| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.2 | Alexas, almost most absolute Alexas, where's the soothsayer | Alexas, almost most absolute Alexas, where's the Soothsayer |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.168.1 | He is an absolute master. | he is an absolute Master. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.200 | Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke and made | Which to the tune of Flutes kept stroke, and made |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.129 | These drums! These trumpets, flutes! What! | these Drummes, / These Trumpets, Flutes: what |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.11.1 | Absolute queen. | absolute Queene. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.42 | The absolute soldiership you have by land, | The absolute Soldiership you haue by Land, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xii.11 | Lord of his fortunes he salutes thee, and | Lord of his Fortunes he salutes thee, and |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.iii.11 | Our navy thrive, I have an absolute hope | Our Nauie thriue, I haue an absolute hope |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.117.2 | Most absolute lord, | Most absolute Lord: |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.132 | but he is resolute. I'll tell thee, Charles, it is the stubbornest | but he is resolute. Ile tell thee Charles, it is the stubbornest |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.46 | court. You told me you salute not at the court but you | Court. You told me, you salute not at the Court, but you |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.1 | There's not a man I meet but doth salute me | There's not a man I meete but doth salute me |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.90.1 | His absolute ‘shall'? | His absolute Shall? |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.116 | Though there the people had more absolute power – | Thogh there the people had more absolute powre |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.39.2 | You are too absolute, | You are too absolute, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.139 | Therefore, most absolute sir, if thou wilt have | Therefore most absolute Sir, if thou wilt haue |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.50 | Leave unsaluted. Sink, my knee, i'th' earth; | Leaue vnsaluted: Sinke my knee i'th' earth, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.viii.10 | His absolute commission. Long live Caesar! | His absolute Commission. Long liue Casar. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.106 | And burst of speaking were as his: I am absolute | And burst of speaking were as his: I am absolute |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.135 | Absolute madness could so far have raved, | absolute madnesse could so farre haue rau'd |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.98 | Sharked up a list of lawless resolutes | Shark'd vp a List of Landlesse Resolutes, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.135 | How absolute the knave is! We must speak by | How absolute the knaue is? wee must speake by |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.235 | And from her fair and unpolluted flesh | And from her faire and vnpolluted flesh, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.107 | an absolute gentleman, full of most excellent differences, | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.33 | moon. As for proof? Now, a purse of gold most resolutely | Moone: as for proofe. Now a Purse of Gold most resolutely |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.34 | snatched on Monday night, and most dissolutely | snatch'd on Monday night, and most dissolutely |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.75 | Or an old lion, or a lover's lute. | Or an old Lyon, or a Louers Lute. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.204 | With ravishing division to her lute. | With rauishing Diuision to her Lute. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.50 | And pardon absolute for yourself, and these | And Pardon absolute for your selfe, and these, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.162 | To hear and absolutely to determine | To heare, and absolutely to determine |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.184 | Upon such large terms, and so absolute, | Vpon such large termes, and so absolute, |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.42 | anything, and call it purchase. Bardolph stole a lute-case, | any thing, and call it Purchase. Bardolph stole a Lute-case, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.24 | Indeed, my lord, it is a most absolute and | Indeed my Lord, it is a most absolute and |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.7 | We do salute you, Duke of Burgundy; | We do salute you Duke of Burgogne, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.22 | You English Princes all, I do salute you. | You English Princes all, I doe salute you. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.96 | Play on the lute, beholding the towns burn. | Play on the Lute, beholding the Townes burne: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.91 | Do what ye dare, we are as resolute. | Doe what ye dare, we are as resolute. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.38 | But always resolute in most extremes. | But alwayes resolute, in most extreames. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.43 | But you, that are polluted with your lusts, | But you that are polluted with your lustes, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.29 | Makes me the bolder to salute my king | Makes me the bolder to salute my King, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.ii.61 | That shall salute our rightful sovereign | That shall salute our rightfull Soueraigne |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.266 | Thrice-noble Suffolk, 'tis resolutely spoke. | Thrice Noble Suffolke, 'tis resolutely spoke. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.267 | Not resolute, except so much were done; | Not resolute, except so much were done, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.60 | And therefore am I bold and resolute. | And therefore am I bold and resolute. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.43 | Then leave me not; my lords, be resolute; | Then leaue me not, my Lords be resolute, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.61 | Ready to fight; therefore be resolute. | Readie to fight: therefore be resolute. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.8 | I was then present, saw them salute on horseback, | I was then present, saw them salute on Horsebacke, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.209.1 | Does an irresolute purpose. | Do's an irresolute purpose. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.2 | Salutes ye all. This night he dedicates | Salutes ye all; This Night he dedicates |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.64.4 | gracefully salute him | gracefully salute him. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.103 | If this salute my blood a jot; it faints me | If this salute my blood a iot; it faints me |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.1 | Take thy lute, wench. My soul grows sad with troubles; | Take thy Lute wench, / My Soule growes sad with troubles, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.3 | Orpheus with his lute made trees, | Orpheus with his Lute made Trees, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.156 | But sirs, be resolute: we shall have wars | But Sirs be resolute, we shal haue warres |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.434 | Than the polluted closet of a king; | Then the polluted closet of a king, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.56 | Go, bid the drummer learn to touch the lute, | Go bid the drummer learne to touch the Lute, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.166 | What says my fair love? Is she resolved? | What saies my faire loue, is she resolute? |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.167 | Resolved to be dissolved; and therefore this: | Resolute to be dissolude, and therefote this, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.30 | Salute our coming forth when we were known; | Salute our comming forth when we were knowne |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.120 | But, ere we went, ‘ Salute your king,’ quoth he, | But ere we went, salute your king, quothe hee, |
| King John | KJ II.i.30 | Salute thee for her king. Till then, fair boy, | Salute thee for her King, till then faire boy |
| King John | KJ II.i.590 | When his fair angels would salute my palm, | When his faire Angels would salute my palme, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.298.1 | To him our absolute power. | To him our absolute power, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.80 | soul feminine saluteth us. | soule Feminine saluteth vs. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.319 | As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair. | As bright Apollo's Lute, strung with his haire. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.696 | Most resolute Pompey! | Most resolute Pompey. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iv.15.1 | An absolute trust. | An absolute Trust. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.7 | title before these Weird Sisters saluted me, and referred me | Title before, these weyward Sisters saluted me, and referr'd me |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.40 | He did. And with an absolute ‘ Sir, not I!’ | He did: and with an absolute Sir, not I |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.78 | Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn | Be bloody, bold, & resolute: / Laugh to scorne |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.38 | I speak not as in absolute fear of you. | I speake not as in absolute feare of you: |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.13 | My absolute power and place here in Vienna, | My absolute power, and place here in Vienna, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.12 | Or that the resolute acting of your blood | Or that the resolute acting of our blood |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.5 | Be absolute for death: either death or life | Be absolute for death: either death or life |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.202 | amazed, but this shall absolutely resolve you. Come | amaz'd, but this shall absolutely resolue you: Come |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.54 | May seem as shy, as grave, as just, as absolute | May seeme as shie, as graue, as iust, as absolute: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.234 | dissolved, and dissolutely. | dissolued, and dissolutely. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.236 | 'ord ‘ dissolutely.’ The 'ort is, according to our meaning, | 'ord, dissolutely: the ort is (according to our meaning) |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.237 | ‘ resolutely.’ His meaning is good. | resolutely: his meaning is good. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.58 | make an absolute courtier, and the firm fixture of thy | make an absolute Courtier, and the firme fixture of thy |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.179 | yet have more tricks with Falstaff. His dissolute disease | yet haue more trickes with Falstaffe: his dissolute disease |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.1.2 | Bottom the weaver, and Flute the bellows-mender, | Bottome the Weauer, Flute the bellowes-mender, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.38 | Francis Flute, the bellows-mender? | Francis Flute the Bellowes-mender. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.40 | Flute, you must take Thisbe on you. | You must take Thisbie on you. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.51 | No, no; you must play Pyramus; and Flute, you | No no, you must play Pyramus, and Flute, you |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.1.2 | Flute, and Snug | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.99 | Exeunt Quince, Snug, Flute, Snout, and Starveling | The Clownes all Exit. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.201 | Quince! Flute the bellows-mender! Snout the tinker! | Quince? Flute the bellowes-mender? Snout the tinker? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.ii.1 | Enter Quince, Flute, Snout, and Starveling | Enter Quince, Flute, Thisbie, Snout, and Starueling. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.126.1 | Enter Bottom as Pyramus, Flute as Thisbe, Snout as | Tawyer with a Trumpet before them. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.150 | Exeunt Quince, Bottom, Flute, Snug, and Starveling | Exit all but Wall. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.185 | Enter Flute as Thisbe | Enter Thisbie. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.200.1 | Exeunt Bottom and Flute | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.255 | Enter Flute as Thisbe | Enter Thisby. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.257 | Lion roars. Flute as Thisbe runs off | The Lion roares, Thisby runs off. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.308.1 | Enter Flute as Thisbe | Enter Thisby. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.84 | When I like your favour; for God defend the lute | When I like your fauour, for God defend the Lute |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.55 | into a lute-string and now governed by stops. | into a lute-string, and now gouern'd by stops. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.185 | My soul hath her content so absolute | My Soule hath her content so absolute, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.283 | Not out of absolute lust – though peradventure | Not out of absolute Lust, (though peraduenture |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.27 | But if the prince do live, let us salute him | But if the Prince do liue, let vs salute him, |
| Pericles | Per II.v.19 | I like that well. Nay, how absolute she's in't, | I like that well: nay how absolute she's in't, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.25 | By hurting it; or when to th' lute | By hurting it or when too'th Lute |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.31 | With absolute Marina. So | With absolute Marina: so |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.6 | Dear earth, I do salute thee with my hand, | Deere Earth, I doe salute thee with my hand, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.12 | So dissolute a crew. | So dissolute a crew. |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.20 | As dissolute as desperate. Yet through both | As dissolute as desp'rate, yet through both, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.13 | To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. | To the lasciuious pleasing of a Lute. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.114 | I thought thou hadst been resolute. | I thought thou had'st bin resolute. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.238 | Then I salute you with this royal title – | Then I salute you with this Royall Title, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.29 | And I'll salute your grace of York as mother | And Ile salute your Grace of Yorke as Mother, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.28 | What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? | What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.39.4 | with his boy, Biondello, bearing a lute and books | with his boy bearing a Lute and Bookes. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.101 | Biondello steps forward with the lute and the books | |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.106 | (to Hortensio) Take you the lute, (to Lucentio) and you the set of books. | Take you the Lute, and you the set of bookes, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.146 | Iron may hold with her, but never lutes. | Iron may hold with her, but neuer Lutes. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.147 | Why then, thou canst not break her to the lute? | Why then thou canst not break her to the Lute? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.148 | Why no, for she hath broke the lute to me. | Why no, for she hath broke the Lute to me: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.156 | As on a pillory, looking through the lute, | As on a Pillorie, looking through the Lute, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.109 | Absolute Milan. Me, poor man, my library | Absolute Millaine, Me (poore man) my Librarie |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.129.2 | Amazons, with lutes in their hands, dancing and | Amazons, with Lutes in their hands, dauncing and |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.160 | Allowed with absolute power, and thy good name | Allowed with absolute power, and thy good name |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.78 | To re-salute his country with his tears, | To resalute his Country with his teares, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.329 | I will not re-salute the streets of Rome | I will not resalute the streets of Rome, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.5 | As when the golden sun salutes the morn | As when the golden Sunne salutes the morne, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.45 | Tremble like aspen leaves upon a lute | Tremble like Aspen leaues vpon a Lute, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.108 | Salutes each other with each other's form. | Salutes each other with each others forme. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.59 | My lord, I scarce have leisure to salute you, | My Lord, I scarce haue leisure to salute you, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.19 | Our general doth salute you with a kiss. | Our Generall doth salute you with a kisse. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.17 | They are polluted offerings, more abhorred | They are polluted offrings, more abhord |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.20 | You are resolute, then? | You are resolute then? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.41 | Are journeying to salute the Emperor, | Are iournying, to salute the Emperor, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.78 | For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews, | For Orpheus Lute, was strung with Poets sinewes, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.26 | They are famed to be a pair of absolute men. | They are fam'd to be a paire of absolute men. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iii.23 | He bows his noble body, then salutes me, thus: | He bowes his noble body, then salutes me, thus: |