| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.73 | She draws a knife | Draw a knife. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.25 | Be brooched with me. If knife, drugs, serpents, have | Be brooch'd with me, if Knife, Drugges, Serpents haue |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.21 | Nor by a hired knife; but that self hand | Nor by a hyred Knife, but that selfe-hand |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.31 | Presented to my knife his throat. I took him, | Presented to my knife his Throat: I tooke him, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.98 | The lamb entreats the butcher. Where's thy knife? | The Lambe entreats the Butcher. Wher's thy knife? |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.213 | To come. O, give me cord, or knife, or poison | To come. Oh giue me Cord, or knife, or poyson, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.141 | So mortal that, but dip a knife in it, | So mortall, I but dipt a knife in it, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.17 | The edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife, | The edge of Warre, like an ill-sheathed knife, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.125 | By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps | By this Wine, Ile thrust my Knife in your mouldie Chappes, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.301 | carved upon it with a knife. 'A was so forlorn that his | caru'd vpon it with a Knife. Hee was so forlorne, that his |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.87 | Would, by beholding him, have washed his knife | Would (by beholding him) haue wash'd his Knife |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.174 | From treason's secret knife and traitor's rage | From Treasons secret Knife, and Traytors Rage, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.195 | Are you the butcher, Suffolk? Where's your knife? | Are you the Butcher, Suffolk? where's your Knife? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.197 | I wear no knife to slaughter sleeping men; | I weare no Knife, to slaughter sleeping men, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.49 | But set his murdering knife unto the root | But set his murth'ring knife vnto the Roote, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.9 | And next his throat unto the butcher's knife. | And next his Throate, vnto the Butchers Knife. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.199.1 | Have put his knife into him.’ | Haue put his knife into him. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.203 | After ‘ the Duke his father,’ with the ‘ knife,’ | After the Duke his Father, with the knife |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.210 | To sheathe his knife in us. He is attached; | To sheath his knife in vs: he is attach'd, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.184 | Or else, by heaven, this sharp-pointed knife | Or else by heauen, this sharpe poynted knyfe, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.220 | Enter a Gentleman with a bloody knife | Enter a Gentleman. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.221.1 | What means this bloody knife? | What meanes this bloody Knife? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.125 | Non point, with my knife. | No poynt, with my knife. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.50 | That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, | That my keene Knife see not the Wound it makes, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.16 | Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan | Not beare the knife my selfe. Besides, this Duncane |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.121 | Why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly? | Why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.124 | Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can, | Thou mak'st thy knife keene: but no mettall can, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.242 | You must prepare your bosom for his knife. | you must prepare your bosome for his knife. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.150 | Upon a knife, ‘ Love me, and leave me not.’ | Vpon a knife; Loue mee, and leaue mee not. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.17 | about me – I am no gibbet for you. Go – a short knife | about mee, I am no gibbet for you: goe, a short knife, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.14 | Seeks to take off by treason's knife. | Seeke to take off by treasons knife, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.243 | Fool, fool! Thou whet'st a knife to kill thyself. | Foole, foole, thou whet'st a Knife to kill thy selfe: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.227 | No doubt the murderous knife was dull and blunt | No doubt the murd'rous Knife was dull and blunt, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.197 | nobleman in town, one Paris, that would fain lay knife | Noble man in Towne one Paris, that would faine lay knife |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.45 | Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife, | Had'st thou no poyson mixt, no sharpe ground knife, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.54 | And with this knife I'll help it presently. | And with his knife, Ile helpe it presently. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.62 | 'Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife | Twixt my extreames and me, this bloody knife |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.24 | She lays down a knife | |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.164 | Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine | Sword, Pike, Knife, Gun, or neede of any Engine |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.92 | Or cut his weasand with thy knife. Remember | Or cut his wezand with thy knife. Remember |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.50 | He would have dropped his knife and fell asleep, | He would haue dropt his knife and fell asleepe, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.16 | Or get some little knife between thy teeth | Or get some little knife betweene thy teeth, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.52 | Marcus strikes the dish with a knife | Marcus strikes the dish with a knife. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.52 | What dost thou strike at, Marcus, with thy knife? | What doest thou strike at Marcus with knife. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.71 | Give me thy knife. I will insult on him, | Giue me thy knife, I will insult on him, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.114 | Sirrah, hast thou a knife? Come, let me see it. | Sirrha hast thou a knife? Come let me see it. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.115.1 | Takes a knife and gives it to Marcus | |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.139 | Have with my knife carved in Roman letters, | Haue with my knife carued in Romaine Letters, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.165.1 | Enter Titus Andronicus with a knife, and Lavinia | Exeunt. Enter Titus Andronicus with a knife, and Lauinia |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.64 | The knife that made it. | The Knife that made it. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.104 | But silence, like a Lucrece' knife, | but silence like a Lucresse knife: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.595 | glass, pomander, brooch, table-book, ballad, knife, tape, | Glasse, Pomander, Browch, Table-booke, Ballad, Knife, Tape, |