| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.214 | As all impediments in fancy's course | As all impediments in fancies course |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.151 | Dream of impediment! Let me have thy hand. | Dreame of impediment: let me haue thy hand |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.207 | Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, | Stood pretty Dimpled Boyes, like smiling Cupids, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.197 | A diminution in our captain's brain | A diminution in our Captaines braine, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xii.37 | For poor'st diminutives, for doits, and let | For poor'st Diminitiues, for Dolts, and let |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.31 | And hath been tutored in the rudiments | And hath bin tutor'd in the rudiments |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.136 | That reason wonder may diminish | That reason, wonder may diminish |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.137 | Without addition or diminishing, | Without addition or diminishing, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.70 | Appear in your impediment. For the dearth, | Appeare in your impediment. For the Dearth, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.227 | No impediment between, but that you must | (no impediment betweene) / But that you must |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.18 | To look upon him, till the diminution | Crack'd them, but to looke vpon him, till the diminution |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.75 | Like hardiment Posthumus hath | Like hardiment Posthumus hath |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.100 | In changing hardiment with great Glendower. | In changing hardiment with great Glendower: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.18 | That you foresee not what impediments | That you fore-see not what impediments |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.302 | dimensions to any thick sight were invincible. 'A was | Dimensions (to any thicke sight) were inuincible. Hee was |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.101 | That it will quickly drop; my day is dim. | That it will quickly drop: my Day is dimme. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.140 | The moist impediments unto my speech, | The most Impediments vnto my Speech, |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.90 | What was th' impediment that broke this off? | What was th'impediment that broke this off? |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.33 | What rub or what impediment there is | What Rub, or what Impediment there is, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.79 | Let not sloth dim your honours new-begot. | Let not slouth dimme your Honors, new begot; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.9 | Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent; | Waxe dimme, as drawing to their Exigent. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.54 | And dimmed mine eyes, that I can read no further. | And dim'd mine eyes, that I can reade no further. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.123 | That dims the honour of this warlike isle! | That dims the Honor of this Warlike Isle: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.6 | Gazing on that which seems to dim thy sight? | Gazing on that which seemes to dimme thy sight? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.218 | With sad unhelpful tears, and with dimmed eyes | With sad vnhelpefull teares, and with dimn'd eyes; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.ii.16 | These eyes, that now are dimmed with death's black veil, | These Eyes, that now are dim'd with Deaths black Veyle, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.164 | For so I will. Mine eyes grow dim. Farewell, | (For so I will) mine eyes grow dimme. Farewell |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.84 | Not Erebus itself were dim enough | Not Erebus it selfe were dimme enough, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.104 | That now her dim decline hath power to draw | That now her dym declyne hath power to draw, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.147 | But like a fading taper, dim and dead? | But like a fading taper dym and dead. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.78 | Or dim the reputation of my birth, | Or dym the reputation of my birth, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.71 | Without denial or impediment. | Without deniall or impediment. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.39 | If I could hold dim death but at a bay | If I could hold dym death but at a bay, |
| King John | KJ II.i.336 | Whose passage, vexed with thy impediment, | Whose passage vext with thy impediment, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.85 | As dim and meagre as an ague's fit, | As dim and meager as an Agues fitte, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.7 | When my dimensions are as well-compact, | When my Dimensions are as well compact, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.19 | Diminished to her cock; her cock, a buoy | Diminish'd to her Cocke: her Cocke, a Buoy |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.10 | The most diminutive of birds, will fight, | (The most diminitiue of Birds) will fight, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.64 | All continent impediments would o'erbear | All continent Impediments would ore-beare |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.243 | an impediment in the current, made it more violent and | an impediment in the Current) made it more violent and |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.54 | Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? | Iew hands, organs, dementions, sences, affections, passions, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.160 | lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend | lacke of years be no impediment to let him lacke a reuerend |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.93 | So doth the greater glory dim the less. | So doth the greater glory dim the lesse, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.109.2 | How the moon sleeps with Endymion, | how the Moone sleepes with Endimion, |
| 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 III.ii.83 | If there be any impediment, I pray you discover | If there be any impediment, I pray you discouer |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.10 | If either of you know any inward impediment why | If either of you know any inward impediment why |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.76 | wise, if Don Worm, his conscience, find no impediment | wise, if Don worme (his conscience) finde no impediment |
| Othello | Oth II.i.269 | shall then have to prefer them, and the impediment most | shall then haue to preferre them. And the impediment most |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.261 | I have made my way through more impediments | I haue made my way through more impediments |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.66 | To dim his glory and to stain the track | To dimme his glory, and to staine the tract |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.102 | To wail the dimming of our shining star; | To waile the dimming of our shining Starre: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.16 | Hath dimmed your infant morn to aged night. | Hath dim'd your Infant morne, to Aged night. |
| Richard III | R3 V.ii.4 | Have we marched on without impediment; | Haue we marcht on without impediment; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.79 | A damned saint, an honourable villain! | A dimne Saint, an Honourable Villaine: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.202 | In that dim monument where Tybalt lies. | In that dim Monument where Tybalt lies. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.107 | And never from this palace of dim night | And neuer from this Pallace of dym night |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.159 | Redime te captum quam queas minimo. | Redime te captam quam queas minimo. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.64 | I must begin with rudiments of art, | I must begin with rudiments of Art, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.65 | Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish | Kill the still closing waters, as diminish |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.41 | Weak masters though ye be – I have bedimmed | (Weake Masters though ye be) I haue bedymn'd |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.120 | Whose dimpled smiles from fools exhaust their mercy; | Whose dimpled smiles from Fooles exhaust their mercy; |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.210 | Or with our sighs we'll breathe the welkin dim | Or with our sighs weele breath the welkin dimme, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.82 | Is the sun dimmed, that gnats do fly in it? | Isthe Sunne dim'd, that Gnats do flie in it? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.122 | Why, you know 'tis dimpled – I think his | Why, you know 'tis dimpled, / I thinke his |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.31 | With spans and inches so diminutive | With spannes and inches so diminutiue, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.28 | For this popped Paris in his hardiment, | For thus pop't Paris in his hardiment. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.31 | waterflies, diminutives of nature! | water-flies, diminutiues of Nature. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.250 | And in dimension and the shape of nature | And in dimension, and the shape of nature, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.234 | But am in that dimension grossly clad | But am in that dimension grossely clad, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.9 | With harebells dim, | With her bels dimme. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.66 | Dimpled her cheeks with smiles. Hercules our kinsman – | Dimpled her Cheeke with smiles: Hercules our kinesman |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.84 | With wholesome viands; these impediments | With wholesome viands; these impediments |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.3 | Is here among ye! Have my rudiments | is here among ye? have my Rudiments |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.101 | The pretty dimples of his chin and cheek; his smiles; | The pretty dimples of his Chin, and Cheeke; his Smiles: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.55 | The heavens so dim by day. – A savage clamour! | The heauens so dim, by day. A sauage clamor? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.120 | The winds of March with beauty; violets, dim, | The windes of March with beauty: Violets dim, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.704 | I know not what impediment this | I know not what impediment this |