| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.24 | carried into the leaguer of the adversaries when we | carried into the Leager of the aduersaries, when we |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.15 | i'th' adversary's entertainment. Now he hath a smack of | i'th aduersaries entertainment. Now he hath a smacke of |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.208 | advertisement to a proper maid in Florence, one Diana, | aduertisement to a proper maide in Florence, one Diana, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.i.26 | Though time seem so adverse and means unfit. | Though time seeme so aduerse, and meanes vnfit: |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.12 | Sweet are the uses of adversity, | Sweet are the vses of aduersitie |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.15 | To admit no traffic to our adverse towns. | To admit no trafficke to our aduerse townes: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.34 | A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, | A wretched soule bruis'd with aduersitie, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.19 | Nay, 'tis for me to be patient. I am in adversity. | Nay 'tis for me to be patient, I am in aduersitie. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.53 | palate adversely, I make a crooked face at it. I cannot | Palat aduersly, I make a crooked face at it, I can |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iii.38 | their adversaries. Have you an army ready, say you? | their Aduersaries. Haue you an Army ready say you? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.83 | As cloudy men use to their adversaries, | As Cloudie men vse to doe to their aduersaries, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.172 | For this advertisement is five days old. | For this aduertisement is fiue dayes old. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.36 | Yet doth he give us bold advertisement | Yet doth he giue vs bold aduertisement, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.v.31 | Even in the bosom of our adversaries. | Euen in the bosome of our Aduersaries. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.296 | Street, and every third word a lie, duer paid to the | street, and euery third word a Lye, duer pay'd to the |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.54 | Combat with adverse planets in the heavens! | Combat with aduerse Planets in the Heauens; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iv.14 | Who, ringed about with bold adversity, | Who ring'd about with bold aduersitie, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.33 | By reason of his adversary's odds. | By reason of his Aduersaries oddes. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ix.23 | Please it your grace to be advertised | Please it your Grace to be aduertised, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.115 | For by my scouts I was advertised | For by my Scouts, I was aduertised |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.24 | Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, | Let me embrace the sower Aduersaries, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.v.9 | I have advertised him by secret means | I haue aduertis'd him by secret meanes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iii.18 | We are advertised by our loving friends | We are aduertis'd by our louing friends, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.178 | Wherein he might the King his lord advertise | Wherein he might the King his Lord aduertise, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.117 | To do himself good in adversity. | To do himselfe good in aduersitie, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.12 | When railing crows outscold our adversaries? | When railing crowes outscolde our aduersaries |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.50 | The feeble handful on the adverse part. | The feeble handfull on the aduerse part. |
| King John | KJ II.i.57 | Hath put himself in arms. The adverse winds, | Hath put himselfe in Armes, the aduerse windes |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.172 | When adverse foreigners affright my towns | When aduerse Forreyners affright my Townes |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.121 | Yet am I noble as the adversary | Yet am I Noble as the Aduersary |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.122.2 | Which is that adversary? | Which is that Aduersary? |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.41 | To one that can my part in him advertise. | To one that can my part in him aduertise; |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.vi.6 | He speak against me on the adverse side, | He speake against me on the aduerse side, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.380 | Advertising and holy to your business, | Aduertysing, and holy to your businesse, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.4 | A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch, | A stonie aduersary, an inhumane wretch, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.85 | For the which I will be thy adversary toward | For the which, I will be thy aduersary toward |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.46 | Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will | Grow this to what aduerse issue it can, I will |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.32 | My griefs cry louder than advertisement. | My griefs cry lowder then aduertisement. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.270 | And all indign and base adversities | And all indigne, and base aduersities, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.101 | Suggest his soon-believing adversaries, | Suggest his soone beleeuing aduersaries, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.92 | This feast of battle with mine adversary. | This Feast of Battell, with mine Aduersarie |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.11 | To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, | To fright the Soules of fearfull Aduersaries, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.122 | A weeder-out of his proud adversaries, | A weeder out of his proud Aduersaries, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.182 | His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries | His ancient Knot of dangerous Aduersaries |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.52 | Because they have been still my adversaries; | Because they haue beene still my aduersaries: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.191 | My prayers on the adverse party fight, | My Prayers on the aduerse party fight, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.499 | As I by friends am well advertised, | As I by friends am well aduertised, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.13 | Which they upon the adverse faction want. | Which they vpon the aduerse Faction want. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.113 | Th' usurping helmets of our adversaries; | Th'vsurping Helmets of our Aduersaries: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.167 | Thy adversary's wife doth pray for thee. | Thy Aduersaries Wife doth pray for thee. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.106 | Here were the servants of your adversary, | Heere were the seruants of your aduersarie, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.56 | Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy, | Aduersities sweete milke, Philosophie, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.275 | And do as adversaries do in law, | And do as aduersaries do in law, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.212 | I was advertised their great general slept, | I was aduertiz'd, their Great generall slept, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.12 | Well said, adversity! And what need these | Well said aduersity, and what need these |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.82 | Into the danger of this adverse town; | Into the danger of this aduerse Towne, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.12 | A man I am crossed with adversity; | A man I am, cross'd with aduersitie: |