| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.127 | It is a dropsied honour. Good alone | It is a dropsied honour. Good alone, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.218 | When he swears oaths, bid him drop gold, and take it; | Let. When he sweares oathes, bid him drop gold, and take it: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.113 | In our own filth drop our clear judgements, make us | In our owne filth, drop our cleare iudgements, make vs |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.161 | Drop in my neck: as it determines, so | Drop in my necke: as it determines so |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ii.38 | Grace grow where those drops fall! My hearty friends, | Grace grow where those drops fall (my hearty Friends) |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.92.1 | As plates dropped from his pocket. | As plates dropt from his pocket. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.342.1 | And on the sudden dropped. | And on the sodaine dropt. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.124 | Of drops that sacred pity hath engendered: | Of drops, that sacred pity hath engendred: |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.228 | under a tree like a dropped acorn. | vnder a tree like a drop'd Acorne. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.230 | drops such fruit. | droppes forth fruite. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.7 | Than he that dies and lives by bloody drops? | Then he that dies and liues by bloody drops? |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.35 | Could not drop forth such giant rude invention, | Could not drop forth such giant rude inuention, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.35 | I to the world am like a drop of water | I to the world am like a drop of water, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.36 | That in the ocean seeks another drop, | That in the Ocean seekes another drop, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.107 | should not drop in his porridge. | should not drop in his porrage. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.135 | A drop of water in the breaking gulf, | A drop of water in the breaking gulfe, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.136 | And take unmingled thence that drop again | And take vnmingled thence that drop againe |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.72 | A rush, a hair, a drop of blood, a pin, | a rush, a haire, a drop of blood, a pin, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.v.18 | The blood I drop is rather physical | The blood I drop, is rather Physicall |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.45 | one that loves a cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying | one that loues a cup of hot Wine, with not a drop of alaying |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.299 | By many an ounce – he dropped it for his country; | By many an Ounce) he dropp'd it for his Country: |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iv.4 | Have I heard groan and drop. Then know me not, | Haue I heard groane, and drop: Then know me not, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.72 | The extreme dangers, and the drops of blood | The extreme Dangers, and the droppes of Blood |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.10 | I urged our old acquaintance and the drops | I vrg'd our old acquaintance, and the drops |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.46 | At a few drops of women's rheum, which are | At a few drops of Womens rhewme, which are |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.93 | For certain drops of salt, your city Rome – | For certaine drops of Salt, your City Rome: |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.88 | A drop of blood a day, and being aged | A drop of blood a day, and being aged |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.60 | The Queen drops the box: Pisanio takes it up | |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.38 | A mole cinque-spotted: like the crimson drops | A mole Cinque-spotted: Like the Crimson drops |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.304 | Yet left in heaven as small a drop of pity | Yet left in Heauen, as small a drop of pittie |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.148 | For whom my heart drops blood, and my false spirits | For whom my heart drops blood, and my false spirits |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.11 | With an auspicious and a dropping eye, | With one Auspicious, and one Dropping eye, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.69 | And curd, like eager droppings into milk, | And curd, like Aygre droppings into Milke, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.119 | That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard, | That drop of blood, that calmes / Proclaimes me Bastard: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.132 | And shed my dear blood, drop by drop in the dust, | And shed my deere blood drop by drop i'th dust, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.439 | parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed | Parcell of Dropsies, that huge Bombard of Sacke, that stuft |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.108 | As if an angel dropped down from the clouds | As if an Angell dropt downe from the Clouds, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.123 | Meet and ne'er part till one drop down a corpse. | Meete, and ne're part, till one drop downe a Coarse? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.169 | That in the dole of blows your son might drop. | That in the dole of blowes, your Son might drop. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.360 | And drop upon our bare unarmed heads. | And drop vpon our bare vnarmed heads. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.13 | they are the drops of thy lovers, and they weep for thy | they are the drops of thy Louers, and they weep for thy |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.88 | With gentle eye-drops. He is coming hither. | With gentle eye-drops. Hee is comming hither. |
| 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.115 | Be drops of balm to sanctify thy head; | Be drops of Balme, to sanctifie thy head: |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.19 | Shall drop their blood in approbation | Shall drop their blood, in approbation |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.25 | Without much fall of blood, whose guiltless drops | Without much fall of blood, whose guiltlesse drops |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.7 | Knocks go and come; God's vassals drop and die; | Knocks goe and come: Gods Vassals drop and dye: |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.25 | Sweat drops of gallant youth in our rich fields! – | Sweat drops of gallant Youth in our rich fields: |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.59 | He'll drop his heart into the sink of fear, | Hee'le drop his heart into the sinck of feare, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.290 | Than from it issued forced drops of blood. | Then from it issued forced drops of blood. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.45 | Lob down their heads, dropping the hides and hips, | Lob downe their heads, dropping the hides and hips: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iv.16 | In drops of crimson blood! | in droppes of Crimson blood. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.8 | For every drop of blood was drawn from him | For euery drop of blood was drawne from him, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.54 | One drop of blood drawn from thy country's bosom | One drop of Blood drawne from thy Countries Bosome, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iv.18 | Drops bloody sweat from his war-wearied limbs, | Drops bloody swet from his warre-wearied limbes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.97 | Than drops of blood were in my father's veins. | Then drops of bloud were in my Fathers Veines. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.148 | And every drop cries vengeance for his death | And euery drop cryes vengeance for his death, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.18 | Must pity drop upon her. Verily, | Must pitty drop vpon her; verily |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.72 | The daughter of a king, my drops of tears | The daughter of a King, my drops of teares, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.185 | My heart dropped love, my power rained honour, more | My heart drop'd Loue, my powre rain'd Honor, more |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.10 | Did I go through a tempest dropping fire. | Did I goe through a Tempest-dropping-fire. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.49 | Such instigations have been often dropped | Such instigations haue beene often dropt, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.119 | Till each man drop by lottery. But if these, | Till each man drop by Lottery. But if these |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.136 | Did need an oath; when every drop of blood | Did neede an Oath. When euery drop of blood |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.289 | As dear to me as are the ruddy drops | As deere to me, as are the ruddy droppes |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.195 | The dint of pity. These are gracious drops. | The dint of pitty: These are gracious droppes. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.73 | And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring | And drop my blood for Drachmaes, then to wring |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.49 | The proof of it will turn to redder drops. | The proofe of it will turne to redder drops: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.71 | That it may raise drops in a Tartar's eye, | That it may rayse drops in a Torters eye, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.136 | Hers more to praise than tell the sea by drops, | Hers more to praise then tell the sea by drops, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.137 | Nay, more than drop the massy earth by sands, | Nay more then drop the massie earth by sands, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.402 | What can one drop of poison harm the sea, | What can one drop of poyson harme the Sea, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.125 | With drops of blood that issue from her heart: | With drops of blood that issue from her hart, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.59 | The drops are infinite that make a flood, | The drops are infinite that make a floud, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.148 | For, whether ripe or rotten, drop we shall, | For whether ripe or rotten, drop we shall, |
| King John | KJ II.i.48 | And then we shall repent each drop of blood | And then we shall repent each drop of bloud, |
| King John | KJ II.i.341 | England, thou hast not saved one drop of blood, | England thou hast not sau'd one drop of blood |
| King John | KJ III.iv.63 | Where but by chance a silver drop hath fallen, | Where but by chance a filuer drop hath falne, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.64 | Even to that drop ten thousand wiry friends | Euen to that drop ten thousand wiery fiends |
| King John | KJ IV.i.35 | I must be brief, lest resolution drop | I must be breefe, least resolution drop |
| King John | KJ V.ii.49 | But this effusion of such manly drops, | But this effusion of such manly drops, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.272 | And let not women's weapons, water drops, | And let not womens weapons, water drops, |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.22 | As pearls from diamonds dropped. In brief, | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.25 | To those fresh morning drops upon the rose, | To those fresh morning drops vpon the Rose, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.32 | No drop but as a coach doth carry thee. | No drop, but as a Coach doth carry thee: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.40 | How shall she know my griefs? I'll drop the paper. | How shall she know my griefes? Ile drop the paper. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iv.36 | In drops of sorrow. Sons, kinsmen, thanes, | In drops of sorrow. Sonnes, Kinsmen, Thanes, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.121 | Whose loves I may not drop, but wail his fall | Whose loues I may not drop, but wayle his fall, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.v.24 | There hangs a vaporous drop profound; | There hangs a vap'rous drop, profound, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.29.1 | Each drop of us. | Each drop of vs. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.14 | dagger man, and young Drop-heir that killed lusty | dagger man, and yong Drop-heire that kild lustie |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.173 | To allay with some cold drops of modesty | To allay with some cold drops of modestie |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iii.13 | These foolish drops do something drown my manly | these foolish drops doe somewhat drowne my manly |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.113 | Ere thou shalt lose for me one drop of blood. | Ere thou shalt loose for me one drop of blood. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.116 | Drops earliest to the ground, and so let me. | Drops earliest to the ground, and so let me; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.182 | It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven | It droppeth as the gentle raine from heauen |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.307 | One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods | One drop of Christian bloud, thy lands and goods |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.294 | Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way | Faire Ladies you drop Manna in the way |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.89 | they would melt me out of my fat drop by drop, and | they would melt mee out of my fat drop by drop, and |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.14 | I must go seek some dewdrops here, | I must go seeke some dew drops heere, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.178 | And drop the liquor of it in her eyes. | And drop the liquor of it in her eyes: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.17 | Hang him, truant! There's no true drop of | Hang him truant, there's no true drop of |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.139 | Hath drops too few to wash her clean again | Hath drops too few to wash her cleane againe, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.285 | He puts the handkerchief from him, and she drops it | |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.308 | No, faith, she let it drop by negligence, | No: but she let it drop by negligence, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.246 | Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile. | Each drop she falls, would proue a Crocodile: |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.52 | A drop of patience. But alas, to make me | A drop of patience. But alas, to make me |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.318 | That there he dropped it for a special purpose | That there he dropt it for a speciall purpose, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.346 | Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees | Drops teares as fast as the Arabian Trees |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.63 | And with a dropping industry they skip | and with a dropping industrie they skip |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.166 | As thus to drop them still upon one place | As thus: to drop them still vpon one place, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.104 | Here did she fall a tear. Here in this place | Heere did she drop a teare, heere in this place |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.261 | To melt myself away in water-drops! | To melt my selfe away in Water-drops. |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.100 | His eyes do drop no tears, his prayers are in jest; | His eyes do drop no teares: his prayres are in iest: |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.154 | Shamed their aspects with store of childish drops. | Sham'd their Aspects with store of childish drops: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.352 | Your eyes drop millstones when fools' eyes fall tears. | Your eyes drop Mill-stones, when Fooles eyes fall Teares: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.2 | And drop into the rotten mouth of death. | And drop into the rotten mouth of death: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.321 | The liquid drops of tears that you have shed | The liquid drops of Teares that you haue shed, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.182 | Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. | Cold fearefull drops stand on my trembling flesh. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.222 | Under our tents I'll play the eavesdropper, | Vnder our Tents Ile play the Ease-dropper, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.103 | Turning his side to the dew-dropping South. | Turning his side to the dew dropping South. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.103 | Your tributary drops belong to woe, | Your tributarie drops belong to woe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.163 | O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop | O churle, drinke all? and left no friendly drop, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.144 | Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it. | Will daigne to sip, or touch one drop of it. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.57 | Though every drop of water swear against it, | Though euery drop of water sweare against it, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.155 | When I have decked the sea with drops full salt, | When I haue deck'd the sea with drops full salt, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.323 | Drop on you both! A south-west blow on ye | Drop on you both: A Southwest blow on yee, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.474.1 | And make thy weapon drop. | And make thy weapon drop. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.208 | They dropped, as by a thunderstroke. What might, | They dropt, as by a Thunder-stroke: what might |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.213.1 | Dropping upon thy head. | Dropping vpon thy head. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.134 | Hast thou not dropped from heaven? | Ha'st thou not dropt from heauen? |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.2 | drink water; not a drop before. Therefore, bear up and | drinke water, not a drop before; therefore beare vp, & |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.143 | Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked | Ready to drop vpon me, that when I wak'd |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.79 | Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers; | Diffusest hony drops, refreshing showres, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.230 | The dropsy drown this fool! What do you mean | The dropsie drowne this foole, what doe you meane |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.16 | His tears runs down his beard like winter's drops | His teares runs downe his beard like winters drops |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.64 | Fall fellowly drops. The charm dissolves apace. | Fall fellowly drops: The charme dissolues apace, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.202 | And on this couple drop a blessed crown! | And on this couple drop a blessed crowne; |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.62 | Than to abhor himself – even he drops down | Then to abhorre himselfe; euen hee drops downe |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.1.5 | prison. Then comes, dropping after all, Apemantus, | prison. Then comes dropping after all Apemantus |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.97 | Five thousand drops pays that. What yours? And yours? | Fiue thousand drops payes that. / What yours? and yours? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.76 | Scornedst our brains' flow and those our droplets which | Scornd'st our Braines flow, and those our droplets, which |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.141 | As unrelenting flint to drops of rain. | As vnrelenting flint to drops of raine. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.200 | Upon whose leaves are drops of new-shed blood | Vpon whose leaues are drops of new-shed-blood, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.50 | He would have dropped his knife and fell asleep, | He would haue dropt his knife and fell asleepe, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.19 | In summer's drought I'll drop upon thee still, | In summers drought: Ile drop vpon thee still, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.5 | He drops his books | |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.30 | Lavinia turns over the books dropped by Lucius | |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.153 | These sorrowful drops upon thy bloodstained face, | These sorrowfull drops vpon thy bloud-slaine face, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.166 | How many thousand times hath these poor lips, | Shed yet some small drops from thy tender Spring, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.160 | Which, from the tongue of roaring Typhon dropped, | Which from the tongue of roaring Typhon dropt, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.301 | I'll pawn this truth with my three drops of blood. | Ile pawne this truth with my three drops of blood. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.198 | I would not wish a drop of Trojan blood | I would not wish a drop of Troian blood, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.184 | When water-drops have worn the stones of Troy, | When water drops haue worne the Stones of Troy; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.224 | And, like a dewdrop from the lion's mane, | And like a dew drop from the Lyons mane, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.70 | For every false drop in her bawdy veins | For euery false drop in her baudy veines, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.133 | That any drop thou borrowed'st from thy mother, | That any drop thou borrwd'st from thy mother, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.224 | A drop of Grecian blood. The end crowns all; | A drop of Grecian blood: the end crownes all, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.148 | I will drop in his way some obscure epistles of | I will drop in his way some obscure Epistles of |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.158 | drop that they come from my niece, and that she's in | drop that they come from my Neece, and that shee's in |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.74 | dropped to betray him. He does smile his face into more | dropt, to betray him: He does smile his face into more |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.70 | She drops and picks up the letter | |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.108 | Melts into drops; so sorrow wanting form | Melts into drops, so sorrow wanting forme |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.7 | His ocean needs not my poor drops, yet they | His Ocean needes not my poore drops, yet they |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.14 | To drop on such a mistress, expectation | To drop on such a Mistris, expectation |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.88 | Newly dropped down from heaven. Rings she made | Newly dropt downe from heaven; Rings she made |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.200.1 | Not dropped down yet. | Not drop'd downe yet. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.826 | would not suffer me: she drops booties in my mouth. I | would not suffer mee: shee drops Booties in my mouth. I |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.28 | May drop upon his kingdom and devour | May drop vpon his Kingdome, and deuoure |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.112 | in me, would preferment drop on my head. I brought | in me) would Preferment drop on my head. I brought |