| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.105 | thought, I dare vow for her, they touched not any | thought, I dare vowe for her, they toucht not anie |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.7 | With sainted vow my faults to have amended. | With sainted vow my faults to haue amended. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.75 | but the attempt I vow. | but the attempt I vow. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.22 | But the plain single vow that is vowed true. | But the plaine single vow, that is vow'd true: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.173 | For I by vow am so embodied yours | For I by vow am so embodied yours, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.122 | The time was once when thou unurged wouldst vow | The time was once, when thou vn-vrg'd wouldst vow, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.147 | And break it with a deep-divorcing vow? | And breake it with a deepe-diuorcing vow? |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.20 | (aside) Shall I be tempted to infringe my vow | Shall I be tempted to infringe my vow |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.46 | all happiness, that remains loyal to his vow, and | all happinesse, that remaines loyall to his Vow, and |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.49 | That it went hand in hand even with the vow | That it went hand in hand, euen with the Vow |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.70 | Makes vow before his uncle never more | Makes Vow before his Vnkle, neuer more |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.159 | Ere break the smallest parcel of this vow. | Ere breake the smallest parcell of this Vow. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.60 | And when he heard him swear and vow to God | And when he heard him sweare, and vow to God, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.75 | Steps me a little higher than his vow | Step me a little higher then his Vow |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.136 | look your grace, that he keep his vow and his oath. If | (looke your Grace) that he keepe his vow and his oath: If |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.140 | Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when thou | Then keepe thy vow sirrah, when thou |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.7 | Now have I paid my vow unto his soul; | Now haue I pay'd my Vow vnto his Soule: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.77 | Vow, Burgundy, by honour of thy house, | Vow Burgonie, by honor of thy House, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.197 | for his fault the other day, he did vow upon his knees | for his fault the other day, he did vow vpon his knees |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.159 | What instance gives Lord Warwick for his vow? | What instance giues Lord Warwicke for his vow. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.184 | Who can be bound by any solemn vow | Who can be bound by any solemne Vow |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.24 | I vow by heaven these eyes shall never close. | I vow by Heauen, these eyes shall neuer close. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.8 | Nor wittingly have I infringed my vow. | Nor wittingly haue I infring'd my Vow. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.29 | Here on my knee I vow to God above | Heere on my knee, I vow to God aboue, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.34 | And in this vow do chain my soul to thine! | And in this vow do chaine my soule to thine: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.250 | And here, to pledge my vow, I give my hand. | And heere to pledge my Vow, I giue my hand. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.140 | Give me assurance with some friendly vow, | Giue me assurance with some friendly Vow, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iii.4 | Why, no; for he hath made a solemn vow | Why, no: for he hath made a solemne Vow, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.272 | By all your vows of love, and that great vow | By all your vowes of Loue, and that great Vow |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.336 | To break a lawful and religious vow? | To breake a lawfull and religious vowe. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.351 | To break a vow made by the name of God. | To breake a vowe made by the name of God, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.95 | Which thou dost wear, and that I vow to have, | Which thou dost weare and that I vowe to haue, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.95 | My gifts you gave me, and my zealous vow, | My gifts you gaue me, and my zealous vow, |
| King John | KJ III.i.265 | Thy tongue against thy tongue. O, let thy vow | Thy tongue against thy tongue. O let thy vow |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.67 | The incense of a vow, a holy vow, | The Incense of a Vow, a holy Vow: |
| King Lear | KL I.i.168 | Since thou hast sought to make us break our vow, | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.22 | Doth noise abroad Navarre hath made a vow, | Doth noyse abroad Nauar hath made a vow, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.64 | My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love; | My Vow was earthly, thou a heauenly Loue. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.111 | Vow, alack, for youth unmeet, | Vow alacke for youth vnmeete, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.176 | To break the vow I am engaged in, | To breake the vow I am ingaged in. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.293 | And abstinence engenders maladies. | And abstinence ingenders maladies. / And where that you haue vow'd to studie (Lords) / In that each of you haue forsworne his Booke. / Can you still dreame and pore, and thereon looke. / For when would you my Lord, or you, or you, / Haue found the ground of studies excellence, / Without the beauty of a womans face; / From womens eyes this doctrine I deriue, / They are the Ground, the Bookes, the Achadems, / From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire. / Why, vniuersall plodding poysons vp / The nimble spirits in the arteries, / As motion and long during action tyres / The sinnowy vigour of the trauailer. / Now for not looking on a womans face, / You haue in that forsworne the vse of eyes: / And studie too, the causer of your vow. / For where is any Author in the world, / Teaches such beauty as a womans eye: / Learning is but an adiunct to our selfe, / And where we are, our Learning likewise is. / Then when our selues we see in Ladies eyes, / With our selues. / Doe we not likewise see our learning there? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.294 | O, we have made a vow to study, lords, | O we haue made a Vow to studie, Lords, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.295 | And in that vow we have forsworn our books; | And in that vow we haue forsworne our Bookes: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.345 | This field shall hold me, and so hold your vow. | This field shal hold me, and so hold your vow: |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.165 | By the vow of mine order I warrant you, if my | By the vow of mine Order, I warrant you, / If my |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.143 | I am combined by a sacred vow | I am combined by a sacred Vow, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.27 | I have toward heaven breathed a secret vow | I haue toward heauen breath'd a secret vow, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.439 | And when she put it on she made me vow | And when she put it on, she made me vow |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.121 | To death or to a vow of single life. | To death, or to a vow of single life. |
| 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, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.153 | To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts, | To vow, and sweare, and superpraise my parts, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.350 | canst. If sanctimony and a frail vow betwixt an erring | canst: If Sanctimonie, and a fraile vow, betwixt an erring |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.21 | If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it | If I do vow a friendship, Ile performe it |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.458 | In the due reverence of a sacred vow | In the due reuerence of a Sacred vow, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.118 | Now by my sceptre's awe I make a vow | Now by my Scepters awe, I make a vow, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.49 | That vow a long and weary pilgrimage. | That vow a long and weary pilgrimage, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.209 | Didst break that vow, and with thy treacherous blade | Did'st breake that Vow, and with thy treacherous blade, |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.42 | Is this thy vow unto my sickly heart. | Is this thy Vow, vnto my sickely heart: |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.179 | Your mother lives a witness to that vow – | Your Mother liues a Witnesse to his Vow; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.223 | She hath forsworn to love; and in that vow | She hath forsworne to loue, and in that vow |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.107 | Lady, by yonder blessed moon I vow, | Lady, by yonder Moone I vow, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.127 | Th' exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine. | Th'exchange of thy Loues faithfull vow for mine. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.58 | We met, we wooed and made exchange of vow, | We met, we wooed, and made exchange of vow: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.28 | Here is my hand, and here I firmly vow | Heere is my hand, and heere I firmly vow |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.v.15 | Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me. | Henceforth I vowe it shall be so for me. |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.54.1 | Or else, good night your vow. | Or else good night your vow. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.477 | We do, and vow to heaven and to his highness | We doe, And vow to heauen, and to his Highnes, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.125 | Upon her nuptial vow, her loyalty, | Vpon her Nuptiall vow, her loyaltie. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.296 | For by my fathers' reverend tomb I vow | For by my Fathers reuerent Tombe I vow |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.278 | The vow is made. Come, brother, take a head, | The vow is made, come Brother take a head, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.81 | To that I'll urge him: therefore thou shalt vow, | To that Ile vrge him: therefore thou shalt vow |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC prologue.7 | Put forth toward Phrygia, and their vow is made | Put forth toward Phrygia, and their vow is made |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.75 | Nothing, but our undertakings, when we vow | Nothing but our vndertakings, when we vowe |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.41 | My major vow lies here; this I'll obey. – | My maior vow lyes heere; this Ile obay: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.23 | It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; | It is the purpose that makes strong the vowe; |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.292 | of his vow. He protests he will not hurt you. | of his vowe, he protests he will not hurt you. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.200 | That used me so; or else, by Jove I vow, | That vs'd me so: or else by Ioue, I vow, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.247 | If your vow stand, shall curse me and my beauty, | If your vow stand, shall curse me and my Beauty, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.125 | And vow that lover never yet made sigh | And vow that lover never yet made sigh |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.240 | I daily vow to use it. Come, | I dayly vow to vse it. Come, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.483 | So call it, but it does fulfil my vow: | So call it: but it do's fulfill my vow: |