| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.82 | While I was speaking, oft was fastened to't. | While I was speaking, oft was fasten'd too't: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.24 | And burgonet of men. He's speaking now, | And Burganet of men. Hee's speaking now, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.iii.21 | (speaking together) | Speak together. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.106 | And burst of speaking were as his: I am absolute | And burst of speaking were as his: I am absolute |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.148 | Or senseless speaking, or a speaking such | Or senselesse speaking, or a speaking such |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.1 | Well said, my noble Scot! If speaking truth | Well said, my Noble Scot, if speaking truth |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.24 | And speaking thick, which nature made his blemish, | And speaking thicke (which Nature made his blemish) |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.188 | No, faith, is't not, Kate; but thy speaking | No faith is't not, Kate: but thy speaking |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.25 | Brave Death by speaking, whether he will or no; | Braue death by speaking, whither he will or no: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.59 | (to Bona) | Speaking to Bona. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.104 | You, gracious madam, to unthink your speaking | You (gracious Madam) to vnthinke your speaking, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.136 | For speaking false in that. Thou art alone – | For speaking false in that; thou art alone |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.60 | Except immortal Caesar, speaking of Brutus, | (Except immortall Casar) speaking of Brutus, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.216 | Who rated him for speaking well of Pompey; | Who rated him for speaking well of Pompey; |
| 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 Lear | KL I.iv.179 | They'll have me whipped for speaking true; thou'lt | they'l haue me whipt for speaking true: thou'lt |
| King Lear | KL IV.v.25 | She gave strange oeillades and most speaking looks | She gaue strange Eliads, and most speaking lookes |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.205 | Past speaking of in a king. – Thou hast one daughter | Past speaking ofin a King. Thou hast a Daughter |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.130 | No less in truth than life. My first false speaking | No lesse in truth then life. My first false speaking |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.17 | I'll have no speaking, I will have my bond. | Ile haue no speaking, I will haue my bond. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.66 | If speaking, why, a vane blown with all winds; | If speaking, why a vane blowne with all windes: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.95 | Speaking my fancy; Signor Benedick, | Speaking my fancy: Signior Benedicke, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.26 | Of what, lady? Of speaking honourably? Is | Of what Lady? of speaking honourably? is |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.30 | thinking do not wrest true speaking, I'll offend nobody. | thinking doe not wrest true speaking, Ile offend no body, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.151 | Who loved her so, that, speaking of her foulness, | Who lou'd her so, that speaking of her foulnesse, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.89 | In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience, | In speaking for my selfe. Yet, (by your gratious patience) |
| Othello | Oth II.i.259 | either by speaking too loud, or tainting his discipline, or | either by speaking too loud, or tainting his discipline, or |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.249 | So speaking as I think, I die, I die. | So speaking as I thinke, alas, I dye. |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.19 | Will think me speaking, though I swear to silence; | Will thinke me speaking, though I sweare to silence, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.275 | We three are but thyself; and speaking so | We three, are but thy selfe, and speaking so, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.72 | O, I am pressed to death through want of speaking! | Oh I am prest to death through want of speaking: |
| Richard II | R2 V.iv.7 | And speaking it, he wishtly looked on me, | And speaking it, he wistly look'd on me, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.151 | And then, in speaking, not to incur the last – | And then in speaking, not to incurre the last, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.218 | With eyes wide open; standing, speaking, moving, | With eyes wide open: standing, speaking, mouing: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.348 | If thou couldst please me with speaking to | If thou could'st please me / With speaking to |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.132.1 | Consuming it with speaking! | Consuming it with speaking. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.127 | Of speaking first. Sweet, bid me hold my tongue, | Of speaking first. Sweet, bid me hold my tongue, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.269 | professes not answering; speaking is for beggars; he | professes not answering; speaking is for beggers: he |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.19 | By friendship nor by speaking.’ | by friendship, nor by speaking: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.98 | Speaking in deeds, and deedless in his tongue; | Speaking in deedes, and deedelesse in his tongue; |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.105 | for speaking to you. | for speaking to you. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.29 | His little speaking shows his love but small. | His little speaking, shewes his loue but small. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.49 | Speaking it truly? Why am I bound | Speaking it truly; why am I bound |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.ii.42.1 | Persuades when speaking fails. | Perswades, when speaking failes. |