| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.104 | Those tender limbs of thine to the event | Those tender limbes of thine, to the euent |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.i.4 | To wear your gentle limbs in my affairs, | To weare your gentle limbes in my affayres, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.260 | Limbo and of furies and I know not what; yet I was in | Limbo, and of Furies, and I know not what: yet I was in |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.120 | without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Your | without some broken limbe, shall acquit him well: your |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.41 | When service should in my old limbs lie lame | When seruice should in my old limbs lie lame, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.37 | which they will climb incontinent or else be incontinent | which they will climbe incontinent, or else bee incontinent |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.32 | No. He's in Tartar limbo, worse than hell. |
No, he's in Tartar limbo, worse then hell: |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.78 | He had rather venture all his limbs for honour | He had rather venture all his Limbes for Honor, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.294 | O, he's a limb that has but a disease – | Oh he's a Limbe, that ha's but a Disease |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.147 | O, that I had her here, to tear her limb-meal! | O that I had her heere, to teare her Limb-meale: |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.47 | As hard to leave as keep: whose top to climb | As hard to leaue, as keepe: whose top to climbe |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.478 | And let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils | And let our crooked Smoakes climbe to their Nostrils |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.91 | And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, | And tediousnesse, the limbes and outward flourishes, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.512 | In mincing with his sword her husband's limbs, | In mincing with his Sword her Husbands limbes, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.43 | A perilous gash, a very limb lopped off – | A perillous Gash, a very Limme lopt off: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.13 | To crush our old limbs in ungentle steel. | To crush our old limbes in vngentle Steele: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.143 | Out of his keeper's arms, even so my limbs, | Out of his keepers armes: Euen so, my Limbes |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.232 | can part young limbs and lechery; but the gout galls the | can part yong limbes and letchery: but the Gowt galles the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.102 | What think you, Sir John? A good-limbed | What thinke you (Sir Iohn) a good limb'd |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.251 | choose a man? Care I for the limb, the thews, the | chuse a man? Care I for the Limbe, the Thewes, the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.220 | Our peace will, like a broken limb united, | Our Peace, will (like a broken Limbe vnited) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.135 | And let us choose such limbs of noble counsel | And let vs choose such Limbes of Noble Counsaile, |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.8 | Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing; | Vpon the Hempen Tackle, Ship-boyes climbing; |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.26 | Whose limbs were made in England, show us here | Whose Lyms were made in England; shew vs here |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.75 | So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs | So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbes |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.80 | Old I do wax, and from my weary limbs | Old I do waxe, and from my wearie limbes |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.20 | And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs. | And large proportion of his strong knit Limbes. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.4 | So fare my limbs with long imprisonment; | So fare my Limbes with long Imprisonment: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.11 | Lean famine, quartering steel, and climbing fire; | Leane Famine, quartering Steele, and climbing Fire, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iv.18 | Drops bloody sweat from his war-wearied limbs, | Drops bloody swet from his warre-wearied limbes, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.4 | When sapless age and weak unable limbs | When saplesse Age, and weake vnable limbes |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.8 | Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high. | Yea Man and Birds are fayne of climbing high. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.97.2 | What! And wouldst climb a tree? | What, and would'st climbe a Tree? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.99 | Too true; and bought his climbing very dear. | Too true, and bought his climbing very deare. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.102 | And made me climb with danger of my life. | Damsons, and made me climbe, with danger of my Life. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.42 | His lady banished and a limb lopped off. | His Lady banisht, and a Limbe lopt off. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.7 | I climbed into this garden, to see if I can eat grass, or pick | I climb'd into this Garden, to see if I can eate Grasse, or picke |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.33 | Climbing my walls in spite of me the owner, | Climbing my walles inspight of me the Owner, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.45 | Set limb to limb, and thou art far the lesser; | Set limbe to limbe, and thou art farre the lesser: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iii.15 | And so he comes, to rend his limbs asunder. | And so he comes, to rend his Limbes asunder. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.31 | Make war with him that climbed unto their nest, | Make warre with him that climb'd vnto their nest, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vii.62 | And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns. | And fearelesse minds clyme soonest vnto Crowns. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.46 | I mean, who set the body and the limbs | I meane who set the Body, and the Limbes |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.131 | What 'tis you go about. To climb steep hills | What 'tis you go about: to climbe steepe hilles |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.220 | These are the limbs o'th' plot: no more, I hope. | These are the limbs o'th'Plot: no more I hope. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.38 | What think you of a duchess? Have you limbs | What thinke you of a Dutchesse? Haue you limbs |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.61 | tribulation of Tower Hill or the limbs of Limehouse, | tribulation of Tower Hill, or the Limbes of Limehouse, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.63 | 'em in Limbo Patrum, and there they are like to dance | 'em in Limbo Patrum, and there they are like to dance |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.38 | Have you climbed up to walls and battlements, | Haue you climb'd vp to Walles and Battlements, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.81 | Have thews and limbs like to their ancestors; | Haue Thewes, and Limbes, like to their Ancestors; |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.23 | Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; | Whereto the Climber vpward turnes his Face: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.163 | To cut the head off and then hack the limbs, | To cut the Head off, and then hacke the Limbes: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.165 | For Antony is but a limb of Caesar. | For Antony, is but a Limbe of Casar. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.262 | A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; | A Curse shall light vpon the limbes of men; |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.37 | And John of Valois indirectly climbs. | And Iohn of Valoys, in directly climbes, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.100 | Shall climb the higher ground another way; | Shall clyme the higher ground an other waye: |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.127 | Wandering, at last we climbed unto a hill, | Wandring at last we clymd vnto a hill, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.238 | Sheathe up your swords, refresh your weary limbs, | Sheath vp your swords, refresh your weary lims, |
| King John | KJ I.i.239 | To whom am I beholding for these limbs? | To whom am I beholding for these limmes? |
| King John | KJ III.i.129 | And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs. | And hang a Calues skin on those recreant limbes. |
| King John | KJ III.i.131 | And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs. | And hang a Calues-skin on those recreant limbs |
| King John | KJ III.i.133 | And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs. | And hang a Calues-skin on those recreant limbs. |
| King John | KJ III.i.199 | And hang a calf's-skin on his recreant limbs. | And hang a Calues-skin on his recreant limbs. |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.6 | If I get down, and do not break my limbs, | If I get downe, and do not breake my limbes, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.55 | Hysterica passio, down, thou climbing sorrow! | Historica passio, downe thou climing sorrow, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.2 | You do climb up it now. Look how we labour. | You do climbe vp it now. Look how we labor. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.109 | Climb o'er the house to unlock the little gate. | That were to clymbe ore the house to vnlocke the gate. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.197 | climb in the merriness. | clime in the merrinesse. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.184.1 | A leg, a limb – | a legge, a limme. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.317 | Still climbing trees in the Hesperides? | Still climing trees in the Hesporides. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.122 | limb or joint, shall pass Pompey the Great; the page, | limme or ioynt) shall passe Pompey the great, the Page |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.67 | A limbeck only. When in swinish sleep | A Lymbeck onely: when in Swinish sleepe, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.24 | Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward | Things at the worst will cease, or else climbe vpward, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.37 | Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty | Thou hast neither heate, affection, limbe, nor beautie |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.71 | Young in limbs, in judgement old, | Yong in limbs, in iudgement old, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.71 | their limbs whole and hack our English. | their limbs whole, and hack our English. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.196 | Both strength of limb and policy of mind, | Both strength of limbe, and policie of minde, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.181 | And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas, | And let the labouring Barke climbe hills of Seas |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.62 | A canvas-climber. ‘ Ha!’ says one, ‘ wolt out?’ | a canuas clymer, ha ses one, wolt out? |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.187 | And learn to make a body of a limb. | And learne to make a Body of a Limbe. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.124 | This noble isle doth want her proper limbs; | The Noble Ile doth want his proper Limmes: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.63 | The orchard walls are high and hard to climb, | The Orchard walls are high, and hard to climbe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.34 | Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. | Doth couch his lims, there, golden sleepe doth raigne; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.74 | Must climb a bird's nest soon when it is dark. | Must climde a birds nest Soone when it is darke: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.36 | And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs. | And strew this hungry Churchyard with thy limbs: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.79 | To climb his happiness, would be well expressed | To climbe his happinesse, would be well exprest |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.24 | Cripple our senators, that their limbs may halt | Cripple our Senators, that their limbes may halt |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.100 | That we may hew his limbs and on a pile | That we may hew his limbes, and on a pile |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.132 | Let's hew his limbs till they be clean consumed. | Let's hew his limbes till they be cleane consum'd. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.146 | Our Roman rites. Alarbus' limbs are lopped, | Our Romaine rightes, Alarbus limbs are lopt, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.330 | Or climb my palace, till from forth this place | Or clime my Pallace, till from forth this place, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.1 | Now climbeth Tamora Olympus' top, | Now climbeth Tamora Olympus toppe, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.ii.22 | And climb the highest promontory top. | And clime the highest Pomontary top. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.64 | Should drive upon thy new-transformed limbs, | Should driue vpon his new transformed limbes, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.242 | Nor I no strength to climb without thy help. | Nor I no strength to clime without thy help. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.149 | As far from help as limbo is from bliss! | As farre from helpe as Limbo is from blisse, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.97 | Ye white-limed walls, ye alehouse painted signs! | Ye white-limb'd walls, ye Ale-house painted signes, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.53 | A ladder is brought, which Aaron is made to climb | |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.71 | These broken limbs again into one body, | These broken limbs againe into one body. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.129 | It hath to climb. The general's disdained | It hath to climbe. The Generall's disdain'd |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.354 | Which entertained, limbs are his instruments, | Which entertain'd, Limbes are in his instruments, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.356 | Directive by the limbs. | Directiue by the Limbes. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.238 | As I would buy thee, view thee limb by limb. | As I would buy thee, view thee, limbe by limbe. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.281 | Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit | Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbes, actions, and spirit, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.179 | Determined of; how I must climb her window, | Determin'd of: how I must climbe her window, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vi.34 | To climb celestial Silvia's chamber-window, | To climbe celestiall Siluia's chamber window, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.115 | And built so shelving that one cannot climb it | And built so sheluing, that one cannot climbe it |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.47 | You put me off with limber vows; but I, | You put me off with limber Vowes: but I, |