| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.118 | Bring me word how tall she is. – Pity me, Charmian, | Bring me word, how tall she is: pitty me Charmian, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.7 | And carry back to Sicily much tall youth | And carry backe to Cicelie much tall youth, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iii.11.1 | Is she as tall as me? | Is she as tall as me? |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.113 | Because that I am more than common tall, | Because that I am more then common tall, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.118 | He is not very tall – yet for his years he's tall. | He is not very tall, yet for his yeeres hee's tall: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.61 | Which many a good tall fellow had destroyed | Which many a good Tall Fellow had destroy'd |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.60 | captain Sir John Falstaff, a tall gentleman, by heaven, | Captaine, Sir Iohn Falstaffe: a tall Gentleman, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.52 | Bardolph; (to the Page) and welcome, my tall fellow. | Bardolfe: and welcome my tall Fellow: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.33 | For women are shrews, both short and tall. | For women are Shrewes, both short, and tall: |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.65 | Thy spirits are most tall. | spirites are most tall. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.30 | The faith they have in tennis and tall stockings, | The faith they haue in Tennis and tall Stockings, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.116 | Upon whose tall top, when thy foot attains, | Vpon whose tall top when thy foot attaines, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.18 | Appear like mice, and yon tall anchoring bark, | Appeare like Mice: and yond tall Anchoring Barke, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.5 | flat, and fatal, where the carcasses of many a tall ship | flat, and fatall, where the carcasses of many a tall ship, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.24 | Ay, forsooth. But he is as tall a man of his hands | I forsooth: but he is as tall a man of his hands, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.210 | sword, I would have made you four tall fellows skip like | sword, I would haue made you fowre tall fellowes skippe like |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.11 | soldiers and tall fellows. And when Mistress Bridget | Souldiers, and tall-fellowes. And when Mistresse Briget |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.10 | The cowslips tall her pensioners be; | The Cowslips tall, her pensioners bee, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.292 | And with her personage, her tall personage, | And with her personage, her tall personage, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.143 | Anon comes Pyramus – sweet youth and tall – | Anon comes Piramus, sweet youth and tall, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.64 | Made a foul blot; if tall, a lance ill-headed; | Made a foule blot: if tall, a launce ill headed: |
| Othello | Oth II.i.79 | That he may bless this bay with his tall ship, | That he may blesse this Bay with his tall Ship, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.286 | With eight tall ships, three thousand men of war, | With eight tall ships, three thousand men of warre |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.154 | Spoke like a tall man that respects | Spoke like a tall man, that respects |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.30 | good blade! a very tall man! a very good whore!’ Why, is | good blade, a very tall man, a very good whore. Why is |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.17 | Th' art a tall fellow, hold thee that to drink. | Th'art a tall fellow, hold thee that to drinke, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.18 | He's as tall a man as any's in Illyria. | He's as tall a man as any's in Illyria. |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.6 | a gown. I am not tall enough to become the function | a gowne. I am not tall enough to become the function |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.154 | How tall was she? | How tall was she? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.66 | Like tall ships under sail; then start amongst 'em | Like tall Ships under saile: then start among'st 'em |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.111 | And humble with a ferula the tall ones, | And humble with a Ferula the tall ones, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.82 | And ‘ Palamon was a tall young man.’ The place | And Palamon, was a tall yong man. The place |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.160 | Prince thou art a tall fellow of thy hands, and that thou | Prince, thou art a tall Fellow of thy hands, and that thou |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.161 | wilt not be drunk; but I know thou art no tall fellow of | wilt not be drunke: but I know thou art no tall Fellow of |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.163 | and I would thou wouldst be a tall fellow of thy hands. | and I would thou would'st be a tall Fellow of thy hands. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.165 | Ay, by any means prove a tall fellow. If I do not | I, by any meanes proue a tall Fellow: if I do not |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.167 | a tall fellow, trust me not. Hark, the kings and the | a tall Fellow, trust me not. Harke, the Kings and |