| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.53 | Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, | Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.168 | case to be lamented. This grief is crowned with consolation: | case to be lamented: This greefe is crown'd with Consolation, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.x.25 | And sinks most lamentably. Had our general | And sinkes most lamentably. Had our Generall |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.52 | Lament nor sorrow at, but please your thoughts | Lament nor sorrow at: but please your thoughts |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.29 | That nature must compel us to lament | That Nature must compell vs to lament |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.40 | In the whole world. But yet let me lament | In the whole world. But yet let me lament |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.361 | Brought them to be lamented. Our army shall | Brought them to be lamented. Our Army shall |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.177 | my friends no wrong, for I have none to lament me; the | my friends no wrong, for I haue none to lament me: the |
| 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 IV.vi.34 | We should by this, to all our lamentation, | We should by this, to all our Lamention, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.18 | lamentable divorce under her colours are wonderfully | lamentable diuorce vnder her colours, are wonderfully |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.85.2 | Lamentable! What | Lamentable: what |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.193 | Triumphs for nothing, and lamenting toys, | Triumphes for nothing, and lamenting Toyes, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.145.11 | with some three or four, comes in again, seem to condole | with some two orthree Mutes comes in againe, seeming to lament |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.208 | Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament. | Where Ioy most Reuels, Greefe doth most lament; |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.47 | With new lamenting ancient oversights. | With new lamenting ancient Ouer-sights. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.108 | Why then, lament therefore. | Why then Lament therefore. |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.114 | quotidian tertian that it is most lamentable to behold. | quotidian Tertian, that it is most lamentable to behold. |
| Henry V | H5 V.chorus.36 | As yet the lamentation of the French | As yet the lamentation of the French |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.103 | My gracious lords, to add to your laments, | My gracious Lords, to adde to your laments, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.58 | Yet he, most Christian-like, laments his death; | Yet he most Christian-like laments his death: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.73 | Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable | Nay, that I meane to do. Is not this a lamentable |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.22 | Still lamenting and mourning for Suffolk's death? | Still lamenting and mourning for Suffolkes death? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.85 | I should lament thy miserable state. | I should lament thy miserable state. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.38 | 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. | 'Twere childish weakenesse to lament, or feare. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.12.1 | Melt and lament for her. | Melt and lament for her. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.55 | And it is very much lamented, Brutus, | And it is very much lamented Brutus, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.iii.12 | My heart laments that virtue cannot live | My heart laments, that Vertue cannot liue |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.70 | Before and after with such sweet laments, | Before and after with such sweete laments, |
| King John | KJ III.i.22 | Why holds thine eye that lamentable rheum, | Why holdes thine eie that lamentable rhewme, |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.5 | The lamentable change is from the best; | The lamentable change is from the best, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.273 | They were all in lamentable cases. | They were all in lamentable cases. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.804 | Raining the tears of lamentation | Raining the teares of lamentation, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.53 | Lamentings heard i'the air, strange screams of death, | lamentings heard i'th' Ayre; / Strange Schreemes of Death, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.230 | on her own lamentation, which she yet wears for his sake, | on her owne lamentation, which she yet weares for his sake: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.40 | Well, she laments, sir, for it, that | Well, she laments Sir for it, that |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.11 | Marry, our play is The most lamentable comedy | Marry our play is the most lamentable Comedy, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.195 | Lamenting some enforced chastity. | Lamenting some enforced chastitie. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.214 | Shall be lamented, pitied, and excused | Shal be lamented, pittied, and excus'd |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.64 | Why lament you, pretty one? | Why lament you prettie one? |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.23.3 | whereat Pericles makes lamentation, puts on sackcloth, | whereat Pericles makes lamentation, puts on sacke-cloth, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.58 | Lament we may, but not revenge thee dead. | Lament we may, but not reuenge thee dead. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.295 | And these external manners of laments | And these externall manner of Laments, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.301 | How to lament the cause. I'll beg one boon, | How to lament the cause. Ile begge one Boone, |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.44 | Tell thou the lamentable tale of me, | Tell thou the lamentable fall of me, |
| Richard II | R2 V.vi.47 | Come mourn with me for that I do lament, | Come mourne with me, for that I do lament, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.3 | Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament | Whil'st I a-while obsequiously lament |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.9 | To hear the lamentations of poor Anne, | To heare the Lamentations of poore Anne, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.32 | Rest you, whiles I lament King Henry's corse. | Rest you, whiles I lament King Henries Coarse. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.261 | And then return lamenting to my love. | And then returne lamenting to my Loue. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.9 | I do lament the sickness of the King, | I do lament the sicknesse of the King, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.43 | If you will live, lament; if die, be brief, | If you will liue, Lament: if dye, be breefe, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.66 | Give me no help in lamentation; | Giue me no helpe in Lamentation, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.88 | And I will pamper it with lamentation. | And I will pamper it with Lamentation. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.14 | And hear your mother's lamentation! | And heare your mothers Lamentation. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.31 | not this a lamentable thing, grandsire, that we should be | not this a lamentable thing Grandsire, that we should be |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.120 | Which modern lamentation might have moved? | Which moderne lamentation might haue mou'd. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.154 | Than thou wentest forth in lamentation. | Then thou went'st forth in lamentation. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.17.2 | O lamentable day! | O lamentable day. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.30.1 | O lamentable day! | O Lamentable day! |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.50 | Most lamentable day, most woeful day | Most lamentable day, most wofull day, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.82 | For though fond nature bids us all lament, | For though some Nature bids all vs lament, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.146 | Is guilty of this lamentable chance! | Is guiltie of this lamentable chance? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.205 | That ever eye with sight made heart lament. | That euer eye with sight made heart lament. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.27 | O noble father, you lament in vain: | Oh noble father, you lament in vaine, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.217 | But yet let reason govern thy lament. | But yet let reason gouerne thy lament. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.20 | Drown the lamenting fool in sea-salt tears. | Drowne the lamenting foole, in Sea salt teares. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.46 | Good grandsire, leave these bitter deep laments; | Good grandsire leaue these bitter deepe laments, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.62 | And buzz lamenting doings in the air. | And buz lamenting doings in the ayer, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.241 | Cease to lament for that thou canst not help, | Cease to lament for that thou canst not helpe, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.242 | And study help for that which thou lamentest. | And study helpe for that which thou lament'st, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.82 | After your dire-lamenting elegies, | After your dire-lamenting Elegies, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.163 | For I did play a lamentable part. | For I did play a lamentable part. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.57 | Of your dead lords, which gives me such lamenting | Of your dead Lords, which gives me such lamenting |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.4 | Threats a brave life; each stroke laments | Threats a brave life, each stroake laments |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.ii.24 | children are even now to be afresh lamented. Say to me, | Children, are euen now to be a-fresh lamented. Say to me, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.192 | sung lamentably. | sung lamentably. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.84 | bravely confessed and lamented by the King, how | brauely confess'd, and lamented by the King) how |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.135.1 | Lament till I am lost. | Lament, till I am lost. |