| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.1.2 | the Countess, Helena, and Lord Lafew; all in black | and Helena, Lord Lafew, all in blacke. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.9 | would stir it up where it wanted, rather than lack it | would stirre it vp where it wanted rather then lack it |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.21 | have play for lack of work. Would for the King's sake he | haue play for lacke of worke. Would for the Kings sake hee |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.59 | ‘ After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff | After my flame lackes oyle, to be the snuffe |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.68 | They that least lend it you shall lack you first. | They that least lend it you, shall lacke you first. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.11 | lack not folly to commit them, and have ability enough | lacke not folly to commit them, & haue abilitie enough |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.92 | the black gown of a big heart. I am going, forsooth. The | the blacke-Gowne of a bigge heart: I am going forsooth, the |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.199 | And lack not to lose still. Thus, Indian-like, | And lacke not to loose still; thus Indian like |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.20 | They say our French lack language to deny | They say our French, lacke language to deny |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.i.5 | Upon your grace's part, black and fearful | Vpon your Graces part: blacke and fearefull |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.19 | Rynaldo, you did never lack advice so much | Rynaldo you did neuer lacke aduice so much, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.282 | any lackey; marry, in coming on he has the cramp. | any Lackey; marrie in comming on, hee ha's the Crampe. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.40 | The Black Prince, sir, alias the prince of darkness, | The blacke prince sir, alias the prince of darkenesse, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.3 | As mad in folly, lacked the sense to know | As mad in folly, lack'd the sence to know |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.193 | Did lack a parallel; yet for all that | Did lacke a Paralell: yet for all that |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.222 | Since you lack virtue I will lose a husband – | (Since you lacke vertue, I will loose a husband) |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.147 | Alack, sir, no; her passions are made of | Alacke Sir no, her passions are made of |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.13 | More fiery by night's blackness, hereditary | More fierie by nights Blacknesse; Hereditarie, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.44 | Comes deared by being lacked. This common body, | Comes fear'd, by being lack'd. This common bodie, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.46 | Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, | Goes too, and backe, lacking the varrying tyde |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.52 | Lack blood to think on't, and flush youth revolt. | Lacke blood to thinke on't, and flush youth reuolt, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.28 | That am with Phoebus' amorous pinches black | That am with Phobus amorous pinches blacke, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.61 | I know you could not lack, I am certain on't, | I know you could not lacke, I am certaine on't, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.90 | Supposing that I lacked it. But on, Caesar: | Supposing that I lackt it: but on Casar, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.174.1 | Not lack your company. | not lacke your companie. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.82 | These hands do lack nobility, that they strike | These hands do lacke Nobility, that they strike |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.27 | To taunt at slackness. Canidius, we | To taunt at slacknesse. Camidius, wee |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.x.23.2 | Alack, alack! | Alacke, alacke. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.153.2 | Alack, our terrene moon | Alacke our Terrene Moone |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.8.1 | They are black vesper's pageants. | They are blacke Vespers Pageants. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.59 | With ships made cities, condemn myself to lack | With Ships, made Cities; condemne my selfe, to lacke |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.235 | That could give more but that her hand lacks means. | That could giue more, but that her hand lacks meanes. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.94 | No, hath not? Rosalind lacks then the love | No, hath not? Rosaline lacks then the loue |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vi.16 | for lack of a dinner, if there live anything in this desert. | For lacke of a dinner, / If there liue any thing in this Desert. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.21 | And looking on it, with lack-lustre eye, | And looking on it, with lacke-lustre eye, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.27 | night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit | night, is lacke of the Sunne: That hee that hath learned no wit |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.89 | Are but black to Rosalind. | are but blacke to Rosalinde: |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.97 | If a hart do lack a hind, | If a Hart doe lacke a Hinde, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.287 | (to Celia) I will speak to him like a saucy lackey, | I wil speake to him like a sawcie Lacky. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.309 | With a priest that lacks Latin, and a rich man | With a Priest that lacks Latine, and a rich man |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.312 | feels no pain, the one lacking the burden of lean and | feeles no paine: the one lacking the burthen of leane and |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.46 | 'Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair, | 'Tis not your inkie browes, your blacke silke haire, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.130 | He said mine eyes were black and my hair black, | He said mine eyes were black, and my haire blacke, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.67 | were gravelled for lack of matter, you might take occasion | were grauel'd, for lacke of matter, you might take occasion |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.69 | spit, and for lovers lacking – God warn us! – matter, the | spit, and for louers, lacking (God warne vs) matter, the |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.165 | Alas, dear love, I cannot lack thee two hours! | Alas, deere loue, I cannot lacke thee two houres. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.16 | She says I am not fair, that I lack manners, | Shee saies I am not faire, that I lacke manners, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.36 | Such Ethiop words, blacker in their effect | Such Ethiop words, blacker in their effect |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.53 | Alack, in me what strange effect | Alacke, in me, what strange effect |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.164 | Be of good cheer, youth! You a man? You lack | Be of good cheere youth: you a man? / You lacke |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.201 | They'll suck our breath, or pinch us black and blue. | They'll sucke our breath, or pinch vs blacke and blew. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.72 | Your knees to them, not arms, must help. Alack, | Your knees to them (not armes) must helpe. Alacke, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.200 | For though abundantly they lack discretion, | For though abundantly they lacke discretion |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.172.1 | And mothers that lack sons. | And Mothers that lacke Sonnes. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.80 | I shall lack voice. The deeds of Coriolanus | I shall lacke voyce: the deeds of Coriolanus |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.18 | that our heads are some brown, some black, some abram, | that our heads are some browne, some blacke, some Abram, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.73 | Who lack not virtue, no, nor power, but that | Who lack not Vertue, no, nor Power, but that |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.23.1 | Ere they lacked power to cross you. | Ere they lack'd power to crosse you. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.15 | I shall be loved when I am lacked. Nay, mother, | I shall be lou'd when I am lack'd. Nay Mother, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.109 | Whereto we are bound? Alack, or we must lose | Whereto we are bound: Alacke, or we must loose |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.29.1 | By lack of stooping – | By lacke of stooping. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.i.18 | I mean, that married her, alack good man, | (I meane, that married her, alacke good man, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.i.64 | So slackly guarded, and the search so slow | So slackely guarded, and the search so slow |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.55.2 | Alack, the king! | Alacke, the King. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.108 | And am so near the lack of charity – | And am so neere the lacke of Charitie |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.22 | Smiled at their lack of skill, but found their courage | Smil'd at their lacke of skill, but found their courage |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.16 | That I should seem to lack humanity | That I should seeme to lacke humanity, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.20 | Black as the ink that's on thee! Senseless bauble, | Blacke as the Inke that's on thee: senselesse bauble, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.164 | Alack, no remedy – to the greedy touch | Alacke no remedy) to the greedy touch |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.220 | I'll sweeten thy sad grave: thou shalt not lack | Ile sweeten thy sad graue: thou shalt not lacke |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.374.2 | 'Lack, good youth! | 'Lacke, good youth: |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.i.11 | Me, wretch, more worth your vengeance. But alack, | Me (wretch) more worth your Vengeance. But alacke, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.59.2 | 'Lack, to what end? | Lacke, to what end? |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.102.2 | No, no alack, | No, no, alacke, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.78 | Nor customary suits of solemn black, | Nor Customary suites of solemne Blacke, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.3.2 | I think it lacks of twelve. | I thinke it lacks of twelue. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.186 | God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together, | God willing shall not lacke: let vs goe in together, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.117 | To lack discretion. Come, go we to the King. | To lacke discretion. Come, go we to the King, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.63 | To be a preparation 'gainst the Polack, | To be a preparation 'gainst the Poleak: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.75 | So levied as before, against the Polack, | So leuied as before, against the Poleak: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.200 | gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together | Gumme: and that they haue a plentifull locke of Wit, together |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.451 | Black as his purpose, did the night resemble | Blacke as his purpose, did the night resemble |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.453 | Hath now this dread and black complexion smeared | Hath now this dread and blacke Complexion smear'd |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.574 | But I am pigeon-livered and lack gall | But I am Pigeon-Liuer'd, and lacke Gall |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.164 | Nor what he spake, though it lacked form a little, | Nor what he spake, though it lack'd Forme a little, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.138 | So long? Nay then, let the devil wear black, for | So long? Nay then let the Diuel weare blacke, for |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.217 | For who not needs shall never lack a friend, | For who not needs, shall neuer lacke a Frend: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.264 | Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing, | Thoughts blacke, hands apt, / Drugges fit, and Time agreeing: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.347 | Sir, I lack advancement. | Sir I lacke Aduancement. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.67 | O, wretched state! O, bosom black as death! | Oh wretched state! Oh bosome, blacke as death! |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.94 | And that his soul may be as damned and black | And that his Soule may be as damn'd aud blacke |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.91 | And there I see such black and grained spots | And there I see such blacke and grained spots, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.201.2 | Alack, | Alacke |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.23 | Why, then the Polack never will defend it. | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.60 | Alack, and fie for shame! | Alacke, and fie for shame: |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.98 | Alack, what noise is this? | Alacke, what noyse is this? |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.133 | To hell allegiance! Vows to the blackest devil! | To hell Allegeance: Vowes, to the blackest diuell. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.370 | You from the Polack wars, and you from England, | You from the Polake warres, and you from England |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.17 | shallow cowardly hind, and you lie. What a lack-brain is | shallow cowardly Hinde, and you Lye. What a lacke-braine is |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.235 | compulsion? If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I | compulsion? If Reasons were as plentie as Black-berries, I |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.364 | Not a whit, i'faith, I lack some of thy | Not a whit: I lacke some of thy |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.401 | micher, and eat blackberries? A question not to be asked. | Micher, and eate Black-berryes? a question not to bee askt. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.152 | That were his lackeys. I cried ‘ Hum,’ and ‘ Well, go to!’ | That were his Lacqueyes: / I cry'd hum, and well, goe too, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.74 | lack subjects? Do not the rebels need soldiers? Though | lack subiects? Do not the Rebels want Soldiers? Though |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.120 | you poor, base, rascally, cheating, lack-linen mate! | you poore, base, rascally, cheating, lacke-Linnen-Mate: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.359 | Borne with black vapour, doth begin to melt | Borne with black Vapour, doth begin to melt, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.7 | Alas, a black woosel, cousin Shallow! | Alas, a blacke Ouzell (Cousin Shallow.) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.19 | black George Barnes, and Francis Pickbone, and Will | blacke George Bare, and Francis Pick-bone, and Will |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.108 | that are mouldy lack use! Very singular good, in faith, | that are mouldie, lacke vse: very singular good. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.214 | On late offenders, that he now doth lack | On late Offenders, that he now doth lacke |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.14 | Alack, what mischiefs might he set abroach | Alack, what Mischiefes might hee set abroach, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.227 | But health, alack, with youthful wings is flown | But health (alacke) with youthfull wings is flowne |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.68 | Why, there spoke a king. Lack nothing! Be | Why there spoke a King: lack nothing, be |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.70 | That lack of means enforce you not to evils; | That lacke of meanes enforce you not to euill: |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.105 | And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince, | And your Great Vnckles, Edward the Black Prince, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.104 | As black and white, my eye will scarcely see it. | As black and white, my eye will scarsely see it. |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.38 | Bardolph's nose, and 'a said it was a black soul burning in | Bardolphs Nose, and a said it was a blacke Soule burning in |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.56 | Of that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales; | Of that black Name, Edward, black Prince of Wales: |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.21 | And sheathed their swords for lack of argument. | And sheath'd their Swords, for lack of argument. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.108 | saw it but his lackey. 'Tis a hooded valour, and when it | saw it, but his Lacquey: 'tis a hooded valour, and when it |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.134 | That they lack; for if their heads had any | That they lack: for if their heads had any |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.140 | well, it will be a black matter for the King that led them | well, it will be a black matter for the King, that led them |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.265 | But, like a lackey, from the rise to set, | But like a Lacquey, from the Rise to Set, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.21 | And sheathe for lack of sport. Let us but blow on them, | And sheath for lack of sport. Let vs but blow on them, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.24 | That our superfluous lackeys, and our peasants, | That our superfluous Lacquies, and our Pesants, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iv.73 | lackeys, with the luggage of our camp. The French | Lackies with the luggage of our camp, the French |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.92 | Plack Prince of Wales, as I have read in the chronicles, | Placke Prince of Wales, as I haue read in the Chronicles, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.138 | a villain and a Jack-sauce as ever his black shoe trod | a villaine and a Iacke sawce, as euer his blacke shoo trodd |
| Henry V | H5 V.chorus.16 | You may imagine him upon Blackheath, | You may imagine him vpon Black-Heath: |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.159 | stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curled pate will | stoope, a blacke Beard will turne white, a curl'd Pate will |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.1 | Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! | HVng be ye heauens with black, yield day to night; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.17 | We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood? | We mourne in black, why mourn we not in blood? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.99 | Bedford, if thou be slack, I'll fight it out. | Bedford, if thou be slacke, Ile fight it out. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.84 | And whereas I was black and swart before, | And whereas I was black and swart before, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.65 | Lord Strange of Blackmere, Lord Verdun of Alton, | Lord Strange of Blackmere, Lord Verdon of Alton, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.78 | Your kingdom's terror and black Nemesis? | Your Kingdomes terror, and blacke Nemesis? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.66 | And, being a woman, I will not be slack | And being a woman, I will not be slacke |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.111 | Black, forsooth, coal-black as jet. | Black forsooth, Coale-Black, as Iet. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.ii.11 | The first, Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales; | The first, Edward the Black-Prince, Prince ofWales; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.ii.18 | Edward the Black Prince died before his father, | Edward the Black-Prince dyed before his Father, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.345 | 'Twas men I lacked, and you will give them me; | 'Twas men I lackt, and you will giue them me; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.349 | I will stir up in England some black storm | I will stirre vp in England some black Storme, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.168 | But see, his face is black and full of blood, | But see, his face is blacke, and full of blood: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.iii.23 | And from his bosom purge this black despair. | And from his bosome purge this blacke dispaire. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iii.7 | a licence to kill for a hundred lacking one. | a License to kill for a hundred lacking one. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.160 | And wrap our bodies in black mourning gowns, | And wrap our bodies in blacke mourning Gownes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.ii.22 | So we, well covered with the night's black mantle, | So wee, well couer'd with the Nights black Mantle, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.54 | This hand, fast wound about thy coal-black hair, | This Hand, fast wound about thy coale-black hayre, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.ii.16 | These eyes, that now are dimmed with death's black veil, | These Eyes, that now are dim'd with Deaths black Veyle, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iii.4 | I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud, | I spy a black suspicious threatning Cloud, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.209 | Which makes my whit'st part black. The will of heaven | Which makes my whit'st part, black. The will of Heau'n |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.35 | And lack of other means, in desperate manner | And lack of other meanes, in desperate manner |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.123 | That once were his, and is become as black | That once were his, and is become as blacke, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.58 | He had a black mouth that said other of him. | He had a blacke mouth that said other of him. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.85 | 'Gainst me that I cannot take peace with. No black envy | Gainst me, that I cannot take peace with: / No blacke Enuy |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.137 | For such receipt of learning is Blackfriars; | For such receipt of Learning, is Black-Fryers: |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.177 | You know I am a woman, lacking wit | You know I am a Woman, lacking wit |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.ii.17 | 'Mong boys, grooms, and lackeys. But their pleasures | 'Mong Boyes, Groomes, and Lackeyes. / But their pleasures |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.28 | I am not gamesome: I do lack some part | I am not Gamesom: I do lacke some part |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.97 | Never lacks power to dismiss itself. | Neuer lacks power to dismisse it selfe. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.i.17 | In our black sentence and proscription. | In our blacke Sentence and Proscription. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.57 | Jemmy, my man, saddle my bonny black. | Iemmy my man, saddle my bonny blacke. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.458 | To the black faction of bed-blotting shame. | To the blacke faction of bed blotting, shame. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.107 | Thy mother is but black, and thou, like her, | Thy mother is but blacke, and thou like her. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.178 | So did the Black Snake of Boulogne, than which | So did the blacke snake of Bullen, then which |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.88 | Bethink thyself how slack I was at sea, | Bethinke thy selfe howe slacke I was at sea. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.111 | To put his princely son, black Edward, in. | To put his princely sonne blacke Edward in, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.154 | As black as powder fuming into smoke. | as blacke as pouder fuming into smoke, |
| King John | KJ II.i.118 | Alack, thou dost usurp authority. | Alack thou dost vsurpe authoritie. |
| King John | KJ III.i.297 | But in despair die under their black weight. | But in despaire, dye vnder their blacke weight. |
| King John | KJ III.i.305 | O husband, hear me! Ay, alack, how new | O husband heare me: aye, alacke, how new |
| King John | KJ IV.i.48 | Saying, ‘ What lack you?’, and ‘ Where lies your grief?’, | Saying, what lacke you? and where lies your greefe? |
| King John | KJ IV.i.118 | Deny their office. Only you do lack | Deny their office: onely you do lacke |
| King John | KJ IV.i.120 | Creatures of note for mercy-lacking uses. | Creatures of note for mercy, lacking vses. |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.121 | Thou'rt damn'd as black – nay, nothing is so black; | Thou'rt damn'd as blacke, nay nothing is so blacke, |
| King John | KJ V.iv.33 | But even this night, whose black contagious breath | But euen this night, whose blacke contagious breath |
| King John | KJ V.vi.17 | Why, here walk I in the black brow of night | Why heere walke I, in the black brow of night |
| King John | KJ V.vi.20 | Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible. | Blacke, fearefull, comfortlesse, and horrible. |
| King Lear | KL I.iii.10 | If you come slack of former services | If you come slacke of former seruices, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.155 | Looked black upon me, struck me with her tongue, | Look'd blacke vpon me, strooke me with her Tongue |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.240 | Why not, my lord? If then they chanced to slack ye, | Why not my Lord? / If then they chanc'd to slacke ye, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.295 | Alack, the night comes on and the bleak winds | Alacke the night comes on, and the high windes |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.60.2 | Alack, bare-headed? | Alacke, bare-headed? |
| King Lear | KL III.iii.1 | Alack, alack, Edmund, I like not this unnatural | Alacke, alacke Edmund, I like not this vnnaturall |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.93 | brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' | Brothels, thy hand out of Plackets, thy pen from Lenders |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.31 | white herring. Croak not, black angel! I have no food for | |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.65 | Be thy mouth or black or white, | be thy mouth or blacke or white: |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.59 | In hell-black night endured, would have buoyed up | In Hell-blacke-night indur'd, would haue buoy'd vp |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.45.2 | Alack, sir, he is mad. | Alacke sir, he is mad. |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.59.1 | ‘ Alack, why does he so?’ | |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.47.2 | Alack, poor gentleman! | |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.1 | Alack, 'tis he! Why, he was met even now | Alacke, 'tis he: why he was met euen now |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.13 | The which he lacks; that to provoke in him | The which he lackes: that to prouoke in him |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.60 | Alack, I have no eyes. | Alacke, I haue no eyes: |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.98 | ere the black ones were there. To say ‘ ay ’ and ‘ no ’ to | ere the blacke ones were there. To say I, and no, to |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.117 | To't, luxury, pell-mell, for I lack soldiers. | Too't Luxury pell-mell, for I lacke Souldiers. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.182 | Alack, alack the day! | Alacke, alacke the day. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.40 | In short and musty straw? Alack, alack! | In short, and musty straw? Alacke, alacke, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.195 | Alack, too weak the conflict to support – | (Alacke too weake the conflict to support) |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.237.1 | Alack, why thus? | Alacke, why thus? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.228 | commend the black oppressing humour to the most wholesome | commend the blacke oppressing humour to the most wholesome |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.121 | Alack, let it blood. | Alacke, let it bloud. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.181 | Dread prince of plackets, king of codpieces, | Dread Prince of Placcats, King of Codpeeces. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.15 | O short-lived pride! Not fair? Alack for woe! | O short liu'd pride. Not faire? alacke for woe. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.53 | I fear these stubborn lines lack power to move. | I feare these stubborn lines lack power to moue. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.99 | On a day – alack the day! – | On a day, alack the day: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.109 | But, alack, my hand is sworn | But alacke my hand is sworne, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.111 | Vow, alack, for youth unmeet, | Vow alacke for youth vnmeete, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.205 | That you three fools lacked me fool to make up the mess. | That you three fooles, lackt mee foole, to make vp the messe. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.245 | By heaven, thy love is black as ebony! | By heauen, thy Loue is blacke as Ebonie. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.249 | That I may swear beauty doth beauty lack | That I may sweare Beauty doth beauty lacke, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.251 | No face is fair that is not full so black. | No face is faire that is not full so blacke. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.252 | O paradox! Black is the badge of hell, | O paradoxe, Blacke is the badge of hell, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.256 | O, if in black my lady's brows be decked, | O if in blacke my Ladies browes be deckt, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.259 | And therefore is she born to make black fair. | And therfore is she borne to make blacke, faire. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.263 | Paints itself black, to imitate her brow. | Paints it selfe blacke, to imitate her brow. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.264 | To look like her are chimney-sweepers black. | To look like her are Chimny-sweepers blacke. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.158.1 | Enter blackamoors with music, Mote with a speech, | Enter Black moores with musicke, the Boy with a speech, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.264.2 | and blackamoors | Qu. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.823 | I'll change my black gown for a faithful friend. | Ile change my blacke Gowne, for a faithfull friend. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iv.52 | Let not light see my black and deep desires. | Let not Light see my black and deepe desires: |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.9 | Alack, I am afraid they have awaked, | Alack, I am afraid they haue awak'd, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.41 | His cloistered flight, ere to black Hecat's summons | His Cloyster'd flight, ere to black Heccats summons |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.53 | While night's black agents to their preys do rouse. | Whiles Nights black Agents to their Prey's doe rowse. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.83.1 | Your noble friends do lack you. | Your Noble Friends do lacke you. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.140 | You lack the season of all natures, sleep. | You lacke the season of all Natures, sleepe. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.43 | Music and a song: ‘ Black spirits,’ etc. | Musicke and a Song. Blacke Spirits, &c. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.47 | How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags! | How now you secret, black, & midnight Hags? |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.52 | That, when they shall be opened, black Macbeth | That when they shall be open'd, blacke Macbeth |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.116 | Wiped the black scruples, reconciled my thoughts | Wip'd the blacke Scruples, reconcil'd my thoughts |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.236 | Our lack is nothing but our leave. Macbeth | Our lacke is nothing but our leaue. Macbeth |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.11 | The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon! | The diuell damne thee blacke, thou cream-fac'd Loone: |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.106 | Come, fear not you; good counsellors lack no | Come: feare not you; good Counsellors lacke no |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.147 | Save that we do the denunciation lack | Saue that we doe the denunciation lacke |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.79 | When it doth tax itself, as these black masks | When it doth taxe it selfe: As these blacke Masques |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.120 | and his use was to put a ducat in her clack-dish. The | and his vse was, to put a ducket in her Clack-dish; the |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.9 | executioner, who in his office lacks a helper. If you | executioner, who in his office lacks a helper, if you |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.161 | Alack, how may I do it, having the hour limited, | Alacke, how may I do it? Hauing the houre limited, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.13 | Copperspur, and Master Starve-lackey, the rapier and | Copperspurre, and M Starue-Lackey the Rapier and |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iv.31 | Alack, when once our grace we have forgot, | Alack, when once our grace we haue forgot, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.68 | Have sure more lack of reason. What would you say? | Haue sure more lacke of reason: / What would you say? |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.470 | And lack of tempered judgement afterward. | And lacke of temper'd iudgement afterward. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.37 | To think on this, and shall I lack the thought | To thinke on this, and shall I lacke the thought |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.64 | Alack the day, I know you not, young gentleman! | Alacke the day, I know you not yong Gentleman, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.68 | Alack, sir, I am sand-blind! I know you not. | Alacke sir I am sand blinde, I know you not. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iii.16 | Alack, what heinous sin is it in me | Alacke, what hainous sinne is it in me |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.24 | for nothing that my nose fell a-bleeding on Black Monday | for nothing that my nose fell a bleeding on blacke monday |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.62 | With that we lack. I'll hold thee any wager, | With that we lacke; Ile hold thee any wager |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.160 | lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend | lacke of years be no impediment to let him lacke a reuerend |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.82 | Tester I'll have in pouch when thou shalt lack, | Tester ile haue in pouch when thou shalt lacke, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.17 | lack no direction. – Be gone, and come when you are | lacke no direction. Be gone, and come when you are |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.108 | I to slack it! | I to slacke it. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.103 | heart, is beaten black and blue, that you cannot see a | heart) is beaten blacke and blew, that you cannot see a |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.105 | What tellest thou me of black and blue? I | What tell'st thou mee of blacke, and blew? I |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.53 | Bring you the maid, you shall not lack a priest. | Bring you the Maid, you shall not lacke a Priest. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.18 | My doe with the black scut! Let the sky rain | My Doe, with the blacke Scut? Let the skie raine |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.37 | Fairies black, grey, green, and white, | Fairies blacke, gray, greene, and white, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.100 | For lack of tread are undistinguishable. | For lacke of tread are vndistinguishable. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.223 | Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company, | Nor doth this wood lacke worlds of company, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.22 | Beetles black, approach not near, | Beetles blacke approach not neere; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.83 | Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy. | Neere this lacke-loue, this kill-curtesie. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.159 | Alack, where are you? Speak an if you hear. | Alacke where are you? speake and if you heare: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.118 | (sings) The ousel cock so black of hue, | The Woosell cocke, so blacke of hew, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.357 | With drooping fog as black as Acheron, | With drooping fogge as blacke as Acheron, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.387 | And must for aye consort with black-browed night. | And must for aye consort with blacke browd night. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.167 | O grim-looked night, O night with hue so black, | O grim lookt night, ô night with hue so blacke, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.169 | O night, O night, alack, alack, alack, | O night, ô night, alacke, alacke, alacke, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.63 | If black, why, Nature, drawing of an antic, | If blacke, why Nature drawing of an anticke, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.42 | husband have stables enough, you'll see he shall lack no | husband haue stables enough, you'll looke he shall lacke no |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.178 | Let all my sins lack mercy! O my father, | Let all my sinnes lacke mercy. O my Father, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.217 | Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, | Whiles we enioy it; but being lack'd and lost, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.185 | lady. For my Lord Lackbeard there, he and I shall | Ladie: for my Lord Lackebeard there, he and I shall |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.292 | white and black, this plaintiff here, the offender, did call | white and black, this plaintiffe here, the offendour did call |
| Othello | Oth I.i.89 | Even now, now, very now, an old black ram | Euen now, now, very now, an old blacke Ram |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.3 | To do no contrived murder: I lack iniquity | To do no contriu'd Murder: I lacke Iniquitie |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.25 | But altogether lacks th' abilities | But altogether lackes th'abilities |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.51 | We lacked your counsel and your help tonight. | We lack't your Counsaile, and your helpe to night. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.286 | If virtue no delighted beauty lack, | If Vertue no delighted Beautie lacke, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.287 | Your son-in-law is far more fair than black. | Your Son-in-law is farre more Faire then Blacke. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.130 | Well praised! How if she be black and witty? | Well prais'd: How if she be Blacke and Witty? |
| Othello | Oth II.i.131 | If she be black, and thereto have a wit, | If she be blacke, and thereto haue a wit, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.132 | She'll find a white that shall her blackness fit. | She'le find a white, that shall her blacknesse fit. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.147 | Never lacked gold, and yet went never gay; | Neuer lackt Gold, and yet went neuer gay, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.29 | health of black Othello. | health of blacke Othello. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.341 | When devils will the blackest sins put on, | When diuels will the blackest sinnes put on, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.260 | To prey at fortune. Haply, for I am black | To prey at Fortune. Haply, for I am blacke, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.315 | When she shall lack it. | When she shall lacke it. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.384 | As Dian's visage is now begrimed and black | As Dians Visage, is now begrim'd and blacke |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.444 | Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell! | Arise blacke vengeance, from the hollow hell, |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.86 | If wives do fall. Say that they slack their duties, | If Wiues do fall: (Say, that they slacke their duties, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.29 | Alas, my lord, what may you mean by that? | Alacke, my Lord, / What may you meane by that? |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.132 | And you the blacker devil! | and you the blacker Diuell. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.136 | Blush not in actions blacker than the night | Blush not in actions blacker then the night, |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.76 | The rest – hark in thine ear – as black as incest; | The rest harke in thine eare, as blacke as incest, |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.89 | To keep his bed of blackness unlaid ope, | To keepe his bed of blacknesse vnlayde ope, |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.20 | Is a black Ethiop reaching at the sun. | Is a blacke Ethyope reaching at the Sunne: |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.1 | Now sleep y-slacked hath the rout, | Now sleepe yslacked hath the rout, |
| Pericles | Per III.i.43 | Slack the bolins there! – Thou wilt not, | Slake the bolins there; thou wilt not |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.11 | Of general wonder. But, alack, | Of generall wonder: but alacke |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.60 | Alack that Leonine was so slack, so slow! | Alacke that Leonine was so slacke, so slow, |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.44 | No visor does become black villainy | No vizor does become blacke villanie, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.V.9 | That pupils lacks she none of noble race, | That puples lackes she none of noble race, |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.67 | Alack, and what shall good old York there see | Alacke, and what shall good old Yorke there see |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.30 | 'Tis breath thou lackest, and that breath wilt thou lose. | Tis breath thou lackst, and that breath wilt thou loose. |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.100 | Rescued the Black Prince – that young Mars of men – | Rescued the Black Prince, that yong Mars of men, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.8 | To say ‘ King Richard.’ Alack the heavy day | To say King Richard: alack the heauie day, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.70 | Controlling majesty. Alack, alack for woe | Controlling Maiestie: alack, alack, for woe, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.71 | That tell black tidings. | That tell blacke tydings. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.95 | Against black pagans, Turks, and Saracens, | Against black Pagans, Turkes, and Saracens: |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.131 | Should show so heinous, black, obscene a deed! | Should shew so heynous, black, obscene a deed. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.162 | Alack, why am I sent for to a king | Alack, why am I sent for to a King, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.256 | But 'tis usurped. Alack the heavy day, | But 'tis vsurpt: alack the heauie day, |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.49 | And some will mourn in ashes, some coal-black, | And some will mourne in ashes, some coale-black, |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.22 | Alack, poor Richard! Where rode he the whilst? | Alas poore Richard, where rides he the whilst? |
| Richard II | R2 V.vi.48 | And put on sullen black incontinent. | And put on sullen Blacke incontinent: |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.47 | Alack, my lord, that fault is none of yours, | Alacke my Lord, that fault is none of yours: |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.34 | What black magician conjures up this fiend | What blacke Magitian coniures vp this Fiend, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.131 | Black night o'ershade thy day, and death thy life! | Blacke night ore-shade thy day, & death thy life. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.158 | When black-faced Clifford shook his sword at him; | When black-fac'd Clifford shooke his sword at him. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.278 | By heavens, the Duke shall know how slack you have been. | By Heauen the Duke shall know how slacke you haue beene. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.36 | I'll join with black despair against my soul | Ile ioyne with blacke dispaire against my Soule, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.230 | But if black scandal or foul-faced reproach | But if black Scandall, or foule-fac'd Reproach, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.7 | Will prove as bitter, black, and tragical. | Will proue as bitter, blacke, and Tragicall. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.71 | Richard yet lives, hell's black intelligencer; | Richard yet liues, Hels blacke Intelligencer, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.17 | Let's lack no discipline, make no delay, | Let's lacke no Discipline, make no delay, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.188 | Alack, I love myself. Wherefore? For any good | Alacke, I loue my Selfe. Wherefore? For any good |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.281 | A black day will it be to somebody. | A blacke day will it be to somebody. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.318 | A scum of Britains and base lackey peasants, | A scum of Brittaines, and base Lackey Pezants, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.141 | Black and portentous must this humour prove, | Blacke and portendous must this humour proue, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.231 | Being black, put us in mind they hide the fair. | Being blacke, puts vs in mind they hide the faire: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.89 | To beautify him only lacks a cover. | To Beautifie him, onely lacks a Couer. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.71 | Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye | Alacke there lies more perill in thine eye, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.14 | stabbed with a white wench's black eye; shot through the | stab'd with a white wenches blacke eye, runne through the |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.119 | This day's black fate on more days doth depend. | This daies blacke Fate, on mo daies doth depend, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.178 | Some twenty of them fought in this black strife, | Some twenty of them fought in this blacke strife, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.11 | Thou sober-suited matron, all in black, | Thou sober suted Matron all in blacke, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.15 | With thy black mantle till strange love grow bold, | With thy Blacke mantle, till strange Loue grow bold, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.20 | Come, gentle night. Come, loving, black-browed night. | Come gentle night, come louing blackebrow'd night. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.39 | Alack the day! he's gone, he's killed, he's dead! | Alacke the day, hee's gone, hee's kil'd, he's dead. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.27 | And turned that black word ‘ death ’ to banishment. | And turn'd that blacke word death, to banishment. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.210 | Alack, alack, that heaven should practise stratagems | Hlacke, alacke, that heauen should practise stratagems |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.3 | And I am nothing slow to slack his haste. | And I am nothing slow to slack his hast. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.45 | Alack, alack, is it not like that I, | Alacke, alacke, is it not like that I |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.23 | She's dead, deceased. She's dead, alack the day! | Shee's dead: deceast, shee's dead: alacke the day. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.24 | Alack the day, she's dead, she's dead, she's dead! | Alacke the day, shee's dead, shee's dead, shee's dead. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.53 | Never was seen so black a day as this. | Neuer was seene so blacke a day as this: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.63 | Dead art thou – alack, my child is dead, | Dead art thou, alacke my Child is dead, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.85 | Turn from their office to black funeral. | Turne from their office to blacke Funerall: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.140 | Alack, alack, what blood is this which stains | Alacke, alacke, what blood is this which staines |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.272 | Sir, I shall not be slack. In sign whereof, | Sir, I shal not be slacke, in signe whereof, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.63 | O sir, his lackey, for all the world caparisoned | Oh sir, his Lackey, for all the world Caparison'd |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.68 | and not like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey. | & not like a Christian foot-boy, or a gentlemans Lacky. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.9 | Am starved for meat, giddy for lack of sleep, | Am staru'd for meate, giddie for lacke of sleepe: |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.132.2 | Alack, for pity. | Alack, for pitty: |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.151.2 | Alack, what trouble | Alack, what trouble |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.437.2 | Alack, for mercy! | Alacke, for mercy. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.139 | The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness, | The truth you speake doth lacke some gentlenesse, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.20 | sing i'th' wind. Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, | sing ith' winde: yond same blacke cloud, yond huge one, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.120 | as I have, so much wit thou lackest. | as I haue, so much wit thou lack'st. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.149 | The greatest of your having lacks a half | The greatest of your hauing, lackes a halfe, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.180 | Why dost thou weep? Canst thou the conscience lack | Why dost thou weepe, canst thou the conscience lacke, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.181 | To think I shall lack friends? Secure thy heart. | To thinke I shall lacke friends: secure thy heart, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.222 | 'Tis lack of kindly warmth they are not kind. | 'Tis lacke of kindely warmth, they are not kinde; |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.ii.3 | Alack, my fellows, what should I say to you? | Alack my Fellowes, what should I say to you? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.29 | Black white, foul fair, wrong right, | Blacke, white; fowle, faire; wrong, right; |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.182 | Engenders the black toad and adder blue, | Engenders the blacke Toad, and Adder blew, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.286 | So I shall mend mine own by th' lack of thine. | So I shall mend mine owne, by'th'lacke of thine |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.42 | When the day serves, before black-cornered night, | When the day serues before blacke-corner'd night; |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.145 | A lack of Timon's aid, hath sense withal | A lacke of Timons ayde, hath since withall |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.73.3 | Coffin covered with black, then two other sons, Lucius | Coffin couered with blacke, then two other Sonnes. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.204 | Aaron will have his soul black like his face. | Aron will haue his soule blacke like his face. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.66 | Pardon me, sir, it was a black ill-favoured fly, | Pardon me sir, It was a blacke illfauour'd Fly, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.78 | That comes in likeness of a coal-black Moor. | That comes in likenesse of a Cole-blacke Moore. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.44 | Here lacks but your mother for to say amen. | Heere lack's but you mother for to say, Amen. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.51 | Enter Nurse with a blackamoor child | Enter Nurse with a blackeaMoore childe. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.66 | A joyless, dismal, black, and sorrowful issue. | A ioylesse, dismall, blacke &, sorrowfull issue, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.71 | Zounds, ye whore, is black so base a hue? | Out you whore, is black so base a hue? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.98 | Coal-black is better than another hue, | Cole-blacke is better then another hue, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.101 | Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, | Can neuer turne the Swans blacke legs to white, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.119 | Look how the black slave smiles upon the father, | Looke how the blacke slaue smiles vpon the father; |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.32 | They never do beget a coal-black calf. | They neuer do beget a cole-blacke-Calfe: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.64 | Acts of black night, abominable deeds, | Acts of Blacke-night, abhominable Deeds, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.122 | Ay, like a black dog, as the saying is. | I, like a blacke Dogge, as the saying is. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.50 | Provide thee two proper palfreys, black as jet, | Prouide thee two proper Palfries, as blacke as Iet, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.79 | care I? I care not an she were a blackamoor; 'tis all one | care I? I care not and she were a Black-a-Moore, 'tis all one |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.76 | And the great Hector's sword had lacked a master, | And the great Hectors sword had lack'd a Master |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.20 | a placket. I have said my prayers, and devil Envy say | a placket. I haue said my prayers and diuell, enuie, say |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.94 | Then will Ajax lack matter, if he have lost his | Then will Aiax lacke matter, if he haue lost his |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.209 | The raven chides blackness. | The Rauen chides blacknesse. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.24 | That their negotiations all must slack, | That their negotiations all must slacke, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.13 | But when I meet you armed, as black defiance | But when I meete you arm'd, as blacke defiance, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.111 | But edifies another with her deeds. | But edifies another with her deedes. Pand. Why, but heare you? Troy. Hence brother lackie; ignomie and shame / Pursue thy life, and liue aye with thy name. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iv.12 | worth a blackberry. They set me up in policy that | worth a Black-berry. They set me vp in pollicy, that |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.v.21 | And there lacks work; anon he's there afoot, | And there lacks worke: anon he's there a foote, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.33 | Hence, broker-lackey! Ignomy and shame | Hence broker, lackie, ignomy, and shame |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.77 | O knight, thou lack'st a cup of canary. When | O knight, thou lack'st a cup of Canarie: when |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.31 | fools; and I that am sure I lack thee may pass for a wise | fooles: and I that am sure I lacke thee, may passe for a wise |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.274 | My master, not myself, lacks recompense. | My Master, not my selfe, lackes recompence. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.59 | On my black coffin let there be strewn. | On my blacke coffin, let there be strewne: |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.95 | So big to hold so much, they lack retention. | So bigge, to hold so much, they lacke retention. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.10 | we will fool him black and blue – shall we not, Sir | we will foole him blacke and blew, shall we not sir |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.25 | Not black in my mind, though yellow in my | Not blacke in my minde, though yellow in my |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.294 | make me tell them how much I lack of a man. | make me tell them how much I lacke of a man. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.340 | Can lack persuasion? Do not tempt my misery, | Can lacke perswasion. Do not tempt my misery, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.50 | As black as Vulcan in the smoke of war. | As blacke as Vulcan, in the smoake of warre: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.69 | Proud, disobedient, stubborn, lacking duty; | Prowd, disobedient, stubborne, lacking duty, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.103 | Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces. | Though nere so blacke, say they haue Angells faces, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.281 | The blackest news that ever thou heardest. | The black'st newes that euer thou heard'st. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.282 | Why, man? How black? | Why man? how blacke? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.283 | Why, as black as ink. | Why, as blacke as Inke. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.153 | That now she is become as black as I. | That now she is become as blacke as I. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.ii.10 | Nay then, the wanton lies; my face is black. | Nay then the wanton lyes: my face is blacke. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.ii.12 | Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes. | Blacke men are Pearles, in beauteous Ladies eyes. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.25.1 | Enter three Queens in black, with veils stained, with | Enter 3. Queenes in Blacke, with vailes staind, with |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.113 | You may behold 'em. Lady, lady, alack, | You may behold 'em (Lady, Lady, alacke) |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.86 | Now alack, weak sister, | Now alacke weake Sister, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.31.1 | She loved a black-haired man. | She lov'd a black-haird man. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.72 | A hundred black-eyed maids, that love as I do, | A hundred blacke eyd Maides, that love as I doe |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.79 | Nearer a brown than black, stern and yet noble, | Nearer a browne, than blacke; sterne, and yet noble, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.83 | His hair hangs long behind him, black and shining | His haire hangs long behind him, blacke and shining |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.25 | By casting her black mantle over both, | By casting her blacke mantle over both |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.50 | Did first bestow on him, a black one, owing | Did first bestow on him, a blacke one, owing |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.132 | What things you make of us! For what we lack | What things you make of us? For what we lacke |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.132 | As o'erdyed blacks, as wind, as waters, false | As o're-dy'd Blacks, as Wind, as Waters; false |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.8 | Your brows are blacker; yet black brows, they say, | Your Browes are blacker (yet black-browes they say |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.38 | Alack, for lesser knowledge! How accursed | Alack, for lesser knowledge, how accurs'd, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.157.2 | What? Lack I credit? | What? lacke I credit? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.158 | I had rather you did lack than I, my lord, | I had rather you did lacke then I (my Lord) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.177 | That lacked sight only, naught for approbation | That lack'd sight onely, nought for approbation |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.170.1 | Does my deeds make the blacker! | Do's my deeds make the blacker? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.106 | helped her: there your charity would have lacked | help'd her; there your charity would haue lack'd |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.53 | Alack, poor soul! Thou hast need of more rags | Alacke poore soule, thou hast need of more rags |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.76 | Dost lack any money? I have a little money for | Doest lacke any mony? I haue a little mony for |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.127 | The flower-de-luce being one: O, these I lack | (The Flowre-de-Luce being one.) O, these I lacke, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.221 | Cypress black as e'er was crow; | Cypresse blacke as ere was Crow, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.229 | What maids lack from head to heel | What Maids lacke from head to heele: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.243 | wear their plackets where they should bear their faces? | weare their plackets, where they should bear their faces? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.351 | Your lack of love or bounty, you were straited | Your lacke of loue, or bounty, you were straited |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.579 | She lacks instructions, for she seems a mistress | She lacks Instructions, for she seemes a Mistresse |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.606 | pinched a placket, it was senseless; 'twas nothing to | pinch'd a Placket, it was sence-lesse; 'twas nothing to |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.150 | Of my behindhand slackness! – Welcome hither | Of my behind-hand slacknesse. Welcome hither, |