| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.3 | And I in going, madam, weep o'er my father's | And I in going Madam, weep ore my fathers |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.64 | Destroy our friends and after weep their dust; | Destroy our friends, and after weepe their dust: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.318 | Mine eyes smell onions, I shall weep anon. | Mine eyes smell Onions, I shall weepe anon: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.50 | To weep; whose every passion fully strives | To weepe: who euery passion fully striues |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.76 | I prithee turn aside and weep for her; | I prythee turne aside, and weepe for her, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.50.2 | Will Caesar weep? | Will Casar weepe? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ii.24.1 | To make his followers weep. | To make his Followers weepe. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ii.34 | To give them this discomfort? Look, they weep, | To giue them this discomfort? Looke they weepe, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.21 | Nay, weep not, gentle Eros, there is left us | Nay, weepe not gentle Eros, there is left vs |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.45 | Weep for my pardon. So it must be, for now | Weepe for my pardon. So it must be, for now |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.299.1 | The gods themselves do weep. | The Gods themselues do weepe. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.146 | as he is, I must blush and weep, and thou must look | as hee is, I must blush, and weepe, and thou must looke |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.398 | him, then forswear him; now weep for him, then spit | him, then forswear him: now weepe for him, then spit |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.1 | Never talk to me, I will weep. | Neuer talke to me, I wil weepe. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.4 | But have I not cause to weep? | But haue I not cause to weepe? |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.5 | As good cause as one would desire; therefore weep. | As good cause as one would desire, / Therefore weepe. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.142 | I will weep for nothing, like Diana in the fountain, and I | I will weepe for nothing, like Diana in the Fountaine, & I |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.115 | I'll weep what's left away, and weeping die. | Ile weepe (what's left away) and weeping die. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.214 | To put the finger in the eye and weep | To put the finger in the eie and weepe; |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.176 | A hundred thousand welcomes. I could weep | A hundred thousand Welcomes: / I could weepe, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.54 | As any ear can hear. Come, let's not weep. | As any eare can heare. Come, let's not weepe, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.100 | Constrains them weep and shake with fear and sorrow, | Constraines them weepe, and shake with feare & sorow, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.134 | Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep. | Thou hast done a deed, whereat / Valour will weepe. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.24 | O lady, weep no more, lest I give cause | O Lady, weepe no more, least I giue cause |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.17 | Ay, and the approbation of those that weep this | I, and the approbation of those that weepe this |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.43 | To weep 'twixt clock and clock? If sleep charge Nature, | To weepe 'twixt clock and clock? If sleep charge Nature, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.240 | I cannot sing: I'll weep, and word it with thee; | I cannot sing: Ile weepe, and word it with thee; |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.392 | Such as I can – twice o'er, I'll weep and sigh, | (Such as I can) twice o're, Ile weepe, and sighe, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.557 | That he should weep for her? What would he do | That he should weepe for her? What would he doe, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.280 | Why, let the strucken deer go weep, | Why let the strucken Deere go weepe, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.70 | I cannot choose but weep to think they would lay him | I cannot choose but weepe, to thinke they should lay him |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.271 | Woo't weep? Woo't fight? Woo't fast? Woo't tear thyself? | Woo't weepe? Woo't fight? Woo't teare thy selfe? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.384 | Weep not, sweet Queen, for trickling tears are vain. | Weepe not, sweet Queene, for trickling teares are vaine. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.81 | Cries out upon abuses, seems to weep | Cryes out vpon abuses, seemes to weepe |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.50 | should weep? | shold weep? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.13 | they are the drops of thy lovers, and they weep for thy | they are the drops of thy Louers, and they weep for thy |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.59 | Yet weep that Harry's dead, and so will I; | But weepe that Harrie's dead, and so will I. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.297 | When thousands weep more than did laugh at it. | When thousands weepe more then did laugh at it. |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.140 | With some suspicion. I will weep for thee; | With some suspition, I will weepe for thee. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.10 | What, will you have them weep our horses' blood? | What, wil you haue them weep our Horses blood? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.88 | To weep their intermissive miseries. | To weepe their intermissiue Miseries. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.28 | Mad ire and wrathful fury makes me weep, | Mad ire, and wrathfull fury makes me weepe, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.133 | I am a soldier and unapt to weep | I am a Souldier, and vnapt to weepe, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.221 | His fortunes I will weep, and 'twixt each groan | His fortunes I will weepe, and 'twixt each groane, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.3 | Think therefore on revenge and cease to weep. | Thinke therefore on reuenge, and cease to weepe. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.4 | But who can cease to weep and look on this? | But who can cease to weepe, and looke on this. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.144 | Wouldst have me weep? Why, now thou hast thy will; | Would'st haue me weepe? why now thou hast thy will. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.170 | I should not for my life but weep with him, | I should not for my Life but weepe with him, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.79 | I cannot weep, for all my body's moisture | I cannot weepe: for all my bodies moysture |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.85 | To weep is to make less the depth of grief; | To weepe, is to make lesse the depth of greefe: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.46 | I, that did never weep, now melt with woe | I that did neuer weepe, now melt with wo, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.76 | Weep, wretched man; I'll aid thee tear for tear; | Weepe wretched man: Ile ayde thee Teare for Teare, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.113 | I'll bear thee hence, where I may weep my fill. | Ile beare thee hence, where I may weepe my fill. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.21 | We will not from the helm to sit and weep, | We will not from the Helme, to sit and weepe, |
| Henry VIII | H8 prologue.32 | A man may weep upon his wedding-day. | A Man may weepe vpon his Wedding day. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.72 | And dare be bold to weep for Buckingham, | And dare be bold to weepe for Buckingham, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.70 | I am about to weep; but, thinking that | I am about to weepe; but thinking that |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.150 | No friends, no hope, no kindred weep for me; | No Friends, no Hope, no Kindred weepe for me? |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.375 | A great man should decline? Nay, an you weep | A great man should decline. Nay, and you weep |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.58 | Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears | Draw them to Tyber bankes, and weepe your teares |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.282 | Thy heart is big; get thee apart and weep. | Thy heart is bigge: get thee a-part and weepe: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.24 | all free men? As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as | all Free-men? As Casar lou'd mee, I weepe for him; as |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.194 | O, now you weep, and I perceive you feel | O now you weepe, and I perceiue you feele |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.196 | Kind souls, what weep you when you but behold | Kinde Soules, what weepe you, when you but behold |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.98 | To cast into my teeth. O, I could weep | To cast into my Teeth. O I could weepe |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.168 | Shall mourners be, and weep out bloody tears | Shall mourners be, and weepe out bloody teares, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.105 | I honoured him, I loved him, and will weep | I honour'd him, I lou'd him, and will weepe |
| King John | KJ V.ii.29 | Her enemies' ranks – I must withdraw and weep | Her Enemies rankes? I must withdraw, and weepe |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.171 | Then they for sudden joy did weep, | then they / For sodaine ioy did weepe, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.277 | The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep. | The terrors of the earth? you thinke Ile weepe, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.278 | No, I'll not weep. | No, Ile not weepe, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.281 | Or ere I'll weep. O Fool, I shall go mad! | Or ere Ile weepe; O Foole, I shall go mad. |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.17 | No, I will weep no more! In such a night | No, I will weepe no more; in such a night, |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.70 | Tom will make him weep and wail; | Tom will make him weepe and waile, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.177 | If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes. | If thou wilt weepe my Fortunes, take my eyes. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.71 | Be your tears wet? Yes, faith! I pray, weep not. | Be your teares wet? / Yes faith: I pray weepe not, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.25 | Ere they shall make us weep. We'll see 'em starved first. | Ere they shall make vs weepe? / Weele seee'm staru'd first: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.31 | Thou shinest in every tear that I do weep; | Thou shin'st in euery teare that I doe weepe, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.37 | My tears for glasses and still make me weep. | My teares for glasses, and still make me weepe. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.61 | If he were dead, you'd weep for him; if you would | If he were dead, youl'd weepe for him: if you would not, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.2.1 | Weep our sad bosoms empty. | & there / Weepe our sad bosomes empty. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.81 | Men give like gods; but when they weep and kneel, | Men giue like gods: but when they weepe and kneele, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.122 | As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, | As makes the Angels weepe: who with our spleenes, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.124 | Look when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, | Looke when I vow I weepe; and vowes so borne, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.27 | it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping! | it to weepe at ioy, then to ioy at weeping? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.254 | Yea, and I will weep a while longer. | Yea, and I will weepe a while longer. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.368 | Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed: | Do deeds to make Heauen weepe, all Earth amaz'd; |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.256 | And turn again. And she can weep, sir, weep. | And turne againe. And she can weepe, Sir, weepe. |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.41 | Alas, the heavy day! Why do you weep? | Alas the heauy day: why do you weepe? |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.102 | I cannot weep; nor answer have I none, | I cannot weepe: nor answeres haue I none, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.123 | Do not weep, do not weep. Alas the day! | Do not weepe, do not weepe: alas the day. |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.126 | To be called whore? Would it not make one weep? | To be call'd Whore? Would it not make one weepe? |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.170 | Go in, and weep not; all things shall be well. | Go in, and weepe not: all things shall be well. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.20 | So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep. | So sweet, was ne're so fatall. I must weepe, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.14 | Our woes into the air, our eyes to weep, | Our woes into the aire, our eyes to weepe. |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.102 | And make us weep to hear your fate, fair creature, | and make vs weepe. / To heare your fate, faire creature, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.113 | despise profit where you have most gain. To weep that | despise profite, where you haue most gaine, to weepe that |
| Pericles | Per V.i.178 | Whither will you have me? Why do you weep? It may be | whither wil you haue me? why doe you weep? It may be |
| Pericles | Per V.i.186.1 | That thus hath made me weep. | that thus hath made mee weepe. |
| Pericles | Per V.i.190 | She would sit still and weep. | she would sit still and weepe. |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.25 | More than your lord's departure weep not – more is not seen, | More then your Lords departure weep not, more's not seene; |
| 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 II | R2 III.iv.20 | But thou shouldst please me better wouldst thou weep. | But thou should'st please me better, would'st thou weepe. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.21 | I could weep, madam, would it do you good. | I could weepe, Madame, would it doe you good. |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.48 | And in compassion weep the fire out; | And in compassion, weepe the fire out: |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.87 | Weep thou for me in France, I for thee here. | Weepe thou for me in France; I, for thee heere: |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.161 | And twenty times made pause to sob and weep, | And twenty times, made pause to sob and weepe: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.242 | Bid Gloucester think of this, and he will weep. | Bid Glouster thinke on this, and he will weepe. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.243 | Ay, millstones, as he lessoned us to weep. | I Milstones, as he lessoned vs to weepe. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.3 | Why do you weep so oft, and beat your breast, | Why do weepe so oft? And beate your Brest? |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.34 | Ah, who shall hinder me to wail and weep, | Ah! who shall hinder me to waile and weepe? |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.83 | I for a Clarence weep, so doth not she; | I for a Clarence weepes, so doth not shee: |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.84 | These babes for Clarence weep, and so do I; | These Babes for Clarence weepe, so do not they. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.85 | I for an Edward weep, so do not they. | |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.59 | For me to joy and weep their gain and loss; | For me to ioy, and weepe, their gaine and losse. |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.24 | So dear I loved the man that I must weep. | So deare I lou'd the man, that I must weepe: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.273 | ‘ Edward ’ and ‘ York ’; then haply she will weep. | Edward and Yorke, then haply will she weepe: |
| Richard III | R3 V.v.37 | And make poor England weep in streams of blood! | And make poore England weepe in Streames of Blood; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.183.2 | No, coz, I rather weep. | No Coze, I rather weepe. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.107 | All this is comfort. Wherefore weep I then? | All this is comfort, wherefore weepe I then? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.74 | Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss. | Yet let me weepe, for such a feeling losse. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.76.1 | Which you weep for. | Which you weepe for. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.77 | I cannot choose but ever weep the friend. | I cannot chuse but euer weepe the Friend. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.88 | Then weep no more. I'll send to one in Mantua, | Then weepe no more, Ile send to one in Mantua, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.45 | Come weep with me. Past hope, past cure, past help! | Come weepe with me, past hope, past care, past helpe. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.73 | And weep ye now, seeing she is advanced | And weepe ye now, seeing she is aduan'st |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.17 | Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep. | Nightly shall be, to strew thy graue, and weepe. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.58 | And at that sight shall sad Apollo weep, | And at that sight shal sad Apollo weepe, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.35 | Talk not to me, I will go sit and weep, | Talke not to me, I will go sit and weepe, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.27 | Go, girl, I cannot blame thee now to weep, | Goe girle, I cannot blame thee now to weepe, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.435 | And that he does, I weep. Myself am Naples, | And that he do's, I weepe: my selfe am Naples, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.19 | 'Twill weep for having wearied you. My father | 'Twill weepe for hauing wearied you: my Father |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.74.1 | To weep at what I am glad of. | To weepe at what I am glad of. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.76.2 | Wherefore weep you? | Wherefore weepe you? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.180 | Why dost thou weep? Canst thou the conscience lack | Why dost thou weepe, canst thou the conscience lacke, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.485 | What, dost thou weep? Come nearer. Then I love thee, | What, dost thou weepe? / Come neerer, then I loue thee |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.489 | Strange times, that weep with laughing, not with weeping! | Strange times yt weepe with laughing, not with weeping. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.78 | Taught thee to make vast Neptune weep for aye | Taught thee to make vast Neptune weepe for aye |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.41 | When I do weep, they humbly at my feet | When I doe weepe, they humbly at my feete |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.42 | Receive my tears and seem to weep with me; | Receiue my teares, and seeme to weepe with me, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.59 | Titus, prepare thy aged eyes to weep, | Titus, prepare thy noble eyes to weepe, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.220 | When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? | When heauen doth weepe, doth not the earth oreflow? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.243 | To weep with them that weep doth ease some deal, | To weepe with them that weepe, doth ease some deale, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.49 | Doth weep to see his grandsire's heaviness. | Doth weepe to see his grandsires heauinesse. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.94 | While I stand by and weep to hear him speak. | Your hearts will throb and weepe to heare him speake. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.10 | Did as a prophet weep what it foresaw | Did as a Prophet weepe what it forsaw, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.174 | I'll be sworn 'tis true; he will weep you an | Ile be sworne 'tis true, he will weepe you an |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.76 | to weep seas, live in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers; | to weepe seas, liue in fire, eate rockes, tame Tygers; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.104 | Drawing all things to it. I will go in and weep – | Drawing all things to it. I will goe in and weepe. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.49 | Your eyes, half out, weep out at Pandar's fall; | Your eyes halfe out, weepe out at Pandar's fall: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.50 | Or if you cannot weep, yet give some groans, | Or if you cannot weepe, yet giue some grones; |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.65 | To weep there. | to weepe there. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.21 | like a schoolboy that had lost his A B C; to weep, like a | like a Schoole-boy that had lost his A.B.C. to weep like a |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.119 | To that I'll speak, to that I'll sigh and weep; | To that ile speake, to that ile sigh and weepe: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.162 | And at that time I made her weep agood, | And at that time I made her weepe a good, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.172 | I weep myself, to think upon thy words. | I weepe my selfe to thinke vpon thy words: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.95 | As any of us three; weep ere you fail. | As any of us three; weepe ere you faile; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.18 | We have been soldiers, and we cannot weep | We have bin Soldiers, and wee cannot weepe |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.91 | The fair-eyed maids shall weep our banishments, | The faire-eyd Maides, shall weepe our Banishments, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.308 | Who loses, yet I'll weep upon his bier. | Who looses, yet Ile weepe upon his Beere. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.148 | Weep not till they weep blood, wench; it must be. | Weepe not, till they weepe blood; Wench it must be. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.155 | Poor wench, go weep, for whosoever wins | Poore wench goe weepe, for whosoever wins, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.79 | And weep unto a girl; that hast the might | And weepe unto a Girle; that ha'st the might |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.118 | My plight requires it. Do not weep, good fools: | My plight requires it. Doe not weepe (good Fooles) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.31 | There weep, and leave it crying; and for the babe | There weepe, and leaue it crying: and for the babe |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.50 | To loss and what may follow! Weep I cannot, | To losse, and what may follow. Weepe I cannot, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.447.1 | But milk my ewes, and weep. | But milke my Ewes, and weepe. |