| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.59 | For I the ballad will repeat | for I the Ballad will repeate, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.119 | which hung so tottering in the balance that I could | which hung so tottring in the ballance, that I could |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.172 | Traduced by odious ballads my maiden's name; | Traduc'd by odious ballads: my maidens name |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.175.1 | A balance more replete. | A ballance more repleat. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.295 | Why, these balls bound, there's noise in it. 'Tis hard: | Why these bals bound, ther's noise in it. Tis hard |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.137 | In a sweet verbal brief, it did concern | In a sweet verball breefe, it did concerne |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.64 | Like balls before me! I'll unhair thy head! | Like balls before me: Ile vnhaire thy head, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.216 | Ballad us out o' tune. The quick comedians | Ballads vs out a Tune. The quicke Comedians |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.149 | Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad | Sighing like Furnace, with a wofull ballad |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.47 | Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream | Your bugle eye-balls, nor your cheeke of creame |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.83 | That like a football you do spurn me thus? | That like a foot-ball you doe spurne me thus: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.144 | sent whole armadoes of carracks to be ballast at her nose. | sent whole Armadoes of Carrects to be ballast at her nose. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.195 | An he had been cannibally given, | And hee had bin Cannibally giuen, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.227 | increase tailors, and breed ballad-makers. | encrease Taylors, / and breed Ballad-makers. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.105 | By being so verbal: and learn now, for all, | By being so verball: and learne now, for all, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.103.1 | I'll wake mine eye-balls out first. | Ile wake mine eye-balles first. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.50 | Been less, and so more equal ballasting | Bin lesse, and so more equall ballasting |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.44 | ballads made on you all, and sung to filthy tunes, let a | Ballads made on all, and sung to filthy tunes, let a |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.124 | Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. | Then one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.39 | been an ignis fatuus, or a ball of wildfire, there's no | beene an Ignis fatuus, or a Ball of Wild-fire, there's no |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.5 | The acts commenced on this ball of earth. | The Acts commenced on this Ball of Earth. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.161 | Compare with Caesars and with Cannibals, | compare with Caesar, and with Caniballs, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.295 | of his youth, and the feats he hath done about Turnbull | of his Youth, and the Feates hee hath done about Turnball- |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.67 | I have in equal balance justly weighed | I haue in equall ballance iustly weigh'd, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.47 | particular ballad else, with mine own picture on the | particular Ballad, with mine owne Picture on the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.103 | Therefore still bear the balance and the sword, | Therefore still beare the Ballance, and the Sword: |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.259.2 | Tennis-balls, my liege. | Tennis balles, my Liege. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.262 | When we have matched our rackets to these balls, | When we haue matcht our Rackets to these Balles, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.283 | Hath turned his balls to gun-stones, and his soul | Hath turn'd his balles to Gun-stones, and his soule |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.131 | I did present him with the Paris balls. | I did present him with the Paris-Balls. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.253 | 'Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball, | 'Tis not the Balme, the Scepter, and the Ball, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.17 | The fatal balls of murdering basilisks. | The fatall Balls of murthering Basiliskes: |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.158 | but a ballad. A good leg will fall; a straight back will | but a Ballad; a good Legge will fall, a strait Backe will |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.79 | O, were mine eyeballs into bullets turned, | Oh were mine eye-balles into Bullets turn'd, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.49 | Upon thy eyeballs murderous tyranny | Vpon thy eye-balls, murderous Tyrannie |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.169 | His eyeballs further out than when he lived, | His eye-balles further out, than when he liued, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.9 | Except a sword or sceptre balance it. | Except a Sword or Scepter ballance it. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.152 | That face of his the hungry cannibals | That Face of his, / The hungry Caniballs |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.61 | Butchers and villains! Bloody cannibals! | Butchers and Villaines, bloudy Caniballes, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.47 | You'd venture an emballing. I myself | You'ld venture an emballing: I my selfe |
| King John | KJ III.iv.30 | And put my eyeballs in thy vaulty brows, | And put my eye-balls in thy vaultie browes, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.85 | Nor tripped neither, you base football-player. | Nor tript neither, you base Foot-ball plaier. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.241 | try whether your costard or my ballow be the harder. | try whither your Costard, or my Ballow be the harder; |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.104 | Is there not a ballad, boy, of the King and the | Is there not a ballet Boy, of the King and the |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.106 | The world was very guilty of such a ballad some | The world was very guilty of such a Ballet some |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.194 | With two pitch-balls stuck in her face for eyes; | With two pitch bals stucke in her face for eyes. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.667 | This Hector far surmounted Hannibal; | This Hector farre surmounted Hanniball. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.112 | Thy crown does sear mine eye-balls. And thy hair, | Thy Crowne do's seare mine Eye-bals. And thy haire |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.120 | That twofold balls and treble sceptres carry. | That two-fold Balles, and trebble Scepters carry. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.167 | Hannibal! I respected with her before I was married | Hanniball; I respected with her, before I was married |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.170 | officer. Prove this, thou wicked Hannibal, or I'll have | Officer: proue this, thou wicked Hanniball, or ile haue |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.98 | By cold gradation and well-balanced form, | By cold gradation, and weale-ballanc'd forme. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.54 | Tubal, a wealthy Hebrew of my tribe, | Tuball a wealthy Hebrew of my Tribe |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.70 | Enter Tubal | Enter Tuball. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.72 | How now, Tubal! What news from Genoa? | How now Tuball, what newes from Genowa? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.96 | I thank thee, good Tubal. Good news, good | I thanke thee good Tuball, good newes, good |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.110 | Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal. It | Out vpon her, thou torturest me Tuball, it |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.115 | Nay, that's true, that's very true. Go, Tubal, | Nay, that's true, that's very true, goe Tuball, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.118 | Venice I can make what merchandise I will. Go, Tubal, | Venice, I can make what merchandize I will: goe Tuball, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.119 | and meet me at our synagogue; go, good Tubal; at our | and meete me at our Sinagogue, goe good Tuball, at our |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.120 | synagogue, Tubal. | Sinagogue Tuball. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.117 | Or whether, riding on the balls of mine, | Or whether riding on the bals of mine |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.285 | To Tubal and to Chus, his countrymen, | To Tuball and to Chus, his Countri-men, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.252 | It is so. Are there balance here to weigh | It is so: Are there ballance heere to weigh |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.86 | Sir Hugh send-a you? Rugby, baille me some | Sir Hugh send-a you? Rugby, ballow mee some |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.21 | snowballs for pills to cool the reins. Call her in. | snowbals, for pilles to coole the reines. Call her in. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.369 | And make his eyeballs roll with wonted sight. | And make his eie-bals role with wonted sight. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.212 | Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream. It shall be | PeterQuince to write a ballet of this dreame, it shall be |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.310 | A mote will turn the balance which Pyramus, | A Moth wil turne the ballance, which Piramus |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.232 | mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and hang me up | mine eyes with a Ballet-makers penne, and hang me vp |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.43 | stuffed tennis-balls. | stuft tennis balls. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.199 | shall ne'er weigh more reasons in her balance. Nay, an | shall nere weigh more reasons in her ballance, nay, and |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.328 | Probal to thinking, and indeed the course | Proball to thinking, and indeed the course |
| Pericles | Per II.i.60 | In that vast tennis-court, hath made the ball | In that vast Tennis-court, hath made the Ball |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.137 | nobleman, and she sent him away as cold as a snowball, | Noble man, and shee sent him away as colde as a Snoweball, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.41 | But when from under this terrestrial ball | But when from vnder this Terrestriall Ball |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.87 | But in the balance of great Bolingbroke | But in the Ballance of great Bullingbrooke, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.13 | She would be as swift in motion as a ball. | She would be as swift in motion as a ball, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.303 | To every eyeball else. Go take this shape, | To euery eye-ball else: goe take this shape |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.58 | Commit my cause in balance to be weighed. | Commit my Cause in ballance to be weigh'd. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.72.2 | Why, play at stool-ball. | Why play at stoole ball, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.187 | them as he had eaten ballads and all men's ears grew to | them as he had eaten ballads, and all mens eares grew to |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.190 | love a ballad but even too well, if it be doleful matter | loue a ballad but euen too well, if it be dolefull matter |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.257 | What hast here? Ballads? | What hast heere? Ballads? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.258 | Pray now, buy some. I love a ballad in print a-life, | Pray now buy some: I loue a ballet in print, a life, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.271 | Come on, lay it by, and let's first see more ballads; | Come-on, lay it by: and let's first see moe Ballads: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.273 | Here's another ballad, of a fish that appeared | Here's another ballad of a Fish, that appeared |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.275 | forty thousand fathom above water, and sung this ballad | fortie thousand fadom aboue water, & sung this ballad |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.278 | not exchange flesh with one that loved her. The ballad | not exchange flesh with one that lou'd her: The Ballad |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.284 | This is a merry ballad, but a very pretty one. | This is a merry ballad, but a very pretty one. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.595 | glass, pomander, brooch, table-book, ballad, knife, tape, | Glasse, Pomander, Browch, Table-booke, Ballad, Knife, Tape, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.24 | wonder is broken out within this hour that ballad-makers | wonder is broken out within this houre, that Ballad-makers |