| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.316 | And golden Phoebus never be beheld | And golden Phobus, neuer be beheld |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.112 | time carelessly as they did in the golden world. | time carelesly as they did in the golden world. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.48 | Spread o'er the silver waves thy golden hairs | Spread ore the siluer waues thy golden haires; |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.191 | When in the streets he meets such golden gifts. | When in the streets he meetes such Golden gifts: |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.23 | And winking Mary-buds begin to ope their golden eyes; | And winking Mary-buds begin to ope their Golden eyes |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.88 | With golden cherubins is fretted. Her andirons – | With golden Cherubins is fretted. Her Andirons |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.61 | His brows within a golden crown, and called | His browes within a golden Crowne, and call'd |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.262 | Golden lads and girls all must, | Golden Lads, and Girles all must, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.132 | That have this golden chance, and know not why. | That haue this Golden chance, and know not why: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.301 | this majestical roof fretted with golden fire – why, it | this Maiesticall Roofe, fretted with golden fire: why, it |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.283 | When that her golden couplets are disclosed, | When that her golden Cuplet are disclos'd; |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.130 | All's golden words are spent. | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.43 | Thy stomach, pleasure, and thy golden sleep? | Thy stomacke, pleasure, and thy golden sleepe? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.374 | golden sceptre for a leaden dagger, and thy precious rich | Golden Scepter for a Leaden Dagger, and thy precious rich |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.215 | Begins his golden progress in the east. | Begins his Golden Progresse in the East. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.100 | Glittering in golden coats like images, | Glittering in Golden Coates, like Images, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.73 | Even at the heels in golden multitudes. | Euen at the heeles, in golden multitudes. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.24 | O polished perturbation! Golden care! | O pollish'd Perturbation! Golden Care! |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.37 | That from this golden rigol hath divorced | That from this Golden Rigoll hath diuorc'd |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.96 | And golden times, and happy news of price. | and golden Times, and happie Newes of price. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.100 | I speak of Africa and golden joys. | I speake of Affrica, and Golden ioyes. |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.169 | Received the golden earnest of our death; | Receyu'd the Golden Earnest of Our death: |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.58 | Up in the air, crowned with the golden sun, | Vp in the Ayre, crown'd with the Golden Sunne, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.vi.31 | After this golden day of victory. | After this Golden Day of Victorie. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.69 | Worthy Saint Michael, and the Golden Fleece, | Worthy S. Michael, and the Golden Fleece, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.118 | To put a golden sceptre in thy hand | To put a Golden Scepter in thy hand, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.170 | In golden palaces, as it becomes. | In Golden Pallaces as it becomes. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.241 | For that's the golden mark I seek to hit. | For that's the Golden marke I seeke to hit: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.352 | Until the golden circuit on my head, | Vntill the Golden Circuit on my Head, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.21 | See how the morning opes her golden gates, | See how the Morning opes her golden Gates, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.52 | His viands sparkling in a golden cup, | His Viands sparkling in a Golden Cup, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.127 | To cross me from the golden time I look for! | To crosse me from the Golden time I looke for: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.152 | Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns! | Then to accomplish twentie Golden Crownes. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.7 | Great Albion's Queen in former golden days; | Great Albions Queene, in former Golden dayes: |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.22.1 | And wear a golden sorrow. | And weare a golden sorrow. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.83.4 | garlands of bays, and golden vizards on their faces; | Garlands of Bayes, and golden Vizards on their faces, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.47 | But now doth mount with golden wings of fame, | But nowe doth mount with golden winges offame, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.149 | For where the golden ore doth buried lie, | For where the golden Ore doth buried lie, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.65 | Now, Lod'wick, invocate some golden Muse | Now Lodwike inuocate some golden Muse, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.149 | And, being unmasked, outshine the golden sun. | And being vnmaskt outshine the golden sun, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.303 | Why dost thou tip men's tongues with golden words, | Whie dost thou tip mens tongues with golden words, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.450 | That poison shows worst in a golden cup; | That poyson shewes worst in a golden cup, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.457 | When thou convert'st from honour's golden name | When thou conuertest from honors golden name, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.15 | Looked through his golden coach upon the world, | Lookt through his golden coach vpon the worlde, |
| King John | KJ III.i.57 | And with her golden hand hath plucked on France | And with her golden hand hath pluckt on France |
| King John | KJ III.i.85 | That it in golden letters should be set | That it in golden letters should be set |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.161 | gavest thy golden one away. If I speak like myself in | gau'st thy golden one away; if I speake like my selfe in |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.122 | facility, and golden cadence of poesy, caret. Ovidius | facility, & golden cadence of poesie caret: Ouiddius |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.24 | So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not | So sweete a kisse the golden Sunne giues not, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.44 | My red dominical, my golden letter. | My red Dominicall, my golden letter. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.26 | All that impedes thee from the golden round | All that impeides thee from the Golden Round, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.33 | Golden opinions from all sorts of people | Golden Opinions from all sorts of people, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.109 | His silver skin laced with his golden blood, | His Siluer skinne, lac'd with His Golden Blood, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.153 | Hanging a golden stamp about their necks | Hanging a golden stampe about their neckes, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.170 | Hang on her temples like a golden fleece, | Hang on her temples like a golden fleece, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.20 | A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross; | A golden minde stoopes not to showes of drosse, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.58 | But here an angel in a golden bed | But here an Angell in a golden bed |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.62 | He opens the golden casket | |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.23 | What says the golden chest? Ha, let me see. | What saies the golden chest, ha, let me see: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.92 | So are those crisped snaky golden locks, | So are those crisped snakie golden locks |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.122 | A golden mesh t' entrap the hearts of men | A golden mesh t'intrap the hearts of men |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.75 | Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores. | Saile like my Pinnasse to these golden shores. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.170 | By his best arrow with the golden head, | By his best arrow with the golden head, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.266 | For by thy gracious, golden, glittering beams | For by thy gracious, golden, glittering beames, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.27 | Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, | Cut with her golden ores the siluer streame, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.29 | With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched, | With golden fruite, but dangerous to be toucht: |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.22 | Shake off the golden slumber of repose. | Shake off the golden slumber of repose; |
| Pericles | Per IV.iii.44 | In glittering golden characters express | in glittring gold? characters expres |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.90 | His golden uncontrolled enfranchisement | His golden vncontroul'd enfranchisement, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.146 | And those his golden beams to you here lent | And those his golden beames to you heere lent, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.59 | To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown, | To lift shrewd Steele against our Golden Crowne, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.183 | Now is this golden crown like a deep well | Now is this Golden Crowne like a deepe Well, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.247 | That cropped the golden prime of this sweet prince | That cropt the Golden prime of this sweet Prince, |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.95 | As if the golden fee for which I plead | As if the Golden Fee, for which I plead, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.145 | To bear the golden yoke of sovereignty | To beare the Golden Yoake of Soueraigntie, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.59 | Of golden metal that must round my brow | Of Golden Mettall, that must round my Brow, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.83 | Did I enjoy the golden dew of sleep, | Did I enioy the golden deaw of sleepe, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.140 | Hid'st thou that forehead with a golden crown | Hid'st thou that Forhead with a Golden Crowne |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.329 | Of golden sovereignty; acquaint the Princess | Of Golden Soueraignty: Acquaint the Princesse |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.19 | The weary sun hath made a golden set | The weary Sunne, hath made a Golden set, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.119 | Peered forth the golden window of the East, | Peer'd forth the golden window of the East, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.93 | That in gold clasps locks in the golden story. | That in Gold claspes, Lockes in the Golden storie: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.34 | Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. | Doth couch his lims, there, golden sleepe doth raigne; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.22 | Thou cuttest my head off with a golden axe | Thou cut'st my head off with a golden Axe, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.55 | With silken coats and caps, and golden rings, | With silken coats and caps, and golden Rings, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.173.1 | T' excel the Golden Age. | T'Excell the Golden Age. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.18 | Ducks to the golden fool. All's obliquy; | Duckes to the Golden Foole. All's obliquie: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.5 | As when the golden sun salutes the morn | As when the golden Sunne salutes the morne, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.26 | Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber, | (Our pastimes done) possesse a Golden slumber, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.97 | With golden promises, that were his heart | With golden promises, that were his heart |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.106 | Helen's golden tongue had commended Troilus for a | Hellens golden tongue had commended Troylus for a |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.36 | How will she love, when the rich golden shaft | How will she loue, when the rich golden shaft |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.iii.8 | His counsel now might do me golden service. | His councell now might do me golden seruice, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.379 | When that is known, and golden time convents, | When that is knowne, and golden time conuents |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.79 | Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones, | Whose golden touch could soften steele and stones; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.17 | To his bold ends honour and golden ingots, | To his bold ends, honour, and golden Ingots, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.30 | Golden Apollo, a poor, humble swain, | Golden Apollo, a poore humble Swaine, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.226 | Golden coifs and stomachers | Golden Quoifes, and Stomachers |