| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.160 | pear; it was formerly better; marry, yet 'tis a withered | peare: it was formerly better, marry yet 'tis a wither'd |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.56 | service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer, | seruice is sildome attributed to the true and exact performer, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.34 | You have seen and proved a fairer former fortune | You haue seene and proued a fairer former fortune, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iii.34 | Thou must not take my former sharpness ill. | Thou must not take my former sharpenesse ill, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.v.9 | here, accuses him of letters he had formerly wrote to | here, accuses him of Letters he had formerly wrote to |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.80 | If that the former dare but what it can, | If that the former dare but what it can, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.145 | When my good stars that were my former guides | When my good Starres, that were my former guides |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.53 | In feeding them with those my former fortunes, | In feeding them with those my former Fortunes |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.183 | You to your former honour I bequeath: | you to your former Honor, I bequeath |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.121 | The former agents, if they did complain, | The former Agents, if they did complaine, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.236.1 | It is your former promise. | It is your former promise. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.131 | action outdone his former deeds doubly. | action out-done his former deeds doubly. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.53.1 | But what is like me formerly. | But what is like me formerly. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.203.1 | Myself a former fortune. | My selfe a former Fortune. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.30 | For three performers are the file when all | For three performers are the File, when all |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.48 | O'er-borne i'th' former wave, ten chased by one, | Ore-borne i'th'former waue, ten chac'd by one, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.67 | So, by my former lecture and advice, | So by my former Lecture and aduice |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.173 | So far from cheer and from your former state | So farre from cheere, and from your forme state, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.42 | Which to his former strength may be restored | Which to his former strength may be restor'd, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.215 | May waste the memory of the former days. | May waste the memory of the former dayes. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.61 | That I have turned away my former self; | That I haue turn'd away my former Selfe, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.124 | As did the former lions of your blood. | As did the former Lyons of your Blood. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.90 | I pray thee bear my former answer back: | I pray thee beare my former Answer back: |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.63 | Which to reduce into our former favour | Which to reduce into our former fauour, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.67 | And bless us with her former qualities. | And blesse vs with her former qualities. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iv.31 | Darest thou maintain the former words thou spakest? | Dar'st thou maintaine the former words thou spak'st? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iv.6 | Hath sullied all his gloss of former honour | Hath sullied all his glosse of former Honor |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.45 | And in thy thought o'errun my former time; | And in thy thought ore-run my former time: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.7 | Great Albion's Queen in former golden days; | Great Albions Queene, in former Golden dayes: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.195 | My noble Queen, let former grudges pass, | My Noble Queene, let former grudges passe, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.198 | And replant Henry in his former state. | And replant Henry in his former state. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.18 | Made former wonders its. Today the French, | Made former Wonders, it's. To day the French, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.36 | Beyond thought's compass, that former fabulous story, | Beyond thoughts Compasse, that former fabulous Storie |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.83.1 | They shall abound as formerly. | They shall abound as formerly. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.79 | Coming from Sardis, on our former ensign | Comming from Sardis, on our former Ensigne |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.126 | But straight, forgetting of his former oath, | But straight forgetting of his former othe, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.40 | Now, Douglas, to our former task again, | Now Duglas to our former taske again, |
| King John | KJ II.i.370 | Our former scruple in our strong-barred gates; | Our former scruple in our strong barr'd gates: |
| King John | KJ III.i.25 | Then speak again – not all thy former tale, | Then speake againe, not all thy former tale, |
| King Lear | KL I.iii.10 | If you come slack of former services | If you come slacke of former seruices, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.68 | And with his former title greet Macbeth. | And with his former Title greet Macbeth. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iv.4.1 | Hath trifled former knowings. | Hath trifled former knowings. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.15 | Remains in danger of her former tooth. | Remaines in danger of her former Tooth. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.1 | My former speeches have but hit your thoughts, | My former Speeches, / Haue but hit your Thoughts |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.114 | A third is like the former. – Filthy hags, | A third, is like the former. Filthy Hagges, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.140 | Let me entreat you speak the former language. | Let me entreate you speake the former language. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.359 | The danger formerly by me rehearsed. | The danger formerly by me rehearst. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.457 | Of thy former lady's eye. | of thy former Ladies eye, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.65 | The former Hero! Hero that is dead! | The former Hero, Hero that is dead. |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.106 | Madam, my former suit. I do beseech you | Madam, my former suite. I do beseech you, |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.90 | Or scant our former having in despite – | Or scant our former hauing in despight) |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.9 | I can again thy former light restore, | I can againe thy former light restore, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.29 | But immortality attends the former, | But Immortalitie attendes the former, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.85 | Unto their former health. | |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.V.20 | And to him in his barge with fervour hies. | And to him in his Barge with former hyes, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.29 | And formally, according to our law, | And formerly according to our Law |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.18 | To think our former state a happy dream, | To thinke our former State a happie Dreame, |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.24 | Our former hatred, so thrive I and mine! | Our former hatred, so thriue I, and mine. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.121 | In peril to incur your former malady, | In perill to incurre your former malady, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.30 | As one unworthy all the former favours | As one vnworthie all the former fauours |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.i.2 | He owes nine thousand, besides my former sum, | He owes nine thousand, besides my former summe, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.122 | Offering the fortunes of his former days, | Offering the Fortunes of his former dayes, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.123 | The former man may make him. Bring us to him, | The former man may make him: bring vs to him |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.79 | Performers of this heinous, bloody deed? | Performers of this hainous bloody deed? |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.136 | former. And yet, to crush this a little, it would bow to | former: and yet to crush this a little, it would bow to |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.192 | So the remembrance of my former love | So the remembrance of my former Loue |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.143 | Know, then, I here forget all former griefs, | Know then, I heere forget all former greefes, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.94 | out of square in her into their former law and regiment. | out of square in her, into their former law, and / Regiment; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.62.1 | Here they fall on their faces as formerly, and there is | Here they fall on their faces as formerly, and there is |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.69.1 | Enter Palamon and his knights, with the former | Enter Palamon and his Knights, with the former |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.77.1 | Here they prostrate themselves, then kneel as formerly | Here they kneele as formerly. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.ii.33 | formerly he hath appeared. | formerly he hath appeared. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.30 | Than to rejoice the former queen is well? | Then to reioyce the former Queene is well? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.79 | As was your former, but she shall be such | As was your former, but she shall be such |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.111 | Now, had I not the dash of my former life | Now (had I not the dash of my former life |