| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.5 | They have made him drink alms drink. | They haue made him drinke Almes drinke. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.91 | Walked crowns and crownets; realms and islands were | Walk'd Crownes and Crownets: Realms & Islands were |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.64 | And balms applied to you, yet dare I never | And Balmes applyed to you, yet dare I neuer |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.80 | voices begged. I have your alms. Adieu. | voyces begg'd: I haue your Almes, Adieu. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.120 | That hath received an alms! I will not do't, | That hath receiu'd an Almes. I will not doo't, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.41 | with the easy groans of old women, the virginal palms of | with the easie groanes of old women, the Virginall Palms of |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.11 | As with a man by his own alms empoisoned | as with a man by his owne Almes impoyson'd, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.113 | One bred of alms, and fostered with cold dishes, | One, bred of Almes, and foster'd with cold dishes, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.129 | psalms – or anything. A plague of all cowards, I say still. | all manner of songs. A plague of all Cowards, I say still. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.37 | Yonder he comes, and that arrant malmsey-nose knave | Yonder he comes, and that arrant Malmesey-Nose |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.17 | A hundred almshouses right well supplied; | A hundred Almes-houses, right well supply'd: |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.352 | Combine your hearts in one, your realms in one! | Combine your hearts in one, your Realmes in one: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.6 | Between the realms of England and of France. | Betweene the Realmes of England, and of France. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.92 | And peace established between these realms | And peace established betweene these Realmes. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.230 | Methinks the realms of England, France, and Ireland | Me thinkes the Realmes of England, France, & Ireland, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.79 | Thou art not here; murder is thy alms-deed; | Thou art not heere; Murther is thy Almes-deed: |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.197 | I weighed the danger which my realms stood in | I weigh'd the danger which my Realmes stood in |
| King Lear | KL I.i.278 | At Fortune's alms. You have obedience scanted, | At Fortunes almes, you haue obedience scanted, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.38 | O, they have lived long on the alms-basket | O they haue liu'd long on the almes-basket |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.233 | Metheglin, wort, and malmsey. Well run, dice! | Methegline, Wort, and Malmsey; well runne dice: |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.35 | Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms | Becomes as aged, and doth begge the almes |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.58 | place together than the Hundredth Psalm to the tune of | place together, then the hundred Psalms to the tune of |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.159 | An he should, it were an alms to hang him. | And he should, it were an almes to hang him, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.179 | If after every tempest come such calms, | If after euery Tempest, come such Calmes, |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.118.1 | To Fortune's alms. | To Fortunes Almes. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.149 | My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, | My gay Apparrell, for an Almes-mans Gowne, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.157 | of thy sword, and then throw him into the malmsey-butt | of thy Sword, and then throw him into the Malmesey-Butte |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.273 | I'll drown you in the malmsey-butt within. | Ile drowne you in the Malmesey-But within. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.5 | Upon entreaty have a present alms, | Vpon intreatie haue a present almes, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iii.34 | set whole realms on fire. | set whole Realmes on fire, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.41 | Would cast the gorge at, this embalms and spices | Would cast the gorge at. This Embalmes and Spices |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.9 | That have their alms out of the Empress' chest. | That haue their Almes out of the Empresse Chest. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.146 | Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, | Wherein he puts almes for obliuion: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.31 | Convent in their behoof; our richest balms, | Convent in their behoofe, our richest balmes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.v.4 | Balms and gums and heavy cheers, | Balmes, and Gummes, and heavy cheeres, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.115 | But to be paddling palms and pinching fingers, | But to be padling Palmes, and pinching Fingers, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.43 | amongst them, and he sings psalms to hornpipes. I must | amongst them, and he sings Psalmes to horne-pipes. I must |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.138 | I'd have you buy and sell so, so give alms, | I'ld haue you buy, and sell so: so giue Almes, |