| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.1.1 | Enter young Bertram, Count of Rossillion, his mother | Enter yong Bertram Count of Rossillion, his Mother, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.75 | to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her. | to my mother, your Mistris, and make much of her. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.136 | accuse your mothers, which is most infallible | accuse your Mothers; which is most infallible |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.164 | A mother, and a mistress, and a friend, | A Mother, and a Mistresse, and a friend, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.133 | I am a mother to you. | I am a mother to you. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.134.2 | Nay, a mother. | Nay a mother, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.135 | Why not a mother? When I said ‘ a mother,’ | why not a mother? when I sed a mother |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.136 | Methought you saw a serpent. What's in ‘ mother ’ | Me thought you saw a serpent, what's in mother, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.137 | That you start at it? I say I am your mother, | That you start at it? I say I am your mother, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.142 | You ne'er oppressed me with a mother's groan, | You nere opprest me with a mothers groane, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.143 | Yet I express to you a mother's care. | Yet I expresse to you a mothers care, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.145 | To say I am thy mother? What's the matter, | To say I am thy mother? what's the matter, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.149.1 | I say I am your mother. | I say I am your Mother. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.155.2 | Nor I your mother? | Nor I your Mother. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.156 | You are my mother, madam; would you were – | You are my mother Madam, would you were |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.158 | Indeed my mother! Or were you both our mothers | Indeede my mother, or were you both our mothers, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.163 | God shield you mean it not! ‘ Daughter ’ and ‘ mother ’ | God shield you meane it not, daughter and mother |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.274 | There's letters from my mother: what th' import is | There's letters from my mother: What th' import is, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.285 | Acquaint my mother with my hate to her | Acquaint my mother with my hate to her, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iv.1 | My mother greets me kindly. Is she well? | My mother greets me kindly, is she well? |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.69 | To you that know them not. This to my mother. | To you that know them not. This to my mother, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.9 | And now you should be as your mother was | And now you should be as your mother was |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.12 | My mother did but duty, such, my lord, | My mother did but dutie, such (my Lord) |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.55 | I'll order take my mother shall not hear. | Ile order take, my mother shall not heare. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.69 | My mother told me just how he would woo | My mother told me iust how he would woo, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.1 | You have not given him his mother's letter? | You haue not giuen him his mothers letter. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.87 | buried a wife, mourned for her, writ to my lady mother | buried a wife, mourn'd for her, writ to my Ladie mother, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.10 | flesh and cost me the dearest groans of a mother I | flesh and cost mee the deerest groanes of a mother, I |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.13 | Did to his majesty, his mother, and his lady | Did to his Maiesty, his Mother, and his Ladie, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.162 | I am her mother, sir, whose age and honour | I am her Mother sir, whose age and honour |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.293 | Good mother, fetch my bail. Stay, royal sir; | Good mother fetch my bayle. Stay Royall sir, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.317 | O my dear mother, do I see you living? | O my deere mother do I see you liuing? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.123 | Thou hast a sister by the mother's side, | Thou hast a Sister by the Mothers side, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.45 | Your mother came to Sicily and did find | Your Mother came to Cicelie, and did finde |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.188 | desirous to lie with his mother earth? | desirous to lie with his mother earth? |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.276 | Thus must I from the smoke into the smother, | Thus must I from the smoake into the smother, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.35 | And why, I pray you? Who might be your mother, | And why I pray you? who might be your mother |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.51 | A joyful mother of two goodly sons; | A ioyfull mother of two goodly sonnes: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.39 | So I, to find a mother and a brother, | So I, to finde a Mother and a Brother, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.35 | Smothered in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, | Smothred in errors, feeble, shallow, weake, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.37 | it to please his mother and to be partly proud, which he | it to please his Mother, and to be partly proud, which he |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.1.1 | Enter Volumnia and Virgilia, mother and wife to | Enter Volumnia and Virgilia, mother and wife to |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.8 | kings' entreaties a mother should not sell him an hour | Kings entreaties, a Mother should not sel him an houre |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.85 | Ithaca full of moths. Come, I would your cambric were | Athica full of Mothes. Come, I would your Cambrick were |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.13.2 | Pray now, no more. My mother, | Pray now, no more: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.14 | Who has a charter to extol her blood, | My Mother, who ha's a Charter to extoll her Bloud, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.162.2 | Look, sir, your mother! | Looke, Sir, your Mother. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.172.1 | And mothers that lack sons. | And Mothers that lacke Sonnes. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.194.2 | Know, good mother, | Know, good Mother, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.203 | Are smothered up, leads filled, and ridges horsed | are smother'd vp, / Leades fill'd, and Ridges hors'd |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.7 | I muse my mother | I muse my Mother |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.126 | Thy mother rather feel thy pride than fear | Thy Mother rather feele thy Pride, then feare |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.131 | Mother, I am going to the market-place. | Mother, I am going to the Market place: |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.86 | Is this the promise that you made your mother? | Is this the promise that you made your mother. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.2 | With many heads butts me away. Nay, mother, | With many heads butts me away. Nay Mother, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.15 | I shall be loved when I am lacked. Nay, mother, | I shall be lou'd when I am lack'd. Nay Mother, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.20 | Droop not. Adieu. Farewell, my wife, my mother. | Droope not, Adieu: Farewell my Wife, my Mother, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.27 | As 'tis to laugh at 'em. My mother, you wot well | As 'tis to laugh at 'em. My Mother, you wot well |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.48 | Come, my sweet wife, my dearest mother, and | Come my sweet wife, my deerest Mother, and |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.ii.8.1 | Here comes his mother. | Here comes his Mother. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.18 | Nay, I hear nothing. His mother and his wife | Nay I heare nothing: / His Mother and his wife, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.30 | I am one of those; his mother, wife, his child, | I am one of those: his Mother, Wife, his Childe, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.72 | Unless his noble mother and his wife, | vnlesse his Noble Mother, / And his Wife, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.78 | Wife, mother, child, I know not. My affairs | Wife, Mother, Child, I know not. My affaires |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.29 | Of stronger earth than others. My mother bows, | Of stronger earth then others: my Mother bowes, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.49 | And the most noble mother of the world | And the most noble Mother of the world |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.101 | Making the mother, wife, and child to see | Making the Mother, wife, and Childe to see, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.124 | Trust to't, thou shalt not – on thy mother's womb | (Trust too't, thou shalt not) on thy Mothers wombe |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.159 | More bound to's mother, yet here he lets me prate | More bound to's Mother, yet heere he let's me prate |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.161 | Showed thy dear mother any courtesy, | Shew'd thy deere Mother any curtesie, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.168 | To a mother's part belongs. He turns away. | To a Mothers part belongs. He turnes away: |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.178 | This fellow had a Volscian to his mother; | This Fellow had a Volcean to his Mother: |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.183 | O mother, mother! | O Mother, Mother! |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.186 | They laugh at. O my mother, mother! O! | They laugh at. Oh my Mother, Mother: Oh! |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.194 | A mother less? Or granted less, Aufidius? | A Mother lesse? or granted lesse Auffidius? |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.200 | Stand to me in this cause. O mother! Wife! | Stand to me in this cause. Oh Mother! Wife! |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.6 | especially his mother, may prevail with him. But I say | especially his Mother, may preuaile with him. But I say, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.15 | He loved his mother dearly. | He lou'd his Mother deerely. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.17 | mother now than an eight-year-old horse. The tartness | Mother now, then an eight yeare old horse. The tartnesse |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.27 | his mother shall bring from him. There is no more | his Mother shall bring from him: There is no more |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.v.5 | Repeal him with the welcome of his mother. | Repeale him, with the welcome of his Mother: |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.94 | I say your city – to his wife and mother, | I say your City to his Wife and Mother, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.2 | After the slander of most stepmothers, | After the slander of most Step-Mothers, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.43 | This diamond was my mother's; take it, heart; | This Diamond was my Mothers; take it (Heart) |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.i.19 | not fight with me, because of the queen my mother: | not fight with me, because of the Queene my Mother: |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.i.51 | That such a crafty devil as is his mother | That such a craftie Diuell as is his Mother |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.i.58 | A mother hourly coining plots, a wooer | A Mother hourely coyning plots: A Wooer, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.35 | mother. | Mother. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.151.2 | Your mother too: | Your Mother too: |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.158 | Made me a counterfeit: yet my mother seemed | Made me a counterfeit: yet my Mother seem'd |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.40 | Son, let your mother end. | Son, let your Mother end. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.59 | To th' smothering of the sense – how far it is | To'th'smothering of the Sense) how farre it is |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.104 | Thou wast their nurse, they took thee for their mother, | Thou was't their Nurse, they took thee for their mother, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.2 | Was near at hand: ne'er longed my mother so | Was neere at hand: Ne're long'd my Mother so |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.51 | Whose mother was her painting – hath betrayed him: | (Whose mother was her painting) hath betraid him: |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vi.22 | Of hardiness is mother. Ho! Who's here? | Of Hardinesse is Mother. Hoa? who's heere? |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.i.20 | angry for my so rough usage: but my mother, having | angry for my so rough vsage: but my Mother hauing |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.185 | In embassy to his mother; his body's hostage | In Embassie to his Mother; his Bodie's hostage |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.190 | What does he mean? Since death of my dear'st mother | What does he meane? Since death of my deer'st Mother |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.234.1 | By good Euriphile, our mother. | By good Euriphile, our Mother. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.237 | As once to our mother: use like note and words, | As once to our Mother: vse like note, and words, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.30.3 | an ancient matron (his wife, and mother to Posthumus) with music | an ancient Matron (his wife, & Mother to Posthumus) with Musicke |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.125 | A mother, and two brothers: but, O scorn! | A Mother, and two Brothers. But (oh scorne) |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.270.1 | Thy mother's dead. | Thy Mothers dead. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.363 | Of his queen mother, which for more probation | Of his Queene Mother, which for more probation |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.370 | A mother to the birth of three? Ne'er mother | A Mother to the byrth of three? Nere Mother |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.77 | 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, | 'Tis not alone my Inky Cloake (good Mother) |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.118 | Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet. | Let not thy Mother lose her Prayers Hamlet: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.140 | Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother | Hiperion to a Satyre: so louing to my Mother, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.178 | I think it was to see my mother's wedding. | I thinke it was to see my Mothers Wedding. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.86 | Against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven | Against thy Mother ought; leaue her to heauen, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.375 | and aunt-mother are deceived. | and Aunt Mother are deceiu'd. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.456 | With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, | With blood of Fathers, Mothers, Daughters, Sonnes, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.124 | my mother had not borne me. I am very proud, revengeful, | my Mother had not borne me. I am very prowd, reuengefull, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.183 | Let his Queen mother all alone entreat him | Let his Queene Mother all alone intreat him |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.119 | No, good mother. Here's metal more attractive. | No good Mother, here's Mettle more attractiue. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.136 | mother looks, and my father died within's two hours. | Mother lookes, and my Father dyed within's two Houres. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.319 | The Queen your mother in most great | The Queene your Mother, in most great |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.324 | wholesome answer, I will do your mother's commandment. | wholsome answer, I will doe your Mothers command'ment: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.331 | command; or rather, as you say, my mother. Therefore | command: or rather you say, my Mother: therfore |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.332 | no more, but to the matter. My mother, you say – | no more but to the matter. My Mother you say. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.335 | O wonderful son, that can so 'stonish a mother! | Oh wonderfull Sonne, that can so astonish a Mother. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.336 | But is there no sequel at the heels of this mother's | But is there no sequell at the heeles of this Mothers |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.340 | We shall obey, were she ten times our mother. | We shall obey, were she ten times our Mother. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.390 | Then I will come to my mother by and by. | Then will I come to my Mother, by and by: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.399 | Would quake to look on. Soft, now to my mother. | Would quake to looke on. Soft now, to my Mother: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.27 | My lord, he's going to his mother's closet. | My Lord, he's going to his Mothers Closset: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.31 | 'Tis meet that some more audience than a mother, | 'Tis meete that some more audience then a Mother, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.95 | As hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays. | As Hell, whereto it goes. My Mother stayes, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.6 | Mother, mother, mother! | Mother, mother, mother. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.9 | Now, mother, what's the matter? | Now Mother, what's the matter? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.11 | Mother, you have my father much offended. | Mother, you haue my Father much offended. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.17 | And, would it were not so, you are my mother. | But would you were not so. You are my Mother. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.29 | A bloody deed – almost as bad, good mother, | A bloody deed, almost as bad good Mother, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.113 | But look, amazement on thy mother sits. | But looke, Amazement on thy Mother sits; |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.145 | Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, | Would gamboll from. Mother, for loue of Grace, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.214 | Mother, good night. Indeed, this counsellor | Mother goodnight. Indeede this Counsellor |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.218 | Good night, mother. | Good night Mother. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.35 | And from his mother's closet hath he dragged him. | And from his Mother Clossets hath he drag'd him. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.51 | England! Farewell, dear mother. | England. Farewell deere Mother. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.53 | My mother. Father and mother is man and wife; | My Mother: Father and Mother is man and wife: |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.54 | man and wife is one flesh; and so, my mother. Come, | man & wife is one flesh, and so my mother. Come, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.57 | That have a father killed, a mother stained, | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.122.1 | Of my true mother. | Of my true Mother. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.11 | But yet to me they're strong. The Queen his mother | And yet to me they are strong. The Queen his Mother, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.66 | But even his mother shall uncharge the practice | But euen his Mother shall vncharge the practice, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.64 | He that hath killed my King and whored my mother, | He that bath kil'd my King, and whor'd my Mother, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.238.1 | And hurt my brother. | And hurt my Mother. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.313 | Never to rise again. Thy mother's poisoned. | Neuer to rise againe: Thy Mothers poyson'd: |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.321.1 | Follow my mother. | Follow my Mother. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.34 | | [Q1 replaces this scene with the following] Enter Horatio and the Queene. HOR. Madame, your sonne is safe arriv'de in Denmarke, This letter I euen now receiv'd of him, Whereas he writes how he escap't the danger, And subtle treason that the king had plotted, Being crossed by the contention of the windes, He found the Packet sent to the king of England, Wherein he saw himselfe betray'd to death, As at his next conuersion with your grace, He will relate the circumstance at full. QUEENE. Then I perceiue there's treason in his lookes That seem'd to sugar o're his villanie: But I will soothe and please him for a time, For murderous mindes are alwayes jealous, But know not you Horatio where he is? HOR. Yes Madame, and he hath appoynted me To meete him on the east side of the Cittie To morrow morning. QUEENE. O faile not, good Horatio, and withall, commend me A mothers care to him, bid him a while Be wary of his presence, lest that he Faile in that he goes about. HOR. Madam, neuer make doubt of that: I thinke by this the news be come to court: He is arriv'de, obserue the king, and you shall Quickely finde, Hamlet being here, Things fell not to his minde. QUEENE. But what became of Gilderstone and Rossencraft? HOR. He being set ashore, they went for England, And in the Packet there writ down that doome To be perform'd on them poynted for him: And by great chance he had his fathers Seale, So all was done without discouerie. QUEENE. Thankes be to heauen for blessing of the prince, Horatio once againe I take my leaue, With thowsand mothers blessings to my sonne. HORAT. Madam adue. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.23 | Whose arms were moulded in their mother's womb | Whose armes were moulded in their Mothers wombe, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.197 | To smother up his beauty from the world, | To smother vp his Beauty from the world, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.284 | man and send him back again to my mother. | man, and send him backe againe to my Mother. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.396 | son, I have partly thy mother's word, partly my own opinion, | Sonne: I haue partly thy Mothers Word, partly my Opinion; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.16 | At the same season if your mother's cat | at the same season, if your Mothers Cat |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.127 | My mother's son, sir. | My Mothers sonne, Sir. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.128 | Thy mother's son! Like enough, and thy | Thy Mothers sonne: like enough, and thy |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iv.10 | struck thy mother, thou paper-faced villain. | strooke thy Mother, thou Paper-fac'd Villaine. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.81 | That fair Queen Isabel, his grandmother, | That faire Queene Isabel, his Grandmother, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.287 | Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down; | Mocke mothers from their sonnes, mock Castles downe: |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.22 | Dishonour not your mothers; now attest | Dishonour not your Mothers: now attest, |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.39 | Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused | Whiles the mad Mothers, with their howles confus'd, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.174 | man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; | man in his Bed, wash euery Moth out of his Conscience: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.v.20 | To smother up the English in our throngs, | To smother vp the English in our throngs, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vi.31 | And all my mother came into mine eyes | And all my mother came into mine eyes, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.49 | When at their mothers' moistened eyes babes shall suck, | When at their Mothers moistned eyes, Babes shall suck, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.78 | God's Mother deigned to appear to me, | Gods Mother deigned to appeare to me, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.106 | Christ's Mother helps me, else I were too weak. | Christs Mother helpes me, else I were too weake. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.142 | Helen, the mother of great Constantine, | Helen, the Mother of Great Constantine, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.16 | That with his name the mothers still their babes? | That with his Name the Mothers still their Babes? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.74 | For by my mother I derived am | For by my Mother, I deriued am |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.86 | Marrying my sister that thy mother was, | Marrying my Sister, that thy Mother was; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.47 | As looks the mother on her lowly babe | As lookes the Mother on her lowly Babe, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.110 | Though ne'er so cunningly you smother it. | Though ne're so cunningly you smother it. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.13 | And shall I fly? O, if you love my mother, | And shall I flye? O, if you loue my Mother, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.34 | Shall all thy mother's hopes lie in one tomb? | Shall all thy Mothers hopes lye in one Tombe? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.35 | Ay, rather than I'll shame my mother's womb. | I, rather then Ile shame my Mothers Wombe. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.38 | In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, | In thee thy Mother dyes, our Households Name, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.12 | Her mother liveth yet, can testify | Her Mother liueth yet, can testifie |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.24 | The morn that I was wedded to her mother. | The morne that I was wedded to her mother. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.28 | Thy mother gave thee when thou sucked'st her breast | Thy mother gaue thee when thou suck'st her brest, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.10 | Mother Jourdain, be you prostrate and grovel on the | Mother Iordan, be you prostrate, and grouell on the |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.50 | Now, by God's mother, priest, I'll shave your crown for this, | Now by Gods Mother, Priest, / Ile shaue your Crowne for this, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.79 | Hadst thou been his mother, thou couldst | Hadst thou been his Mother, thou could'st |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.ii.44 | My mother, being heir unto the crown, | My Mother, being Heire vnto the Crowne, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.212 | Thy mother took into her blameful bed | Thy Mother tooke into her blamefull Bed |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.222 | And say it was thy mother that thou meantest; | And say, it was thy Mother that thou meant'st, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.393 | Dying with mother's dug between its lips; | Dying with mothers dugge betweene it's lips. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.85 | With gobbets of thy mother's bleeding heart. | With gobbets of thy Mother-bleeding heart. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.39 | My mother a Plantagenet – | My mother a Plantagenet. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.133 | Whoever got thee, there thy mother stands; | Who euer got thee, there thy Mother stands, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.134 | For, well I wot, thou hast thy mother's tongue. | For well I wot, thou hast thy Mothers tongue. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.103 | How will my mother for a father's death | How will my Mother, for a Fathers death |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.101 | No more than when my daughters call thee mother. | No more, then when my Daughters / Call thee Mother. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.103 | And, by God's mother, I, being but a bachelor, | And by Gods Mother, I being but a Batchelor, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.153 | Why, love forswore me in my mother's womb; | Why Loue forswore me in my Mothers Wombe: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.51 | O Ned, sweet Ned, speak to thy mother, boy! | Oh Ned, sweet Ned, speake to thy Mother Boy. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.49 | Thy mother felt more than a mother's pain, | Thy Mother felt more then a Mothers paine, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.50 | And yet brought forth less than a mother's hope, | And yet brought forth lesse then a Mothers hope, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.70 | For I have often heard my mother say | For I haue often heard my Mother say, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.137 | To love her for her mother's sake, that loved him, | To loue her for her Mothers sake, that lou'd him, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.153 | He's honest, on mine honour. God's blest mother! | He's honest on mine Honor. Gods blest Mother, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.1.6 | Duchess of Norfolk, godmother, bearing the child | Dutchesse of Norfolke, Godmother, bearing the Childe |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.1.8 | then follows the Marchioness Dorset, the other godmother, | Then followes the Marchionesse Dorset, the other Godmother, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.272 | stabbed their mothers, they would have done no less. | stab'd their Mothers, they would haue done no lesse. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.83 | And we are governed with our mothers' spirits: | And we are gouern'd with our Mothers spirits, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.267 | That mothers shall but smile when they behold | That Mothers shall but smile, when they behold |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.119 | When that rash humour which my mother gave me | When that rash humour which my Mother gaue me |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.122 | He'll think your mother chides, and leave you so. | Hee'l thinke your Mother chides, and leaue you so. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.71 | But kill'st the mother that engendered thee. | But kil'st the Mother that engendred thee. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.10 | But was my mother sister unto those? | But was my mother sister vnto those: |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.19 | The French obscured your mother's privilege, | The French obscurd your mothers Priuiledge, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.371 | My mother and the peers importune you | My mother and the Peeres importune you, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.75 | (aside) I see the boy. Oh, how his mother's face, | I see the boy, oh how his mothers face, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.87 | His mother's visage: those his eyes are hers, | His mothers visage, those his eies are hers, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.107 | Thy mother is but black, and thou, like her, | Thy mother is but blacke, and thou like her. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.133 | Edward's great lineage, by the mother's side, | Edwards great linage by the mothers side, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.122 | And say the prince was smothered and not slain; | and saie the prince was smoothered, and not slaine, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.160 | Sweet Ned, I would thy mother in the sea | Sweete Ned, I would thy mother in the sea |
| King John | KJ I.i.6 | Silence, good mother. Hear the embassy. | Silence (good mother) heare the Embassie. |
| King John | KJ I.i.58 | You came not of one mother then, it seems. | You came not of one mother then it seemes. |
| King John | KJ I.i.59 | Most certain of one mother, mighty King – | Most certain of one mother, mighty King, |
| King John | KJ I.i.62 | I put you o'er to heaven, and to my mother; | I put you o're to heauen, and to my mother; |
| King John | KJ I.i.64 | Out on thee, rude man! Thou dost shame thy mother, | Out on thee rude man, yu dost shame thy mother, |
| King John | KJ I.i.70 | Heaven guard my mother's honour, and my land! | Heauen guard my mothers honor, and my Land. |
| King John | KJ I.i.76 | That still I lay upon my mother's head. | That still I lay vpon my mothers head, |
| King John | KJ I.i.98 | Your tale must be how he employed my mother. | Your tale must be how he employ'd my mother. |
| King John | KJ I.i.106 | Between my father and my mother lay, | Betweene my father, and my mother lay, |
| King John | KJ I.i.111 | That this, my mother's son, was none of his; | That this my mothers sonne was none of his; |
| King John | KJ I.i.128 | My mother's son did get your father's heir; | My mothers sonne did get your fathers heyre, |
| King John | KJ I.i.163 | Brother, by th' mother's side, give me your hand. | Brother by th' mothers side, giue me your hand, |
| King John | KJ I.i.220 | O me, 'tis my mother! How now, good lady? | O me, 'tis my mother: how now good Lady, |
| King John | KJ I.i.238 | We know his handiwork. Therefore, good mother, | We know his handy-worke, therefore good mother |
| King John | KJ I.i.244 | Knight, knight, good mother, Basilisco-like! | Knight, knight good mother, Basilisco-like: |
| King John | KJ I.i.246 | But, mother, I am not Sir Robert's son. | But mother, I am not Sir Roberts sonne, |
| King John | KJ I.i.249 | Then, good my mother, let me know my father; | Then good my mother, let me know my father, |
| King John | KJ I.i.250 | Some proper man, I hope. Who was it, mother? | Some proper man I hope, who was it mother? |
| King John | KJ I.i.269 | May easily win a woman's. Ay, my mother, | May easily winne a womans: aye my mother, |
| King John | KJ II.i.32 | O, take his mother's thanks, a widow's thanks, | O take his mothers thanks, a widdows thanks, |
| King John | KJ II.i.62 | With him along is come the Mother-Queen, | With him along is come the Mother Queene, |
| King John | KJ II.i.131 | It cannot be, an if thou wert his mother. | It cannot be, and if thou wert his mother. |
| King John | KJ II.i.132 | There's a good mother, boy, that blots thy father. | Theres a good mother boy, that blots thy father |
| King John | KJ II.i.163.2 | Good my mother, peace! | Good my mother peace, |
| King John | KJ II.i.166 | His mother shames him so, poor boy, he weeps. | His mother shames him so, poore boy hee weepes. |
| King John | KJ II.i.168 | His grandam's wrongs, and not his mother's shames, | His grandames wrongs, and not his mothers shames |
| King John | KJ II.i.303 | Much work for tears in many an English mother, | Much worke for teares in many an English mother, |
| King John | KJ III.i.44 | Ugly and slanderous to thy mother's womb, | Vgly, and slandrous to thy Mothers wombe, |
| King John | KJ III.i.141 | Why thou against the church, our holy mother, | Why thou against the Church, our holy Mother, |
| King John | KJ III.i.256 | Or let the church, our mother, breathe her curse, | Or let the Church our mother breathe her curse, |
| King John | KJ III.i.257 | A mother's curse, on her revolting son. | A mothers curse, on her reuolting sonne: |
| King John | KJ III.ii.6 | My mother is assailed in our tent, | My Mother is assayled in our Tent, |
| King John | KJ III.iii.5 | O, this will make my mother die with grief! | O this will make my mother die with griefe. |
| King John | KJ IV.i.91 | O heaven, that there were but a mote in yours, | O heauen: that there were but a moth in yours, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.117 | Where hath it slept? Where is my mother's care, | Where hath it slept? Where is my Mothers care? |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.121 | Your noble mother; and, as I hear, my lord, | Your noble mother; and as I heare, my Lord, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.127 | My discontented peers. What! Mother dead? | My discontented Peeres. What? Mother dead? |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.181 | My mother dead! | My mother dead? |
| King John | KJ V.ii.153 | Of your dear mother England, blush for shame! | Of your deere Mother-England: blush for shame: |
| King Lear | KL I.i.12 | Sir, this young fellow's mother could; | Sir,this yong Fellowes mother could; |
| King Lear | KL I.i.21 | before he was sent for, yet was his mother fair; there | before he was sent for: yet was his Mother fayre, there |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.128 | star. My father compounded with my mother under the | Starre, My father compounded with my mother vnder the |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.169 | daughters thy mothers; for when thou gavest them the | Daughters thy Mothers, for when thou gau'st them the |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.283 | Turn all her mother's pains and benefits | Turne all her Mothers paines, and benefits |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.54 | O, how this mother swells up toward my heart! | Oh how this Mother swels vp toward my heart! |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.126 | I would divorce me from thy mother's tomb, | I would diuorce me from thy Mother Tombe, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.254 | With a child of our grandmother Eve, a female, or, for | With a childe of our Grandmother Eue, a female; or for |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.1 | Enter Armado and Mote, his page | Enter Armado and Moth his Page. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.74 | love, my dear Mote? | loue my deare Moth? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.91 | My father's wit and my mother's tongue assist me! | My fathers witte, and my mothers tongue assist mee. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.156 | Nay, nothing, Master Mote, but what they look | Nay nothing, Master Moth, but what they looke |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.188 | Her mother's, I have heard. | Her Mothers, I haue heard. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.242 | Then was Venus like her mother, for her father is but grim. | Then was Venus like her mother, for her father is but grim. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.112 | Thou hast no feeling of it, Mote. I will speak | Thou hast no feeling of it Moth, / I will speake |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.131 | rewarding my dependants. Mote, follow. | my dependants. Moth, follow. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.159 | You found his mote; the King your mote did see; | You found his Moth, the King your Moth did see: |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.140 | That function is smothered in surmise, | That Function is smother'd in surmise, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.33.1 | As birds do, mother. | As Birds do Mother. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.37 | Why should I, mother? Poor birds they are not set for. | Why should I Mother? / Poore Birds they are not set for: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.45 | Was my father a traitor, mother? | Was my Father a Traitor, Mother? |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.84.2 | He has killed me, mother! | He ha's kill'd me Mother, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.166 | Be called our mother, but our grave; where nothing | Be call'd our Mother, but our Graue; where nothing |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.54 | Tell thee Macduff was from his mother's womb | Tell thee, Macduffe was from his Mothers womb |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.86 | No longer staying but to give the Mother | No longer staying, but to giue the Mother |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.144 | Heaven shield my mother played my father fair, | Heauen shield my Mother plaid my Father faire: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.41 | much afeard my lady his mother played false with a | \much afraid my Ladie his mother plaid false with a |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.70 | As his wise mother wrought in his behalf, | (As his wise mother wrought in his behalfe) |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.83 | your wife is my mother. | your wife is my mother. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.79 | Thus hath the candle singed the moth. | Thus hath the candle sing'd the moath: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.12 | sins of my mother should be visited upon me. | sins of my mother should be visited vpon me. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.14 | father and mother. Thus when I shun Scylla your father, | father and mother: thus when I shun Scilla your father, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.15 | I fall into Charybdis your mother. Well, you are gone | I fall into Charibdis your mother; well, you are gone |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.256 | till my mother be dead. But what though? Yet I live | till my Mother be dead: but what though, yet I liue |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.37 | As my mother was the first hour I was born. | As my mother was the first houre I was borne. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.81 | Good mother, do not marry me to yond fool. | Good mother, do not marry me to yond foole. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.170 | Come, Mother Prat, come, give me your | Come mother Prat, Come giue me your |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.27 | Her mother – ever strong against that match | Her Mother, (euen strong against that match |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.32 | Straight marry her. To this her mother's plot | Strait marry her: to this her Mothers plot |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.38 | She shall go with him. Her mother hath intended, | She shall goe with him: her Mother hath intended |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.46 | Which means she to deceive, father or mother? | Which meanes she to deceiue? Father, or Mother. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.208 | Pardon, good father. Good my mother, pardon. | Pardon good father, good my mother pardon |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.57 | mother. Tom Snout, the tinker? | mother? Tom Snowt, the Tinker. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.73 | That would hang us, every mother's son. | That would hang vs euery mothers sonne. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.123 | His mother was a votaress of my order, | His mother was a Votresse of my Order, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.67 | every mother's son, and rehearse your parts. Pyramus, | euery mothers sonne, and rehearse your parts. Piramus, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.153 | Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, and Mustardseed! | Enter Pease-blossome, Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseede, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.182 | your mother, and to Master Peascod, your father. Good | your mother, and to master Peascod your father. Good |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.310 | A mote will turn the balance which Pyramus, | A Moth wil turne the ballance, which Piramus |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.98 | Her mother hath many times told me so. | Her mother hath many times told me so. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.262 | I should prove the mother of fools. I have brought | I should prooue the mother of fooles: I haue brought |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.309 | No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then | No sure my Lord, my Mother cried, but then |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.110 | Smother her spirits up. | Smother her spirits vp. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.184 | And so much duty as my mother showed | And so much dutie, as my Mother shew'd |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.253 | A moth of peace, and he go to the war, | A Moth of Peace, and he go to the Warre, |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.56 | Did an Egyptian to my mother give: | Did an Agyptian to my Mother giue: |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.25 | My mother had a maid called Barbary: | My Mother had a Maid call'd Barbarie, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.86 | He smothers her | Smothers her.Amilia at the doore. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.216.1 | My father gave my mother. | My Father gaue my Mother. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.66 | On mother's flesh which did me breed. | On mothers flesh which did me breed: |
| Pericles | Per I.i.70 | I mother, wife, and yet his child. | I, Mother, Wife; and yet his child: |
| Pericles | Per I.i.107 | What being more known grows worse, to smother it. | What being more knowne, growes worse, to smother it. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.131 | And she an eater of her mother's flesh | And shee an eater of her Mothers flesh, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.42 | Those mothers who to nuzzle up their babes | Those mothers who to nouzell vp their babes, |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.18 | Born in a tempest when my mother died, | borne in a tempest, when my mother dide, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.63 | Thrown me for to seek my mother! | throwne me, for to seeke my mother. |
| Pericles | Per V.i.156.2 | At sea! what mother? | At sea, what mother? |
| Pericles | Per V.i.157 | My mother was the daughter of a king; | My mother was the daughter of a King, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.201 | What was thy mother's name? Tell me but that, | What was thy mothers name? tell me, but that |
| Pericles | Per V.i.211 | To say my mother's name was Thaisa? | to say, my mothers name was Thaisa, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.212 | Thaisa was my mother, who did end | Thaisa was my mother, who did end |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.45 | Leaps to be gone into my mother's bosom. | leaps to be gone into my mothers bosome. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.307 | My mother and my nurse that bears me yet! | My Mother, and my Nurse, which beares me yet: |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.65 | And I, a gasping new-delivered mother, | And I a gasping new deliuered mother, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.8 | As a long-parted mother with her child | As a long parted Mother with her Child, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.96 | Ten thousand bloody crowns of mothers' sons | Ten thousand bloody crownes of Mothers Sonnes |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.82 | Good mother, be content. It is no more | Good Mother be content, it is no more |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.93 | And rob me of a happy mother's name? | And rob me of a happy Mothers name? |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.80 | My dangerous cousin, let your mother in. | My dangerous Cosin, let your Mother in, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.96 | Unto my mother's prayers I bend my knee. | Vnto my mothers prayres, I bend my knee. |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.144 | Your mother well hath prayed; and prove you true. | Your mother well hath praid, and proue you true. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.24 | May fright the hopeful mother at the view, | May fright the hopefull Mother at the view, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.1.1 | Enter Queen Elizabeth, Lord Rivers, Marquess of | Enter the Queene Mother, Lord Riuers, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.208 | Die neither mother, wife, nor England's queen! | Dye neyther Mother, Wife, nor Englands Queene. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.230 | Thou slander of thy heavy mother's womb! | Thou slander of thy heauie Mothers Wombe, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.305 | I cannot blame her. By God's holy Mother, | I cannot blame her, by Gods holy mother, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.40 | But smothered it within my panting bulk, | But smother'd it within my panting bulke, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.55 | Thou art a widow; yet thou art a mother, | Thou art a Widdow: yet thou art a Mother, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.79 | Was never mother had so dear a loss. | Was neuer Mother had so deere a losse. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.80 | Alas! I am the mother of these griefs; | Alas! I am the Mother of these Greefes, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.89 | Comfort, dear mother; God is much displeased | Comfort deere Mother, God is much displeas'd, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.96 | Madam, bethink you like a careful mother | Madam, bethinke you like a carefull Mother |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.104 | Madam, my mother, I do cry you mercy; | Madam, my Mother, I do cry you mercie, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.110 | That is the butt-end of a mother's blessing; | That is the butt-end of a Mothers blessing; |
| Richard III | R3 II.iii.22 | Why, so hath this, both by his father and mother. | Why so hath this, both by his Father and Mother. |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.8 | Ay, mother; but I would not have it so. | I Mother, but I would not haue it so. |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.22 | I hope he is; but yet let mothers doubt. | I hope he is, but yet let Mothers doubt. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.20 | I thought my mother and my brother York | I thought my Mother, and my Brother Yorke, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.25 | Welcome, my lord. What, will our mother come? | Welcome, my Lord: what, will our Mother come? |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.27 | The Queen your mother and your brother York | The Queene your Mother, and your Brother Yorke, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.30 | But by his mother was perforce withheld. | But by his Mother was perforce with-held. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.38 | Can from his mother win the Duke of York, | Can from his Mother winne the Duke of Yorke, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.138 | Will to your mother, to entreat of her | Will to your Mother, to entreat of her |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.152 | Was not incensed by his subtle mother | Was not incensed by his subtile Mother, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.156 | He is all the mother's, from the top to toe. | Hee is all the Mothers, from the top to toe. |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.85 | Tell them, when that my mother went with child | Tell them, when that my Mother went with Child |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.93 | Because, my lord, you know my mother lives. | Because, my Lord, you know my Mother liues. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.2 | Now, by the holy Mother of our Lord, | Now by the holy Mother of our Lord, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.163 | And in the vapour of my glory smothered. | And in the vapour of my Glory smother'd. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.179 | Your mother lives a witness to that vow – | Your Mother liues a Witnesse to his Vow; |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.183 | A care-crazed mother to a many sons, | A Care-cras'd Mother to a many Sonnes, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.21 | I am their mother; who shall bar me from them? | I am their Mother, who shall barre me from them? |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.22 | I am their father's mother; I will see them. | I am their Fathers Mother, I will see them. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.23 | Their aunt I am in law, in love their mother; | Their Aunt I am in law, in loue their Mother: |
| 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, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.37 | Be of good cheer. Mother, how fares your grace? | Be of good cheare: Mother, how fares your Grace? |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.40 | Thy mother's name is ominous to children. | Thy Mothers Name is ominous to Children. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.46 | Nor mother, wife, nor England's counted Queen. | Nor Mother, Wife, nor Englands counted Queene. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.17 | When Dighton thus told on – ‘ We smothered | When Dighton thus told on, we smothered |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.14 | And hear your mother's lamentation! | And heare your mothers Lamentation. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.57 | Preys on the issue of his mother's body | Prayes on the issue of his Mothers body, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.70 | Untimely smothered in their dusky graves. | Vntimely smother'd in their dusky Graues. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.87 | A mother only mocked with two fair babes, | A Mother onely mockt with two faire Babes; |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.99 | For joyful mother, one that wails the name; | For ioyfull Mother, one that wailes the name: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.133 | And in the breath of bitter words let's smother | And in the breath of bitter words, let's smother |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.134 | My damned son that thy two sweet sons smothered. | My damned Son, that thy two sweet Sonnes smother'd. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.162 | And brief, good mother, for I am in haste. | And breefe (good Mother) for I am in hast. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.257 | My daughter's mother thinks it with her soul. | My daughters Mother thinkes it with her soule. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.300 | Than is the doting title of a mother; | Then is the doting Title of a Mother; |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.317 | Again shall you be mother to a king, | Againe shall you be Mother to a King: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.325 | Go then, my mother; to thy daughter go; | Go then (my Mother) to thy Daughter go, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.348 | To vail the title, as her mother doth. | To vaile the Title, as her Mother doth. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.412 | Therefore, dear mother – I must call you so – | Therefore deare Mother (I must call you so) |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.427 | And be a happy mother by the deed. | And be a happy Mother by the deed. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.83 | Tell me, how fares our loving mother? | Tell me, how fares our Noble Mother? |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.84 | I, by attorney, bless thee from thy mother, | I by Attourney, blesse thee from thy Mother, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.152 | Dream on thy cousins smothered in the Tower. | Dreame on thy Cousins / Smothered in the Tower: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.325 | Long kept in Britain at our mother's cost? | Long kept in Britaine at our Mothers cost, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.12 | Younger than she are happy mothers made. | Younger then she, are happy mothers made. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.6 | Your mother. | Your Mother. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.72 | Are made already mothers. By my count, | Are made already Mothers. By my count |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.73 | I was your mother much upon these years | I was your Mother, much vpon these yeares |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.111 | Madam, your mother craves a word with you. | Madam your Mother craues a word with you. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.112.1 | What is her mother? | What is her Mother? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.113 | Her mother is the lady of the house, | Her Mother is the Lady of the house, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.5 | The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb. | The earth that's Natures mother, is her Tombe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.57 | a virtuous – Where is your mother? | a vertuous: where is your Mother? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.58 | Where is my mother? Why, she is within. | Where is my Mother? / Why she is within, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.61.1 | “ Where is your mother? ”’ | Where is your Mother? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.119 | Thy father, or thy mother, nay, or both, | Thy Father or thy Mother, nay or both, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.123 | Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet, | Is Father, Mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Iuliet, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.127 | Where is my father and my mother, Nurse? | Where is my Father and my Mother Nurse? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.39 | Your lady mother is coming to your chamber. | Your Lady Mother is comming to your chamber, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.64.2 | Enter Juliet's mother | Enter Mother. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.65 | Who is't that calls? It is my lady mother. | Who ist that calls? Is it my Lady Mother. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.199 | O sweet my mother, cast me not away! | O sweet my Mother cast me not away, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.1.1 | Enter Capulet, Lady Capulet, Nurse, and two or three | Enter Father Capulet, Mother, Nurse, and |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.47 | Exeunt | Exeunt Father and Mother. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.6 | Enter Lady Capulet | Enter Mother. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.17 | Enter Lady Capulet | Enter Mother. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.257 | It is extempore, from my mother-wit. | It is extempore, from my mother wit. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.258 | A witty mother, witless else her son. | A witty mother, witlesse else her sonne. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.65 | To teach you gamut in a briefer sort, | To teach you gamoth in a briefer sort, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.48 | broken points; his horse hipped – with an old mothy | broken points: his horse hip'd with an olde mothy |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.v.6 | Now by my mother's son, and that's myself, | Now by my mothers sonne, and that's my selfe, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.30 | Ay sir, so his mother says, if I may believe her. | I sir, so his mother saies, if I may beleeue her. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.56 | Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and | Thy Mother was a peece of vertue, and |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.119 | To think but nobly of my grandmother. | To thinke but Noblie of my Grand-mother, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.321 | As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed | As wicked dewe, as ere my mother brush'd |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.331 | This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, | This Island's mine by Sycorax my mother, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.269 | His mother was a witch, and one so strong | His Mother was a Witch, and one so strong |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.203 | Thy mother's of my generation. What's | Thy Mothers of my generation: what's |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.125 | Whose proof nor yells of mothers, maids, nor babes, | Whose proofe, nor yels of Mothers, Maides, nor Babes, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.178 | Should yet be hungry! Common mother, thou, | Should yet be hungry: Common Mother, thou |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.109 | A mother's tears in passion for her son; | A Mothers teares in passion for her sonne: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.335 | A loving nurse, a mother to his youth. | A louing Nurse, a Mother to his youth. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.38 | Why, boy, although our mother, unadvised, | Why Boy, although our mother (vnaduised) |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.51 | Nor would your noble mother for much more | Nor would your noble mother for much more |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.89 | How now, dear sovereign and our gracious mother, | How now deere Soueraigne / And our gracious Mother, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.114 | Revenge it as you love your mother's life, | Reuenge it, as you loue your Mothers life, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.121 | Your mother's hand shall right your mother's wrong. | Your Mothers hand shall right your Mothers wrong. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.146 | (To Chiron) Yet every mother breeds not sons alike: | Yet euery Mother breeds not Sonnes alike, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.181 | And for our father's sake and mother's care, | And for our fathers sake, and mothers care, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.60 | ‘ But ’? How if that fly had a father and mother? | But? How: if that Flie had a father and mother? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.23 | Loves me as dear as e'er my mother did, | Loues me as deare as ere my mother did, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.43.1 | My mother gave it me. | My mother gaue it me. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.107 | Their mother's bedchamber should not be safe | Their mothers bed-chamber should not be safe, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.44 | Here lacks but your mother for to say amen. | Heere lack's but you mother for to say, Amen. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.47 | For our beloved mother in her pains. | For our beloued mother in her paines. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.75 | Thou hast undone our mother. | Thou hast vndone our mother. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.76 | Villain, I have done thy mother. | |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.81 | Aaron, it must, the mother wills it so. | Aaron it must, the mother wils it so. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.111 | By this our mother is for ever shamed. | By this our mother is foreuer sham'd. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.154 | Go pack with him and give the mother gold, | Goe packe with him, and giue the mother gold, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.29 | Had nature lent thee but thy mother's look, | Had nature lent thee, but thy Mothers looke, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.36 | Will hold thee dearly for thy mother's sake.’ | Will hold thee dearely for thy Mothers sake. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.99 | That codding spirit had they from their mother, | That Codding spirit had they from their Mother, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.183 | You know your mother means to feast with me, | You know your Mother meanes to feast with me, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.204 | And see them ready against their mother comes. | And see them ready, gainst their Mother comes. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.60 | Whereof their mother daintily hath fed, | Whereof their Mother dantily hath fed, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.121 | Too headstrong for their mother – see, we fools! | Too head-strong for their mother: see we fooles, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.127 | All Greek, and this all Troy; my mother's blood | All Greeke, and this all Troy: my Mothers bloud |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.133 | That any drop thou borrowed'st from thy mother, | That any drop thou borrwd'st from thy mother, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.133 | Think, we had mothers: do not give advantage | Thinke we had mothers; doe not giue aduantage |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.137 | What hath she done, Prince, that can soil our mothers? | What hath she done Prince, that can soyle our mothers? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.45 | Let's leave the hermit Pity with our mothers; | Let's leaue the Hermit Pitty with our Mothers; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.63 | Thy wife hath dreamed, thy mother hath had visions, | Thy wife hath dreampt: thy mother hath had visions; |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.156 | think his mother's milk were scarce out of him. | thinke his mothers milke were scarse out of him. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.36 | am yet so near the manners of my mother that, upon the | am yet so neere the manners of my mother, that vpon the |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.6 | mother weeping, my father wailing, my sister crying, | Mother weeping: my Father wayling: my Sister crying: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.15 | No, no, this left shoe is my mother. Nay, that cannot be | no, no, this left shooe is my mother: nay, that cannot bee |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.17 | This shoe with the hole in it is my mother, and this my | this shooe with the hole in it, is my mother: and this my |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.25 | father; well, he weeps on. Now come I to my mother. | Father; well, hee weepes on: Now come I to my Mother: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.27 | I kiss her. Why, there 'tis; here's my mother's breath up | I kisse her: why there 'tis; heere's my mothers breath vp |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.289 | O illiterate loiterer! It was the son of thy grandmother. | Oh illiterate loyterer; it was the sonne of thy Grand-mother: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.26.2 | For your mother's sake, | For your Mothers sake, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.20 | His mother was a wondrous handsome woman; | His mother was a wondrous handsome woman, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.24.1 | Why, Timothy! | Why Timothy. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.245 | The goodly mothers that have groaned for these, | The goodly Mothers that have groand for these, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.4 | Shall never fall for me; their weeping mothers, | Shall never fall for me, their weeping Mothers, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.28 | As if he had lost his mother; a still temper, | As if he had lost his mother; a still temper, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.63 | Made mothers joy – must be the sacrifice | Made mothers joy, must be the sacrifice |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.106 | If they had mothers – I had one, a woman, | If they had Mothers, I had one, a woman, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.187 | Go play, boy, play: thy mother plays, and I | Goe play (Boy) play: thy Mother playes, and I |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.16 | The Queen, your mother, rounds apace. We shall | The Queene (your Mother) rounds apace: we shall |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.13 | Conceiving the dishonour of his mother, | Conceyuing the dishonour of his Mother. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.39 | The mother to a hopeful prince, here standing | The Mother to a hopefull Prince, here standing |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.16 | May walk again: if such thing be, thy mother | May walke againe: if such thing be, thy Mother |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.49 | That for thy mother's fault art thus exposed | That for thy mothers fault, art thus expos'd |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.123 | Your mother was most true to wedlock, Prince: | Your Mother was most true to Wedlock, Prince, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.36 | of the mother; the affection of nobleness which | of the Mother: the Affection of Noblenesse, which |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.50 | become a loss cries ‘ O, thy mother, thy mother!’; then | become a Losse, cryes, Oh, thy Mother, thy Mother: then |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.93 | mother's statue, which is in the keeping of Paulina – a | Mothers Statue (which is in the keeping of Paulina) a |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.14.1 | The statue of her mother. | The Statue of her Mother. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.120 | And pray your mother's blessing. Turn, good lady: | And pray your Mothers blessing: turne good Lady, |