| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.181 | Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage – all | Youth, beauty, wisedome, courage, all |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.69 | pen down my dilemmas, encourage myself in my certainty, | pen downe my dilemma's, encourage my selfe in my certaintie, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.iii.21 | Noble, courageous, high, unmatchable, | Noble, Couragious, high vnmatchable, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.60 | The courage of a woman; less noble mind | The Courage of a Woman, lesse Noble minde |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.23 | Hath, with the courage which the heart did lend it, | Hath with the Courage which the heart did lend it, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.287 | Now to that name my courage prove my title! | Now to that name, my Courage proue my Title. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.228 | Let us go thank him, and encourage him. | Let vs goe thanke him, and encourage him: |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.7 | courageous to petticoat: therefore courage, good Aliena! | coragious to petty-coate; therefore courage, good Aliena. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.47 | though? Courage! As horns are odious, they are necessary. | though? Courage. As hornes are odious, they are necessarie. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.92 | Nor check my courage for what they can give, | Nor checke my Courage for what they can giue, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.3 | Where is your ancient courage? You were used | Where is your ancient Courage? You were vs'd |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.7 | Winning will put any man into courage. If I could | Winning will put any man into courage: if I could |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.22 | Smiled at their lack of skill, but found their courage | Smil'd at their lacke of skill, but found their courage |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.24 | Now wing-led with their courages – will make known | (Now wing-led with their courages) will make knowne |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.34 | And Britons strut with courage. | And Britaines strut with Courage. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.159 | Woman it pretty self – into a waggish courage, | Woman it pretty selfe) into a waggish courage, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.186 | A prince's courage. Away, I prithee. | A Princes Courage. Away, I prythee. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.65 | Of each new-hatched, unfledged courage. Beware | Of each vnhatch't, vnfledg'd Comrade. Beware |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.52 | Cry ‘ Courage! To the field!’ And thou hast talked | Cry courage to the field. And thou hast talk'd |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.175 | Though sometimes it show greatness, courage, blood – | Though sometimes it shew Greatnesse, Courage, Blood, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.23 | Their courage with hard labour tame and dull, | Their courage with hard labour tame and dull, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.115 | From the best-tempered courage in his troops; | From the best temper'd Courage in his Troopes. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.157 | courageous Feeble! Thou wilt be as valiant as the | Couragious Feeble: thou wilt bee as valiant as the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.110 | puffed up with this retinue, doth any deed of courage; | pufft vp with his Retinue, doth any Deed of Courage: |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.118 | The blood and courage that renowned them | The Blood and Courage that renowned them, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.5 | Boy, bristle thy courage up! For Falstaff, he is dead, | Boy, brissle thy Courage vp: for Falstaffe hee is dead, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.8 | With men of courage and with means defendant; | With men of courage, and with meanes defendant: |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.138 | creatures: their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage. | Creatures; their Mastiffes are of vnmatchable courage. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.2 | The greater therefore should our courage be. | The greater therefore should our Courage be. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.110 | He may show what outward courage he will, but I | He may shew what outward courage he will: but I |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.9 | And dout them with superfluous courage, ha! | And doubt them with superfluous courage: ha. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.36 | They had such courage and audacity? | They had such courage and audacitie? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.89 | My courage try by combat, if thou darest, | My Courage trie by Combat, if thou dar'st, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.10 | My breast I'll burst with straining of my courage, | My brest Ile burst with straining of my courage, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.93 | Courageous Bedford, let us now persuade you. | Couragious Bedford, let vs now perswade you. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.87 | And doth beget new courage in our breasts. | And doth beget new Courage in our Breasts. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.35 | Valiant and virtuous, full of haughty courage, | Valiant, and Vertuous, full of haughtie Courage, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.70 | Her valiant courage and undaunted spirit, | Her valiant courage, and vndaunted spirit, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.52 | In courage, courtship, and proportion. | In Courage, Courtship, and Proportion: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.5 | Ay, what else? Fear you not her courage. | I, what else? feare you not her courage. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.35 | Hath given them heart and courage to proceed. | Hath giuen them heart and courage to proceede: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.10 | And thrice cried ‘ Courage, father! Fight it out!’ | And thrice cry'de, Courage Father, fight it out: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.57 | And this soft courage makes your followers faint. | And this soft courage makes your Followers faint: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.54 | This may plant courage in their quailing breasts; | This may plant courage in their quailing breasts, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.12 | Which are so weak of courage and in judgement | Which are so weake of courage, and in iudgement, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iii.24 | Courage, my masters! Honour now or never! | Courage my Masters: Honor now, or neuer: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iii.24 | Strike up the drum; cry ‘ Courage!’ and away! | Strike vp the Drumme, cry courage, and away. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.11 | Which industry and courage might have saved? | Which Industrie and Courage might haue sau'd? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.37 | Why, courage then! What cannot be avoided | Why courage then, what cannot be auoided, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.50 | Women and children of so high a courage, | Women and Children of so high a courage, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.207 | Come on refreshed, new-added, and encouraged; | Come on refresht, new added, and encourag'd: |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.11 | To fasten in our thoughts that they have courage; | To fasten in our thoughts that they haue Courage; |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.45 | Hot courage is engendered in my breast, | Hot courage is engendred in my brest, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.152 | Let but the haughty courage of your hearts | Let but the haughty Courrage of your hartes, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.223 | That, courage and experience joined in one, | That courage and experience ioynd in one, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.49 | To season his courage with those grievous thoughts | To season his courage with those greeuous thoughts, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.90 | Yet marble courage still did underprop, | Yet marble courage, still did vnderprop, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.96 | And then new courage made me fresh again, | And then new courage made me fresh againe, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.9 | Courage, Artois! A fig for feathered shafts | Courage Artoys, a fig for feathered shafts, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.30 | Our drums strike nothing but discouragement; | Our drums strike nothing but discouragement, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.18 | But say, what grim discouragement comes here! | But say, what grym discoragement comes heere, |
| King John | KJ II.i.82 | For courage mounteth with occasion. | For courage mounteth with occasion, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.4 | Courage and comfort! All shall yet go well. | Courage and comfort, all shall yet goe well. |
| King John | KJ V.i.78 | Away, then, with good courage! Yet, I know, | Away then with good courage: yet I know |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.60 | But screw your courage to the sticking place, | But screw your courage to the sticking place, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.115.1 | Courage to make's love known? | Courage, to make's loue knowne? |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.94 | Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, | Deuotion, Patience, Courage, Fortitude, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.108 | change your trade. I'll be your tapster still. Courage, | change your Trade: Ile bee your Tapster still; courage, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.186 | I pray she may, as well for the encouragement of the | I pray shee may; aswell for the encouragement of the |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.149 | courage to maintain it. I am bound to call upon you, and, | courage to maintaine it; I am bound to call vppon you, and |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.9 | the most courageous fiend bids me pack. ‘ Fia!’ says the | the most coragious fiend bids me packe, fia saies the |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.111 | Good cheer, Antonio! What, man, courage yet! | Good cheere Anthonio. What man, corage yet: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.4 | But truly he is very courageous mad about his | but truely he is very couragious mad, about his |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.100 | obscenely and courageously. Take pains; be perfect. | obscenely and couragiously. Take paines, be perfect, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.ii.24 | Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy | Bottome, ô most couragious day! O most happie |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.131 | What, courage, man! What though care killed | What, courage man: what though care kil'd |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.214 | courage, and valour – this night show it. If thou the | Courage, and Valour) this night shew it. If thou the |
| Pericles | Per I.i.64 | But faithfulness and courage. | But faythfulnesse and courage. |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.26 | Amazement shall drive courage from the state, | Amazement shall driue courage from the state, |
| Pericles | Per II.v.59 | Now, by the gods, I do applaud his courage. | Now by the Gods, I do applaude his courage. |
| Pericles | Per III.i.38 | What courage, sir? God save you! | What courage sir? God saue you. |
| Pericles | Per III.i.39 | Courage enough. I do not fear the flaw; | Courage enough, I do not feare the flaw, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.115 | Courageously and with a free desire | Couragiously, and with a free desire |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.175 | Encourage him, and tell him all our reasons; | Encourage him, and tell him all our reasons: |
| Richard III | R3 V.ii.6 | Lines of fair comfort and encouragement. | Lines of faire comfort and encouragement: |
| Richard III | R3 V.ii.14 | In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends, | In Gods name cheerely on, couragious Friends, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.350 | Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George, | Our Ancient word of Courage, faire S. George |
| Richard III | R3 V.v.3 | Courageous Richmond, well hast thou acquit thee. | Couragious Richmond, / Well hast thou acquit thee: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.20 | he's the courageous captain of compliments. He fights as | hee's the Couragious Captaine of Complements: he fights as |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.95 | Courage, man. The hurt cannot be much. | Courage man, the hurt cannot be much. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iii.25 | I'd such a courage to do him good. But now return, | I'de such a courage to do him good. But now returne, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.51 | And flies fled under shade, why then the thing of courage, | And Flies fled vnder shade, why then / The thing of Courage, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.122 | Nor once deject the courage of our minds, | Nor once deiect the courage of our mindes; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.202 | Whose present courage may beat down our foes, | Whose present courage may beate downe our foes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.14 | As heart can think or courage execute. | As heart can thinke, or courage execute. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.2 | Anticipating time. With starting courage, | Anticipating time. With starting courage, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.v.30 | O, courage, courage, princes! Great Achilles | Oh, courage, courage Princes: great Achilles |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.ii.13 | Courage and hope both teaching him the practice – | (Courage and hope both teaching him the practise) |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.5 | We'll argue that hereafter. Come, take courage; | Wee'l argue that hereafter: Come take courage, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.43 | In a soft sheath; mercy and manly courage | In a soft sheath; mercy, and manly courage |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.38.2 | Lead, courageous cousin. | Leade couragiour Cosin. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.162 | Reward did threaten and encourage him, | Reward, did threaten and encourage him, |