| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.206 | good for nothing but taking up, and that thou'rt scarce | good for nothing but taking vp, and that th'ourt scarce |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.83 | Something, and scarce so much; nothing indeed. | Something, and scarse so much: nothing indeed, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.57 | Three great oaths would scarce make that be | Three great oathes would scarse make that be |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.I.29 | Grants scarce distinction. Thou wilt write to Antony? | graunts scarce distinction: thou wilt write to Anthony. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.36 | 'Tis true, for those that she makes fair she scarce | 'Tis true, for those that she makes faire, she scarce |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.171 | I scarce can speak to thank you for myself. | I scarce can speake to thanke you for my selfe. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.33 | you are; or I will scarce think you have swam in a | you are; or I will scarce thinke you haue swam in a |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.49 | Beshrew his hand, I scarce could understand it. | Beshrew his hand, I scarce could vnderstand it. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.54 | could scarce understand them. | could scarce vnderstand them. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.23 | A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish. | A table full of welcome, makes scarce one dainty dish. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.99 | For such things as you, I can scarce think there's any, | for such things as you. I can scarse thinke ther's any, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.89.1 | And scarce can spare them. | And scarse can spare them. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.151 | She can scarce be there yet. | She can scarse be there yet. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vi.12 | When rich ones scarce tell true. To lapse in fulness | When Rich-ones scarse tell true. To lapse in Fulnesse |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.109.2 | Being scarce made up, | Being scarse made vp, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iv.36 | Did see man die, scarce ever looked on blood, | Did see man dye, scarse euer look'd on blood, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.ii.10 | Is that we scarce are men and you are gods. | Is, that we scarse are men, and you are Goddes. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.343 | scarce come thither. | scarse come thither. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.163 | we have many pocky corses nowadays that will scarce | we haue many pocky Coarses now adaies, that will scarce |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.148 | O villain! Thy lips are scarce wiped since | O Villaine, thy Lippes are scarce wip'd, since |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.18 | Scarce blood enough in all their sickly veins | Scarce blood enough in all their sickly Veines, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.112 | Having full scarce six thousand in his troop, | Hauing full scarce six thousand in his troupe, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.40 | And Humphrey Duke of Gloucester scarce himself, | And Humfrey, Duke of Gloster, scarce himselfe, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.23 | Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great. | Scarse can I speake, my Choller is so great. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.80 | Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heart; | Scarse serues to quench my Furnace-burning hart: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.110 | Break off the parley; for scarce I can refrain | Breake off the parley, for scarse I can refraine |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.139 | You were now running o'er. You have scarce time | You were now running o're: you haue scarse time |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.292 | Who, if he live, will scarce be gentlemen – | (Whom if he liue, will scarse be Gentlemen) |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.206 | This night will scarce suffice me to discover | This night will scarce suffice me to discouer, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.61 | What else, my son? He's scarce eight thousand strong, | What else my son, hees scarse eight thousand strong |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.49 | I am scarce in breath, my lord. | I am scarce in breath my Lord. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.131 | I can scarce speak to thee – thou'lt not believe | I can scarce speake to thee, thou'lt not beleeue |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.297.1 | There's scarce a bush. | There's scarce a Bush. |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.9 | The lesser is scarce felt. Thou'dst shun a bear; | The lesser is scarce felt. Thou'dst shun a Beare, |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.35 | Was then scarce friends with him. I have heard more since. | Was then scarse Friends with him. / I haue heard more since: |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.14 | Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down | Shew scarse so grosse as Beetles. Halfe way downe |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.51 | He's scarce awake. Let him alone awhile. | He's scarse awake, / Let him alone a while. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.229 | She, an attending star, scarce seen a light. | Shee (an attending Starre) scarce seene a light. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.302 | Scarce show a harvest of their heavy toil; | Scarce shew a haruest of their heauy toyle. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.610 | The face of an old Roman coin, scarce | The face of an old Roman coine, scarce |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.171 | Is there scarce asked for who, and good men's lives | Is there scarse ask'd for who, and good mens liues |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.51 | Stands at a guard with envy, scarce confesses | Stands at a guard with Enuie: scarce confesses |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.216 | There is scarce truth enough alive to make | There is scarse truth enough aliue to make |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.i.5 | Where Phoebus' fire scarce thaws the icicles, | Where Phoebus fire scarce thawes the ysicles, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.120 | are scarce cater-cousins. | are scarce catercosins. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.41 | a prodigal, who dare scarce show his head on the Rialto, | a prodigall, who dare scarce shew his head on the Ryalto, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.180 | will scarce obey this medicine. | will scarse obey this medicine. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.182 | I would scarce trust myself, though I had sworn | I would scarce trust my selfe, though I had sworne |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.324 | Which at the first are scarce found to distaste, | Which at the first are scarse found to distaste: |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.200 | I scarce did know you, uncle; there lies your niece, | I scarse did know you Vnkle, there lies your Neece, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.49 | Have scarce strength left to give them burial. | Haue scarce strength left to giue them buryall. |
| Pericles | Per II.i.22 | when, well-a-day, we could scarce help ourselves. | When (welladay) we could scarce helpe our selues. |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.7 | Where words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain, | Where words are scarse, they are seldome spent in vaine, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.21 | Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, | Into this breathing World, scarse halfe made vp, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.60 | Cannot be quiet scarce a breathing while | Cannot be quiet scarse a breathing while, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.81 | That scarce, some two days since, were worth a noble. | That scarse some two dayes since were worth a Noble. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.255 | Your fire-new stamp of honour is scarce current. | Your fire-new stampe of Honor is scarce currant. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.67 | When scarce the blood was well washed from his hands | When scarce the blood was well washt from his hands, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.164 | My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blest | My fingers itch, wife: we scarce thought vs blest, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.155 | That they devour their reason, and scarce think | That they deuoure their reason, and scarce thinke |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.179 | (aside) I scarce know how. | I scarse know how. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.5 | Scarce is dividant – touch them with several fortunes, | Scarse is diuidant; touch them with seuerall fortunes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.15 | abundant scarce it will not in circumvention deliver a | abundant scarse, it will not in circumuention deliuer a |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.59 | My lord, I scarce have leisure to salute you, | My Lord, I scarce haue leisure to salute you, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.265 | Can scarce entreat you to be odd with him. | Can scarse intreat you to be odde with him. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.156 | think his mother's milk were scarce out of him. | thinke his mothers milke were scarse out of him. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iii.29 | That, were I ta'en here, it would scarce be answered. | That were I tane heere, it would scarse be answer'd. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.275 | scarce hold him yonder. | scarse hold him yonder. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.290 | bethought him of his quarrel, and he finds that now scarce | bethought him of his quarrell, and hee findes that now scarse |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.67 | I fear me he will scarce be pleased withal. | I feare me he will scarce be pleas'd with all. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.367 | long that going will scarce serve the turn. | long, that going will scarce serue the turne. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.102 | And fell, scarce to be got away. I left them with her, | And fell, scarce to be got away: I left them with her. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.99 | You scarce can right me throughly then to say | You scarce can right me throughly, then, to say |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.24 | But what comes from myself, it shall scarce boot me | But what comes from my selfe, it shall scarce boot me |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.288 | scarce a maid westward but she sings it; 'tis in request, I | scarse a Maide westward but she sings it: 'tis in request, I |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.51 | So many summers dry. Scarce any joy | So many Summers dry: scarce any Ioy |