| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.50 | was I about to say? By the mass, I was about to say | was I about to say? I was about to say |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.385 | By th'mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed. | By'th'Misse, and it's like a Camell indeed. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.17 | What's near it with it; or 'tis a massy wheel | What's neere it, with it. It is a massie wheele |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.50 | Yea, this solidity and compound mass, | Yea this solidity and compound masse, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.47 | Witness this army of such mass and charge, | |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.55 | Mass, I cannot tell. | Masse, I cannot tell. Enter Hamlet and Horatio a farre off. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.17 | Like a tench! By the mass, there is ne'er | Like a Tench? There is ne're a |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.357 | By the mass, lad, thou sayest true, it is like we | By the Masse Lad, thou say'st true, it is like wee |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.13 | And rebels' arms triumph in massacres! | And Rebels Armes triumph in massacres. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.65 | cannot help. By the mass, here comes Bardolph. | canot helpe. Looke, looke, here comes Bardolfe. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.4 | Mass, thou sayst true. The prince once set a | Thou say'st true: the Prince once set a |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.19 | By the mass, here will be old utis. It will be an | Then here will be old Vtis: it will be an |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.16 | By the mass, I was called anything, and I | I was call'd any thing: and I |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.199 | By the mass, I could anger her to th' heart. She | I could anger her to the heart: shee |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.13 | varlet, Sir John – by the mass, I have drunk too much | Varlet, Sir Iohn: I haue drunke too much |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.61 | By the mass, you'll crack a quart together – ha! | You'l cracke a quart together? Ha, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.115 | But, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim; | But by the Masse, our hearts are in the trim: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.135 | Hence grew the general wrack and massacre; | Hence grew the generall wrack and massacre: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.18 | But, lords, in all our bloody massacre, | But Lords, in all our bloudy Massacre, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.160 | To save your subjects from such massacre | To saue your Subiects from such massacre |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.129 | Have cost a mass of public treasury. | Haue cost a masse of publique Treasurie. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.100 | Mass, thou loved'st plums well, that wouldst venture so. | 'Masse, thou lou'dst Plummes well, that would'st venture so. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.7 | Mass, 'twill be sore law then, for he was | Masse 'twill be sore Law then, for he was |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.iii.16 | By th' mass, so did we all. I thank you, Richard. | By'th' Masse so did we all. I thanke you Richard. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.137 | Nay, more than drop the massy earth by sands, | Nay more then drop the massie earth by sands, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.259 | jealous wittolly knave hath masses of money, for the | iealous wittolly-knaue hath masses of money, for the |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.190 | Nay, by th' mass, that he did not. He | Nay by th'Masse that he did not: he |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.97 | Mass, and my elbow itched; I thought there | Mas and my elbow itcht, I thought there |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.134 | seems as massy as his club? | seemes as massie as his club. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.49 | Yea, by mass, that it is. | Yea by th'masse that it is. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.280 | I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; | I remember a masse of things, but nothing distinctly: |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.367 | Content thyself awhile. By th' mass, 'tis morning: | Content thy selfe, a-while. In troth 'tis Morning; |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.163 | Not the world's mass of vanity could make me. | Not the worlds Masse of vanitie could make me. |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.53 | Welcome destruction, blood, and massacre! | Welcome Destruction, Blood, and Massacre, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.2 | The most arch deed of piteous massacre | The most arch deed of pittious massacre |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.38 | Or shall I come to you at evening mass? | Or shall I come to you at euening Masse? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iv.20 | Mass! and well said. A merry whoreson, ha! | Masse and well said, a merrie horson, ha, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.68 | Your swords are now too massy for your strengths, | Your swords are now too massie for your strengths, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.404 | It is noised he hath a mass of treasure. | It is nois'd / He hath a masse of Treasure. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.453 | I'll find a day to massacre them all, | Ile finde a day to massacre them all, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.63 | For I must talk of murders, rapes, and massacres, | For I must talke of Murthers, Rapes, and Massacres, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC prologue.17 | And Antenorides, with massy staples | And Antenonidus with massie Staples |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.29 | And what hath mass or matter by itself | And what hath masse, or matter by it selfe, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.345 | The baby figure of the giant mass | The baby figure of the Gyant-masse |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.108 | A moiety of that mass of moan to come. | A moity of that masse of moane to come. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.16 | fly from a spider without drawing their massy irons and | Flye from a Spider, without drawing the massie Irons and |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.176 | Constringed in mass by the almighty sun, | Constring'd in masse by the almighty Fenne, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.24 | to speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. You were | to speake puling, like a beggar at Hallow-Masse: You were |