| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.5 | Ambitious love hath so in me offended | Ambitious loue hath so in me offended, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.43 | I am ambitious for a motley coat. | I am ambitious for a motley coat. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.13 | ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the | ambitious: nor the Lawiers, which is politick: nor the |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.64 | thing. You are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs. | thing: you are ambitious, for poore knaues cappes and legges: |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.115 | As ever in ambitious strength I did | As euer in Ambitious strength, I did |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.31 | O'ercome with pride, ambitious past all thinking, | O'recome with Pride, Ambitious, past all thinking |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.61 | When he the ambitious Norway combated. | When th'Ambitious Norwey combatted: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.257 | For the very substance of the ambitious is merely the | for the very substance of the Ambitious, is meerely the |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.125 | ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I | Ambitious, with more offences at my becke, then I |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.29 | How now, ambitious Humphrey, what means this? | How now ambitious Vmpheir, what meanes this? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.114 | Have with thee, Pole. Farewell, ambitious Richard. | Haue with thee Poole: Farwell ambitious Richard. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.29 | If I were covetous, ambitious, or perverse, | If I were couetous, ambitious, or peruerse, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.18 | Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts! | Banish the Canker of ambitious thoughts: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.107 | Ambitious Warwick, let thy betters speak. | Ambitious Warwicke, let thy betters speake. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.177 | Ambitious churchman, leave to afflict my heart. | Ambitious Church-man, leaue to afflict my heart: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.84 | And, like ambitious Sylla, overgorged | And like ambitious Sylla ouer-gorg'd, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.132 | Ay, Clifford; a bedlam and ambitious humour | I Clifford, a Bedlem and ambitious humor |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.19 | Ambitious York did level at thy crown, | Ambitious Yorke, did leuell at thy Crowne, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.27 | While proud ambitious Edward Duke of York | While prowd ambitious Edward, Duke of Yorke, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.17 | Speak like a subject, proud ambitious York! | Speake like a Subiect, prowd ambitious Yorke. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.53 | From his ambitious finger. What had he | From his Ambitious finger. What had he |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.7 | Th' ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam, | Th'ambitious Ocean swell, and rage, and foame, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.26 | honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him. | honour him: But, as he was Ambitious, I slew him. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.79 | Hath told you Caesar was ambitious. | Hath told you Casar was Ambitious: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.87 | But Brutus says he was ambitious, | But Brutus sayes, he was Ambitious, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.91 | Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? | Did this in Casar seeme Ambitious? |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.94 | Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, | Yet Brutus sayes, he was Ambitious: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.99 | Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, | Yet Brutus sayes, he was Ambitious: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.114 | Therefore 'tis certain he was not ambitious. | Therefore 'tis certaine, he was not Ambitious. |
| King John | KJ I.i.32 | How that ambitious Constance would not cease | How that ambitious Constance would not cease |
| King John | KJ II.i.430 | If love ambitious sought a match of birth, | If loue ambitious, sought a match of birth, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.11 | eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general | eye ambitious, his gate maiesticall, and his generall |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.44 | The watery kingdom, whose ambitious head | The waterie Kingdome, whose ambitious head |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.151 | I would not be ambitious in my wish | I would not be ambitious in my wish, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.130 | Of sky-aspiring and ambitious thoughts | |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.135 | Oppose not Scythia to ambitious Rome. | Oppose me Scythia to ambitious Rome, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.205 | Proud and ambitious tribune, canst thou tell? | Proud and ambitious Tribune can'st thou tell? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.23 | And too ambitious, to aspire to him. | And too ambitious to aspire to him; |