| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.30 | My lungs began to crow like Chanticleer | My Lungs began to crow like Chanticleere, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.60 | of a better leer than you. | of a better leere then you. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.57 | Gaze where you should, and that will clear your sight. | Gaze when you should, and that will cleere your sight. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.62 | Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart, | Mine eies cleere eie, my deere hearts deerer heart; |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.45 | All other doubts, by time let them be cleared, | All other doubts, by time let them be cleer'd, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.96 | You do not understand yourself so clearly | You doe not vnderstand your selfe so cleerely, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.6 | make the King do you grace. I will leer upon him as 'a | make the King do you Grace. I will leere vpon him, as he |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.183 | That I am clear from this misdeed of Edward's, | That I am cleere from this misdeed of Edwards; |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.154 | And proofs as clear as founts in July when | And proofes as cleere as Founts in Iuly, when |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.226 | By darkening my clear sun. My lord, farewell. | By Darkning my cleere Sunne. My Lords farewell. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.96 | This candle burns not clear; 'tis I must snuff it, | This Candle burnes not cleere, 'tis I must snuffe it, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.65 | Cast none away. That I shall clear myself, | Cast none away: That I shall cleere my selfe, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.117 | That is no fleering tell-tale. Hold, my hand; | That is no flearing Tell-tale. Hold, my Hand: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.170 | Either to clear us of that scandalous crime, | Either to cleere vs of that scandalous cryme, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.108 | So foul a sky clears not without a storm; | So foule a skie, cleeres not without a storme, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.140 | As clears her from all blame. | As cleeres her from all blame. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.73 | Think that the clearest gods, who make them honours | Thinke that the cleerest Gods, who make them Honors |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.109 | One rubbed his elbow thus, and fleered, and swore | One rub'd his elboe thus, and fleer'd, and swore, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.480 | You leer upon me, do you? There's an eye | You leere vpon me, do you? There's an eie |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.18 | So clear in his great office, that his virtues | So cleere in his great Office, that his Vertues |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.61 | Were I from Dunsinane away and clear, | Were I from Dunsinane away, and cleere, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.203 | away, it is almost clear dawn. | away, it is almost cleere dawne. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.150 | Well, he in time may come to clear himself, | Well: he in time may come to cleere himselfe; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.134 | How to get clear of all the debts I owe. | How to get cleere of all the debts I owe. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.318 | I should live, all debts are cleared between you and I if I | I should liue, all debts are cleerd betweene you and I, if I |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.41 | she carves, she gives the leer of invitation. I can construe | shee carues: she giues the leere of inuitation: I can construe |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.109 | clear, why, I am glad of it. But if you have a friend here, | cleere, why I am glad of it: but if you haue a friend here, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.29 | By fountain clear or spangled starlight sheen – | By fountaine cleere, or spangled star-light sheene, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.58 | Tush, tush, man, never fleer and jest at me; | Tush, tush, man, neuer fleere and iest at me, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.82 | And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns | And marke the Fleeres, the Gybes, and notable Scornes |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.27 | The motto thus in Spanish, Piu per dolcera che per forza. | The motto thus in Spanish. Pue per doleera kee per forsa. |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.12 | Where, by her own most clear remembrance, she | where by her owne most cleere remembrance, shee |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.57 | To fleer and scorn at our solemnity? | To fleere and scorne at our Solemnitie? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.172 | Say that she frown, I'll say she looks as clear | Say that she frowne, Ile say she lookes as cleere |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.106 | While counterfeit supposes bleared thine eyne. | While counterfeit supposes bleer'd thine eine. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.386 | The strain of strutting chanticleer | the straine of strutting Chanticlere |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.119 | You taught me but while-ere? | You taught me but whileare? |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.83 | And a clear life ensuing. | And a cleere life ensuing. |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.68 | Their clearer reason. O good Gonzalo, | Their cleerer reason. O good Gonzallo |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.231 | I cleared him with five talents. Greet him from me. | I cleer'd him with fiue Talents: Greet him from me, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iii.31 | end the villainies of man will set him clear. How fairly | end, the Villanies of man will set him cleere. How fairely |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.77.1 | And make a clear way to the gods. | And make a cleere way to the Gods. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.28 | Roots, you clear heavens! Thus much of this will make | Roots you cleere Heauens. Thus much of this will make |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.266 | Clear up, fair queen, that cloudy countenance; | Cleere vp Faire Queene that cloudy countenance, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.128 | Till the fresh taste be taken from that clearness | Till the fresh taste be taken from that cleerenes, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.118 | Here's a young lad framed of another leer. | Heer's a young Lad fram'd of another leere, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.152 | Your mind is the clearer, Ajax, and your | Your minde is the cleerer Aiax, and your |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.310 | Would the fountain of your mind were clear | Would the Fountaine of your minde were cleere |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.107 | Crack my clear voice with sobs, and break my heart | Cracke my cleere voyce with sobs, and breake my heart |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.165 | But that's no welcome: understand more clear, | But that's no welcome: vnderstand more cleere |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.86 | leers than I will a serpent when he hisses. He will | leeres, then I will a Serpent when he hisses: he will |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.223 | quarrel to me. My remembrance is very free and clear | quarrell to me: my remembrance is very free and cleere |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.4 | be clear of thee. | be cleere of thee. |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.37 | and the clerestories toward the south – north | and the cleere stores toward the South north, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.31 | Of clear virginity, be advocate | Of cleere virginity, be Advocate |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.157.1 | To make petition clear. | To make petition cleere. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.74.2 | Clear-spirited cousin, | Cleere spirited Cozen |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.18.3 | Palamon has cleared you, | Palamon has cleerd you, |