| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.261 | birth and virtue gives you heraldry. You are not worth | birth and vertue giues you Heraldry. You are not worth |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.27 | Full surfeits and the dryness of his bones | Full surfets, and the drinesse of his bones, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.65 | In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry. | In lieu of all thy paines and husbandrie, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.39 | Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit | Which is as drie as the remainder bisket |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.87 | or we must live in bawdry. Farewell, good Master | or we must liue in baudrey: / Farewel good Mr |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.17 | the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my | the sundrie contemplation of my trauells, in which by |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.106 | And high top bald with dry antiquity, | And high top, bald with drie antiquitie: |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.115 | A lioness, with udders all drawn dry, | A Lyonnesse, with vdders all drawne drie, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.i.61 | Trip, Audrey, trip, Audrey. I attend, I | Trip Audry, trip Audry, I attend, I |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.67 | your body more seeming, Audrey. – As thus, sir. I did | your bodie more seeming Audry) as thus sir: I did |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.63 | dry | drie. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.68 | purchase me another dry basting. | purchase me another drie basting. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.39 | A hound that runs counter, and yet draws dryfoot well; |
A hound that runs Counter, and yet draws drifoot well, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.92 | The blood upon your visage dries, 'tis time | The bloud vpon your Visage dryes, 'tis time |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.250 | To kindle their dry stubble; and their blaze | To kindle their dry Stubble: and their Blaze |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vii.22 | And shows good husbandry for the Volscian state, | And shewes good Husbandry for the Volcian State, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.4 | The sweat and industry would dry and die, | The sweat of industry would dry, and dye |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.87 | Well ratified by law and heraldry, | Well ratified by Law, and Heraldrie, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.77 | And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry. | And borrowing duls the edge of Husbandry. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.454 | With heraldry more dismal. Head to foot | With Heraldry more dismall: Head to foote |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.498 | Prithee say on. He's for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or he | Prythee say on: He's for a Iigge, or a tale of Baudry, or hee |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.ii.20 | it is but squeezing you and, sponge, you shall be dry | it is but squeezing you, and Spundge you shall be dry |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.156 | O heat, dry up my brains! Tears seven times salt | Oh heate drie vp my Braines, teares seuen times salt, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.156 | When in your motion you are hot and dry – | when in your motion you are hot and dry, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.30 | When I was dry with rage and extreme toil, | When I was dry with Rage, and extreame Toyle, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.126 | Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree, | Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.182 | the characters of age? Have you not a moist eye, a dry | the Charracters of age? Haue you not a moist eye? a dry |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.7 | now take my leave of these six dry, round, old, withered | now take my leaue of these sixe drie, round, old-wither'd |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.56 | i' good truth, as rheumatic as two dry toasts; you cannot | (in good troth) as Rheumatike as two drie Tostes, you cannot |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.143 | and dried cakes. A captain! God's light, these villains | and dry'de Cakes. A Captaine? These Villaines |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.113 | one to do her husbandry and her drudgery. You need | one to doe her Husbandry, and her Drudgery; you need |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.96 | ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the foolish | ascends me into the Braine, dryes me there all the foolish, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.7 | Which is both healthful, and good husbandry. | Which is both healthfull, and good husbandry. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.39 | And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps, | And all her Husbandry doth lye on heapes, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.33 | And choke the herbs for want of husbandry. | And choake the Herbes for want of Husbandry. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.12 | many a time, when I have been dry and bravely marching, | many a time when I haue beene dry, & brauely marching, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.83 | I give thee this to dry thy cheeks withal. | I giue thee this to drie thy Cheekes withall. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.174 | And that will quickly dry thy melting tears. | And that will quickly drie thy melting Teares. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.61 | The ruthless Queen gave him to dry his cheeks | The ruthlesse Queene gaue him, to dry his Cheekes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.139 | Saying he'll lade it dry to have his way; | Saying, hee'le lade it dry, to haue his way: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.43 | My mercy dried their water-flowing tears; | My mercie dry'd their water-flowing teares. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.55 | Now stops thy spring; my sea shall suck them dry, | Now stops thy Spring, my Sea shall suck them dry, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iii.12 | The very beams will dry those vapours up, | Thy very Beames will dry those Vapours vp, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.431 | Let's dry our eyes, and thus far hear me, Cromwell, | Let's dry our eyes: And thus farre heare me Cromwel, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.151 | Seems barren, sere, unfertile, fruitless, dry; | Seemes barrayne, sere, vnfertill, fructles dry, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.69 | Like to a meadow full of sundry flowers | Like to a meddow full of sundry flowers, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.27 | And their device of antique heraldry, | And their deuice of Antique heraldry, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.28 | Quartered in colours, seeming sundry fruits, | Quartred in collours seeming sundy fruits, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.169 | Until their empty veins be dry and sere. | Vntill their emptie vaines be drie and sere |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.276 | Dry up in her the organs of increase, | Drie vp in her the Organs of increase, |
| King Lear | KL III.i.14 | Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs | |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.10 | O nuncle, court holy water in a dry house is better | O Nunkle, Court holy-water in a dry house, is better |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.74 | and market-towns. Poor Tom, thy horn is dry. | And Market Townes: poore Tom thy horne is dry, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.263 | By heaven, all dry-beaten with pure scoff! | By heauen, all drie beaten with pure scoffe. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.373 | This jest is dry to me. My gentle sweet, | This iest is drie to me. Gentle sweete, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.18 | I will drain him dry as hay; | Ile dreyne him drie as Hay: |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.4 | Hold, take my sword. There's husbandry in heaven: | Hold, take my Sword: There's Husbandry in Heauen, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.125.1 | For sundry weighty reasons. | For sundry weightie Reasons. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.48 | More suffer, and more sundry ways, than ever, | More suffer, and more sundry wayes then euer, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.158 | And sundry blessings hang about his throne | And sundry Blessings hang about his Throne, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.44 | Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry. | Expresseth his full Tilth, and husbandry. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.126 | The Duke comes home tomorrow – nay, dry your eyes – | The Duke comes home to morrow: nay drie your eyes, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.204 | And swearing till my very roof was dry | And swearing till my very rough was dry |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.25 | The husbandry and manage of my house | The husbandry and mannage of my house, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.ii.3 | which is in the manner of his nurse, or his dry nurse, | which is in the manner of his Nurse; or his dry-Nurse; |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.ii.4 | or his cook, or his laundry, his washer, and his wringer. | or his Cooke; or his Laundry; his Washer, and his Ringer. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.213 | Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, | Two of the first life coats in Heraldry, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.32 | good dry oats. Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle | good dry Oates. Me-thinkes I haue a great desire to a bottle |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.105 | were the very man. Here's his dry hand up and down; | were the very man: here's his dry hand vp & down, |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.47 | But our new heraldry is hands, not hearts. | But our new Heraldry is hands, not hearts. |
| Pericles | Per II.i.31 | tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last | tumbles, / Dryuing the poore Fry before him, / And at last, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.19.1 | 'Tis not our husbandry. | T'is not our husbandry. |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.145 | Is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry. | Is numbring sands, and drinking Oceans drie, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.202 | Uncle, give me your hands. Nay, dry your eyes. | Vnckle giue me your Hand: nay, drie your Eyes, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.176 | And then, to dry them, gav'st the Duke a clout | And then to dry them, gau'st the Duke a Clowt, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.2 | The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry, | The day to cheere, and nights danke dew to dry, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.37 | Without his roe, like a dried herring. O flesh, | Without his Roe, like a dryed Hering. O flesh, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.78 | shall use me hereafter, dry-beat the rest of the eight. | shall vse me hereafter dry beate the rest of the eight. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.131 | When theirs are dry, for Romeo's banishment. | When theirs are drie for Romeo's banishment. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.59 | Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu! | Drie sorrow drinkes our blood. Adue, adue. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.79 | Dry up your tears, and stick your rosemary | Drie vp your teares, and sticke your Rosemarie |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.122 | Then have at you with my wit! I will dry-beat you | Then haue at you with my wit. / I will drie-beate you |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.143 | And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty | And while it is so, none so dry or thirstie |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.64 | a dry death. | a dry death. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.112 | So dry he was for sway – wi'th' King of Naples | (so drie he was for Sway) with King of Naples |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.260 | With dry convulsions, shorten up their sinews | With dry Convultions, shorten vp their sinewes |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.160 | If you suspect my husbandry of falsehood, | If you suspect my Husbandry or Falshood, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.194 | Dry up thy marrows, vines and plough-torn leas, | Dry vp thy Marrowes, Vines, and Plough-torne Leas, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.14 | Let my tears stanch the earth's dry appetite; | Let my teares stanch the earths drie appetite. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.125 | How they are stained like meadows yet not dry | How they are stain'd in meadowes, yet not dry |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.138.2 | good Titus, dry thine eyes. | good Titus drie thine eyes. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.7 | And, like as there were husbandry in war, | And like as there were husbandry in Warre |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.329 | 'Tis dry enough – will, with great speed of judgement, | 'Tis dry enough, wil with great speede of iudgement, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.73 | bleed to death upon. Now the dry serpigo on the | bleede to death vpon: Now the dry Suppeago on the |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.221 | with praises, pour in, pour in; his ambition is dry. | with praises, poure in, poure in: his ambition is dry. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iv.10 | rascals – that stale old mouse-eaten dry cheese, Nestor, | rascals; that stole old Mouse-eaten dry cheese, Nestor: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.70 | It's dry, sir. | It's dry sir. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.72 | I can keep my hand dry. But what's your jest? | I can keepe my hand dry. But what's your iest? |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.73 | A dry jest, sir. | A dry iest Sir. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.36 | Go to, y' are a dry fool. I'll no more of you. Besides, | Go too, y'are a dry foole: Ile no more of you: besides |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.39 | will amend. For give the dry fool drink, then is the fool | wil amend: for giue the dry foole drink, then is the foole |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.40 | not dry. Bid the dishonest man mend himself: if he | not dry: bid the dishonest man mend himself, if he |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.50 | were dry, I am able to fill it with my tears. If the wind | were drie, I am able to fill it with my teares: if the winde |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.75 | Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears | Write till your inke be dry: and with your teares |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.118 | Extremity that sharpens sundry wits | Extremity that sharpens sundry wits |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.121 | Knows neither wet nor dry. If that you were | Knowes neither wet, nor dry, if that you were |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.1.1 | Cornets in sundry places. Noise and hallowing as of | Cornets in sundry places, Noise and hallowing as |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.110 | Perchance shall dry your pities: but I have | Perchance shall dry your pitties: but I haue |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.195 | the prettiest love-songs for maids; so without bawdry, | the prettiest Loue-songs for Maids, so without bawdrie |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.248 | I have done. Come, you promised me a tawdry-lace | I haue done; Come you promis'd me a tawdry-lace, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.48 | Not dry. | Not dry. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.51 | So many summers dry. Scarce any joy | So many Summers dry: scarce any Ioy |