Oth III.i.47 | And needs no other suitor but his likings | And needs no other Suitor, but his likings |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.15 | It must needs wither. I'll smell it on the tree. | It needs must wither. Ile smell thee on the Tree. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.129 | She said so: I must needs report the truth. | She said so: I must needs report the truth. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.149 | What needs this iterance, woman? I say thy husband. | What needs this itterance, Woman? / I say, thy Husband. |
| Pericles | Per III.iii.1 | Most honoured Cleon, I must needs be gone. | Most honor'd Cleon, I must needs be gone, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.152 | I cannot mend it, I must needs confess, | I cannot mend it, I must needes confesse, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.4 | Needs must I like it well. I weep for joy | Needs must I like it well: I weepe for ioy |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.221 | He needs no indirect or lawless course | He needs no indirect, or lawlesse course, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.141 | My Lord Protector needs will have it so. | My Lord Protector will haue it so. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.103 | My lord, there needs no such apology. | My Lord, there needes no such Apologie: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.216 | Or if he do, it needs must be by stealth. | Or if he do, it needs must be by stealth. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.19 | My dismal scene I needs must act alone. | My dismall Sceane, I needs must act alone: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.9 | I must needs wake her. Madam, madam, madam! | I must needs wake her: Madam, Madam, Madam, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.13 | I must needs wake you. Lady! lady! lady! | I must needs wake you: Lady, Lady, Lady? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.87.1 | Nay, then she must needs come. | nay then shee must needes come. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.108 | And him he played it for, he needs will be | And him he plaid it for, he needes will be |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.44 | It must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate | It must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.4 | And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch, | And yet I needes must curse. But they'll nor pinch, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.4 | I needs must rest me. | I needes must rest me. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.168 | We must needs dine together. (To Jeweller) Sir, your jewel | We must needs dine together: sir your Iewell |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.248 | You must needs dine with me. Go not you hence | You must needs dine with me: go not you hence |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.17 | But where there is true friendship there needs none. | But where there is true friendship, there needs none. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.247 | What needs these feasts, pomps, and vainglories? | What needs these Feasts, pompes, and Vaine-glories? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.i.25 | Immediate are my needs, and my relief | Immediate are my needs, and my releefe |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.20 | part, I must needs confess, I have received some small | part, I must needes confesse, I haue receyued some small |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iii.1 | Must he needs trouble me in't? Hum! 'Bove all others? | Must he needs trouble me in't? Hum. / 'Boue all others? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.12 | must needs appear. | must needs appeare. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.35 | Must thou needs stand for a villain in | Must thou needes / Stand for a Villaine in |
| 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, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.302 | No, Titus, no, the Emperor needs her not, | No Titus, no, the Emperour needs her not, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.162 | And you must needs bestow her funeral. | And you must needs bestow her funerall, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.42 | So that perforce you must needs stay a time. | So that perforce you must needs stay a time. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.15 | have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the | haue a Cake out of the Wheate, must needes tarry the |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.92 | Fools on both sides! Helen must needs be fair, | Fooles on both sides, Helen must needs be faire, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.138 | hand, I must needs confess – | hand I must needs confesse. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.86 | As you must needs, for you all cried ‘ Go, go!’; | (As you must needs, for you all cride, Go, go:) |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.88 | As you must needs, for you all clapped your hands | (As you must needs) for you all clapt your hands, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.7 | needs praise him. | needes praise him. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.5 | world needs to fear no colours. | world, needs to feare no colours. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.99 | Farewell, dear heart, since I must needs be gone – | Farewell deere heart, since I must needs be gone. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.98 | And he is yours, and his must needs be yours. | And he is yours, and his must needs be yours: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.3 | You must needs yield your reason, Sir Andrew. | You must needes yeelde your reason, Sir Andrew? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.186 | Some necessaries that I needs must use; | Some necessaries, that I needs must vse, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vi.20 | If I keep them, I needs must lose myself; | If I keepe them, I needs must loose my selfe: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.53 | You must needs have them with a codpiece, madam. | You must needs haue thẽ with a cod-peece Madam |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.ii.21 | She needs not, when she knows it cowardice. | She needes not, when she knowes it cowardize. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.7 | His ocean needs not my poor drops, yet they | His Ocean needes not my poore drops, yet they |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.57 | More buckled with strong judgement, and their needs | More buckled with strong Iudgement. and their needes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.46 | You are a horseman, I must needs entreat you | You are a horseman, I must needs intreat you |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.25.1 | Your hunger needs no sauce, I see. | your hunger needs no sawce I see, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.31 | You are the treasure, and must needs be by | You are the Treasure, and must needes be by |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.146.1 | That two must needs be blind for't. | That two must needes be blinde fort. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.32 | Our losses fall so thick we must needs leave. | Our losses fall so thicke, we must needs leave. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.126 | A better guiding spirit! What needs these hands? | A better guiding Spirit. What needs these hands? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.484 | I needs must think it honesty. Camillo, | I needs must thinke it honesty. Camillo, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.19 | of the one it must needs be. | of the one, it must needs be. |