| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.163 | Till by degrees the memory of my womb, | Till by degrees the memory of my wombe, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.36 | degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage | degrees, haue they made a paire of staires to marriage, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.85 | Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the | Can you nominate in order now, the degrees of the |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.89 | degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, | degrees. The first, the Retort courteous: the second, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.145 | Even daughter, welcome, in no less degree. | Euen daughter welcome, in no lesse degree. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.24 | and his ascent is not by such easy degrees as those | and his assent is not by such easie degrees as those, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.85 | But tell the traitor in the highest degree | But tell the Traitor in the highest degree |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.234 | degrees prevent my curses. Boy! | Degrees preuent my curses. Boy? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.6 | your degree, and your place the Dale. Colevile shall be | your Degree, and your Place, the Dale. Colleuile shall stillbe |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.7 | still your name, a traitor your degree, and the dungeon | your Name, a Traytor your Degree, and the Dungeon |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.239 | Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, | Art thou ought else but Place, Degree, and Forme, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.133 | great sort, quite from the answer of his degree. | great sort quite from the answer of his degree. |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.35 | but I will make you today a squire of low degree. I pray | but I will make you to day a squire of low degree. I pray |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.111 | Or flourish to the height of my degree. | Or flourish to the height of my Degree. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.20 | A man of thy profession and degree. | A man of thy Profession, and Degree. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.194 | As festered members rot but by degree | As festred members rot but by degree, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.17 | Thou wast installed in that high degree. | Thou was't installed in that High Degree. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.29 | And called unto a cardinal's degree? | And call'd vnto a Cardinalls degree? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.73 | How art thou called? And what is thy degree? | How art thou call'd? And what is thy degree? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.192 | The next degree is England's royal throne; | The next degree, is Englands Royall Throne: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.26 | Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees | Lookes in the Clouds, scorning the base degrees |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.5 | And now go forward with our pedigree: | And now goe forwards with our pedegree, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.108 | And bring he ne'er so plain a pedigree, | And bring he nere so playne a pedegree, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.37 | Where John Valois is three degrees removed. | Where Iohn Valoys, is three degrees remoued. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.104 | Say, Englishman, of what degree thou art. | Say Englishman of what degree thou art. |
| King Lear | KL I.i.219 | Must be of such unnatural degree | Must be of such vnnaturall degree, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.109 | If any man of quality or degree within the | If any man of qualitie or degree, within the |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.154 | And he that breaks them in the least degree | And he that breakes them in the least degree, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.418 | I'll leave it by degrees. Soft, let us see: | Ile leaue it by degrees: soft, let vs see, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.504 | the Great. For mine own part, I know not the degree | the great: for mine owne part, I know not the degree |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.1 | You know your own degrees, sit down. At first | You know your owne degrees, sit downe: At first |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.98 | Are now to have no successive degrees, | Are now to haue no successiue degrees, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.41 | O that estates, degrees, and offices | O that estates, degrees, and offices, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.47 | the degree of a squire. | the degree of a Squire. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.230 | stands so eminently in the degree of this fortune as | stands so eminent in the degree of this Forune, as |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.89 | And thou art but of low degree; | And thou art but of low degree: |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.360 | What wound did ever heal but by degrees? | What wound did euer heale but by degrees? |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.228 | Of her own clime, complexion, and degree, | Of her owne Clime, Complexion, and Degree, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.80 | I'll answer thee in any fair degree | lIe answer thee in any faire degree, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.36 | And he our subjects' next degree in hope. | And he our subiects next degree in hope. |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.107 | Even in condition of the worst degree, | Euen in Condition of the worst degree, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.87 | Of what degree soever, with his brother. | (Of what degree soeuer) with your Brother. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.213 | When thou hast broke it in such dear degree? | When thou hast broke it in such deere degree? |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.142 | Best fitteth my degree or your condition. | Best fitteth my Degree, or your Condition. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.187 | Seduced the pitch and height of his degree | Seduc'd the pitch, and height of his degree, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.197 | Perjury, perjury, in the highest degree. | Periurie, in the high'st Degree, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.198 | Murder, stern murder, in the direst degree, | Murther, sterne murther, in the dyr'st degree, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.199 | All several sins, all used in each degree, | All seuerall sinnes, all vs'd in each degree, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.142 | That by degrees we mean to look into | That by degrees we meane to looke into, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.19 | Degrees, observances, customs, and laws, | Degrees, Obseruances, Customes, and Lawes, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.254 | The sweet degrees that this brief world affords | The sweet degrees that this breefe world affords, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.206 | Tell Athens, in the sequence of degree | Tell Athens, in the sequence of degree, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.70 | degrees. | degrees. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.83 | What honey is expected? Degree being vizarded, | What Hony is expected? Degree being vizarded, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.86 | Observe degree, priority, and place, | Obserue degree, priority, and place, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.101 | Quite from their fixure! O, when degree is shaked, | Quite from their fixure? O, when Degree is shak'd, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.104 | Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, | Degrees in Schooles, and Brother-hoods in Cities, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.108 | But by degree, stand in authentic place? | (But by Degree) stand in Authentique place? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.109 | Take but degree away, untune that string, | Take but Degree away, vn-tune that string, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.125 | This chaos, when degree is suffocate, | This Chaos, when Degree is suffocate, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.127 | And this neglection of degree it is | And this neglection of Degree, is it |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.104 | her degree, neither in estate, years, nor wit. I have heard | hir degree, neither in estate, yeares, nor wit: I haue heard |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.111 | under the degree of my betters, and yet I will not compare | vnder the degree of my betters, & yet I will not compare |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.50 | Misprision in the highest degree! Lady, cucullus | Misprision in the highest degree. Lady, Cucullus |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.130 | my coz, for he's in the third degree of drink – he's | my Coz: for he's in the third degree of drinke: hee's |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.120.2 | That's a degree to love. | That's a degree to loue. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.78 | degree, but ‘ fellow ’! Why, everything adheres together, | degree, but Fellow. Why euery thing adheres togither, |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.119 | Fool, I'll requite it in the highest degree. I | Foole, Ile requite it in the highest degree: I |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.85 | Should a like language use to all degrees, | Should a like Language vse to all degrees, |