| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iv.35 | pleasure and the increase of laughter. | pleasure, and the encrease of laughter. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.31 | O, for the love of laughter, let him fetch | O for the loue of laughter, let him fetch |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.37 | O, for the love of laughter, hinder not the | O for the loue of laughter hinder not the |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.52.1 | Scars to move laughter only. | scarres to moue / Laughter onely. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.74 | Ay, madam, with his eyes in flood with laughter: | I Madam, with his eyes in flood with laughter, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.77 | No servant of thy master's. Against self-slaughter | No Seruant of thy Masters. Against Selfe-slaughter, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.20 | The country base than to commit such slaughter, | The Country base, then to commit such slaughter, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.49 | Are now each one the slaughterman of twenty: | Are now each one the slaughter-man of twenty: |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.78 | Once touch my shoulder. Great the slaughter is | Once touch my shoulder. Great the slaughter is |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.72 | That their good souls may be appeased with slaughter | That their good soules may be appeas'd, with slaughter |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.132 | His canon 'gainst self-slaughter. O God, God, | His Cannon 'gainst Selfe-slaughter. O God, O God! |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.446 | when he speaks of Priam's slaughter. If it live in your | where he speaks of Priams slaughter. If it liue in your |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.376 | Of accidental judgements, casual slaughters, | Of accidentall iudgements, casuall slaughters |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.93 | London, it would be argument for a week, laughter for a | London, it would be argument for a Weeke, Laughter for a |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.8 | to invent anything that intends to laughter more than I | to inuent any thing that tends to laughter, more then I |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.72 | this Shallow to keep Prince Harry in continual laughter | this Shallow, to keepe Prince Harry in continuall Laughter, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.170 | Wherein you would have sold your King to slaughter, | Wherein you would haue sold your King to slaughter, |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.41 | At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen. | At Herods bloody-hunting slaughter-men. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.7 | slaughter. Besides, they have burnt and carried away | slaughter: besides they haue burned and carried away |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.73 | Here is the number of the slaughtered French. | Heere is the number of the slaught'red French. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.59 | Of loss, of slaughter, and discomfiture: | Of losse, of slaughter, and discomfiture: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.147 | Most of the rest slaughtered or took likewise. | Most of the rest slaughter'd, or tooke likewise. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.109 | Thou dost then wrong me, as that slaughterer doth | Thou do'st then wrong me, as yt slaughterer doth, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.87 | To hold your slaughtering hands and keep the peace. | To hold your slaughtring hands, and keepe the Peace: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.101 | And have our bodies slaughtered by thy foes. | And haue our bodyes slaughtred by thy foes. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.75 | And joinest with them will be thy slaughtermen. | And ioyn'st with them will be thy slaughter-men. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.103 | After the slaughter of so many peers, | After the slaughter of so many Peeres, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.161 | And ruthless slaughters as are daily seen | And ruthlesse slaughters as are dayly seene |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.212 | Bearing it to the bloody slaughter-house, | Bearing it to the bloody Slaughter-house; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.190 | But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter? | But will suspect, 'twas he that made the slaughter? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.197 | I wear no knife to slaughter sleeping men; | I weare no Knife, to slaughter sleeping men, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iii.5 | slaughter-house. Therefore thus will I reward thee: | Slaughter-house: Therfore thus will I reward thee, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.169 | Had he been slaughterman to all my kin, | Had he been slaughter-man to all my Kinne, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.57 | But only slaughtered by the ireful arm | But onely slaught'red by the irefull Arme |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.105 | How will my wife for slaughter of my son | How will my Wife, for slaughter of my Sonne, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.ii.24 | And seize himself; I say not ‘ slaughter him ’, | And seize himselfe: I say not, slaughter him, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.15 | Our slaughtered friends the tackles; what of these? | Our slaught'red friends, the Tackles: what of these? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.78 | His realm a slaughter-house, his subjects slain, | His Realme a slaughter-house, his Subiects slaine, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.59 | Ay, and for much more slaughter after this. | I, and for much more slaughter after this, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.72 | Were I a common laughter, or did use | Were I a common Laughter, or did vse |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.49 | I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter, | Ile vse you for my Mirth, yea for my Laughter |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.113 | To be but mirth and laughter to his Brutus, | To be but Mirth and Laughter to his Brutus, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.55 | Have added slaughter to the sword of traitors. | Haue added slaughter to the Sword of Traitors. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.51 | Slaughter and mischief walk within your streets, | Slaughter and mischiefe walke within your streets. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.117 | And all our prospect as a slaughter-house. | And all our prospect as a slaughter house, |
| King John | KJ II.i.323 | Dyed in the dying slaughter of their foes. | Dide in the dying slaughter of their foes, |
| King John | KJ II.i.349 | With slaughter coupled to the name of kings. | With slaughter coupled to the name of kings. |
| King John | KJ III.i.237 | With slaughter's pencil, where revenge did paint | With slaughters pencill; where reuenge did paint |
| King John | KJ III.i.302 | What, shall our feast be kept with slaughtered men? | What, shall our feast be kept with slaughtered men? |
| King John | KJ III.iii.45 | Making that idiot, laughter, keep men's eyes | Making that idiot laughter keepe mens eyes, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.112 | Th' uncleanly savours of a slaughter-house; | Th'vncleanly sauours of a Slaughter-house, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.284 | To laughter and contempt, that she may feel | To laughter, and contempt: That she may feele, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.316 | Should sure to the slaughter, | Should sure to the Slaughter, |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.6 | The worst returns to laughter. Welcome, then, | The worst returnes to laughter. Welcome then, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.73 | By virtue, thou enforcest laughter; thy silly | By vertue thou inforcest laughter, thy sillie |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.80 | O, I am stabbed with laughter! Where's her grace? | O I am stab'd with laughter, Wher's her Grace? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.116 | With such a zealous laughter, so profound, | With such a zelous laughter so profound, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.844 | To move wild laughter in the throat of death? | To moue wilde laughter in the throate of death? |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.205 | Savagely slaughtered. To relate the manner | Sauagely slaughter'd: To relate the manner |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.226 | Fell slaughter on their souls. Heaven rest them now! | Fell slaughter on their soules: Heauen rest them now. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.14 | Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, | Direnesse familiar to my slaughterous thoughts |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.80 | With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, | With mirth and laughter let old wrinckles come, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.134 | Governed a wolf who, hanged for human slaughter, | Gouern'd a Wolfe, who hang'd for humane slaughter, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.70 | The passion of loud laughter never shed. | the passion of loud laughter / Neuer shed. |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.99 | From the excess of laughter. Here he comes. | From the excesse of Laughter. Heere he comes. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.40 | Might stand peerless by this slaughter. | Might stand peerlesse by this slaughter. |
| Pericles | Per IV.iii.2 | O Dionyza, such a piece of slaughter | O Dioniza, such a peece of slaughter, |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.37 | On whom foul death hath made this slaughter. | On whom fowle death hath made this slaughter. |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.30 | In suffering thus thy brother to be slaughtered | In suffring thus thy brother to be slaughter'd, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.44 | Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen; | Rayn'd from the wounds of slaughter'd Englishmen; |
| Richard II | R2 V.vi.35 | A deed of slander with thy fatal hand | A deede of Slaughter, with thy fatall hand, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.10 | Wife to thy Edward, to thy slaughtered son | Wife to thy Edward, to thy slaughtred Sonne, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.88 | Which didst unworthy slaughter upon others. | That did'st vnworthy slaughter vpon others. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.228 | Provoke us hither now to slaughter thee. | Prouoke vs hither now, to slaughter thee. |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.124 | Have done a drunken slaughter and defaced | Haue done a drunken Slaughter, and defac'd |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.86 | As loath to bear me to the slaughter-house. | As loth to beare me to the slaughter-house. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.43 | Go hie thee, hie thee from this slaughter-house, | Goe hye thee, hye thee from this slaughter-house, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.139 | From all the slaughters, wretch, that thou hast done! | From all the slaughters (Wretch) that thou hast done. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.142 | The slaughter of the prince that owed that crown | The slaughter of the Prince that ow'd that Crowne, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.201 | For thee to slaughter. For my daughters, Richard, | For thee to slaughter. For my Daughters ( Richard) |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.210 | So she may live unscarred of bleeding slaughter, | So she may liue vnscarr'd of bleeding slaughter, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.391 | The children live whose fathers thou hast slaughtered, | The Children liue, whose Fathers thou hast slaughter'd, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.250 | And slaughtered those that were the means to help him; | And slaughter'd those that were the meanes to help him: |
| Richard III | R3 V.v.25 | The father rashly slaughtered his own son, | The Father, rashly slaughtered his owne Sonne; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.65 | Is Romeo slaughtered, and is Tybalt dead, | Is Romeo slaughtred? and is Tybalt dead? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.79 | As that the villain lives which slaughtered him. | As that the Villaine liues which slaughter'd him. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.102 | Upon his body that hath slaughtered him! | Vpon his body that hath slaughter'd him. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.84 | A grave? O, no, a lantern, slaughtered youth. | A Graue; O no, a Lanthorne; slaughtred Youth: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.199 | Here is a Friar, and slaughtered Romeo's man, | Here is a Frier, and Slaughter'd Romeos man, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.132 | And how my men will stay themselves from laughter | And how my men will stay themselues from laughter, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.35 | A laughter. | A Laughter. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iii.21 | So it may prove an argument of laughter | So it may proue an Argument of Laughter |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.27 | To bring manslaughter into form, and set quarrelling | To bring Man-slaughter into forme, and set Quarrelling |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.488 | But thorough lust and laughter. Pity's sleeping. | But thorow Lust and Laughter: pittie's sleeping: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.115 | But must my sons be slaughtered in the streets | But must my Sonnes be slaughtred in the streetes, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.223 | All on a heap, like to a slaughtered lamb, | All on a heape like to the slaughtred Lambe, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.58 | For this proud mock I'll be thy slaughterman, | For this proud mocke, Ile be thy slaughterman: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.113 | And almost broke my heart with extreme laughter. | And almost broke my heart with extreame laughter. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.143 | To be adjudged some direful slaught'ring death | To be adiudg'd some direfull slaughtering death, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.12 | Hath nothing been but shapes and forms of slaughter. | Hath nothing beene but shapes, and formes of slaughter. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.46 | Present mirth hath present laughter, | Present mirth, hath present laughter: |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.364 | May rather pluck on laughter than revenge, | May rather plucke on laughter then reuenge, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.93 | Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. | Slaughters a thousand, wayting vpon that. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.287 | Of laughing with a sigh? – a note infallible | Of Laughter, with a sigh? (a Note infallible |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.198.2 | To laughter, as I take it, | To laughter, as I take it, |