| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.96 | In that and all your worthiest affairs. | in that and all your worthiest affaires. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.i.4 | To wear your gentle limbs in my affairs, | To weare your gentle limbes in my affayres, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.63 | And his affairs come to me on the wind. | And his affaires come to me on the wind: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.vi.13 | Affairs of Antony; there did dissuade | Affaires of Anthony, there did disswade |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.100 | Till I and my affairs are answered. | Till I, and my affaires are answered. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.41 | part of the thousandth part of a minute in the affairs of | part of the thousand part of a minute in the affairs of |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.78 | Wife, mother, child, I know not. My affairs | Wife, Mother, Child, I know not. My affaires |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.51 | How far 'tis thither. If one of mean affairs | How farre 'tis thither. If one of meane affaires |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.16 | With this affair along. For all, our thanks. | With this affaire along, for all our Thankes. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.174 | But what is your affair in Elsinore? | But what is your affaire in Elsenour? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.317 | some frame, and start not so wildly from my affair. | some frame, and start not so wildely from my affayre. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.59 | That else leans on the affair. Pray you make haste. | That else leanes on th'Affaire, pray you make hast. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.362 | And our affairs from England come too late. | And our affaires from England come too late, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.59 | Upon the maidenhead of our affairs. | Vpon the Maydenhead of our Affaires. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.127 | employment in the King's affairs. | employment in the Kings Affaires. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.2 | Give even way unto my rough affairs; | Giue an euen way vnto my rough Affaires: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.58 | Who like a brother toiled in my affairs | Who, like a Brother, toyl'd in my Affaires, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.179 | caught with ringing in the King's affairs upon his | caught with Ringing in the Kings affayres, vpon his |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.284 | your affairs! God send us peace! At your return, visit | your Affaires, and send vs Peace. As you returne, visit |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.6 | My friends and brethren in these great affairs, | My Friends, and Brethren (in these great Affaires) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.26 | all affairs else in oblivion, as if there were nothing else | all affayres in obliuion, as if there were nothing els |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.41 | Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, | Heare him debate of Common-wealth Affaires; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.181 | Other affairs must now be managed. | Other affayres must now be managed. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.152 | I come to talk of commonwealth affairs. | I come to talke of Common-wealth Affayres. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.224 | Henry my lord is cold in great affairs, | Henry, my Lord, is cold in great Affaires, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.320 | Whiles I take order for mine own affairs. | Whiles I take order for mine owne affaires. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.58 | But with the first of all your chief affairs, | But with the first, of all your chiefe affaires, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.39 | Look into these affairs see this main end, | Looke into these affaires, see this maine end, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.71 | Is this an hour for temporal affairs, ha? | Is this an howre for temporall affaires? Ha? |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.22 | They should be good men, their affairs as righteous: | They should bee good men, their affaires as righteous: |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.13 | Some touch of your late business. Affairs that walk, | Some touch of your late businesse: Affaires that walke |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.53 | And we must root him out. From your affairs | And we must root him out. From your Affaires |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.135 | The fortunes and affairs of noble Brutus | The Fortunes and Affayres of Noble Brutus, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.216 | There is a tide in the affairs of men, | There is a Tide in the affayres of men, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.95 | But since the affairs of men rest still incertain, | But since the affayres of men rests still incertaine, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.169 | In great affairs 'tis naught to use delay. | In great affaires tis nought to vse delay. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.84 | For our affairs to France, and here we come | For our affaires to Fraunce, and heere we come, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.101 | And they shall plead for us and our affairs. | And they shall pleade for vs and our affaires, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.60 | Now might we hear of our affairs abroad. | Now might we heare of our affaires abroad, |
| King John | KJ I.i.101 | To treat of high affairs touching that time. | To treat of high affaires touching that time: |
| King John | KJ V.vi.5 | Of thine affairs as well as thou of mine? | of thine affaires, / As well as thou of mine? |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.148 | For following her affairs. – Put in his legs. | |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iii.21 | Best half of our affair. | Best halfe of our Affaire. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.v.5 | In riddles and affairs of death, | In Riddles, and Affaires of death; |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.87 | Notice of my affair. I humbly thank you. | Notice of my affaire: I humbly thanke you: |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.60 | Lord Angelo, having affairs to heaven, | Lord Angelo hauing affaires to heauen |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.161 | stolen out of other affairs, but I will attend you a while. | stolen out of other affaires: but I will attend you a while. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.22 | Not I but my affairs have made you wait. | Not I, but my affaires haue made you wait: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.50 | vais à la cour – la grande affaire. | Court la grand affaires. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.103 | Hope is a curtal dog in some affairs. | Hope is a curtall-dog in some affaires: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.113 | But, being overfull of self affairs, | But being ouer-full of selfe-affaires, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.374 | Whiles I in this affair do thee employ | Whiles I in this affaire do thee imply, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.161 | Save in the office and affairs of love; | Saue in the Office and affaires of loue: |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.72 | Your special mandate for the state affairs | Your speciall Mandate, for the State affaires |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.146 | But still the house affairs would draw her thence, | But still the house Affaires would draw her hence: |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.188 | Please it your grace, on to the state affairs. | Please it your Grace, on to the State Affaires; |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.218 | I humbly beseech you proceed to th' affairs of state. | I humbly beseech you proceed to th'Affaires of State. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.273 | Either for her stay, or going. Th' affair cries haste, | Either for her stay, or going: th'Affaire cries hast: |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.106 | no more of this; let's to our affairs. God forgive us our | no more of this: let's to our Affaires. Forgiue vs our |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.414 | That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs: | that in their sleepes will mutter / Their Affayres: |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.208 | dealt most directly in thy affair. | dealt most directly in thy Affaire. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.47 | For our affairs in hand. If that come short | For our affayres in hand: if that come short |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.159 | And for these great affairs do ask some charge, | And for these great affayres do aske some charge |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.109 | If I know how or which way to order these affairs | If I know how, or which way to order these affaires |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.121 | I was a packhorse in his great affairs; | I was a packe-horse in his great affaires: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.398 | So thrive I in my dangerous affairs | So thriue I in my dangerous Affayres |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.247 | What's your affair, I pray you? | What's your affayre I pray you? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.35 | Bear the great sway of his affairs with reasons, | Beare the great sway of his affayres with reasons, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.23 | I know, is such a wrest in their affairs | I know is such a wrest in their affaires; |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iv.36 | For this affair. Some four or five attend him – | For this affayre: some foure or fiue attend him, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.ii.10 | his affairs – unless it be to report your lord's taking of | his affaires, vnlesse it bee to report your Lords taking of |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.iii.18 | Take and give back affairs and their dispatch, | Take, and giue backe affayres, and their dispatch, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.117 | I'll leave you to confer of home affairs; | Ile leaue you to confer of home affaires, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.183 | In these affairs to aid me with thy counsel. | In these affaires to aid me with thy counsaile. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.59 | I am to break with thee of some affairs | I am to breake with thee of some affaires |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.254 | Of all that may concern thy love affairs. | Of all that may concerne thy Loue-affaires: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.23 | 'Twere needful I denied it. My affairs | 'Twere needfull I deny'd it. My Affaires |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.254 | Sometime puts forth. In your affairs, my lord, | Sometime puts forth in your affaires (my Lord.) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.ii.30 | his happier affairs may be are to me unknown; but I | his happier affayres may be, are to me vnknowne: but I |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.139 | Pray so, and, for the ord'ring your affairs, | Pray so: and for the ord'ring your Affayres, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.395 | Of reasonable affairs? Is he not stupid | Of reasonable affayres? Is he not stupid |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.712 | Your affairs there, what, with whom, the | Your Affaires there? what? with whom? the |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.733 | there; whereupon I command thee to open thy affair. | there: whereupon I command thee to open thy Affaire. |