| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.67.2 | Good faith, across! | Goodfaith a-crosse, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.9 | In each thing give him way. Cross him in nothing. | In each thing giue him way, crosse him in nothing. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.10 | than bear you: yet I should bear no cross if I did bear | then beare you: yet I should beare no crosse if I did beare |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.128 | You and you no cross shall part; | You and you, no crosse shall part; |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.78 | Back, slave, or I will break thy pate across. | Backe slaue, or I will breake thy pate a-crosse. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.79 | And he will bless that cross with other beating, | And he will blesse yt crosse with other beating: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.197 | O for my beads! I cross me for a sinner. | Oh for my beads, I crosse me for a sinner. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.21 | The crossings of your dispositions, if | The things of your dispositions, if |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.23.1 | Ere they lacked power to cross you. | Ere they lack'd power to crosse you. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.202 | I crossed the seas on purpose and on promise | I crost the Seas on purpose, and on promise |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.26 | Yet keeps his book uncrossed: no life to ours. | Yet keepes his Booke vncros'd: no life to ours. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.17 | Till he have crossed the Severn. Happiness! | Till he haue crost the Seuern. Happines. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.163 | Be crossed with slowness; labour be his meed! | Be crost with slownesse; Labour be his meede. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.334 | After your will have crossed the sea, attending | After your will, haue crost the Sea, attending |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.101 | Whom best I love I cross; to make my gift, | Whom best I loue, I crosse; to make my guift |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.127 | I'll cross it, though it blast me. | Ile crosse it, though it blast me. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.569 | Who calls me villain? Breaks my pate across? | Who calles me Villaine? breakes my pate a-crosse? |
| 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.i.20 | Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross | Whose Souldier now vnder whose blessed Crosse |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.27 | For our advantage on the bitter cross. | For our aduantage on the bitter Crosse. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.194 | So honour cross it from the north to south, | So Honor crosse it from the North to South, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.26 | razes of ginger, to be delivered as far as Charing Cross. | razes of Ginger, to be deliuered as farre as Charing-crosse. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.331 | liegeman upon the cross of a Welsh hook – what a | Liege-man vpon the Crosse of a Welch-hooke; what a |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.33 | I do not bear these crossings. Give me leave | I doe not beare these Crossings: Giue me leaue |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.141 | Fie, cousin Percy, how you cross my father! | Fie, Cousin Percy, how you crosse my Father. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.166 | When you come 'cross his humour, faith he does. | When you doe crosse his humor: 'faith he does. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.73 | Proclaimed at market crosses, read in churches, | Proclaim'd at Market Crosses, read in Churches, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iii.2 | Thou crossest me? What honour dost thou seek | yu crossest me? / What honor dost thou seeke |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.228 | are too impatient to bear crosses. Fare you well. Commend | are too impatient to beare crosses. Fare you well. Commend |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.93 | The Master of the Cross-bows, Lord Rambures, | The Master of the Crosse-bowes, Lord Rambures, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.72 | What chance is this that suddenly hath crossed us? | What chance is this, that suddenly hath crost vs? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.182 | To cross the seas and to be crowned in France. | To crosse the Seas, and to be Crown'd in France: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.89 | Crossing the sea from England into France, | Crossing the Sea, from England into France, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.52 | Henry the Fifth. Whiles they each other cross, | Henrie the fift: Whiles they each other crosse, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.90 | To cross the seas to England and be crowned | To crosse the Seas to England, and be crown'd |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.115 | I charge thee, waft me safely 'cross the Channel. | I charge thee waft me safely crosse the Channell. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.97 | And then to Brittany I'll cross the sea | And then to Britanny Ile crosse the Sea, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.1.1 | Enter two Keepers, with cross-bows in their hands | Enter Sinklo, and Humfrey, with Crosse-bowes in their hands. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.6 | That cannot be; the noise of thy cross-bow | That cannot be, the noise of thy Crosse-bow |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.127 | To cross me from the golden time I look for! | To crosse me from the Golden time I looke for: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.235 | Shall cross the seas and bid false Edward battle; | Shall crosse the Seas, and bid false Edward battaile: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.20 | And bear with mildness my misfortune's cross; | And beare with Mildnesse my misfortunes crosse: |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.1.8 | two Priests bearing each a silver cross; then Griffith, | two Priests, bearing each a Siluer Crosse: Then |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.214 | Fit for a fool to fall by! What cross devil | Fit for a Foole to fall by: What crosse Diuell |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.234.2 | Who dare cross 'em, | Who dare crosse 'em, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.187 | Being crossed in conference by some senators. | Being crost in Conference, by some Senators. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.50 | And when the cross blue lightning seemed to open | And when the crosse blew Lightning seem'd to open |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.240 | Musing and sighing, with your arms across; | Musing, and sighing, with your armes a-crosse: |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.148 | How 'scaped I killing, when I crossed you so? | How scap'd I killing, when I crost you so? |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.19 | Why do you cross me in this exigent? | Why do you crosse me in this exigent. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.20 | I do not cross you; but I will do so. | I do not crosse you: but I will do so. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.52 | The Duke of Lorraine, having crossed the seas, | The Duke of Lorrayne, hauing crost the seas, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.97 | Look not for cross invectives at our hands, | Looke not for crosse inuectiues at our hands, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.33 | The fatal cross-bows, and the battle there | The fatall Crosbowes, and the battaile there, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.138 | Here cross-bows and deadly wounding darts; | Here Crosbowes and deadly wounding darts, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.210 | But first to England thou must cross the seas, | But first to England thou must crosse the seas, |
| King John | KJ III.i.91 | Lest that their hopes prodigiously be crossed. | Lest that their hopes prodigiously be crost: |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.35 | Of quick cross lightning? To watch, poor perdu, | |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.276 | And these same crosses spoil me. – Who are you? | And these same crosses spoile me. Who are you? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.32 | I love not to be crossed. | I loue not to be crost. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.33 | He speaks the mere contrary – crosses love | He speakes the meere contrary, crosses loue |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.17 | arms crossed on your thin-belly doublet like a rabbit | armes crost on your thinbellie doublet, like a Rabbet |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.216 | We cannot cross the cause why we were born; | We cannot crosse the cause why we are borne: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.138 | The effect of my intent is to cross theirs. | The effect of my intent is to crosse theirs: |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.80 | How you were borne in hand, how crossed, the instruments, | How you were borne in hand, how crost: / The Instruments: |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.159.1 | Where prayers cross. | Where prayers crosse. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.164 | Claudio's, to cross this in the smallest. | Claudio's, to crosse this in the smallest. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.35 | And never dare misfortune cross her foot, | And neuer dare misfortune crosse her foote, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.54 | Farewell; and if my fortune be not crossed, | Farewell, and if my fortune be not crost, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.11 | without any slips of prolixity or crossing the plain highway | without any slips of prolixity, or crossing the plaine high-way |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.19 | Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my | Let me say Amen betimes, least the diuell crosse my |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.31 | By holy crosses, where she kneels and prays | By holy crosses where she kneeles and prayes |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.117 | so crossed. | so cross'd. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.36 | never else cross me thus. | neuer else crosse me thus. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.136 | O cross! – too high to be enthralled to low. | O crosse! too high to be enthral'd to loue. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.150 | If then true lovers have been ever crossed | If then true Louers haue beene euer crost, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.153 | Because it is a customary cross, | Because it is a customarie crosse, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.119 | Why should Titania cross her Oberon? | Why should Titania crosse her Oberon? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.383 | That in crossways and floods have burial | That in crosse-waies and flouds haue buriall, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.ii.22.1 | Attendants cross the stage, led by Antonio's son, and | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.62 | glory of my overthrow; if I can cross him any way, | glorie of my ouerthrow: if I can crosse him any way, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.3 | Yea, my lord, but I can cross it. | Yea my Lord, but I can crosse it. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.4 | Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be | Any barre, any crosse, any impediment, will be |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.7 | evenly with mine. How canst thou cross this marriage? | euenly with mine, how canst thou crosse this marriage? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.177 | crossness. | crossenesse. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.136 | broke cross. | broke crosse. |
| Pericles | Per II.i.122 | Thanks, Fortune, yet that after all thy crosses | Thankes Fortune, yet that after all crosses, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.41 | Which who shall cross? – along to go. | Which who shall crosse along to goe, |
| Pericles | Per IV.iii.16 | She died at night. I'll say so. Who can cross it? | she dide at night, Ile say so, who can crosse it |
| Pericles | Per V.i.230 | It is not good to cross him; give him way. | It is not good to crosse him, giue him way. |
| Pericles | Per V.i.244 | To mourn thy crosses, with thy daughter's, call | to mourne thy crosses with thy daughters, call, |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.79 | Where nothing lives but crosses, cares, and grief. | Where nothing liues but crosses, care and greefe: |
| Richard II | R2 II.iv.24 | And crossly to thy good all fortune goes. | And crossely to thy good, all fortune goes. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.94 | Streaming the ensign of the Christian cross | Streaming the Ensigne of the Christian Crosse, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.240 | Have here delivered me to my sour cross, | Haue here deliuer'd me to my sowre Crosse, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.55 | And from the cross-row plucks the letter G, | And from the Crosse-row pluckes the letter G: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.10 | And was embarked to cross to Burgundy | And was embark'd to crosse to Burgundy, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.4 | No, uncle; but our crosses on the way | No Vnkle, but our crosses on the way, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.126 | My Lord of York will still be cross in talk. | My Lord of Yorke will still be crosse in talke: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.41 | If thou wilt outstrip death, go cross the seas, | If thou wilt out-strip Death, goe crosse the Seas, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.prologue.6 | A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; | |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.5 | Which, well thou knowest, is cross and full of sin. | Which well thou know'st, is crosse and full of sin. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.95 | Move them no more by crossing their high will. | Moue them no more, by crossing their high will. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.20 | To cross my obsequies and true love's rite? | To crosse my obsequies, and true loues right? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.130 | with this condition – to be whipped at the high-cross | with this condition; To be whipt at the hie crosse |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.28 | When did she cross thee with a bitter word? | When did she crosse thee with a bitter word? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.243 | Nor hast thou pleasure to be cross in talk. | Nor hast thou pleasure to be crosse in talke: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.64 | Tell thou the tale. But hadst thou not crossed | Tell thou the tale: but hadst thou not crost |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.189 | You are still crossing it. Sirs, let 't alone, | You are still crossing it, sirs let't alone, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.v.10 | Evermore crossed and crossed, nothing but crossed! | Euermore crost and crost, nothing but crost. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.157 | There is no crossing him in's humour, | There is no crossing him in's humor, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.159 | When all's spent, he'd be crossed then, an he could. | When all's spent, hee'ld be crost then, and he could: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iii.30 | he crossed himself by't. And I cannot think but in the | he crossed himselfe by't: and I cannot thinke, but in the |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.53 | Be cross with him, and I'll go fetch thy sons | Be crosse with him, and Ile goe fetch thy Sonnes |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.186.1 | Aeneas passes across the stage | |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.189 | Antenor passes across the stage | Enter Antenor. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.199 | Hector passes across the stage | Enter Hector. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.213 | Paris passes across the stage | |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.218 | Helenus passes across the stage | Enter Hellenus. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.227 | Troilus passes across the stage | Enter Trylus. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.240 | Common soldiers pass across the stage | Enter common Souldiers. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.9 | My love admits no qualifying dross; | My loue admits no qualifying crosse; |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.149 | to see thee ever cross-gartered. I say, remember. Go to, thou | to see thee euer crosse garter'd: I say remember, goe too, thou |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.161 | cross-gartered; and in this she manifests herself to my | crosse-garter'd, and in this she manifests her selfe to my |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.164 | will be strange, stout, in yellow stockings and cross-gartered, | will bee strange, stout, in yellow stockings, and crosse Garter'd, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.192 | yellow stockings, and 'tis a colour she abhors; and cross-gartered, | yellow stockings, and 'tis a colour she abhorres, and crosse garter'd, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.70 | And cross-gartered? | And crosse garter'd? |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.20 | some obstruction in the blood, this cross-gartering – but | some obstruction in the blood: / This crosse-gartering, but |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.50 | ‘ – and wished to see thee cross-gartered.’ | And wish'd to see thee crosse garter'd. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.51 | Cross-gartered? | Crosse garter'd? |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.282 | (Aside, as he crosses to Fabian) Marry, I'll ride your | marry Ile ride your |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.296 | (crossing to Sir Andrew) | |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.173 | He's broke my head across, and he's given | H'as broke my head a-crosse, and has giuen |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.335 | Bade me come smiling and cross-gartered to you, | Bad me come smiling, and crosse-garter'd to you, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.22 | How young Leander crossed the Hellespont. | How yong Leander crost the Hellespont. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vi.40 | But Valentine being gone, I'll quickly cross | But Valentine being gon, Ile quickely crosse |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.18 | To cross my friend in his intended drift | To crosse my friend in his intended drift, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.12 | A man I am crossed with adversity; | A man I am, cross'd with aduersitie: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.ii.55 | And I will follow, more to cross that love | And I will follow, more to crosse that loue |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.98 | Be crossed ere met. Give me your hand; farewell. | Be crost, er met, give me your hand, farewell. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.127.1 | Thee, and all crosses else. | Thee, and all crosses else. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.100 | I saw from far off cross her – one of 'em | I saw from farre off crosse her, one of 'em |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.119 | By no mean cross her; she is then distempered | By no meane crosse her, she is then distemperd |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.40 | And threaten love, and what young maid dare cross 'em? | And threaten Love, and what yong Mayd dare crosse 'em |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.79 | Your precious self had then not crossed the eyes | Your precious selfe had then not cross'd the eyes |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.15 | When my good falcon made her flight across | When my good Falcon, made her flight acrosse |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.160 | A prosperous south wind friendly, we have crossed, | (A prosperous South-wind friendly) we haue cross'd, |