| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.ii.65 | Most fruitfully. I am there before my legs. | Most fruitfully, I am there, before my legges. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.53 | Nay, if an oily palm be not a fruitful prognostication, | Nay, if an oyly Palme bee not a fruitfull Prognostication, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.24 | Ram thou thy fruitful tidings in mine ears, | Ramme thou thy fruitefull tidings in mine eares, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.99 | He dies that touches any of this fruit | He dies that touches any of this fruite, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.112 | Truly, the tree yields bad fruit. | Truely the tree yeelds bad fruite. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.114 | it with a medlar; then it will be the earliest fruit | it with a Medler: then it will be the earliest fruit |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.230 | drops such fruit. | droppes forth fruite. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.101 | As Hercules did shake down mellow fruit. | As Hercules did shake downe Mellow Fruite: |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.61 | Whose boughs did bend with fruit. But in one night, | Whose boughes did bend with fruit. But in one night, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.55 | or fruitful object be | Or fruitfull obiect bee? |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.263.2 | Hang there like a fruit, my soul, | Hang there like fruite, my soule, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.80 | No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, | No, nor the fruitfull Riuer in the Eye, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.52 | My news shall be the fruit to that great feast. | My Newes shall be the Newes to that great Feast. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.145 | Which done, she took the fruits of my advice, | Which done, she tooke the Fruites of my Aduice, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.200 | Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree, | Which now like Fruite vnripe stickes on the Tree, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.418 | fruit, as the fruit by the tree, then peremptorily I speak it, | Fruit, as the Fruit by the Tree, then peremptorily I speake it, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.39 | We see th' appearing buds; which to prove fruit | We see th' appearing buds, which to proue fruite, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.31 | with one Sampson Stockfish, a fruiterer, behind Gray's | with one Sampson Stock-fish, a Fruiterer, behinde Greyes- |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iv.13 | the fruit of her womb miscarry! | the Fruite of her Wombe might miscarry. |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.62 | Neighboured by fruit of baser quality: | Neighbour'd by Fruit of baser qualitie: |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.18 | Killing their fruit with frowns? Can sodden water, | Killing their Fruit with frownes. Can sodden Water, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.vi.7 | That one day bloomed and fruitful were the next. | That one day bloom'd, and fruitfull were the next. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.13 | She was the first fruit of my bachelorship. | She was the first fruite of my Bach'ler-ship. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.63 | Murder not then the fruit within my womb, | Murther not then the Fruite within my Wombe, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.127 | And suffer you to breathe in fruitful peace, | And suffer you to breath in fruitfull peace, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.9 | Where I may have fruition of her love. | Where I may haue fruition of her Loue. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.214 | Was graft with crab-tree slip, whose fruit thou art, | Was graft with Crab-tree slippe, whose Fruit thou art, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.58 | But stay thee; 'tis the fruits of love I mean. | But stay thee, 'tis the fruits of loue I meane. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.59 | The fruits of love I mean, my loving liege. | The fruits of Loue, I meane, my louing Liege. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.126 | The leaves and fruit maintained with beauty's sun, | The Leaues and Fruit maintain'd with Beauties Sunne, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.24 | King Edward's fruit, true heir to th' English crown. | King Edwards Fruite, true heyre to th' English Crowne. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.52 | Not like the fruit of such a goodly tree. | Not like the fruit of such a goodly Tree. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vii.32 | Witness the loving kiss I give the fruit. | Witnesse the louing kisse I giue the Fruite, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.56 | A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us. | A hand as fruitfull as the Land that feeds vs, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.20.2 | The fruit she goes with | The fruite she goes with |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.42 | This counsel, Artois, like to fruitful showers, | This counsayle Artoyes like to fruictfull shewers, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.14 | Even in the barren, bleak, and fruitless air. | Euen in the barraine, bleake and fruitlesse aire, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.151 | Seems barren, sere, unfertile, fruitless, dry; | Seemes barrayne, sere, vnfertill, fructles dry, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.56 | Where neither herb or fruitful grain is had, | Where neither hearb or frutfull graine is had, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.84 | This sacrifice, this first fruit of my sword, | This sacrifice, this first fruit of my sword, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.43 | Is, by the fruitful service of your peers | Is by the fruitfull seruice of your peeres, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.28 | Quartered in colours, seeming sundry fruits, | Quartred in collours seeming sundy fruits, |
| King John | KJ II.i.473 | The bloom that promiseth a mighty fruit. | The bloome that promiseth a mightie fruite. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.274 | To make this creature fruitful. | To make this Creature fruitfull: |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.264 | place will be fruitfully offered. There is nothing done if he | place will be fruitfully offer'd. There is nothing done. If hee |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.836 | To weed this wormwood from your fruitful brain, | To weed this Wormewood from your fruitfull braine, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.60 | Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown | Vpon my Head they plac'd a fruitlesse Crowne, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.89 | distant time stood, as it were, in a fruit dish, a dish of | distant time stood, as it were in a fruit dish (a dish of |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.153 | head fill my belly; one fruitful meal would set me to't. | head fill my belly. One fruitful Meale would set mee too't: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.115 | Meetest for death. The weakest kind of fruit | Meetest for death, the weakest kinde of fruite |
| 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 III.ii.371 | Shall seem a dream and fruitless vision, | Shall seeme a dreame, and fruitlesse vision, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.9 | The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue: | The purchase made, the fruites are to ensue, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.331 | In any honest suit. She's framed as fruitful | In any honest Suite. She's fram'd as fruitefull |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.366 | Yet fruits that blossom first will first be ripe. | Yet Fruites that blossome first, will first be ripe: |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.38 | This argues fruitfulness and liberal heart. | This argues fruitfulnesse, and liberall heart: |
| Othello | Oth V.i.116 | This is the fruit of whoring. Prithee, Emilia, | This is the fruits of whoring. Prythe Amilia, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.22 | To taste the fruit of yon celestial tree | To taste the fruite of yon celestiall tree, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.29 | With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched, | With golden fruite, but dangerous to be toucht: |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.153 | The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he. | The ripest fruit first fals, and so doth he, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.45 | Her fruit trees all unpruned, her hedges ruined, | Her Fruit-trees all vnpruin'd, her Hedges ruin'd, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.58 | Do wound the bark, the skin of our fruit trees, | And wound the Barke, the skin of our Fruit-trees, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.63 | Their fruits of duty. Superfluous branches | Their fruites of dutie. Superfluous branches |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.136 | This is the fruits of rashness! Marked you not | This is the fruits of rashnes: Markt you not, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.166 | The royal tree hath left us royal fruit, | The Royall Tree hath left vs Royall Fruit, |
| Richard III | R3 V.ii.8 | That spoiled your summer fields and fruitful vines, | (That spoyl'd your Summer Fields, and fruitfull Vines) |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.i.35 | And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit | And wish his Mistresse were that kind of Fruite, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.108 | That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops – | That tips with siluer all these Fruite tree tops. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.3 | I am arrived for fruitful Lombardy, | I am arriu'd for fruitfull Lumbardie, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.363 | Of fruitful land, all which shall be her jointure. | Of fruitfull land, all which shall be her ioynter. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.148 | Together with a recompense more fruitful | Together, with a recompence more fruitfull |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.43 | And here's the base fruit of her burning lust. | And heere's the Base Fruit of his burning lust. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.48 | And by his side his fruit of bastardy. | And by his side his Fruite of Bastardie. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.119 | Yea, like fair fruit in an unwholesome dish, | Yea, and like faire Fruit in an vnholdsome dish, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.190 | If you will then see the fruits of the sport, mark | If you will then see the fruites of the sport, mark |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.54 | And hear thou there how many fruitless pranks | And heare thou there how many fruitlesse prankes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.289 | And fruit, and flowers more blessed that still blossom | And fruite, and flowers more blessed that still blossom |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.294 | In at her window! I would bring her fruit | In at her window; I would bring her fruite |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.96 | And first-fruits of my body, from his presence | And first Fruits of my body, from his presence |