| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.27 | Tell me thy reason why thou wilt marry. | Tell me thy reason why thou wilt marrie? |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.31 | Is this all your worship's reason? | Is this all your worships reason? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.iii.13 | If you can, your reason? | If you can, your reason? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.x.35 | The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason | The wounded chance of Anthony, though my reason |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.4 | Lord of his reason. What though you fled | Lord of his Reason. What though you fled, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.198 | Restores his heart. When valour preys on reason, | Restores his heart; when valour prayes in reason, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.51 | to reason of such goddesses and hath sent this natural | to reason of such goddesses, hath sent this Naturall |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.82 | By reason of his absence, there is nothing | By reason of his absence there is nothing |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.101 | An you will not be answered with reason, I must | And you will not be answer'd with reason, I must |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.37 | For not being at court? Your reason. | For not being at Court? your reason. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.381 | Neither rhyme nor reason can express how | Neither rime nor reason can expresse how |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.385 | and the reason why they are not so punished and cured | and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.20 | reason to be sad. I fear you have sold your own lands to | reason to be sad: I feare you haue sold your owne Lands, to |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.34 | asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the | ask'd one another the reason: no sooner knew the |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.35 | reason but they sought the remedy: and in these | reason, but they sought the remedie: and in these |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.136 | That reason wonder may diminish | That reason, wonder may diminish |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.49 | When in the why and the wherefore is neither rhyme nor reason? | when in the why and the wherefore, is neither rime nor reason. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.66 | Your reason? | Your reason? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.96 | For what reason? | For what reason. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.112 | But your reason was not | But your reason was not |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.97 | To know the reason of this strange restraint. | To know the reason of this strange restraint: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.53 | What, are you mad, that you do reason so? | What are you mad, that you doe reason so? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.56 | As if time were in debt. How fondly dost thou reason! |
As if time were in debt: how fondly do'st thou reason? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.61 | Hath he not reason to turn back an hour in a day? |
Hath he not reason to turne backe an houre in a day? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.86 | The reason that I gather he is mad, | The reason that I gather he is mad, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.189 | And now he's there, past thought of human reason. | And now he's there, past thought of humane reason. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.57 | Then reason safely with you. Therefore be it known, | Then reason safely with you: Therefore be it knowne, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.144 | Insult without all reason; where gentry, title, wisdom, | Insult without all reason: where Gentry, Title, wisedom |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.238 | Reason: because they then less | Reason, because they then lesse |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.52 | Within my age. But reason with the fellow | Within my Age. But reason with the fellow |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.176 | Does reason our petition with more strength | Doe's reason our Petition with more strength |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.31 | I am glad I was up so late, for that's the reason I was | I am glad I was vp so late, for that's the reason I was |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.14 | Since I can reason of it: pray you, trust me here, | Since I can reason of it: pray you trust me heere, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.22 | Love's reason's without reason. The bier at door, | Loue's reason's, without reason. The Beere at doore, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.131 | Can we set eye on; but in all safe reason | Can we set eye on: but in all safe reason |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.256.1 | My father hath a reason for't. | My Father hath a reason for't. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iv.48 | No reason I – since of your lives you set | No reason I (since of your liues you set |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.44 | You cannot speak of reason to the Dane | You cannot speake of Reason to the Dane, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.103 | To reason most absurd, whose common theme | To Reason most absurd, whose common Theame |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.150 | O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason | (O Heauen! A beast that wants discourse of Reason |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.28 | Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, | |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.73 | Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason | Which might depriue your Soueraignty of Reason, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.165 | And be not from his reason fallen thereon, | And be not from his reason falne thereon; |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.210 | often madness hits on, which reason and sanity could | often Madnesse hits on, / Which Reason and Sanitie could |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.264 | we to th' court? For, by my fay, I cannot reason. | wee to th' Court: for, by my fey I cannot reason? |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.304 | how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form | how Noble in Reason? how infinite in faculty? in forme |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.158 | Now see that noble and most sovereign reason | Now see that Noble, and most Soueraigne Reason, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.89.1 | And reason panders will. | As Reason panders Will. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.38 | That capability and godlike reason | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.58 | Excitements of my reason and my blood, | |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.285 | What is the reason that you use me thus? | What is the reason that you vse me thus? |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.20 | Larded with many several sorts of reasons, | Larded with many seuerall sorts of reason; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.10 | wench in flame-coloured taffeta, I see no reason why | Wench in Flame-coloured Taffata; I see no reason, why |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.183 | he fight longer than he sees reason, I'll forswear arms. | he fight longer then he sees reason, Ile forswear Armes. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.277 | And 'tis no little reason bids us speed, | And 'tis no little reason bids vs speed, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.107 | Whither I go, nor reason whereabout. | Whether I go: nor reason whereabout. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.229 | thy hand? Come, tell us your reason. What sayest thou | thy Hand? Come, tell vs your reason: what say'st thou |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.231 | Come, your reason, Jack, your reason! | Come, your reason Iack, your reason. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.234 | not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on | not tell you on compulsion. Giue you a reason on |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.236 | would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. | would giue no man a Reason vpon compulsion, I. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.171 | honest reason, thou seest I am pacified still – nay | honest reason: / Thou seest, I am pacified still. Nay, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.72 | The eye of reason may pry in upon us. | The eye of reason may prie in vpon vs: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.13 | for any other reason than to set me off, why then I have | for any other reason, then to set mee off, why then I haue |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.46 | keeping such vile company as thou art hath in reason | keeping such vild company as thou art, hath in reason |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.48 | The reason? | The reason? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.320 | reason in the law of nature but I may snap at him. Let | reason, in the Law of Nature, but I may snap at him. Let |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.155 | Then reason will our hearts should be as good. | Then Reason will, our hearts should be as good. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.189 | Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason, | Yea, euery idle, nice, and wanton Reason, |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.38 | Hear him but reason in divinity, | Heare him but reason in Diuinitie; |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.35 | sovereign to reason on, and for a sovereign's sovereign | Soueraigne to reason on, and for a Soueraignes Soueraigne |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.106 | he sees reason of fears, as we do, his fears, out of doubt, | he sees reason of feares, as we doe; his feares, out of doubt, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.107 | be of the same relish as ours are: yet, in reason, no | be of the same rellish as ours are: yet in reason, no |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.156 | into ladies' favours, they do always reason themselves | into Ladyes fauours, they doe alwayes reason themselues |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.323 | We have consented to all terms of reason. | Wee haue consented to all tearmes of reason. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.70 | The reason moved these warlike lords to this | The reason mou'd these Warlike Lords to this, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.156 | You have great reason to do Richard right, | You haue great reason to doe Richard right, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.152 | I see no reason, if I wear this rose, | I see no reason if I weare this Rose, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.33 | By reason of his adversary's odds. | By reason of his Aduersaries oddes. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.153 | There's reason he should be displeased at it. | There's reason he should be displeas'd at it: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.111 | Peace, son; and show some reason, Buckingham, | Peace Sonne, and shew some reason Buckingham |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.161 | To show some reason of no little force | To shew some reason, of no little force, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.28 | I see no reason why a king of years | I see no reason, why a King of yeeres |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.245 | 'Tis York that hath more reason for his death. | 'Tis Yorke that hath more reason for his death. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.153 | And good reason; for thereby is England mained and | And good reason: for thereby is England main'd / And |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ix.37 | And ask him what's the reason of these arms. | And aske him what's the reason of these Armes: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.18 | To know the reason of these arms in peace; | To know the reason of these Armes in peace. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.189 | And have no other reason for this wrong | And haue no other reason for this wrong, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.93 | And reason too; | And reason too, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.71 | To prove him tyrant this reason may suffice, | To proue him Tyrant, this reason may suffice, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.147 | Then 'tis but reason that I be released | Then 'tis but reason, that I be releas'd |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.25 | Tell me some reason why the Lady Grey | Tell me some reason, why the Lady Grey |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vii.34 | Both him and all his brothers unto reason. | Both him, and all his Brothers, vnto reason. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.72 | Had I not reason, think ye, to make haste, | Had I not reason (thinke ye) to make hast, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.130 | And let your reason with your choler question | And let your Reason with your Choller question |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.148 | If with the sap of reason you would quench | If with the sap of reason you would quench, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.6 | main power, took 'em from me, with this reason: his | maine power tooke 'em from me, with this reason: his |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.21 | More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof, | More then his Reason. But 'tis a common proofe, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.104 | And reason to my love is liable. | And reason to my loue is liable. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.237 | And show the reason of our Caesar's death. | And shew the reason of our Casars death. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.106 | And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; | And Men haue lost their Reason. Beare with me, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.109 | Methinks there is much reason in his sayings. | Me thinkes there is much reason in his sayings. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.196.2 | Your reason? | Your reason? |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.96 | Let's reason with the worst that may befall. | Let's reason with the worst that may befall. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.22 | The reason was, they say, the realm of France, | The reason was, they say the Realme of Fraunce, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.293 | With reason and reproof fond love away. | With reason and reproofe fond loue a waie. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.i.30 | By reason I have often heard thee say | By reason I haue often heard thee say, |
| King John | KJ I.i.66 | I, madam? No, I have no reason for it. | I Madame? No, I haue no reason for it, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.54 | My reasonable part produces reason | My reasonable part produces reason |
| King John | KJ III.iv.98 | Then, have I reason to be fond of grief? | Then, haue I reason to be fond of griefe? |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.29 | Our griefs, and not our manners, reason now. | Our greefes, and not our manners reason now. |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.30 | But there is little reason in your grief. | But there is little reason in your greefe. |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.31 | Therefore 'twere reason you had manners now. | Therefore 'twere reason you had manners now. |
| King John | KJ V.ii.130 | He is prepared, and reason too he should. | He is prepar'd, and reason to he should, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.222 | Must be a faith that reason without miracle | Must be a faith that reason without miracle |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.105 | can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself | can reason it thus, and thus, yet Nature finds it selfe |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.229 | knowledge, and reason, I should be false persuaded I | |
| King Lear | KL I.v.33 | Thy asses are gone about 'em. The reason why the | Thy Asses are gone about 'em; the reason why the |
| King Lear | KL I.v.34 | seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason. | seuen Starres are no mo then seuen, is a pretty reason. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.124 | Regan, I think you are. I know what reason | Regan, I thinke your are. I know what reason |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.229 | For those that mingle reason with your passion | For those that mingle reason with your passion, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.259 | O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars | O reason not the need: our basest Beggers |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.31 | He has some reason, else he could not beg. | He has some reason, else he could not beg. |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.2 | know you no reason? | |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.176 | Reason in madness! | Reason in Madnesse. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.53 | My reason all the same; and they are ready | My reason all the same, and they are ready |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.83 | Stay yet; hear reason. Edmund, I arrest thee | Stay yet,heare reason: Edmund, I arrest thee |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.94 | How well he's read, to reason against reading. | How well hee's read, to reason against reading. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.99.1 | In reason nothing. | In reason nothing. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.84 | a love of that colour, methinks Samson had small reason | a Loue of that colour, methinkes Sampson had small reason |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.102 | A dangerous rhyme, master, against the reason of white | A dangerous rime master against the reason of white |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.152 | A yielding 'gainst some reason in my breast, | A yeelding 'gainst some reason in my brest, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.168 | All liberal reason I will yield unto. | All liberall reason would I yeeld vnto: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.219 | Your reason? | Your reason. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.28 | Great reason, for past cure is still past care. | Great reason: for past care, is still past cure. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.243 | I know the reason, lady, why you ask. | I know the reason Ladie why you aske. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.244 | O for your reason! Quickly, sir; I long. | O for your reason, quickly sir, I long. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.705 | What reason have you for't? | What reason haue you for't? |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.84 | That takes the reason prisoner? | That takes the Reason Prisoner? |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.66 | Shall be a-fume, and the receipt of reason | Shall be a Fume, and the Receit of Reason |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.108 | Outrun the pauser reason. Here lay Duncan, | Out-run the pawser, Reason. Here lay Duncan, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.v.2 | Have I not reason, beldams, as you are | Haue I not reason (Beldams) as you are? |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.14.1 | So runs against all reason. | So runnes against all reason. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.184 | When she will play with reason and discourse, | When she will play with reason, and discourse, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.6 | Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life: | Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life: |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.242 | in all reason should have quenched her love, hath, like | in all reason should haue quenched her loue) hath (like |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iv.10 | He shows his reason for that – to have a dispatch | He showes his reason for that: to haue a dispatch |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iv.23 | How might she tongue me? Yet reason dares her no, | How might she tongue me? yet reason dares her no, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.64 | Harp not on that, nor do not banish reason | Harpe not on that; nor do not banish reason |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.65 | For inequality, but let your reason serve | For inequality, but let your reason serue |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.68 | Have sure more lack of reason. What would you say? | Haue sure more lacke of reason: / What would you say? |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.108 | Stands without blemish. Next, it imports no reason | Stands without blemish: next it imports no reason, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.20 | counsel the cripple. But this reasoning is not in the | counsaile the cripple; but this reason is not in f |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.53 | reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a | reason? I am a Iewe: Hath not a Iew eyes? hath not a |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.231 | And I have reason for it. Signor Antonio | And I haue reason for it, Signior Anthonio |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.21 | He seeks my life. His reason well I know: | He seekes my life, his reason well I know; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.38 | than reason; but if she be less than an honest woman, | then reason: but if she be lesse then an honest woman, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.73 | In reason he should never come to heaven. | Is reason he should neuer come to heauen? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.53 | As there is no firm reason to be rendered | As there is no firme reason to be rendred |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.59 | So can I give no reason, nor I will not, | So can I giue no reason, nor I will not, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.70 | The reason is your spirits are attentive. | The reason is, your spirits are attentiue: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.196 | so, I shall do that that is reason. | so, I shall doe that that is reason. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.218 | would do reason. | would doe reason. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.225 | request, cousin, in any reason. | request (Cosen) in any reason. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.4 | Ask me no reason why I love you, for though Love use | Aske me no reason why I loue you, for though Loue vse |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.5 | Reason for his precisian, he admits him not for his counsellor. | Reason for his precisian, hee admits him not for his Counsailour: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.15 | Reason, you rogue, reason. Thinkest thou | Reason, you roague, reason: thinkst thou |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.126 | reason, that they were fairies. See now how wit may be | reason, that they were Fairies. See now how wit may be |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.121 | The will of man is by his reason swayed, | The will of man is by his reason sway'd: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.122 | And reason says you are the worthier maid. | And reason saies you are the worthier Maide. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.124 | So I, being young, till now ripe not to reason. | So I being yong, till now ripe not to reason, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.126 | Reason becomes the marshal to my will | Reason becomes the Marshall to my will, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.135 | Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason | Me-thinkes mistresse, you should haue little reason |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.136 | for that. And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep | for that: and yet to say the truth, reason and loue keepe |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.6 | More than cool reason ever comprehends. | more / Then coole reason euer comprehends. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.247 | he is in the wane. But yet in courtesy, in all reason, we | he is in the wane: but yet in courtesie, in all reason, we |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.5 | You should hear reason. | You should heare reason. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.256 | You have no reason; I do it freely. | You haue no reason, I doe it freely. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.41 | There thou speak'st reason; nay, I will do so. | There thou speak'st reason, nay I will doe so, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.74.2 | Why no, no more than reason. | Why no, no more then reason. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.77.2 | Troth no, no more than reason. | Troth no, no more then reason. |
| Othello | Oth I.i.83 | What is the reason of this terrible summons? | What is the reason of this terrible / Summons? |
| Othello | Oth I.i.151 | With such loud reason to the Cyprus wars, | With such loud reason to the Cyprus Warres, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.18 | By no assay of reason. 'Tis a pageant | By no assay of reason. 'Tis a Pageant |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.324 | of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and | of Reason, to poize another of Sensualitie, the blood, and |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.326 | preposterous conclusions. But we have reason to cool | prepostrous Conclusions. But we haue Reason to coole |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.362 | reason. Let us be conjunctive in our revenge against | reason. Let vs be coniunctiue in our reuenge, against |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.64 | And yet his trespass in our common reason – | And yet his Trespasse, in our common reason |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.191 | I am glad of this: for now I shall have reason | I am glad of this: For now I shall haue reason |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.406 | Give me a living reason she's disloyal. | Giue me a liuing reason she's disloyall. |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.213 | reason to believe now than ever – I mean purpose, | reason to beleeue now then euer (I meane purpose, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.217 | Well, what is it? Is it within reason and | Well: what is it? Is it within, reason and |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.242 | I will hear further reason for this. | I will heare further reason for this. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.158 | It fits thee not to ask the reason why, | It fittes thee not to aske the reason why? |
| Pericles | Per I.iii.7 | reason for't, for if a king bid a man be a villain, he's | reason for't: for if a king bidde a man bee a villaine, hee's |
| Pericles | Per I.iii.36 | We have no reason to desire it, | Wee haue no reason to desire it, |
| Pericles | Per II.v.5 | Her reason to herself is only known, | her reason to her selfe is onely knowne, |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.84 | Is not to reason of the deed, but do't. | is not to reason of the deed, but doo't. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.277 | Teach thy necessity to reason thus: | |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.28.2 | What was his reason? | What was his reason? |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.79 | Have I not reason to look pale and dead? | Haue I not reason to looke pale, and dead? |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.49 | The treason that my haste forbids me show. | The reason that my haste forbids me show. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.94 | I will not reason what is meant hereby, | I will not reason what is meant heereby, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.163 | No, we'll reason with him. | No, wee'l reason with him. |
| Richard III | R3 II.iii.39 | You cannot reason almost with a man | You cannot reason (almost) with a man, |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.18 | Lord Mayor, the reason we have sent – | Lord Maior, the reason we haue sent. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.535 | Away towards Salisbury! While we reason here, | Away towards Salsbury, while we reason here, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.186 | Then fly. What, from myself? Great reason why – | Then flye; What from my Selfe? Great reason: why? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.19 | with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but | with a man for cracking Nuts, hauing no other reason, but |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.51 | And reason coldly of your grievances, | Or reason coldly of your greeuances: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.61 | Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee | Tibalt, the reason that I haue to loue thee, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.69 | Till thou shalt know the reason of my love. | Till thou shalt know the reason of my loue, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.15 | Now do you know the reason of this haste. | Now doe you know the reason of this hast? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.123 | I hope this reason stands for my excuse. | I hope this reason stands for my excuse. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.232.1 | For what reason, I beseech you? | For what reason I beseech you. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.232.2 | For this reason, if you'll know, | For this reason if you'l kno, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.400 | I see no reason but supposed Lucentio | I see no reason but suppos'd Lucentio |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.173 | Having no other reason | hauing no other reason, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.170 | My heart as great, my reason haply more, | My heart as great, my reason haplie more, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.176 | For still 'tis beating in my mind, your reason | For still 'tis beating in my minde; your reason |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.208.1 | Would not infect his reason? | Would not infect his reason? |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.120 | At thy request, monster, I will do reason, any | At thy request Monster, I will do reason, / Any |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.121 | reason. Come on, Trinculo, let us sing. | reason: Come on Trinculo, let vs sing. |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.26 | Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury | Yet, with my nobler reason, gainst my furie |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.68 | Their clearer reason. O good Gonzalo, | Their cleerer reason. O good Gonzallo |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.155 | That they devour their reason, and scarce think | That they deuoure their reason, and scarce thinke |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.i.12 | All that pass by. It cannot hold. No reason | All that passe by. It cannot hold, no reason |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.105 | and go away sadly. The reason of this? | and go away sadly. The reason of this? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.i.36 | what belongs to reason, and canst use the time well, if | what belongs to reason; and canst vse the time wel, if |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.282 | To do myself this reason and this right. | To doe my selfe this reason, and this right. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.81 | Great reason that my noble lord be rated | Great reason that my Noble Lord, be rated |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.91 | Have I not reason, think you, to look pale? | Haue I not reason thinke you to looke pale. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.217 | But yet let reason govern thy lament. | But yet let reason gouerne thy lament. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.218 | If there were reason for these miseries, | If there were reason for these miseries, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.223 | And wilt thou have a reason for this coil? | And wilt thou haue a reason for this coile? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.39 | Had he not reason, Lord Demetrius? | Had he not reason Lord Demetrius? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.39.2 | Your reason, mighty lord? | Your reason, Mighty Lord? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.42 | A reason mighty, strong, and effectual; | A reason mighty, strong, and effectuall, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.210 | By reason guide his execution. | By Reason guide his execution. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.24 | What merit's in that reason which denies | What merit's in that reason which denies |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.38 | You fur your gloves with reason. Here are your reasons: | You furre your gloues with reason: here are your reasons |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.41 | And reason flies the object of all harm. | And reason flyes the obiect of all harme. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.44 | The very wings of reason to his heels, | The very wings of reason to his heeles: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.46 | Or like a star disorbed? Nay, if we talk of reason, | Or like a Starre disorb'd. Nay, if we talke of Reason, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.49 | With this crammed reason; reason and respect | With this cramm'd reason: reason and respect, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.117 | So madly hot that no discourse of reason, | So madly hot, that no discourse of reason, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.115 | Much attribute he hath, and much the reason | Much attribute he hath, and much the reason, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.69 | Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds | Blinde feare, that seeing reason leads, findes |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.70 | safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: | safe footing, then blinde reason, stumbling without feare: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.147 | Bifold authority, where reason can revolt | By foule authoritie: where reason can reuolt |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.148 | Without perdition, and loss assume all reason | Without perdition, and losse assume all reason, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.191 | you be not mad, be gone; if you have reason, be brief. | you be not mad, be gone: if you haue reason, be breefe: |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.136 | What, for being a puritan? Thy exquisite reason, | What for being a Puritan, thy exquisite reason, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.138 | I have no exquisite reason for't, but I have | I haue no exquisite reason for't, but I haue |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.139 | reason good enough. | reason good enough. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.158 | myself, to let imagination jade me; for every reason | my selfe, to let imagination iade mee; for euery reason |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.21 | Thy reason, man? | Thy reason man? |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.23 | words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason | wordes are growne so false, I am loath to proue reason |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.149 | Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide. | Nor wit, nor reason, can my passion hide: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.152 | But rather reason thus with reason fetter: | But rather reason thus, with reason fetter; |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.2 | Thy reason, dear venom, give thy reason. | Thy reason deere venom, giue thy reason. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.3 | You must needs yield your reason, Sir Andrew. | You must needes yeelde your reason, Sir Andrew? |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.14 | judgement and reason. | iudgement, and reason. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.150 | why I do call thee so, for I will show thee no reason for't. | why I doe call thee so, for I will shew thee no reason for't. |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.iii.14 | And wrangle with my reason that persuades me | And wrangle with my reason that perswades me |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.22 | Your reason? | Your reason? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.23 | I have no other but a woman's reason: | I haue no other but a womans reason: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.136 | Nay, I was rhyming; 'tis you that have the reason. | Nay: I was riming: 'tis you yt haue the reason. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.154 | Have I not reason to prefer mine own? | Haue I not reason to prefer mine owne? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.196 | That makes me reasonless to reason thus? | That makes me reasonlesse, to reason thus? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.204 | And that's the reason I love him so little. | And that's the reason I loue him so little. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.210 | There is no reason but I shall be blind. | There is no reason, but I shall be blinde. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.23 | Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason. | Lest it should burne aboue the bounds of reason. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.48 | There is a best, and reason has no manners | There is a best, and reason has no manners |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.45 | O'erwrestling strength in reason. For our love | Or wrastling strength in reason, for our Love |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.47 | and so did they; what the reason of it is I know not. | And so did they, what the reason of it is, I / Know not: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.v.11 | I love him beyond love, and beyond reason, | I love him, beyond love, and beyond reason, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.105.1 | Not reconciled by reason. | not reconcild by reason, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.228 | Your reason will not hold it. If such vows | Your reason will not hold it, if such vowes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.34 | I am a fool; my reason is lost in me, | I am a Foole, my reason is lost in me, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.403 | Something unfilial. Reason my son | Something vnfilliall: Reason my sonne |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.404 | Should choose himself a wife, but as good reason | Should choose himselfe a wife, but as good reason |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.479 | I am, and by my fancy. If my reason | I am: and by my fancie, if my Reason |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.480 | Will thereto be obedient, I have reason; | Will thereto be obedient: I haue reason: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.41 | Is all as monstrous to our human reason | Is all as monstrous to our humane reason, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.122 | Unfurnish me of reason. They are come. | Vnfurnish me of Reason. They are come. |