| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.23 | all that dissuade succession, but that they are limed with | all that disswade succession, but that they are limed with |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.69 | That quickens Nilus' slime, I go from hence | That quickens Nylus slime, I go from hence |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.22 | Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain, | Vpon the slime and Ooze scatters his graine, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.17 | In th' habiliments of the goddess Isis | In th'abiliments of the Goddesse Isis |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.iv.32 | On more mechanic compliment. I'll leave thee | On more Mechanicke Complement, Ile leaue thee. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.10 | The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, | the Racke dislimes, and makes it indistinct |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.350 | Have slime upon them, such as th' aspic leaves | haue slime vpon them, such / As th'Aspicke leaues |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.23 | but that they call ‘ compliment ’ is like th' encounter of | but that they cal complement is like th'encounter of |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.68 | O limed soul, that struggling to be free | Oh limed soule, that strugling to be free, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.120 | You rogue, here's lime in this sack too. There | You Rogue, heere's Lime in this Sacke too: there |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.122 | a coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime in it. A | a Coward is worse then a Cup of Sack with lime. A |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.102 | Leaving their earthly parts to choke your clime, | Leauing their earthly parts to choake your Clyme, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.86 | Madam, myself have limed a bush for her, | Madame, my selfe haue lym'd a Bush for her, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.54 | Have all limed bushes to betray thy wings; | Haue all lym'd Bushes to betray thy Wings, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.84 | Drove back again unto my native clime? | Droue backe againe vnto my Natiue Clime. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.iii.16 | Like lime-twigs set to catch my winged soul. | Like Lime-twigs set to catch my winged soule: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.84 | Who gave his blood to lime the stones together, | Who gaue his blood to lyme the stones together, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.13 | The bird that hath been limed in a bush, | The Bird that hath bin limed in a bush, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.17 | Where my poor young was limed, was caught and killed. | Where my poore yong was lim'd, was caught, and kill'd. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.37 | With which the time will load him. Th' Archbishop | With which the Lime will loade him. Th'Archbyshop |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.61 | tribulation of Tower Hill or the limbs of Limehouse, | tribulation of Tower Hill, or the Limbes of Limehouse, |
| King John | KJ I.i.201 | Saving in dialogue of compliment, | Sauing in Dialogue of Complement, |
| King John | KJ II.i.219 | By this time from their fixed beds of lime | By this time from their fixed beds of lime |
| King John | KJ V.vi.16 | Come, come! Sans compliment, what news abroad? | Come, come: sans complement, What newes abroad? |
| King Lear | KL I.i.301 | There is further compliment of leave-taking | There is further complement of leaue-taking |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.231 | The time will not allow the compliment | The time will not allow the complement |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.166 | A man of compliments, whom right and wrong | A man of complements whom right and wrong |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.197 | climb in the merriness. | clime in the merrinesse. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.264 | sweet notice, bring her to trial. Thine in all compliments of | sweet notice, bring her to triall. Thine in all complements of |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.20 | snip and away. These are compliments, these are humours, | snip and away: these are complements, these are humours, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.141 | compliment; I forgive thy duty. Adieu. | complement, I forgiue thy duetie, adue. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.36 | The net nor lime, the pitfall nor the gin! | the Net, nor Lime, / The Pitfall, nor the Gin. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.i.10 | The best-regarded virgins of our clime | The best regarded Virgins of our Clyme |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.14 | see thee froth and lime. I am at a word. Follow. | see thee froth, and liue: I am at a word: follow. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.75 | lime-kiln. | Lime-kill. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.130 | This man with lime and roughcast doth present | This man, with lyme and rough-cast, doth present |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.163 | Would you desire lime and hair to speak better? | Would you desire Lime and Haire to speake better? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.188 | Thy stones with lime and hair knit up in thee. | Thy stones with Lime and Haire knit vp in thee. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.104 | She's limed, I warrant you; we have caught her, madam. | Shee's tane I warrant you, / We haue caught her Madame? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.314 | is melted into curtsies, valour into compliment, and | is melted into cursies, valour into complement, and |
| Othello | Oth I.i.64 | In compliment extern, 'tis not long after | In Complement externe, 'tis not long after |
| Othello | Oth II.i.125 | Comes from my pate as birdlime does from frieze – | comes from my pate, as Birdlyme do's from Freeze, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.228 | Of her own clime, complexion, and degree, | Of her owne Clime, Complexion, and Degree, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.147 | An honest man he is, and hates the slime | An honest man he is, and hates the slime |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.6 | To use one language in each several clime | To vse one language, in each seuerall clime, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.28 | Thus plated in habiliments of war; | Thus placed in habiliments of warre: |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.285 | And thou art flying to a fresher clime. | |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.26 | Within the limits of yon lime and stone, | Within the limits of yond Lime and Stone, |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.77 | Where shivering cold and sickness pines the clime; | Where shiuering Cold and Sicknesse pines the Clyme: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.89 | What I have spoke. But farewell compliment! | What I haue spoke, but farewell Complement, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.20 | he's the courageous captain of compliments. He fights as | hee's the Couragious Captaine of Complements: he fights as |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.166 | Even in these honest mean habiliments. | Euen in these honest meane habiliments: |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.245 | Monster, come put some lime upon your | Monster, come put some Lime vpon your |
| 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.ii.22 | And climb the highest promontory top. | And clime the highest Pomontary top. |
| 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.126 | With miry slime left on them by a flood? | With miery slime left on them by a flood: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.68 | Amongst the fair-faced breeders of our clime. | Among'st the fairest breeders of our clime, |
| 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.ii.1 | Thus, in this strange and sad habiliment, | Thus in this strange and sad Habilliament, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.39 | from the Prince Troilus. I will make a complimental | from the Prince Troylus: I will make a complementall |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.21 | discoveries! | discoueries. Q addition 'rawe eies, durtrottē liuers, whissing lungs, bladders full of impostume. Sciaticaes lime-kills ith' palme, incurable bone-ach, and the riueled fee simple of the tetter take' |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.96 | Since lowly feigning was called compliment. | Since lowly feigning was call'd complement: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.75 | have limed her! But it is Jove's doing, and Jove make me | haue lymde her, but it is Ioues doing, and Ioue make me |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.68 | You must lay lime to tangle her desires | You must lay Lime, to tangle her desires |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.13 | My riches are these poor habiliments, | My riches, are these poore habiliments, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.371 | With customary compliment, when he, | With customarie complement, when hee |