| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.46 | First, for his weeping into the needless stream: | First, for his weeping into the needlesse streame; |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.116 | Their needless vouches? Custom calls me to't. | Their needlesse Vouches: Custome calls me too't. |
| 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 V.iv.66 | with needless jealousy; | with needlesse ielousy, |
| 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 |
| 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.v.5 | When with a volley of our needless shot, | When with a volley of our needlesse shot, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.146 | and nobles, needless diffidences, banishment of friends, | |
| 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. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.92 | In brief, to set the needless process by, | In briefe, to set the needlesse processe by: |
| 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, |
| 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 |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.23 | Or when she would with sharp needle wound | Or when she would with sharpe needle wound, |
| 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 III | R3 III.ii.87 | Pray God, I say, I prove a needless coward! | Pray God (I say) I proue a needlesse Coward. |
| 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.119 | Marry, sir, with needle and thread. | Marrie sir with needle and thred. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.35 | At each his needless heavings – such as you | At each his needlesse heauings: such as you |