| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.242 | I most unfeignedly beseech your lordship to | I most vnfainedly beseech your Lordshippe to |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.81 | But, like a timorous thief, most fain would steal | But like a timorous theefe, most faine would steale |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.235 | we shall be fain to hang you. | wee shall be faine to hang you. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.115 | Which I would fain shut out. If it should prove | Which I would faine shut out, if it should proue |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.iii.35 | And in our sports my better cunning faints | And in our sports my better cunning faints, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.110 | I faint. O Iras, Charmian! 'Tis no matter. | I faint, oh Iras, Charmian: 'tis no matter. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.47 | Should have borne men, and expectation fainted, | Should haue borne men, and expectation fainted, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.68 | She faints | |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.149 | youth I would fain dissuade him, but he will not be | youth, I would faine disswade him, but he will not bee |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.60 | I faint almost to death. | I faint almost to death. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.72.1 | And faints for succour. | And faints for succour. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.18 | feigning; and lovers are given to poetry; and what they | faining, and Louers are giuen to Poetrie: and what they |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.42 | I would fain see this meeting. | I would faine see this meeting. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.53 | Why, horns; which such as you are fain to be | Why hornes: wc such as youare faine to be |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.149 | Which all this while had bled; and now he fainted, | Which all this while had bled; and now he fainted, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.150 | And cried, in fainting, upon Rosalind. | And cride in fainting vpon Rosalinde. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.158 | Rosalind faints | |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.46 | Before herself, almost at fainting under | Before her selfe (almost at fainting vnder |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.66 | Here is neither cheer, sir, nor welcome. We would fain have either. | Heere is neither cheere sir, nor welcome, we would faine haue either. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.ii.52 | Leave this faint puling and lament as I do, | Leaue this faint-puling, and lament as I do, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.67 | 'Twas very faintly he said ‘ Rise,’ dismissed me | 'Twas very faintly he said Rise: dismist me |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.56 | But in a fainter kind. O, not like me: | But in a fainter kinde. Oh not like me: |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.63.1 | Hath mocked me. I am faint. | Hath mock'd me. I am faint. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.162 | faint for want of meat, depart reeling with too much | faint for want of meate, depart reeling with too much |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.149 | Quail to remember – Give me leave; I faint. | Quaile to remember. Giue me leaue, I faint. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.131 | I would fain prove so. But what might you think | I wold faine proue so. But what might you think? |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.153 | Hath there been such a time – I would fain know that – | Hath there bene such a time, I'de fain know that, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.72 | Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? | Where thrift may follow faining? Dost thou heare, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.236 | My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile | My spirits grow dull, and faine I would beguile |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.190 | I have a speech o' fire that fain would blaze, | I haue a speech of fire, that faine would blaze, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.31 | Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, | Breathlesse, and Faint, leaning vpon my Sword, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.49 | In thy faint slumbers I by thee have watched | In my faint-slumbers, I by thee haue watcht, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.70 | Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, | Euen such a man, so faint, so spiritlesse, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.108 | Rendering faint quittance, wearied and out-breathed, | Rend'ring faint quittance (wearied, and out-breath'd) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.140 | fain to pawn both my plate and the tapestry of my | faine to pawne both my Plate, and the Tapistry of my |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.65 | Fain would I go to meet the Archbishop, | Faine would I goe to meet the Arch-bishop, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.12 | would fain hear some music. | would faine haue some Musique. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.152 | How cold it struck my heart! If I do feign, | How cold it strooke my heart. If I do faine, |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.16 | Of indigent faint souls past corporal toil, | Of indigent faint Soules, past corporall toyle, |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.85 | As I perceived his grace would fain have done, | As I perceiu'd his Grace would faine haue done, |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.114 | breff and the long. Marry, I wad full fain hear some | breff and the long: mary, I wad full faine heard some |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.129 | kingdom too faint a number; and for our disgrace, his | Kingdome too faint a number; and for our disgrace, his |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.81 | would fain be about the ears of the English. | would faine be about the eares of the English. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.42 | And faintly through a rusty beaver peeps. | And faintly through a rustie Beuer peepes. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.156 | be desired in the hearts of his subjects. I would fain see | be desir'd in the hearts of his Subiects: I would faine see |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.158 | aggriefed at this glove, that is all: but I would fain see it | agreefd at this Gloue; that is all: but I would faine see it |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.158 | The English army is grown weak and faint; | The English Army is growne weake and faint: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.8 | Faintly besiege us one hour in a month. | Faintly besiege vs one houre in a moneth. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.22 | Faint-hearted Woodville, prizest him 'fore me? | Faint-hearted Wooduile, prizest him 'fore me? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.9 | Fain would mine eyes be witness with mine ears, | Faine would mine eyes be witnesse with mine eares, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.40 | That I may kindly give one fainting kiss. | That I may kindly giue one fainting Kisse. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.95 | And that my fainting words do warrant death. | And that my fainting words doe warrant death: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.192 | Burns under feigned ashes of forged love | Burnes vnder fained ashes of forg'd loue, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.114 | Are glad and fain by flight to save themselves. | Are glad and faine by flight to saue themselues. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.107 | Bewrayed the faintness of my master's heart. | Bewray'd the faintnesse of my Masters heart. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.65 | Fain would I woo her, yet I dare not speak. | Faine would I woe her, yet I dare not speake: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.142 | That Suffolk doth not flatter, face, or feign. | That Suffolke doth not flatter, face,or faine. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.8 | Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high. | Yea Man and Birds are fayne of climbing high. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.244 | Ah, York, no man alive so fain as I. | Ah Yorke, no man aliue, so faine as I. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.141 | Fain would I go to chafe his paly lips | Faine would I go to chafe his palie lips, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.154 | fain to go with a staff, but that my puissance holds it up. | faine to go with a staffe, but that my puissance holds it vp. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.129 | Shall be my winding-sheet. Why faint you, lords? | Shall be my Winding-sheet. Why faint you Lords? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.183 | Farewell, faint-hearted and degenerate King, | Farwell faint-hearted and degenerate King, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.31 | And all that poets feign of bliss and joy. | And all that Poets faine of Blisse and Ioy. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.23 | And I am faint and cannot fly their fury; | And I am faint, and cannot flye their furie: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.48 | Whose frown hath made thee faint and fly ere this! | Whose frowne hath made thee faint and flye ere this. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.152 | Can pluck the diadem from faint Henry's head, | Can plucke the Diadem from faint Henries head, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.57 | And this soft courage makes your followers faint. | And this soft courage makes your Followers faint: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.28 | And much effuse of blood doth make me faint. | And much effuse of blood, doth make me faint: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.31.1 | He faints | |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.202 | So much his friend, ay, his unfeigned friend, | So much his Friend, I, his vnfained Friend, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.ii.11 | Were but a feigned friend to our proceedings; | Were but a fained friend to our proceedings: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vii.31 | The good old man would fain that all were well, | The good old man would faine that all were wel, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.51 | And warriors faint! Why, 'twere perpetual shame. | And Warriors faint, why 'twere perpetuall shame. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.24 | All these accused him strongly, which he fain | All these accus'd him strongly, which he faine |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.103 | If this salute my blood a jot; it faints me | If this salute my blood a iot; it faints me |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.56 | shot, delivered such a shower of pebbles that I was fain | shot, deliuer'd such a showre of Pibbles, that I was faine |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.237 | once; but for all that, to my thinking, he would fain have | once: but for all that, to my thinking, he would faine haue |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.iv.43 | That Caesar will not grant. (aside) O, I grow faint. | That Casar will not grant. O, I grow faint: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.182 | That we perforce were fain to give them way, | That we perforce were fayne to giue them way, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.138 | These English fain would spend the time in words, | These English faine would spend the time in wodrs, |
| King John | KJ II.i.526 | For I do love her most unfeignedly. | For I doe loue her most vnfainedly. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.227 | I faintly broke with thee of Arthur's death; | I faintly broke with thee of Arthurs death: |
| King John | KJ V.iii.17 | Weakness possesseth me, and I am faint. | Weaknesse possesseth me, and I am faint. |
| King John | KJ V.v.4 | In faint retire! O, bravely came we off, | In faint Retire: Oh brauely came we off, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.21 | I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan | I am the Symet to this pale faint Swan, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.78 | Out of the weak door of our fainting land. | Out of the weake doore of our fainting Land: |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.65 | it were his; but in respect of that I would fain think it | it were his: but in respect of that, I would faine thinke it |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.171 | told you what I have seen and heard but faintly, nothing | told you what I haue seene, and heard: But faintly. Nothing |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.28 | which I would fain call master. | which I would faine call Master. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.67 | I have perceived a most faint neglect of late, | I haue perceiued a most faint neglect of late, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.176 | fool to lie; I would fain learn to lie. | Foole to lie, I would faine learne to lie. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.38 | Against my fire; and wast thou fain, poor father, | against my fire, / And was't thou faine (poore Father) |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.309.2 | He faints. My lord, my lord! | He faints, my Lord, my Lord. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.81 | Some obscure precedence that hath tofore been sain. | Some obscure precedence that hath tofore bin faine. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.9 | That he was fain to seal on Cupid's name. | That he was faine to seale on Cupids name. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.372 | When they are thirsty, fools would fain have drink. | When they are thirstie, fooles would faine haue drinke. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.741 | The holy suit which fain it would convince, | The holy suite which faine it would conuince, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.43 | – But I am faint; my gashes cry for help. | but I am faint, My Gashes cry for helpe. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.28 | Which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not. | Which the poore heart would faine deny, and dare not. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.151 | thine eyes so red. Thou must be patient. I am fain to | thine eyes so red: thou must be patient; I am faine to |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.169 | Yes, marry, did I, but I was fain to forswear it. | Yes marrie did I; but I was faine to forswear it, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.15 | That outward courtesies would fain proclaim | That outward curtesies would faine proclaime |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.21 | Upon a wronged – I would fain have said, a maid. | Vpon a wrong'd (I would faine haue said a Maid) |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.120 | I know you'd fain be gone. An officer! | I know you'ld faine be gone: An Officer: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.125 | Than my faint means would grant continuance. | Then my faint meanes would grant continuance: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.80 | Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods, | Did faine that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.24 | necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch; and | necessity, am faine to shufflle: to hedge, and to lurch, and |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.141 | would fain speak with you, and be acquainted with | would faine speake with you, and be acquainted with |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.31 | With feigning voice verses of feigning love, | With faining voice, verses of faining loue, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.73 | Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. | Chanting faint hymnes to the cold fruitlesse Moone, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.215 | Upon faint primrose beds were wont to lie, | Vpon faint Primrose beds, were wont to lye, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.41 | Fair love, you faint with wandering in the wood; | Faire loue, you faint with wandring in ye woods, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.428 | Now, go thy way. Faintness constraineth me | Now goe thy way: faintnesse constraineth me, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.340 | th' one with th' other. I would fain have it a match, and | th'one with th'other, I would faine haue it a match, and |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.v.28 | I would fain know what you have to say. | I would faine know what you haue to say. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.122 | are high-proof melancholy, and would fain have it | are high proofe melancholly, and would faine haue it |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.28 | Cyprus gallants that would fain have a measure to the | Cyprus Gallants, that would faine haue a measure to the |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.279.2 | Why do you speak so faintly? | Why do you speake so faintly? |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.112 | (aside) Now he denies it faintly, and laughs it out. | Now he denies it faintly: and laughes it out. |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.165 | Well, I may chance to see you: for I would very fain | Well, I may chance to see you: for I would very faine |
| Othello | Oth V.i.63 | He faints | |
| Othello | Oth V.i.83.2 | Alas, he faints! | Alas he faints. |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.15 | She faints | |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.281 | Where it perceives it is but faintly borne. | |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.297 | But if you faint, as fearing to do so, | But if you faint, as fearing to do so, |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.32 | Makes me with heavy nothing faint and shrink. | Makes me with heauy nothing faint and shrinke. |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.102 | He prays but faintly, and would be denied; | He prayes but faintly, and would be denide, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.74 | My soul is heavy, and I fain would sleep. | My Soule is heauy, and I faine would sleepe. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.275 | How fain, like Pilate, would I wash my hands | How faine (like Pilate) would I wash my hands |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.29 | Would fain have come with me to meet your grace, | Would faine haue come with me, to meet your Grace, |
| Richard III | R3 V.i.21 | Hath turned my feigned prayer on my head | Hath turn'd my fained Prayer on my head, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.173 | Fainting, despair; despairing, yield thy breath! | Fainting dispaire; dispairing yeeld thy breath. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.7 | Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spoke | |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.88 | Fain would I dwell on form – fain, fain deny | Faine would I dwell on forme, faine, faine, denie |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.67 | faint. | faints. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.197 | nobleman in town, one Paris, that would fain lay knife | Noble man in Towne one Paris, that would faine lay knife |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.16 | But old folks, many feign as they were dead – | but old folkes, / Many faine as they were dead, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.106 | Or I shall faint. A plague a'both your houses! | Or I shall faint: a plague a both your houses. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.109 | That murdered me. I would forget it fain. | That murdered me, I would forget it feine, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.15 | I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins | I haue a faint cold feare thrills through my veines, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.74 | O pardon me, Signor Gremio, I would fain be doing. | Oh, Pardon me signior Gremio, I would faine be doing. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.32 | And here I take the unfeigned oath, | And heere I take the like vnfained oath, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.63 | anything. The wills above be done, but I would fain die | any thing; the wills aboue be done, but I would faine dye |
| The Tempest | Tem epilogue.3 | Which is most faint. Now 'tis true | Which is most faint: now 'tis true |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.15 | To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, | To set a glosse on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.i.54 | Has friendship such a faint and milky heart | Has friendship such a faint and milkie heart, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iii.26 | And with their faint reply this answer join: | And with their faint reply, this answer ioyne; |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.502 | How fain would I have hated all mankind, | How faine would I haue hated all mankinde, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.233 | O brother, help me with thy fainting hand – | O Brother helpe me with thy fainting hand. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.234 | If fear hath made thee faint, as me it hath – | If feare hath made thee faint, as mee it hath, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.65 | Faint-hearted boy, arise and look upon her. | Faint-harted boy, arise and looke vpon her, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.21 | But if I live, his feigned ecstasies | But if I liue, his fained extasies |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.172 | And then, forsooth, the faint defects of age | And then (forsooth) the faint defects of Age |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.143.1 | Nor faint in the pursuit. | Nor faint in the pursuite. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.133 | the gallantry of Troy. I would fain have armed today, | the gallantry of Troy. I would faine haue arm'd to day, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iv.4 | knave's sleeve of Troy there in his helm. I would fain | knaues Sleeue of Troy, there in his Helme: I would faine |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.120 | Well, I perceive I must be fain to bear with you. | Well, I perceiue I must be faine to beare with you. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.165 | victuals, and would fain have meat. O, be not like your | victuals; and would faine haue meate: oh bee not like your |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.4 | Maiden pinks, of odour faint, | Maiden Pinckes, of odour faint, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iii.30 | For I would fain enjoy him. Say I ventured | For I would faine enjoy him? Say I ventur'd |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.7 | I know you are faint; then I'll talk further with you. | I know you are faint, then ile talke further with you. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.60.1 | You would fain be at that fight. | You would faine be at that Fight. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.121 | He that faints now, shame take him! Put thyself | He that faints now, shame take him, put thy selfe |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.129 | Which speaks him prone to labour, never fainting | Which speakes him prone to labour, never fainting |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.67 | and I at this present stood unfeignedly on the same | and I at this present stood unfainedly on the / Same |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.85.2 | O sir, you would fain be nibbling. | O Sir, you would faine be nibling. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.145 | Hermione faints | |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.87 | fain say bleed tears; for I am sure my heart wept blood. | faine say, bleed Teares; for I am sure, my heart wept blood. |