| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.221 | He ne'er pays after-debts, take it before. | He nere payes after-debts, take it before, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.205.1 | I shall remain your debtor. | I shall remaine your debter. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.76 | Than to die well, and not my master's debtor. | Then to die well, and not my Masters debter. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.31 | Than I stand debted to this gentleman. | Then I stand debted to this Gentleman, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.48 | That he unknown to me should be in debt. |
Thus he vnknowne to me should be in debt: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.56 | As if time were in debt. How fondly dost thou reason! |
As if time were in debt: how fondly do'st thou reason? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.60 | If 'a be in debt and theft, and a sergeant in the way, |
If I be in debt and theft, and a Serieant in the way, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.116 | The debt he owes will be required of me. | The debt he owes will be requir'd of me. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.119 | And, knowing how the debt grows, I will pay it. | And knowing how the debt growes I will pay it. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iii.11 | His steel was in debt, it went o'th' backside | His Steele was in debt, it went o'th'Backe-side |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.34 | Since when I have been debtor to you for courtesies | Since when, I haue bin debtor to you for courtesies, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.8 | I must die much your debtor. | I must die much your debtor. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.34 | A prison, or a debtor that not dares | A Prison, or a Debtor, that not dares |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.72 | More pious debts to heaven than in all | More pious debts to Heauen, then in all |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.233.1 | Is now due debt. To th' grave! | Is now due debt. To'th'graue. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.19 | Who of their broken debtors take a third, | Who of their broken Debtors take a third, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.203 | To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt. | To pay our selues, what to our selues is debt: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.207 | And pay the debt I never promised, | And pay the debt I neuer promised; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.183 | To answer all the debt he owes to you, | To answer all the Debt he owes vnto you, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.280 | The King will always think him in our debt, | The King will alwayes thinke him in our debt, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.103 | And being no more in debt to years than thou | And being no more in debt to yeeres, then thou, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.118 | debt you owe her, and unpay the villainy you have done | debt you owe her, and vnpay the villany you haue done |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 epilogue.15 | debtors do, promise you infinitely. And so I kneel down | Debtors do) promise you infinitely. and so kneele downe |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 epilogue.19 | but light payment, to dance out of your debt. But a | but light payment, to Dance out of your debt: But a |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.136 | the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left. | the Debts they owe, some vpon their Children rawly left: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.224 | Our debts, our careful wives, | Our Debts, our carefull Wiues, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.43 | Are deeply indebted for this piece of pains. | Are deepely indebted for this peece of paines; |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.83 | Fly not; stand still; ambition's debt is paid. | Fly not, stand still: Ambitions debt is paid. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.50 | I take thy gift to pay the debts I owe. | I take thy gift to pay the debts I owe: |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.88 | No squire in debt nor no poor knight, | No Squire in debt, nor no poore Knight; |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.21 | when he should pronounce ‘debt’ – d, e, b, t, not d, e, | when he shold pronounce debt; d e b t, not det |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.43 | 'Ware pencils, ho! Let me not die your debtor, | Ware pensals. How? Let me not die your debtor, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.333 | And consciences that will not die in debt | And consciences that wil not die in debt, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.78 | Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt. | Your son my Lord, ha's paid a souldiers debt, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.61 | sent thee thither. For debt, Pompey? Or how? | sent thee thether: for debt Pompey? Or how? |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.239 | the prisoner the very debt of your calling. I have | the prisoner the verie debt of your Calling. I haue |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.128 | Is to come fairly off from the great debts | Is to come fairely off from the great debts |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.134 | How to get clear of all the debts I owe. | How to get cleere of all the debts I owe. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.152 | And thankfully rest debtor for the first. | And thankfully rest debter for the first. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.307 | To pay the petty debt twenty times over. | To pay the petty debt twenty times ouer. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.318 | I should live, all debts are cleared between you and I if I | I should liue, all debts are cleerd betweene you and I, if I |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.36 | To see me pay his debt, and then I care not. | To see me pay his debt, and then I care not. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.276 | And he repents not that he pays your debt, | And he repents not that he payes your debt. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.410 | And stand indebted, over and above, | And stand indebted ouer and aboue |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.128 | There's my purse – I am yet thy debtor. Boy, go along | there's my purse, I am yet thy debter: Boy, goe along |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.85 | For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe, | For debt that bankrout slip doth sorrow owe, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.144 | I'll pay your bounties; till then rest your debtor. | Ile pay your bounties; till then, rest your debter. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.34 | All praises, which are paid as debts, | All prayses, which are paid as debts, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.129 | For that my sovereign liege was in my debt | For that my Soueraigne Liege was in my debt, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.92 | With dull unwillingness to repay a debt | With dull vnwillingnesse to repay a debt, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.95 | For it requires the royal debt it lent you. | For it requires the Royall debt it lent you. |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.109 | I am in your debt for your last exercise; | I am in your debt, for your last Exercise: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.21 | Edward for Edward pays a dying debt. | Edward for Edward, payes a dying debt. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.238 | I'll pay that doctrine, or else die in debt. | Ile pay that doctrine, or else die in debt. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.118 | O dear account! My life is my foe's debt. | O deare account! My life is my foes debt. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.25 | To gather in some debts, my son Lucentio | To gather in some debts, my son Lucentio |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.153 | Too little payment for so great a debt. | Too little payment for so great a debt. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.132 | He that dies pays all debts. I defy thee. | He that dies payes all debts: I defie thee; |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.99 | Ay, my good lord. Five talents is his debt, | I my good Lord, fiue Talents is his debt, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.107 | Which he shall have. I'll pay the debt, and free him. | Which he shall haue. Ile pay the debt, and free him. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.197 | That what he speaks is all in debt. He owes | That what he speaks is all in debt, he ows |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.42 | With clamorous demands of broken bonds, | With clamorous demands of debt, broken Bonds, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.43 | And the detention of long-since-due debts | And the detention of long since due debts |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.147 | And your great flow of debts. My loved lord – | And your great flow of debts; my lou'd Lord, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.150.1 | To pay your present debts. | To pay your present debts. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.52 | Then they could smile and fawn upon his debts, | Then they could smile, and fawne vpon his debts, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.76 | Methinks he should the sooner pay his debts, | Me thinkes he should the sooner pay his debts, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.102 | their caps at their money. These debts may well be | their caps at their money, these debts may well be |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.79 | And be in debt to none – yet, more to move you, | And be in debt to none: yet more to moue you, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.13 | In like manner was I in debt to my importunate | In like manner was I in debt to my importunat |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.534 | Debts wither 'em to nothing. Be men like blasted woods, | Debts wither 'em to nothing, be men like blasted woods |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.176 | What nearer debt in all humanity | What neerer debt in all humanity, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.54 | Words pay no debts, give her deeds: but | Words pay no debts; giue her deedes: but |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.51 | I am your debtor; claim it when 'tis due. | I am your debtor, claime it when 'tis due. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.35 | To pay this debt of love but to a brother – | To pay this debt of loue but to a brother, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.30 | Sir, we are much indebted to your travel, | Sir, we are much endebted to your travell, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.19 | Is but a debt to honour, and my duty. | Is but a debt to honour, and my duty. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.6 | Go hence in debt. And therefore, like a cipher | Goe hence in debt: And therefore, like a Cypher |