| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.193 | needs be born under Mars. | needes be borne vnder Mars. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.20 | Wilt thou needs be a beggar? | Wilt thou needes be a begger? |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.29 | on by the flesh, and he must needs go that the devil | on by the flesh, and hee must needes goe that the diuell |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.183 | Thou this to hazard needs must intimate | Thou this to hazard, needs must intimate |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.213 | casement I need not open, for I look through thee. Give | casement I neede not open, for I look through thee. Giue |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iv.49.1 | May make it probable need. | May make it probable neede. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.67 | And my appointments have in them a need | And my appointments haue in them a neede |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.24 | the twigs that threatens them. I hope I need not to | the twigges that threatens them. I hope I neede not to |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.28 | You shall not need to fear me. | You shall not neede to feare me. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.79 | They shall be no more than needful there, | They shall bee no more then needfull there, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.90 | needs; the last was the greatest, but that I have not ended | needs: the last was the greatest, but that I haue not ended |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.269 | need not to ask you if gold will corrupt him to revolt. | neede not to aske you, if Gold will corrupt him to reuolt. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iv.3 | Shall be my surety; 'fore whose throne 'tis needful, | Shall be my suretie: for whose throne 'tis needfull |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.88 | You need but plead your honourable privilege. | You neede but pleade your honourable priuiledge. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.10 | Nay, you need not to stop your nose, sir. I | Nay you neede not to stop your nose sir: I |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.17 | Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth. | Then must thou needes finde out new Heauen, new Earth. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.105 | Were to remember that the present need | Were to remember: that the present neede, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.123 | Anticked us all. What needs more words? Good night. | Antickt vs all. What needs more words? goodnight. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.10 | Your presence needs must puzzle Antony, | Your presence needs must puzle Anthony, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.10 | Which has no need of you. Be gone. | Which has no neede of you. Be gone, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.49 | He needs as many, sir, as Caesar has, | He needs as many (Sir) as Casar ha's, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.50 | Or needs not us. If Caesar please, our master | Or needs not vs. If Casar please, our Master |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.35.1 | He needs must see himself. | He needes must see him selfe. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.25 | On all that need. Let me report to him | On all that neede. Let me report to him |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.46 | First, for his weeping into the needless stream: | First, for his weeping into the needlesse streame; |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.170.2 | So had you need; | So had you neede, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.198 | prologue. If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis | Prologue. If it be true, that good wine needs no bush, 'tis |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.199 | true that a good play needs no epilogue. Yet to good | true, that a good play needes no Epilogue. Yet to good |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.60 | What needs all that, and a pair of stocks in the town? | What needs all that, and a paire of stocks in the towne? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.15 | Be secret-false – what need she be acquainted? | Be secret false: what need she be acquainted? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.190 | I see a man here needs not live by shifts, | I see a man heere needs not liue by shifts, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.241 | A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, | A needy-hollow-ey'd-sharpe-looking-wretch; |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.391 | It shall not need. Thy father hath his life. | It shall not neede, thy father hath his life. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.42 | If I must not, I need not be barren of | If I must not, I neede not be barren of |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ii.21 | They needs must show themselves, which in the hatching, | They needs must shew themselues, which in the hatching |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.116 | Their needless vouches? Custom calls me to't. | Their needlesse Vouches: Custome calls me too't. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.200 | When he did need your loves, and do you think | When he did need your Loues: and doe you thinke, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.76 | We need not put new matter to his charge. | We neede not put new matter to his charge: |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.44.1 | I'th' absence of the needer. | Ith' absence of the needer. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.239 | need one another. The wars for my money. I hope to see | neede one another: / The Warres for my money. I hope to see |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.1 | We hear not of him, neither need we fear him. | We heare not of him, neither need we fear him, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.35 | In this so-never-needed help, yet do not | In this so neuer-needed helpe, yet do not |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.99 | Myself by with a needle, that I might prick | My selfe by with a Needle, that I might pricke |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.19 | Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle: | Of space, had pointed him sharpe as my Needle: |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.61 | Attend the queen and us; we shall have need | Attend the Queene, and vs, we shall haue neede |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.66.1 | You need it not. | You neede it not. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.13 | Smile to't before: if winterly, thou need'st | Smile too't before: if Winterly, thou need'st |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.33 | What shall I need to draw my sword? The paper | What shall I need to draw my Sword, the Paper |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.6 | To show less sovereignty than they, must needs | To shew lesse Soueraignty then they, must needs |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vi.13 | Is sorer than to lie for need: and falsehood | Is sorer, then to lye for Neede: and Falshood |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.8 | So needful for this present. It strikes me, past | So needfull for this present? It strikes me, past |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.10 | Who needs must know of her departure, and | Who needs must know of her departure, and |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.45 | The life o'th' need: having found the back-door open | The life o'th'need: hauing found the backe doore open |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.66 | with needless jealousy; | with needlesse ielousy, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.174 | As needful in our loves, fitting our duty? | As needfull in our Loues, fitting our Duty? |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.125 | There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave | There needs no Ghost my Lord, come from the / Graue, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.180 | So grace and mercy at your most need help you. | So grace and mercy at your most neede helpe you: / Sweare. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.3 | The need we have to use you did provoke | The neede we haue to vse you, did prouoke |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.538 | need study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, | need study a speech of some dosen or sixteene lines, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.138 | Go, farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool. | Go, Farewell. Or if thou wilt needs Marry, marry a fool: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.180 | You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said. | You neede not tell vs, what Lord Hamlet saide, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.94 | As Vulcan's stithy. Give him heedful note. | As Vulcans Stythe. Giue him needfull note, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.188 | Such love must needs be treason in my breast: | Such Loue, must needs be Treason in my brest: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.217 | For who not needs shall never lack a friend, | For who not needs, shall neuer lacke a Frend: |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.ii.19 | last swallowed. When he needs what you have gleaned, | last swallowed, when he needes what you haue glean'd, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.3.1 | Her mood will needs be pitied. | her moode will needs be pittied. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.77 | Yet needful too, for youth no less becomes | |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.222 | This presence knows, and you must needs have heard, | This presence knowes, / And you must needs haue heard |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.19 | You have good leave to leave us. When we need | You haue good leaue to leaue vs. When we need |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.95 | Needs no more but one tongue for all those wounds, | Needs no more but one tongue. For all those Wounds, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.69 | When thou needest him, there thou shalt find him. | when thou need'st him, there thou shalt finde him. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.84 | Not shall we need his help these fourteen days. | Nor shall wee neede his helpe these foureteene dayes: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.174 | You must needs learn, lord, to amend this fault. | You must needes learne, Lord, to amend this fault: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.3 | For we shall presently have need of you. | For wee shall presently haue neede of you. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.24 | Which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear, | Which oft the Eare of Greatnesse needes must heare, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.15 | need to be. Virtuous enough. Swore little. Diced | need to be; vertuous enough, swore little, dic'd |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.22 | needs be out of all compass, out of all reasonable | needes bee out of of all compasse; out all reasonable |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iv.21 | Why, my good lord, you need not fear, | Why, my good Lord, you need not feare, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iv.34 | I hope no less, yet needful 'tis to fear, | I hope no lesse? Yet needfull 'tis to feare, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.128 | before his day. What need I be so forward with him that | before his day. What neede I bee so forward with him, that |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iii.34 | and as heavy too. God keep lead out of me, I need no | and as heauy too; heauen keepe Lead out of mee, I neede no |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.9 | Lead me, my lord? I do not need your help, | Lead me my Lord? I do not need your helpe; |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.20 | Can play upon it. But what need I thus | Can play vpon it. But what neede I thus |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.215 | Never so few, and never yet more need. | Neuer so few, nor neuer yet more need. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.74 | lack subjects? Do not the rebels need soldiers? Though | lack subiects? Do not the Rebels want Soldiers? Though |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.218 | If ye will needs say I am an old man, you should give | |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.78.1 | Need not be dreaded. | Need not be dreaded. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.98 | Marry, the immortal part needs a physician, but | Marry, the immortall part needes a Physitian: but |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.146 | ill-sorted. Therefore captains had need look to't. | Therefore Captaines had neede looke to it. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.113 | one to do her husbandry and her drudgery. You need | one to doe her Husbandry, and her Drudgery; you need |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.95 | There is no need of any such redress, | There is no neede of any such redresse: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.112 | That need to be revived and breathed in me? | That need to be reuiu'd, and breath'd in me? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.70 | 'Tis needful that the most immodest word | 'Tis needfull, that the most immodest word |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.96 | That thou wilt needs invest thee with my honours | That thou wilt needes inuest thee with mine Honors, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.19 | Now, sir, a new link to the bucket must needs be | Sir, a new linke to the Bucket must needes bee |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.68 | And therefore we must needs admit the means | And therefore we must needes admit the meanes, |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.32 | honestly by the prick of their needles but it will be | honestly by the pricke of their Needles, but it will bee |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.20 | not think of God – I hoped there was no need to | not thinke of God; I hop'd there was no neede to |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.106 | He needs not; it is no hidden virtue in him. | Hee needes not, it is no hidden vertue in him. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.83 | Thou needs must be englutted. Besides, in mercy, | Thou needs must be englutted. Besides, in mercy |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.111 | I need not to be ashamed of your majesty, praised be | I need not to be ashamed of your Maiesty, praised be |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.61 | And, Captain, you must needs be friends with him. | And Captaine, you must needs be friends with him. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.190 | needs be granted to be much at one. But Kate, dost | needes be graunted to be much at one. But Kate, doo'st |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.203 | and thou must therefore needs prove a good soldier-breeder. | and thou must therefore needes proue a good Souldier-breeder: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.157 | So you had need, for Orleans is besieged; | So you had need, for Orleance is besieg'd, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.98 | I am prepared; here is my keen-edged sword, | I am prepar'd: here is my keene-edg'd Sword, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.18 | Never so needful on the earth of France, | Neuer so needfull on the earth of France, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.ii.17 | Now he is gone, my lord, you need not fear. | Now he is gone my Lord, you neede not feare. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.105 | And then I need not crave his courtesy. | And then I need not craue his curtesie. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.100 | They say ‘ A crafty knave does need no broker;’ | They say, A craftie Knaue do's need no Broker, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.116 | If he be old enough, what needs your grace | If he be old enough, what needs your Grace |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.148 | She's tickled now; her fume needs no spurs, | Shee's tickled now, her Fume needs no spurres, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.153 | Alas, sir, we did it for pure need. | Alas Sir, we did it for pure need. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.116 | Because I would not tax the needy commons, | Because I would not taxe the needie Commons, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.3 | They have the more need to sleep now then. | They haue the more neede to sleepe now then. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.7 | So he had need, for 'tis threadbare. Well, I | So he had need, for 'tis thred-bare. Well, I |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.51 | 'A must needs, for beggary is valiant. | A must needs, for beggery is valiant. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.56 | He need not fear the sword, for his coat is of | He neede not feare the sword, for his Coate is of |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.21 | you needs be hanged with your pardons about your | you needs be hang'd with your Pardons about your |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.191 | A subtle traitor needs no sophister. | A subtle Traitor needs no Sophister. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.65 | She shall not need; we'll meet her in the field. | Shee shall not neede, wee'le meete her in the field. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.67 | Ay, with five hundred, father, for a need. | I, with fiue hundred, Father, for a neede. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.125 | It needs not, nor it boots thee not, proud Queen; | It needes not, nor it bootes thee not, prowd Queene, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.165 | And in thy need such comfort come to thee | And in thy need, such comfort come to thee, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.146 | With aid of soldiers to this needful war. | With ayde of Souldiers to this needfull Warre. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.5 | And, spite of spite, needs must I rest a while. | And spight of spight, needs must I rest a-while. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.128 | And haste is needful in this desperate case. | And haste is needfull in this desp'rate case. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iii.43 | Nay, then I see that Edward needs must down. | Nay then I see, that Edward needs must downe. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iii.59 | What fates impose, that men must needs abide; | What Fates impose, that men must needs abide; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.53 | And, Clarence, now then it is more than needful | And Clarence, now then it is more then needfull, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.46 | Lest in our need he might infect another | Least in our need he might infect another, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.49 | Let him depart before we need his help. | Let him depart, before we neede his helpe. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.70 | I need not add more fuel to your fire, | I need not adde more fuell to your fire, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.119 | And must needs say a noble one; which makes me | And must needs say a Noble one; which makes me |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.43 | We had need pray, | We had need pray, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.100 | Your grace must needs deserve all strangers' loves, | Your Grace must needs deserue all strangers loues, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.131 | For he would needs be virtuous. That good fellow, | For he would needs be vertuous. That good Fellow, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.2.2 | What's the need? | What's the need? |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.128 | What need you note it? Pray you keep your way; | What need you note it? pray you keep your way, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.231 | The Queen being absent, 'tis a needful fitness | The Queene being absent, 'tis a needfull fitnesse, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.422 | Must I then leave you? Must I needs forgo | Must I then leaue you? Must I needes forgo |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.93.1 | But I must needs to th' Tower, my lords? | But I must needs to th'Tower my Lords? |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.43 | line, they need no other penance. That fire-drake did I | Line, they need no other pennance: that Fire-Drake did I |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.55 | That needs must light on this ingratitude. | That needs must light on this Ingratitude. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.161 | Him and his worth and our great need of him | Him, and his worth, and our great need of him, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.123 | What need we any spur but our own cause | What neede we any spurre, but our owne cause |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.136 | Did need an oath; when every drop of blood | Did neede an Oath. When euery drop of blood |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.279 | I should not need, if you were gentle Brutus. | I should not neede, if you were gentle Brutus. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.47 | to need my death. | to need my death. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.139 | What needs a tongue to such a speaking eye, | What needs a tongue to such a speaking eie, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.53 | A thievish pirate, and a needy mate, | A theeuish pyrate, and a needie mate, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.87 | Or, coldly negligent, did need a spur, | Or coldly negligent did need a spurre, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.109 | That needs no further question; and I know | That needs no further question, and I knowe |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.6 | Thy ransom, man? Why need'st thou talk of that? | Thy ransome man: why needest thou talke of that? |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.34 | Is lawless, and I need not to obey. | Is lawlesse, and I need not to obey. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.55 | Do so, Villiers – and Charles, when he hath need, | Do so Villeirs, and Charles when he hath neede, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.23 | Coward, what flight? Thou liest, there needs no flight. | Coward what flight? thou liest there needs no flight. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.11 | What need we fight and sweat and keep a coil | What need we fight, and sweate, and keepe a coile, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.15 | Who now, of you or I, have need to pray? | Who now of you or I haue need to praie, |
| King John | KJ I.i.179 | For France, for France, for it is more than need. | For France, for France, for it is more then need. |
| King John | KJ I.i.263 | Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose, | Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose, |
| King John | KJ III.i.211.1 | But from her need. | But from her need. |
| King John | KJ III.i.211.2 | O, if thou grant my need, | Oh, if thou grant my need, |
| King John | KJ III.i.213 | That need must needs infer this principle, | That need, must needs inferre this principle, |
| King John | KJ III.i.214 | That faith would live again by death of need. | That faith would liue againe by death of need: |
| King John | KJ III.i.215 | O then, tread down my need, and faith mounts up; | O then tread downe my need, and faith mounts vp, |
| King John | KJ III.i.216 | Keep my need up, and faith is trodden down. | Keepe my need vp, and faith is trodden downe. |
| King John | KJ III.i.320 | Thou shalt not need. England, I will fall from thee. | Thou shalt not need. England, I will fall frõ thee. |
| King John | KJ III.i.332 | Uncle, I needs must pray that thou mayst lose; | Vncle, I needs must pray that thou maist lose: |
| King John | KJ III.iv.139 | That John may stand, then Arthur needs must fall. | That Iohn may stand, then Arthur needs must fall, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.75 | Alas, what need you be so boisterous-rough? | Alas, what neede you be so boistrous rough? |
| King John | KJ IV.i.95 | Your vile intent must needs seem horrible. | Your vilde intent must needs seeme horrible. |
| King John | KJ IV.i.98 | Must needs want pleading for a pair of eyes. | Must needes want pleading for a paire of eyes: |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.79 | His passion is so ripe it needs must break. | His passion is so ripe, it needs must breake. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.178 | Go after him; for he perhaps shall need | Go after him: for he perhaps shall neede |
| King John | KJ V.ii.157 | Their needles to lances, and their gentle hearts | Their Needl's to Lances, and their gentle hearts |
| King John | KJ V.ii.175 | Whom he hath used rather for sport than need – | Whom he hath vs'd rather for sport, then neede) |
| King John | KJ V.v.5 | When with a volley of our needless shot, | When with a volley of our needlesse shot, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.110 | O, let us pay the time but needful woe, | Oh let vs pay the time: but needfull woe, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.33 | No? What needed then that terrible dispatch | No? what needed then that terrible dispatch |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.35 | hath not such need to hide itself. Let's see! Come! If it | hath not such neede to hide it selfe. Let's see: come, if it |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.36 | be nothing I shall not need spectacles. | bee nothing, I shall not neede Spectacles. |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.146 | and nobles, needless diffidences, banishment of friends, | |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.104 | must needs wear my coxcomb. How now, nuncle! | must needs weare my Coxcombe. How now Nunckle? |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.187 | Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need | Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need |
| King Lear | KL II.i.114 | Natures of such deep trust we shall much need; | Nature's of such deepe trust, we shall much need: |
| King Lear | KL II.i.126 | Your needful counsel to our businesses, | Your needfull counsaile to our businesses, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.143 | Are punished with. The King must take it ill | The King his Master, needs must take it ill |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.201 | Which shall be needful for your entertainment. | Which shall be needfull for your entertainement. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.218 | Which I must needs call mine. Thou art a boil, | Which I must needs call mine. Thou art a Byle, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.233 | Is it not well? What should you need of more? | Is it not well? What should you need of more? |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.256 | What need you five-and-twenty, ten, or five | What need you fiue and twenty? Ten? Or fiue? |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.258.2 | What need one? | What need one? |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.259 | O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars | O reason not the need: our basest Beggers |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.261 | Allow not nature more than nature needs – | Allow not Nature, more then Nature needs: |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.264 | Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, | Why Nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.265 | Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But for true need, – | Which scarcely keepes thee warme, but for true need: |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.266 | You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need! | You Heauens, giue me that patience, patience I need, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.286 | And must needs taste his folly. | And must needs taste his folly. |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.77.1 | I shall no leading need. | I shall no leading neede. |
| King Lear | KL IV.v.15 | I must needs after him, madam, with my letter. | I must needs after him, Madam,with my Letter. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.14 | Needs not the painted flourish of your praise. | Needs not the painted flourish of your praise: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.25 | Therefore to's seemeth it a needful course, | Therefore to's seemeth it a needfull course, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.114.2 | Berowne and Rosaline converse apart | [Q1] BEROWNE Did not I dance with you in Brabant once? KATHER. Did not I dance with you in Brabant once? BEROWNE I know you did. KATH. How needles was it then to aske the question? BEROWNE You must not be so quicke. KATH. Tis long of you that spur me with such questions. BEROWNE Your wit's too hot, it speedes too fast, twill tire. KATH. Not till it leaue the rider in the mire. BEROWNE What time a day? KATH. The houre that fooles should aske. BEROWNE Now faire befall your maske. KATH. Faire fall the face it couers. BEROWNE And send you manie louers. KATH. Amen, so you be none. BEROWNE Nay then will I be gone. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.199 | A toy, my liege, a toy. Your grace needs not fear it. | A toy my Liedge, a toy: your grace needes not feare it. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.237 | Fie, painted rhetoric! O, she needs it not! | Fie painted Rethoricke, O she needs it not, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.267 | Dark needs no candles now, for dark is light. | Dark needs no Candles now, for dark is light. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.287.2 | 'Tis more than need. | O 'tis more then neede. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.21 | We need more light to find your meaning out. | We need more light to finde your meaning out. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.545 | Well said, old mocker. I must needs be friends with thee. | Well said old mocker, / I must needs be friends with thee. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.32 | I had most need of blessing, and ‘ Amen ’ | I had most need of Blessing, and Amen |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iii.2 | He needs not our mistrust, since he delivers | He needes not our mistrust, since he deliuers |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.81 | Then live Macduff; what need I fear of thee? | Then liue Macduffe: what need I feare of thee? |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.36 | fie! A soldier and afeard? What need we fear who | fie, a Souldier, and affear'd? what need we feare? who |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.70 | More needs she the divine than the physician. | More needs she the Diuine, then the Physitian: |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.29.2 | Or so much as it needs | Or so much as it needes, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.33.2 | 'Tis not needed yet. | 'Tis not needed yet. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.110 | Took off her life – this, and what needful else | Tooke off her life. This, and what need full else |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.55 | Matters of needful value. We shall write to you, | Matters of needfull value: We shall write to you |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.63 | Nor need you, on mine honour, have to do | Nor neede you (on mine honor) haue to doe |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.107 | clients. Though you change your place, you need not | Clients: though you change your place, you neede not |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.20 | The needful bits and curbs to headstrong weeds, | (The needfull bits and curbes to headstrong weedes,) |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.224 | the knaves, you need not to fear the bawds. | the knaues, you need not to feare the bawds. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.269.2 | It is but needful. | It is but needfull. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.24 | Let her have needful, but not lavish, means. | Let her haue needfull, but not lauish meanes, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.45 | You are too cold. If you should need a pin, | You are too cold: if you should need a pin, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.48.1 | Must he needs die? | Must he needs die? |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iii.9 | I would do more than that, if more were needful. | I would do more then that, if more were needfull |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.30.1 | Must needs appear offence. | Must needs appear offence: |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.2 | needs buy and sell men and women like beasts, we shall | needes buy and sell men and women like beasts, we shall |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.135 | must, upon a warranted need, give him a better proclamation. | must vppon a warranted neede, giue him a better proclamation. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.92 | In brief, to set the needless process by, | In briefe, to set the needlesse processe by: |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.123 | On him so near us? This needs must be a practice. | On him so neere vs? This needs must be a practise: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.94 | You need not fear, lady, the having any of these | You neede not feare Lady the hauing any of these |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.111 | Well then, it now appears you need my help. | Well then, it now appeares you neede my helpe: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.29 | I must needs tell thee all. She hath directed | I must needes tell thee all, she hath directed |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.14 | There must be needs a like proportion | There must be needs a like proportion |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.18 | Must needs be like my lord. If it be so, | Must needs be like my Lord. If it be so, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.28 | Nay, you need not fear us, Lorenzo. Launcelot | Nay, you need not feare vs Lorenzo, Launcelet |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.202 | Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there. | Must needes giue sentence 'gainst the Merchant there. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.85 | ne'er put my finger in the fire, and need not. | nere put my finger in the fire, and neede not. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.123 | mind, and the boy never need to understand anything; | minde, and the Boy neuer neede to vnderstand any thing; |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.83 | wildly, and would needs speak with you presently. | wildely, and would needs speake with you presently. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.170 | I am half afraid he will have need of | I am halfe affraid he will haue neede of |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.90 | Till then, farewell, sir. She must needs go in; | Till then, farewell Sir, she must needs go in, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.ii.8 | That's good too. But what needs either your | That's good too: But what needes either your |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.187 | What need you tell me that? I think so, when I | What neede you tell me that? I think so, when I |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.82 | you must needs play Pyramus. | you must needs play Piramus. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.119 | That must needs be sport alone; | That must needs be sport alone: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.204 | Have with our needles created both one flower, | Haue with our needles, created both one flower, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.121 | Crook-kneed, and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls; | Crooke kneed, and dew-lapt, like Thessalian Buls, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.346 | No epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no | No Epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.348 | there needs none to be blamed. Marry, if he that writ it | there need none to be blamed. Marry, if hee that writ it |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.187 | an thou wilt needs thrust thy neck into a yoke, wear the | and thou wilt needes thrust thy necke into a yoke, weare the |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.295 | What need the bridge much broader than the flood? | What need ye bridge much broder then the flood? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.23 | yourself; it is needful that you frame the season for your | your selfe, it is needful that you frame the season for your |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.21 | let that appear when there is no need of such vanity. You | let that appeare when there is no need of such vanity, you |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.111 | have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price | haue neede of poore ones, poore ones may make what price |
| Othello | Oth I.i.103.2 | But thou must needs be sure | But thou must needs be sure, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.283 | With what else needful your good grace shall think | With what else needfull, your good Grace shall think |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.348 | purse. If thou wilt needs damn thyself, do it a more | purse. If thou wilt needs damne thy selfe, do it a more |
| Othello | Oth III.i.47 | And needs no other suitor but his likings | And needs no other Suitor, but his likings |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.187 | with her needle, an admirable musician! O, she will sing | with her Needle: an admirable Musitian. Oh she will sing |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.15 | It must needs wither. I'll smell it on the tree. | It needs must wither. Ile smell thee on the Tree. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.129 | She said so: I must needs report the truth. | She said so: I must needs report the truth. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.149 | What needs this iterance, woman? I say thy husband. | What needs this itterance, Woman? / I say, thy Husband. |
| Pericles | Per I.iii.10 | You shall not need, my fellow peers of Tyre, | You shall not neede my fellow-Peers of Tyre, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.77 | What need we fear? | What need wee leaue |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.95 | Are stored with corn to make your needy bread, | Are stor'd with Corne, to make your needie bread, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.II.16 | Are brought your eyes; what need speak I? | Are brought your eyes, what need speake I. |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.47 | He had need mean better than his outward show | He had need meane better, then his outward shew |
| Pericles | Per III.iii.1 | Most honoured Cleon, I must needs be gone. | Most honor'd Cleon, I must needs be gone, |
| Pericles | Per III.iii.23 | But if to that my nature need a spur, | but if to that, / My nature neede a spurre, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.23 | Or when she would with sharp needle wound | Or when she would with sharpe needle wound, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.257.1 | As our intents will need? | as our intents will neede. |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.68.1 | No needful thing omitted. | no needfull thing omitted. |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.81 | I shall not need transport my words by you. | I shall not need transport my words by you, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.152 | I cannot mend it, I must needs confess, | I cannot mend it, I must needes confesse, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.4 | Needs must I like it well. I weep for joy | Needs must I like it well: I weepe for ioy |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.176 | Taste grief, need friends. Subjected thus, | Taste Griefe, need Friends: subiected thus, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.17 | For what I have I need not to repeat, | For what I haue, I need not to repeat; |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.308 | Being so great, I have no need to beg. | Being so great, I haue no neede to begge. |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.17 | To thread the postern of a small needle's eye.’ | To thred the posterne of a Needles eye. |
| Richard II | R2 V.vi.38 | They love not poison that do poison need; | They loue not poyson, that do poyson neede, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.75 | God grant we never may have need of you! | God grant we neuer may haue neede of you. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.76 | Meantime, God grants that I have need of you. | Meane time, God grants that I haue need of you. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.221 | He needs no indirect or lawless course | He needs no indirect, or lawlesse course, |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.36 | When I have most need to employ a friend, | When I haue most need to imploy a Friend, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.141 | My Lord Protector needs will have it so. | My Lord Protector will haue it so. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.148 | An if they live, I hope I need not fear. | And if they liue, I hope I need not feare. |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.87 | Pray God, I say, I prove a needless coward! | Pray God (I say) I proue a needlesse Coward. |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.113 | Your friends at Pomfret, they do need the priest; | Your friends at Pomfret, they doe need the Priest, |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.87 | O, now I need the priest that spake to me! | O now I need the Priest, that spake to me: |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.84 | Nay, for a need, thus far come near my person: | Nay, for a need, thus farre come neere my Person: |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.103 | My lord, there needs no such apology. | My Lord, there needes no such Apologie: |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.164 | But, God be thanked, there is no need of me, | But God be thank'd, there is no need of me, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.165 | And much I need to help you, were there need. | And much I need to helpe you, were there need: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.460 | What need'st thou run so many miles about, | What need'st thou runne so many miles about, |
| Richard III | R3 V.ii.21 | Which in his dearest need will fly from him. | Which in his deerest neede will flye from him. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.41 | And give him from me this most needful note. | And giue him from me, this most needfull Note. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.34 | Shake, quoth the dovehouse! 'Twas no need, I trow, | Shake quoth the Doue-house, 'twas no neede I trow |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.7 | upon the table and says ‘ God send me no need of thee!’, | vpon the Table, and sayes, God send me no need of thee: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.9 | drawer, when indeed there is no need. | Drawer, when indeed there is no need. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.117 | And needly will be ranked with other griefs, | And needly will be rankt with other griefes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.16 | Therefore stay yet. Thou needest not to be gone. | Therefore stay yet, thou need'st not to be gone. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.105 | And joy comes well in such a needy time. | And ioy comes well, in such a needy time, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.175.1 | For here we need it not. | For here we need it not. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.216 | Or if he do, it needs must be by stealth. | Or if he do, it needs must be by stealth. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.34 | To help me sort such needful ornaments | To helpe me sort such needfull ornaments, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.3 | For I have need of many orisons | For I haue need of many Orysons, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.6 | What, are you busy, ho? Need you my help? | What are you busie ho? need you my help? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.13 | Go thee to bed, and rest. For thou hast need. | Get thee to bed and rest, for thou hast need. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.19 | My dismal scene I needs must act alone. | My dismall Sceane, I needs must act alone: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.9 | I must needs wake her. Madam, madam, madam! | I must needs wake her: Madam, Madam, Madam, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.13 | I must needs wake you. Lady! lady! lady! | I must needs wake you: Lady, Lady, Lady? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.42 | And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, | And in his needie shop a Tortoyrs hung, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.50 | ‘ An if a man did need a poison now | An if a man did need a poyson now, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.53 | O, this same thought did but forerun my need, | O this same thought did but fore-run my need, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.54 | And this same needy man must sell it me. | And this same needie man must sell it me. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.70 | Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes. | Need and opression starueth in thy eyes, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.61 | I'faith, sir, you shall never need to fear. | I'faith sir, you shall neuer neede to feare, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.207 | So had you need. | So had you neede: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.25 | Go ply thy needle, meddle not with her. | Go ply thy Needle, meddle not with her. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.347 | Valance of Venice gold in needlework, | Vallens of Venice gold, in needle worke: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.8 | Nor never needed that I should entreat, | Nor neuer needed that I should intreate, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.119 | Marry, sir, with needle and thread. | Marrie sir with needle and thred. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.2 | I fly, Biondello. But they may chance to need | I flie Biondello; but they may chance to neede |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.21 | need none so long as I live. | neede none so long as I liue. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.87.1 | Nay, then she must needs come. | nay then shee must needes come. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.108 | And him he played it for, he needs will be | And him he plaid it for, he needes will be |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.44 | It must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate | It must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.164 | Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine | Sword, Pike, Knife, Gun, or neede of any Engine |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.4 | And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch, | And yet I needes must curse. But they'll nor pinch, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.4 | I needs must rest me. | I needes must rest me. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.44 | Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we were boys, | Faith Sir, you neede not feare: when wee were Boyes |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.105 | My friend when he must need me. I do know him | My Friend when he must neede me. I do know him |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.168 | We must needs dine together. (To Jeweller) Sir, your jewel | We must needs dine together: sir your Iewell |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.248 | You must needs dine with me. Go not you hence | You must needs dine with me: go not you hence |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.17 | But where there is true friendship there needs none. | But where there is true friendship, there needs none. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.68 | Or my friends if I should need 'em. | Or my friends if I should need 'em. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.93 | I, what need we have any friends if we should ne'er | I,) what need we haue any Friends; if we should nere |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.94 | have need of 'em? They were the most needless | haue need of 'em? They were the most needlesse |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.247 | What needs these feasts, pomps, and vainglories? | What needs these Feasts, pompes, and Vaine-glories? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.i.25 | Immediate are my needs, and my relief | Immediate are my needs, and my releefe |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.20 | part, I must needs confess, I have received some small | part, I must needes confesse, I haue receyued some small |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iii.1 | Must he needs trouble me in't? Hum! 'Bove all others? | Must he needs trouble me in't? Hum. / 'Boue all others? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.40 | I need not tell him that; he knows. You are | I need not tell him that, he knowes you are |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.12 | must needs appear. | must needs appeare. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.74 | each man enough, that one need not lend to another; for | each man enough, that one neede not lend to another. For |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.35 | Must thou needs stand for a villain in | Must thou needes / Stand for a Villaine in |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.85 | I must needs say you have a little fault. | I must needs say you haue a little fault, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.302 | No, Titus, no, the Emperor needs her not, | No Titus, no, the Emperour needs her not, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.15 | Your lordships, that, whenever you have need, | Your Lordships, wheneuer you haue need, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.162 | And you must needs bestow her funeral. | And you must needs bestow her funerall, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.42 | So that perforce you must needs stay a time. | So that perforce you must needs stay a time. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.39 | To use as you think needful of the man. | To vse, as you thinke neeedefull of the man. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.15 | have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the | haue a Cake out of the Wheate, must needes tarry the |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.92 | Fools on both sides! Helen must needs be fair, | Fooles on both sides, Helen must needs be faire, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.88 | He shall not need it, if he have his own. | He shall not neede it if he haue his owne. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.138 | hand, I must needs confess – | hand I must needs confesse. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.71 | That matter needless, of importless burden, | That matter needlesse of importlesse burthen |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.79 | As will stop the eye of Helen's needle, for | As will stop the eye of Helens Needle, for |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.86 | As you must needs, for you all cried ‘ Go, go!’; | (As you must needs, for you all cride, Go, go:) |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.88 | As you must needs, for you all clapped your hands | (As you must needs) for you all clapt your hands, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.7 | needs praise him. | needes praise him. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.38 | Come, come, what need you blush? Shame's | Come, come, what neede you blush? / Shames |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.21 | nothing, for we may live to have need of such a verse. | nothing, for we may liue to haue neede of such a Verse: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.138 | To our own selves bend we our needful talk. | To our owne selues bend we our needefull talke. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.12 | Well said, adversity! And what need these | Well said aduersity, and what need these |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.5 | world needs to fear no colours. | world, needs to feare no colours. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.99 | Farewell, dear heart, since I must needs be gone – | Farewell deere heart, since I must needs be gone. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.175 | Let's to bed, knight. Thou hadst need send for | Let's to bed knight: Thou hadst neede send for |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.98 | And he is yours, and his must needs be yours. | And he is yours, and his must needs be yours: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.3 | You must needs yield your reason, Sir Andrew. | You must needes yeelde your reason, Sir Andrew? |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.125 | Your need to sustain. | your neede to sustaine. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.17 | Nor needest thou much importune me to that | Nor need'st thou much importune me to that |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.144 | What need she, when she hath made you write to | What need she, / When shee hath made you write to |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.83 | For Valentine, I need not cite him to it. | For Valentine, I need not cite him to it, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.186 | Some necessaries that I needs must use; | Some necessaries, that I needs must vse, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vi.20 | If I keep them, I needs must lose myself; | If I keepe them, I needs must loose my selfe: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.53 | You must needs have them with a codpiece, madam. | You must needs haue thẽ with a cod-peece Madam |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.84 | To take a note of what I stand in need of | To take a note of what I stand in need of, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.301 | What need a man care for a stock with a wench, | What neede a man care for a stock with a wench, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.304 | A special virtue; for then she need not be | A speciall vertue: for then shee neede not be |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.61 | Partly that I have need of such a youth | Partly that I haue neede of such a youth, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.ii.21 | She needs not, when she knows it cowardice. | She needes not, when she knowes it cowardize. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.44 | Be masters of our manners. What need I | Be Masters of our manners: what neede I |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.61 | Need not a plantain; that which rips my bosom | Neede not a plantin; That which rips my bosome |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.7 | His ocean needs not my poor drops, yet they | His Ocean needes not my poore drops, yet they |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.57 | More buckled with strong judgement, and their needs | More buckled with strong Iudgement. and their needes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.46 | You are a horseman, I must needs entreat you | You are a horseman, I must needs intreat you |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.99 | I'll bring you every needful thing; I pray you | Ile bring you every needfull thing: I pray you |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.25.1 | Your hunger needs no sauce, I see. | your hunger needs no sawce I see, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.48 | There's all things needful; files, and shirts, and perfumes. | Ther's all things needfull, files and shirts, and, perfumes: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.83 | Was knee-deep where she sat; her careless tresses | Was knee deepe where she sat; her careles Tresses, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.31 | You are the treasure, and must needs be by | You are the Treasure, and must needes be by |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.146.1 | That two must needs be blind for't. | That two must needes be blinde fort. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.32 | Our losses fall so thick we must needs leave. | Our losses fall so thicke, we must needs leave. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.23 | 'Twere needful I denied it. My affairs | 'Twere needfull I deny'd it. My Affaires |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.186 | Inch-thick, knee-deep, o'er head and ears a forked one! | Ynch-thick, knee-deepe; ore head and eares a fork'd one. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.155 | We need no grave to bury honesty: | We neede no graue to burie honesty, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.161.2 | Why, what need we | Why what neede we |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.168 | We need no more of your advice. The matter, | We neede no more of your aduice: the matter, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.189 | Though I am satisfied, and need no more | Though I am satisfide, and neede no more |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.ii.58.2 | You need not fear it, sir. | You neede not feare it (sir) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.35 | At each his needless heavings – such as you | At each his needlesse heauings: such as you |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.40 | No noise, my lord, but needful conference | No noyse (my Lord) but needfull conference, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.126 | A better guiding spirit! What needs these hands? | A better guiding Spirit. What needs these hands? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.ii.11 | rest of thy services by leaving me now. The need I have | rest of thy seruices, by leauing me now: the neede I haue |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.53 | Alack, poor soul! Thou hast need of more rags | Alacke poore soule, thou hast need of more rags |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.412 | Let him, my son: he shall not need to grieve | Let him (my sonne) he shall not need to greeue |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.484 | I needs must think it honesty. Camillo, | I needs must thinke it honesty. Camillo, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.497 | And most opportune to our need I have | And most opportune to her neede, I haue |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.503.1 | Or stronger for your need. | Or stronger for your neede. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.92.1 | By need and accident. What train? | By need, and accident. What Trayne? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.19 | of the one it must needs be. | of the one, it must needs be. |