| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.92 | Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; | quarrelsome: the sixt, the Lye with circumstance: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.16 | With circumstance and oaths so to deny | With circumstance and oaths, so to denie |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.61.2 | Sir, my circumstances, | Sir, my Circumstances |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.102 | Unsifted in such perilous circumstance. | Vnsifted in such perillous Circumstance. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.127 | And so, without more circumstance at all, | And so, without more circumstance at all, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.157 | If circumstances lead me, I will find | If Circumstances leade me, I will finde |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.1 | And can you by no drift of conference | And can you by no drift of circumstance |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.86 | One scene of it comes near the circumstance, | One Scoene of it comes neere the Circumstance |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.83 | But in our circumstance and course of thought, | But in our circumstance and course of thought |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.2 | You do remember all the circumstance? | You doe remember all the Circumstance. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.34 | | [Q1 replaces this scene with the following] Enter Horatio and the Queene. HOR. Madame, your sonne is safe arriv'de in Denmarke, This letter I euen now receiv'd of him, Whereas he writes how he escap't the danger, And subtle treason that the king had plotted, Being crossed by the contention of the windes, He found the Packet sent to the king of England, Wherein he saw himselfe betray'd to death, As at his next conuersion with your grace, He will relate the circumstance at full. QUEENE. Then I perceiue there's treason in his lookes That seem'd to sugar o're his villanie: But I will soothe and please him for a time, For murderous mindes are alwayes jealous, But know not you Horatio where he is? HOR. Yes Madame, and he hath appoynted me To meete him on the east side of the Cittie To morrow morning. QUEENE. O faile not, good Horatio, and withall, commend me A mothers care to him, bid him a while Be wary of his presence, lest that he Faile in that he goes about. HOR. Madam, neuer make doubt of that: I thinke by this the news be come to court: He is arriv'de, obserue the king, and you shall Quickely finde, Hamlet being here, Things fell not to his minde. QUEENE. But what became of Gilderstone and Rossencraft? HOR. He being set ashore, they went for England, And in the Packet there writ down that doome To be perform'd on them poynted for him: And by great chance he had his fathers Seale, So all was done without discouerie. QUEENE. Thankes be to heauen for blessing of the prince, Horatio once againe I take my leaue, With thowsand mothers blessings to my sonne. HORAT. Madam adue. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.69 | The circumstance considered, good my lord, | The circumstance considered, good my Lord, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.109 | The circumstance I'll tell you more at large. | The circumstance Ile tell you more at large. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.155 | An if your grace mark every circumstance, | And if your Grace marke euery circumstance, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.103 | This peroration with such circumstance? | This preroration with such circumstance: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.72 | Good fellow, tell us here the circumstance, | Good-fellow, tell vs here the circumstance, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.39 | Hath not essentially, but by circumstance, | Hath not essentially, but by circumstance |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.76 | Induced by potent circumstances, that | (Induc'd by potent Circumstances) that |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.8 | And not to spend the time in circumstance, | And not to spend the time in circumstaunce, |
| King John | KJ II.i.77 | Cuts off more circumstance. They are at hand – | Cuts off more circumstance, they are at hand, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.102 | article of it, neither in time, matter, or other circumstance. | Article of it, / Neither in time, matter, or other circumstance. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.154 | To wind about my love with circumstance; | To winde about my loue with circumstance, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.91 | I came hither to tell you; and, circumstances | I came hither to tell you, and circumstances |
| Othello | Oth I.i.13 | Evades them with a bombast circumstance | Euades them, with a bumbast Circumstance, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.16 | Or breed itself so out of circumstance, | Or breede it selfe so out of Circumstances, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.351 | Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war! | Pride, Pompe, and Circumstance of glorious Warre: |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.403 | If imputation and strong circumstance, | If imputation, and strong circumstances, |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.197 | 'Tis very good: I must be circumstanced. | 'Tis very good: I must be circumstanc'd. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.77 | By circumstance but to acquit myself. | By circumstance, but to acquit my selfe. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.80 | By circumstance to accuse thy cursed self. | By circumstance, to curse thy cursed Selfe. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.175 | All circumstances well considered. | All circumstances well considered. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.36 | Say either, and I'll stay the circumstance. | Say either, and Ile stay the circustance: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.181 | We cannot without circumstance descry. | We cannot without circumstance descry. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.120 | In all these circumstances I'll instruct you. | In all these circumstances Ile instruct you, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.23 | in Padua. Do you hear, sir? To leave frivolous circumstances, | in Padua: doe you heare sir, to leaue friuolous circumstances, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.155 | And tell them both the circumstance of all, | And tell them both the circumstance of all, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.114 | Who in his circumstance expressly proves | Who in his circumstance, expresly proues |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.80 | obstacle, no incredulous or unsafe circumstance – what | obstacle, no incredulous or vnsafe circumstance: What |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.255 | to a mortal arbitrement, but nothing of the circumstance | to a mortall arbitrement, but nothing of the circumstance |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.248 | Do not embrace me, till each circumstance | Do not embrace me, till each circumstance, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.36 | So, by your circumstance, you call me fool? | So, by your circumstance, you call me foole. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.37 | So, by your circumstance, I fear you'll prove. | So, by your circumstance, I feare you'll proue. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.84 | Nay, that I can deny by a circumstance. | Nay, that I can deny by a circumstance. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.36 | Therefore it must with circumstance be spoken | Therefore it must with circumstance be spoken |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.178 | But only seeing, all other circumstances | But onely seeing, all other circumstances |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.17 | the pretence whereof being by circumstances partly laid | the pretence whereof being by circumstances partly layd |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.90 | So out of circumstance and sudden tells us | (So out of circumstance, and suddaine) tells vs, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.31 | by circumstance. That which you hear you'll swear | by Circumstance: That which you heare, you'le sweare |