| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.44 | man is his clothes. Trust him not in matter of heavy | man is his cloathes: Trust him not in matter of heauie |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.51 | Or to drown my clothes and say I was stripped. | Or to drowne my cloathes, and say I was stript. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.250 | does little harm, save to his bedclothes about him; but | does little harme, saue to his bed-cloathes about him: but |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iv.25 | With what it loathes for that which is away. | With what it loathes, for that which is away, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.3 | you, when I have held familiarity with fresher clothes; | you, when I haue held familiaritie with fresher cloathes: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.201 | I did, my lord, but loath am to produce | I did my Lord, but loath am to produce |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.18 | Nor make replies of loathness; take the hint | Nor make replyes of loathnesse, take the hint |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.107 | I am loath to tell you what I would you knew. | I am loath to tell you what, I would you knew. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.122 | would be loath to foil him, as I must for my own honour | would bee loth to foyle him, as I must for my owne honour |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.266 | Not so; but I answer you right painted cloth, | Not so: but I answer you right painted cloath, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.397 | would now like him, now loathe him; then entertain | would now like him, now loath him: then entertaine |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.136 | Hopeless to find, yet loath to leave unsought | Hopelesse to finde, yet loth to leaue vnsought |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.101 | To make a loathsome abject scorn of me. | To make a loathsome abiect scorne of me: |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.154 | me his clothes made a false report of him. | me, his cloathes made a false report of him. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.i.59 | I'th' swathing-clothes the other, from their nursery | I'th'swathing cloathes, the other from their Nursery |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.39 | The loathness to depart would grow. Adieu! | The loathnesse to depart, would grow: Adieu. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.144 | vex her I will execute in the clothes that she so | vex her, I will execute in the Cloathes that she so |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.81.1 | Know'st me not by my clothes? | Know'st me not by my Cloathes? |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.82 | Who is thy grandfather: he made those clothes, | Who is thy Grandfather? He made those cloathes, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.86.1 | I am loath to beat thee. | I am loath to beate thee. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.266 | Care no more to clothe and eat, | Care no more to cloath and eate, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.72 | Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust | Most Lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.69 | To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered? | To feed & cloath thee. Why shold the poor be flatter'd? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.145.13 | poisoner woos the Queen with gifts. She seems harsh | Poysoner Wooes the Queene with Gifts, she seemes loath and vnwilling |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.175 | Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, | Fell in the weeping Brooke, her cloathes spred wide, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.71 | They surfeited with honey, and began | They surfeted with Honey, and began to loathe |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.72 | To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little | The taste of Sweetnesse, whereof a little |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.127 | 'Tis not due yet – I would be loath to pay him | 'Tis not due yet: I would bee loath to pay him |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.149 | Well, I am loath to gall a new- | Well, I am loth to gall a new- |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.198 | lion repents – (aside) marry, not in ashes and sackcloth, | Lion repents: Marry not in ashes and sacke-cloath, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.153 | i'faith, I am loath to pawn my plate, so God save me, | I loath to pawne my Plate, in good earnest |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.16 | In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch | In loathsome Beds, and leau'st the Kingly Couch, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.122 | Unfathered heirs and loathly births of nature. | Vnfather'd Heires, and loathly Births of Nature: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.25 | Since you are tongue-tied and so loath to speak, | Since you are tongue-ty'd, and so loth to speake, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.25 | This loathsome sequestration have I had; | This loathsome sequestration haue I had; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.57 | Within a loathsome dungeon, there to pine, | Within a loathsome Dungeon, there to pyne, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.54 | For clothing me in these grave ornaments. | For cloathing me in these graue Ornaments. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.75 | I am no loathsome leper; look on me. | I am no loathsome Leaper, looke on me. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.315 | As lean-faced Envy in her loathsome cave. | As leane-fac'd enuy in her loathsome caue. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.355 | Loather a hundred times to part than die. | Loather a hundred times to part then dye; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.4 | I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress | I tell thee, Iacke Cade the Cloathier, meanes to dresse |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.114 | Is Edward your true king? For I were loath | Is Edward your true King? for I were loth |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.48 | Why then, though loath, yet must I be content; | Why then, though loth, yet must I be content: |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.14 | Their clothes are after such a pagan cut to't | Their cloathes are after such a Pagan cut too't, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.48 | The cloth of honour over her are four barons | The Cloath of Honour ouer her, are foure Barons |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.239 | again; but to my thinking, he was very loath to lay his | againe: but to my thinking, he was very loath to lay his |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.440 | The loathed carrion that it seems to kiss; | The lothed carrion that it seemes to kisse: |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.74 | And, like a soldier, would be loath to lose | and like a souldier would be loath to loose |
| King John | KJ V.v.1 | The sun of heaven, methought, was loath to set, | The Sun of heauen (me thought) was loth to set; |
| King Lear | KL I.i.270 | And, like a sister, am most loath to call | And like a Sister am most loth to call |
| King Lear | KL II.i.48 | Seeing how loathly opposite I stood | Seeing how lothly opposite I stood |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.39 | My snuff and loathed part of nature should | My snuffe, and loathed part of Nature should |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.88 | crow-keeper. – Draw me a clothier's yard. – Look, look, a | Crow-keeper: draw mee a Cloathiers yard. Looke, looke, a |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.165 | Thorough tattered clothes great vices do appear; | Thorough tatter'd cloathes great Vices do appeare: |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.266 | my gaol; from the loathed warmth whereof deliver me and | my Gaole, from the loathed warmth whereof, deliuer me, and |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.157 | But I believe, although I seem so loath, | But I beleeue although I seeme so loth, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.132 | The weariest and most loathed worldly life | The weariest, and most loathed worldly life |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.20 | What 'tis to cram a maw or clothe a back | What 'tis to cram a maw, or cloath a backe |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.vi.1 | To speak so indirectly I am loath. | To speake so indirectly I am loath, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.16 | Look to my house. I am right loath to go. | Looke to my house, I am right loath to goe, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.51 | To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave. | To rib her searecloath in the obscure graue: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.52 | Of what it likes or loathes. Now, for your answer: | Of what it likes or loaths, now for your answer: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.60 | More than a lodged hate and a certain loathing | More then a lodg'd hate, and a certaine loathing |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.173 | I do not misdoubt my wife, but I would be loath | I doe not misdoubt my wife: but I would bee loath |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.138 | Go, take up these clothes here. Quickly! Where's the | Go, take vp these cloathes heere, quickly: Wher's the |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.91 | carry me in the name of foul clothes to Datchet Lane. | carry mee in the name of foule Cloathes to Datchet-lane: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.97 | went he for a search, and away went I for foul clothes. | went hee, for a search, and away went I for foule Cloathes: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.104 | clothes that fretted in their own grease. Think of that, a | Cloathes, that fretted in their owne grease: thinke of that, a |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.114 | honest clothes you send forth to bleaching! | honest cloathes you send forth to bleaching. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.133 | clothes? Come away. | cloathes? Come, away. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.144 | The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, | The deepest loathing to the stomacke brings: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.264 | Out, loathed medicine! O hated potion, hence! | Out loathed medicine; O hated poison hence. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.15 | honey bag break not, I would be loath to have you overflown | hony bag breake not, I would be loth to haue yon ouer-flowne |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.78 | O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now! | Oh, how mine eyes doth loath this visage now! |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.172 | But like in sickness did I loathe this food. | But like a sickenesse did I loath this food, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.265 | Must be to loathe her. O, curse of marriage! | Must be to loath her. Oh Curse of Marriage! |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.62 | Should hold her loathed, and his spirits should hunt | Should hold her loathed, and his Spirits should hunt |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.116 | So shall I clothe me in a forced content, | So shall I cloath me in a forc'd content, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.95 | Buys herself bread and clothes. It is a creature | Buyes her selfe Bread, and Cloath. It is a Creature |
| Pericles | Per I.i.148 | In such a loathed manner. | In such a loathed manner: |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.10 | Their bodies even to loathing; for they so stunk | those bodyes euen to lothing, for they so stounke, |
| Pericles | Per II.v.13 | Loath to bid farewell, we take our leaves. | Loth to bid farewell, we take our leaues. |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.45 | good clothes. There's no further necessity of qualities | good cloathes: theres no farther necessitie of qualities |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.168 | For I am loath to break our country's laws. | For I am loth to breake our Countries Lawes: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.231 | Thou loathed issue of thy father's loins! | Thou loathed Issue of thy Fathers Loynes, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.335 | And thus I clothe my naked villainy | And thus I cloath my naked Villanie |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.10 | As loath to lose him, not your father's death; | As loath to lose him, not your Fathers death: |
| 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 III.vii.188 | To base declension and loathed bigamy. | To base declension, and loath'd Bigamie. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.208 | Loath to depose the child, your brother's son; | Loth to depose the Child, your Brothers Sonne, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.356 | But she, your subject, loathes such sovereignty. | But she your Subiect, lothes such Soueraignty. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.141 | That I must love a loathed enemy. | That I must loue a loathed Enemie. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.12 | Is loathsome in his own deliciousness | Is loathsome in his owne deliciousnesse, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.31 | Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes. | Some say, the Larke and loathed Toad change eyes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.46 | So early waking – what with loathsome smells, | So early waking, what with loathsome smels, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.81 | Doing more murder in this loathsome world, | Doing more murther in this loathsome world, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.33 | Grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image! | Grim death, how foule and loathsome is thine image: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.36 | Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers, | Wrap'd in sweet cloathes: Rings put vpon his fingers: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.121 | No better than a poor and loathsome beggar. | No better then a poore and loathsome begger: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.125 | would be loath to fall into my dreams again. I will therefore | would be loth to fall into my dreames againe: I wil therefore |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.221 | clothes, or you stolen his, or both? Pray, what's the | cloathes, or you stolne his, or both? Pray what's the |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.116 | To me she's married, not unto my clothes. | To me she's married, not vnto my cloathes: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.121 | Go with me, sir, to clothe you as becomes you. | Go with me to cloath you as becomes you. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.132 | Weighed between loathness and obedience at | Waigh'd betweene loathnesse, and obedience, at |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.21 | The union of your bed with weeds so loathly | The vnion of your bed, with weedes so loathly |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.111 | A fool in good clothes, and something like thee. | A Foole in good cloathes, and something like thee. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.93.2 | Live loathed and long, | Liue loath'd, and long |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.33 | Which nature loathes – take thou the destined tenth, | Which Nature loathes, take thou the destin'd tenth, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.176 | And tumble me into some loathsome pit | And tumble me into some loathsome pit, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.193 | Straight will I bring you to the loathsome pit | Straight will I bring you to the lothsome pit, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.67 | Here is the babe, as loathsome as a toad | Heere is the babe as loathsome as a toad, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.78 | Woe to her chance, and damned her loathed choice! | Woe to her chance, and damn'd her loathed choyce, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.28 | loathsomest scab in Greece. | lothsom'st scab in Greece. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.46 | picture. Alas the day, how loath you are to offend | picture. Alasse the day, how loath you are to offend |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.218 | Is not more loathed than an effeminate man | Is not more loth'd, then an effeminate man, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.40 | loathed? What verse for it? What instance for it? – Let | loath'd? What Verse for it? what instance for it? let |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.47 | cloths: | cloathes; |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.10 | These clothes are good enough to drink in, and so be | these cloathes are good enough to drinke in, and so bee |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.165 | never saw her. I would be loath to cast away my speech; | neuer saw her. I would bee loath to cast away my speech: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.23 | words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason | wordes are growne so false, I am loath to proue reason |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.64 | To clothe mine age with angel-like perfection, | To cloath mine age with Angel-like perfection: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.39 | And that, my lord, I shall be loath to do: | And that (my Lord) I shall be loath to doe: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.125 | I am very loath to be your idol, sir; | I am very loath to be your Idoll Sir; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.ii.7 | But love will not be spurred to what it loathes. | But loue will not be spurd to what it loathes. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.45 | Of mortal loathsomeness from the blest eye | Of mortall loathsomenes from the blest eye |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.90 | That loathes even as it longs. But sure, my sister, | That loathes even as it longs; but sure my Sister |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.200 | If she have any honour, would be loath | If shee have any honour, would be loth |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.v.32 | Provide him necessaries, and pack my clothes up, | Provide him necessaries, and packe my cloathes up. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.7 | The loathsome misery of age, beguile | The loathsome misery of age, beguile |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.111 | look thee, a bearing-cloth for a squire's child! Look thee | Looke thee, a bearing-cloath for a Squires childe: looke thee |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.55 | O sir, the loathsomeness of them offend me | Oh sir, the loathsomnesse of them offend mee, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.569 | Where you'll be loath to be. Besides, you know | Where you'le be loth to be: besides you know, |