| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.168 | His humble ambition, proud humility, | His humble ambition, proud humility: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.45 | In their poor praise he humbled. Such a man | In their poore praise he humbled: Such a man |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.151 | I am from humble, he from honoured name; | I am from humble, he from honored name: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.114.1 | With all bound humbleness. | With all bound humblenesse. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.197 | My low and humble name to propagate | My low and humble name to propagate |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.82 | Her that so wishes, and her humble love! | Her that so wishes, and her humble loue. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.6 | King than by that red-tailed humble-bee I speak of. | King, then by that red-tail'd humble Bee I speak of. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.50 | enter; some that humble themselves may, but the many | enter: some that humble themselues may, but the manie |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.62 | To the young man send humble treaties, dodge | To the young man send humble Treaties, dodge |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.5 | Falls not the axe upon the humbled neck | Falls not the axe vpon the humbled neck, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.92 | All humbleness, all patience, and impatience, | All humblenesse, all patience, and impatience, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.153 | His humble weeds. Will you dismiss the people? | his humble Weeds: / Will you dismisse the People? |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.220 | With what contempt he wore the humble weed, | With what Contempt he wore the humble Weed, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.79 | Now humble as the ripest mulberry | Now humble as the ripest Mulberry, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.ii.4 | Let us seem humbler after it is done | Let vs seeme humbler after it is done, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.180 | My humble thanks. I had almost forgot | My humble thankes: I had almost forgot |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.70 | The heyday in the blood is tame; it's humble, | The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.124 | virtuous. No, my lord, my humble duty remembered, | vertuous: No, my Lord (your humble duty remẽbred) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.11 | creature small beer. But indeed, these humble considerations | Creature, Small Beere. But indeede these humble considerations |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.120 | And I will stoop and humble my intents | And I will stoope, and humble my Intents, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 epilogue.26 | much cloyed with fat meat, our humble author will | much cloid with Fat Meate, our humble Author will |
| Henry V | H5 I.chorus.33 | Who Prologue-like your humble patience pray, | Who Prologue-like, your humble patience pray, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.65 | His eyes are humbler than they used to be. | His eyes are humbler then they vs'd to be. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.56 | Methinks his lordship should be humbler; | Me thinkes his Lordship should be humbler, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.169 | Thy humble servant vows obedience | Thy humble seruant vowes obedience, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.170 | And humble service till the point of death. | And humble seruice, till the point of death. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.42 | Stay, let thy humble handmaid speak to thee. | Stay, let thy humble Hand-maid speake to thee. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.6 | Be humble to us, call my sovereign yours | Be humble to vs, call my Soueraigne yours, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.18 | But with as humble lowliness of mind | But with as humble lowlinesse of minde, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.62 | While Gloucester bears this base and humble mind. | While Gloster beares this base and humble minde. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.126 | With humble suit. No, rather let my head | With humble suite: no, rather let my head |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.19 | No humble suitors press to speak for right, | No humble suters prease to speake for right: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.13 | Before the King will grant her humble suit. | Before the King will graunt her humble suit. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.62 | My love till death, my humble thanks, my prayers; | My loue till death, my humble thanks, my prayers, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.11 | And to my humble seat conform myself. | And to my humble Seat conforme my selfe. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.221 | Let me give humble thanks for all at once. | Let me giue humble thankes for all, at once. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.7 | But if an humble prayer may prevail, | But, if an humble prayer may preuaile, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.20 | And range with humble livers in content, | And range with humble liuers in Content, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.23 | I have been to you a true and humble wife, | I haue bene to you, a true and humble Wife, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.74 | I will, when you are humble; nay, before, | I will, when you are humble; Nay before, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.107 | T' oppose your cunning. You're meek and humble-mouthed; | T' oppose your cunning. Y'are meek, & humble-mouth'd |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.144 | In humblest manner I require your highness | In humblest manner I require your Highnes, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.49 | Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly | Though from an humble Stocke, vndoubtedly |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.65 | In the great'st humbleness, and desired your highness | In the great'st humblenesse, and desir'd your Highnesse |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.165 | That am a poor and humble subject to you? | That am a poore and humble Subiect to you? |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.5 | At your best leisure, this his humble suit. | (At your best leysure) this his humble suite. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.35.1 | An humble heart – | An humble heart. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.233 | Take one and both, for, like an humble shadow, | Take one and both for like an humble shaddow, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.83 | And here with humble duty I present | And heere with humble duety I present, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.117 | Look back upon the humble vale beneath, | Looke backe vpon the humble vale beneath, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.118 | Humble of late, but now made proud with arms, | Humble of late, but now made proud with armes, |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.64 | Have humbled to all strokes:. That I am wretched | Haue humbled to all strokes: that I am wretched |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.34 | Like humble-visaged suitors, his high will. | Like humble visag'd suters his high will. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.83 | The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee | The Foxe, the Ape, and the Humble-Bee, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.87 | The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.93 | The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.626 | This is not generous, not gentle, not humble. | This is not generous, not gentle, not humble. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.732 | A heavy heart bears not a humble tongue. | A heauie heart beares not a humble tongue. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.828 | What humble suit attends thy answer there. | What humble suite attends thy answer there, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.4 | And play the humble host. | And play the humble Host: |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.233 | from his judge, but most willingly humbles himself | from his Iudge, but most willingly humbles himselfe |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.121 | With bated breath and whispering humbleness, | With bated breath, and whispring humblenesse, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.369 | Which humbleness may drive unto a fine. | Which humblenesse may driue vnto a fine. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.20 | If opportunity and humblest suit | If opportunity and humblest suite |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.163 | The honey bags steal from the humble bees, | The honie-bags steale from the humble Bees, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.11 | weapons in your hand and kill me a red-hipped humble | weapons in your hand, & kill me a red hipt humble- |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.221 | she brought me up, I likewise give her most humble | she brought mee vp, I likewise giue her most humble |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.52 | Yes, faith; so humbled | I sooth; so humbled, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.455 | Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, | Shall neu'r looke backe, neu'r ebbe to humble Loue, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.26 | With humble and familiar courtesy; | With humble, and familiat courtesie, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.83 | Show me thy humble heart, and not thy knee, | Shew me thy humble heart, and not thy knee, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.74 | Heard you not what an humble suppliant | Heard you not what an humble Suppliant |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.164 | My manly eyes did scorn an humble tear; | My manly eyes did scorne an humble teare: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.170 | Thy voice is thunder, but thy looks are humble. | Thy voice is Thunder, but thy looks are humble. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.37 | Whose humble means match not his haughty spirit. | Whose humble meanes match not his haughtie spirit: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.114 | Wherein your lady and your humble wife | Wherein your Ladie, and your humble wife, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.166 | That made great Jove to humble him to her hand, | That made great Ioue to humble him to her hand, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.87 | Yet if thy thoughts, Bianca, be so humble | Yet if thy thoughts Bianca be so humble |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.483 | Are then most humble. I have no ambition | Are then most humble: I haue no ambition |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.87.1 | And I thus humble ever. | And I thus humble euer. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.7 | I am an humble suitor to your virtues; | I am an humble Sutor to your Vertues; |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.20 | By humble message and by promised means. | By humble Message, and by promist meanes: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.48 | Plead your deserts in peace and humbleness. | Pleade your Deserts in Peace and Humblenesse. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.54 | And her to whom my thoughts are humbled all, | And Her (to whom my thoughts are humbled all) |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.255 | Mine honour's ensigns humbled at thy feet. | Mine Honours Ensignes humbled at my feete. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.475 | By my advice, all humbled on your knees, | By my aduise all humbled on your knees, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.4 | My lords, with all the humbleness I may, | My Lords, with all the humblenesse I may, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.116.1 | For thou must hold it like an humble suppliant, | For thou hast made it like an humble Suppliant: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.93 | humble: few words to fair faith. Troilus shall be such | humble: few words to faire faith. Troylus shall be such |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.42 | Full merrily the humble-bee doth sing, | Full merrily the humble Bee doth sing, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.144 | like to be, cast thy humble slough and appear fresh. Be | like to be: cast thy humble slough, and appeare fresh. Be |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.92 | My duty, madam, and most humble service! | My dutie Madam, and most humble seruice. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.69 | the letter. ‘ Cast thy humble slough,’ says she. ‘ Be | the Letter. Cast thy humble slough sayes she: be |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.59 | And presently, all humbled, kiss the rod. | And presently, all humbled kisse the Rod? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.135 | And hath so humbled me as I confess | And hath so humbled me, as I confesse |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.226 | With them, upon her knees, her humble self, | With them vpon her knees, her humble selfe, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.111 | And humble with a ferula the tall ones, | And humble with a Ferula the tall ones, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.143 | Am humbled 'fore thine altar. O, vouchsafe | Am humbled fore thine Altar, O vouchsafe |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.99 | Than humble banks can go to law with waters | Then humble banckes can goe to law with waters, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.30 | Golden Apollo, a poor, humble swain, | Golden Apollo, a poore humble Swaine, |