| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.119 | which hung so tottering in the balance that I could | which hung so tottring in the ballance, that I could |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.175.1 | A balance more replete. | A ballance more repleat. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.120 | That do outface it with their semblances. | That doe outface it with their semblances. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.57 | Even by the squandering glances of the fool. | Euen by the squandring glances of the foole. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.66 | In company I often glanced at it. | In company I often glanced it: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.349 | And these two Dromios, one in semblance, | And these two Dromio's, one in semblance: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.198 | As I could pick my lance. | As I could picke my Lance. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.40.2 | cast up their caps and lances. Cominius and Lartius | cast vp their Caps and Launces: Cominius and Lartius |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.109 | Where there is beauty: truth, where semblance: love, | Where there is Beauty: Truth, where semblance: Loue, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.34 | A distaff to a lance, gilded pale looks; | A Distaffe, to a Lance, guilded pale lookes; |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.422 | why, thy face is valanced since I saw thee last. Comest | Thy face is valiant since I saw thee last: Com'st |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.252 | stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man? Give me | stature, bulke, and bigge assemblance of a man? giue mee |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.51 | Your pens to lances, and your tongue divine | Your Pennes to Launces, and your Tongue diuine |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.67 | I have in equal balance justly weighed | I haue in equall ballance iustly weigh'd, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.103 | Therefore still bear the balance and the sword, | Therefore still beare the Ballance, and the Sword: |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.117 | From glistering semblances of piety; | From glist'ring semblances of piety: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.40 | With cheerful semblance and sweet majesty; | With chearefull semblance, and sweet Maiestie: |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.78 | O'erglanced the articles. Pleaseth your grace | O're-glanc't the Articles: Pleaseth your Grace |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.122 | Enacted wonders with his sword and lance. | Enacted wonders with his Sword and Lance. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.50 | What will you do, good greybeard? Break a lance, | What will you doe, good gray-beard? / Breake a Launce, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.134 | A braver soldier never couched lance; | A brauer Souldier neuer couched Launce, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.193 | Repeat their semblance often on the seas, | Repeate their semblance often on the Seas, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.94 | Shall Henry's conquest, Bedford's vigilance, | Shall Henries Conquest, Bedfords vigilance, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.16 | As to vouchsafe one glance unto the ground. | As to vouchsafe one glance vnto the ground. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.10 | And if we did but glance a far-off look, | And if we did but glance a farre-off Looke, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.162 | Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale, and bloodless, | Of ashy semblance, meager, pale, and bloodlesse, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.9 | Except a sword or sceptre balance it. | Except a Sword or Scepter ballance it. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.16 | Broached with the steely point of Clifford's lance; | Broach'd with the Steely point of Cliffords Launce: |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.198 | As he made semblance of his duty, would | (As he made semblance of his duty) would |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.317 | Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at. | Casars Ambition shall be glanced at. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.83 | For if thou path, thy native semblance on, | For if thou path thy natiue semblance on, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.179 | Enter four Heralds, bringing in a coat of armour, a helmet, a lance, and a shield | Enter foure Heraldes bringing in a coate armour, a helmet, a lance, and a shield. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.193 | Receive this lance into thy manly hand; | Receiue this lance into thy manly hand, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.74 | Enter Prince Edward in triumph, bearing in his hand his shivered lance, and the body of the King of Bohemia borne before, wrapped in the colours. They run and embrace him | Enter Prince Edward in tryumph, bearing in his hande his shiuered Launce, and the King of Boheme, borne before, wrapt in the Coullours: They runne and imbrace him. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.113 | A troop of lances met us on the way, | A troupe of Launces met vs on the way, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.4 | This ship-boy's semblance hath disguised me quite. | This Ship-boyes semblance hath disguis'd me quite. |
| King John | KJ V.ii.157 | Their needles to lances, and their gentle hearts | Their Needl's to Lances, and their gentle hearts |
| King Lear | KL II.iii.4 | That guard and most unusual vigilance | That guard, and most vnusall vigilance |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.167 | And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; | and the strong Lance of Iustice, hurtlesse breakes: |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.51 | And turn our impressed lances in our eyes | And turne our imprest Launces in our eies |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.146 | Which, for they yet glance by and scarcely bruise, | Which for they yet glance by, and scarely bruise, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.185 | Into a madman's rags, t' assume a semblance | Into a mad-mans rags, t'assume a semblance |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.130 | I will overglance the superscript: (reading) | I will ouerglance the superscript. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.642 | The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty, | The Armipotent Mars, of Launces the almighty, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.649 | The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty, | The Armipotent Mars of Launces the almighty, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.760 | To every varied object in his glance; | To euerie varied obiect in his glance: |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.182 | Not a resemblance, but a certainty. Yet since I see | Not a resemblance, but a certainty; yet since I see |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.98 | By cold gradation and well-balanced form, | By cold gradation, and weale-ballanc'd forme. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.307 | To call him villain? And then to glance from him | To call him villaine; and then to glance from him, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.17 | ‘ Launcelot, budge not.’ ‘ Budge,’ says the fiend. ‘ Budge | Lancelet bouge not, bouge saies the fiend, bouge |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.55 | Ergo, Master Launcelot. Talk not of Master | Ergo Maister Lancelet, talke not of maister |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.56 | Launcelot, father, for the young gentleman, according to | Lancelet Father, for the yong gentleman according to |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.76 | Launcelot my boy. | Lancelet my boy. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.78 | but give me your blessing. I am Launcelot, your boy | but giue mee your blessing: I am Lancelet your boy |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.82 | am Launcelot, the Jew's man, and I am sure Margery | am Lancelet the Iewes man, and I am sure Margerie |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.85 | be Launcelot thou art mine own flesh and blood. Lord | be Lancelet, thou art mine owne flesh and blood: Lord |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iii.5 | And, Launcelot, soon at supper shalt thou see | And Lancelet, soone at supper shalt thou see |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iii.15 | Farewell, good Launcelot. | Farewell good Lancelet. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.9 | Enter Launcelot with a letter | Enter Lancelet with a Letter. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.9.2 | Friend Launcelot, what's the news? | friend Lancelet what's the newes. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.20 | In purchasing the semblance of my soul | In purchasing the semblance of my soule; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.24 | I'll tell my husband, Launcelot, what you say. | Ile tell my husband Lancelet what you say, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.26 | I shall grow jealous of you shortly, Launcelot, | I shall grow iealous of you shortly Lancelet, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.252 | It is so. Are there balance here to weigh | It is so: Are there ballance heere to weigh |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.62 | If you go out in your own semblance, | If you goe out in your owne semblance, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.10 | in the semblance of a fowl – think on't, Jove, a foul fault! | in the semblance of a Fowle, thinke on't (Ioue) a fowle-fault. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.227 | stand to strike at me, that your arrow hath glanced. | stand to strike at me, that your Arrow hath glanc'd. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.75 | Glance at my credit with Hippolyta, | Glance at my credite, with Hippolita? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.13 | Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. | doth glance / From heauen to earth, from earth to heauen. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.310 | A mote will turn the balance which Pyramus, | A Moth wil turne the ballance, which Piramus |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.35 | reputation, who is thus like to be cozened with the semblance | reputation, who is thus like to be cosen'd with the semblance |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.64 | Made a foul blot; if tall, a lance ill-headed; | Made a foule blot: if tall, a launce ill headed: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.31 | She's but the sign and semblance of her honour. | Shee's but the signe and semblance of her honour: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.199 | shall ne'er weigh more reasons in her balance. Nay, an | shall nere weigh more reasons in her ballance, nay, and |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.239 | In the rare semblance that I loved it first. | In the rare semblance that I lou'd it first. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.37 | Tell thee with speechless tongues and semblance pale | Tell thee with speachlesse tongues, and semblance pale, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.71 | That's the least fear, for by the semblance | That's the least feare. For by the semblance |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.50 | To have practised more the whipstock than the lance. | To haue practis'd more the Whipstocke, then the Launce. |
| Pericles | Per III.iii.6 | Though they haunt you mortally, yet glance | though they hant you mortally / Yet glaunce |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.200 | There shall your swords and lances arbitrate | There shall your swords and Lances arbitrate |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.74 | And with thy blessings steel my lance's point | And with thy blessings steele my Lances point, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.101 | Receive thy lance; and God defend the right. | Receiue thy Launce, and heauen defend thy right. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.103 | Go bear this lance to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk. | Go beare this Lance to Thomas D. of Norfolke. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.303 | Than when he bites, but lanceth not the sore. | Then when it bites, but lanceth not the sore. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.87 | But in the balance of great Bolingbroke | But in the Ballance of great Bullingbrooke, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.51 | But now two mirrors of his princely semblance | But now two Mirrors of his Princely semblance, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.11 | His resemblance, being not like the Duke. | And his resemblance, being not like the Duke. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.144 | Let fall thy lance; despair, and die! | Let fall thy Lance, dispaire and dye. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.74 | An ill-beseeming semblance for a feast. | An ill beseeming semblance for a Feast. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.347 | Valance of Venice gold in needlework, | Vallens of Venice gold, in needle worke: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.61 | And as the jest did glance away from me, | And as the Iest did glaunce awaie from me, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.136 | And dart not scornful glances from those eyes | And dart not scornefull glances from those eies, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.172 | But now I see our lances are but straws, | But now I see our Launces are but strawes: |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.17 | Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance | Will not, nor cannot vse such vigilance |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.58 | Commit my cause in balance to be weighed. | Commit my Cause in ballance to be weigh'd. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.283 | The splinter of a lance.’ Even so much. | The splinter of a Lance: Euen so much. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.116 | With the first glance that ever – pardon me; | With the first glance; that euer pardon me, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.304 | that induced me to the semblance I put on; with the which | that induced mee to the semblance I put on; with the which |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.4 | To the sweet glances of thy honoured love, | To the sweet glaunces of thy honour'd Loue, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.20 | Or tell of babes broached on the lance, or women | Or tell of Babes broachd on the Launce, or women |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.80 | Even with an eye-glance to choke Mars's drum | Even with an ey-glance, to choke Marsis Drom |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.61 | I might do hurt, for they would glance their eyes | I might doe hurt, for they would glance their eies |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.35 | be his character; the majesty of the creature in resemblance | be his Character: the Maiestie of the Creature, in resemblance |