| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.128 | Where love's strong passion is impressed in youth: | Where loues strong passion is imprest in youth, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.169 | Against the proclamation of thy passion | Against the proclamation of thy passion |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.185 | The state of your affection, for your passions | The state of your affection, for your passions |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.40 | You beg more than ‘ word ’ then. Cox my passion! | You begge more then word then. Cox my passion, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.50 | To weep; whose every passion fully strives | To weepe: who euery passion fully striues |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.147 | Alack, sir, no; her passions are made of | Alacke Sir no, her passions are made of |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.12.2 | Your speech is passion; | Your speech is passion: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.x.5.2 | What's thy passion? | What's thy passion. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.73 | By such poor passion as the maid that milks | By such poore passion, as the Maid that Milkes, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.63 | The quality of her passion shall require, | The quality of her passion shall require; |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.246 | What passion hangs these weights upon my tongue? | What passion hangs these waights vpõ my toong? |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.37 | Abruptly, as my passion now makes me, | Abruptly as my passion now makes me, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.55 | Jove, Jove! This shepherd's passion | Ioue, Ioue, this Shepherds passion, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.394 | inconstant, full of tears, full of smiles; for every passion | inconstant, ful of teares, full of smiles; for euerie passion |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.395 | something, and for no passion truly anything, as boys | something, and for no passion truly any thing, as boyes |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.170 | in your complexion that it was a passion of earnest. | in your complexion, that it was a passion of earnest. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.90 | All made of passion, and all made of wishes, | All made of passion, and all made of wishes, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.47 | But till this afternoon his passion | But till this afternoone his passion |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.151 | Each one with ireful passion, with drawn swords | Each one with irefull passion, with drawne swords |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iv.19 | Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep | Whose Passions, and whose Plots haue broke their sleep |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.197 | Mine eyes to sweat compassion. But, good sir, | Mine eyes to sweat compassion. But (good sir) |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.105 | As oft as any passion under heaven | As oft as any passion vnder Heauen, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.430 | give us a taste of your quality. Come, a passionate | giue vs a tast of your quality: come, a passionate |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.516 | And passion in the gods.’ | And passion in the Gods. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.549 | But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, | But in a Fixion, in a dreame of Passion, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.558 | Had he the motive and the cue for passion | Had he the Motiue and the Cue for passion |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.7 | passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that | Passion, you must acquire and beget a Temperance that |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.9 | hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to | see a robustious Pery-wig-pated Fellow, teare a Passion to |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.82 | That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him | That is not Passions Slaue, and I will weare him |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.145.10 | King dead, makes passionate action. The poisoner, | King dead, andmakes passionate Action. The Poysoner, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.204 | What to ourselves in passion we propose, | What to our selues in passion we propose, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.205 | The passion ending, doth the purpose lose. | The passion ending, doth the purpose lose. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.108 | That, lapsed in time and passion, lets go by | That laps't in Time and Passion, lets go by |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.188 | Thought and afflictions, passion, hell itself, | Thought, and Affliction, Passion, Hell it selfe: |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.80.1 | Into a towering passion. | Into a Towring passion. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.379 | wept, for I must speak in passion, and I will do it in | wept, for I must speake in passion, and I will doe it in |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.408 | pleasure, but in passion; not in words only, but in woes also. | Pleasure, but in Passion; not in Words onely, but in Woes also: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.32.1 | In passion shook. | In passion shooke. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.161 | This strained passion doth you wrong, my lord. | |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.165 | To stormy passion, must perforce decay. | To stormy Passion, must perforce decay. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.40 | Till that his passions, like a whale on ground, | Till that his passions (like a Whale on ground) |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.243 | Unto whose grace our passion is as subject | Vnto whose grace our passion is as subiect |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.132 | Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger, | Free from grosse passion, or of mirth, or anger, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.120 | Compassion on the King commands me stoop, | Compassion on the King commands me stoupe, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.56 | Moved with compassion of my country's wrack, | Mou'd with compassion of my Countries wracke, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.183 | For, had the passions of thy heart burst out, | For had the passions of thy heart burst out, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.ii.18 | Of all base passions fear is most accursed. | Of all base passions, Feare is most accurst. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.125 | Of mere compassion and of lenity, | Of meere compassion, and of lenity, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.4 | Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; | Do breed Loues setled passions in my heart, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.82 | With any passion of inflaming love, | With any passion of inflaming Ioue, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.102 | Nephew, what means this passionate discourse, | Nephew, what meanes this passionate discourse? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.150 | Beshrew me, but his passions moves me so | Beshrew me, but his passions moues me so, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.62 | To tell the passion of my sovereign's heart; | To tell the passion of my Soueraignes Heart; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.19 | This is it that makes me bridle passion | This is it that makes me bridle passion, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.149.1 | Or but allay the fire of passion. | Or but allay the fire of passion. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.40 | Of late with passions of some difference, | Of late, with passions of some difference, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.48 | Then, Brutus, I have much mistook your passion, | Then Brutus, I haue much mistook your passion, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.283 | Passion, I see, is catching, for mine eyes, | Passion I see is catching from mine eyes, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.3 | And changing passions, like inconstant clouds | And changing passion like inconstant clouds: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.55 | I will acquaint him with my passion, | I will acquaint him with my passion, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.93 | Forget not to set down how passionate, | Forget not to set downe how passionat, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.191 | For inward passion will not let me speak. | For inward passions will not let me speake. |
| King John | KJ II.i.544 | She is sad and passionate at your highness' tent. | She is sad and passionate at your highnes Tent. |
| King John | KJ III.iii.47 | A passion hateful to my purposes; | A passion hatefull to my purposes: |
| King John | KJ III.iv.39 | Then with a passion would I shake the world, | Then with a passion would I shake the world, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.88 | Let him come back, that his compassion may | Let him come backe, that his compassion may |
| 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.263 | Forgive the comment that my passion made | Forgiue the Comment that my passion made |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.73 | Which are t' intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passion | Which are t'intrince, t'vnloose: smooth euery passion |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.229 | For those that mingle reason with your passion | For those that mingle reason with your passion, |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.14 | Over her passion who, most rebel-like, | |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.196 | 'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief, | Twixt two extremes of passion, ioy and greefe, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.252 | but with this I passion to say wherewith – | but with this I passion to say wherewith: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.1 | Warble, child: make passionate my sense of | Warble childe, make passionate my sense of |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.138 | Saw sighs reek from you, noted well your passion. | Saw sighes reeke from you, noted well your passion. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.200 | It did move him to passion, and therefore let's hear it. | It did moue him to passion, and therefore let's heare it. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.118 | To check their folly, passion's solemn tears. | To checke their folly passions solemne teares. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.56 | You shall offend him and extend his passion. | You shall offend him, and extend his Passion, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.114.2 | Macduff, this noble passion, | Macduff, this Noble passion |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.viii.12 | I never heard a passion so confused, | I neuer heard a passion so confusd, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.54 | Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? | Iew hands, organs, dementions, sences, affections, passions, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.108 | How all the other passions fleet to air: | How all the other passions fleet to ayre, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.51 | Master of passion, sways it to the mood | Masters of passion swayes it to the moode |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.58 | Got's will and his passion of my heart! I had as | Got's-will, and his passion of my heart: I had as |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.74 | You spend your passion on a misprised mood. | You spend your passion on a mispris'd mood, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.220 | I am amazed at your passionate words. | I am amazed at your passionate words, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.70 | The passion of loud laughter never shed. | the passion of loud laughter / Neuer shed. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.280 | This passion, and the death of a dear friend, | This passion, and the death of a deare friend, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.307 | and her passion ends the play. | and her passion ends the play. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.202 | If my passion change not shortly, God forbid it | If my passion change not shortly, God forbid it |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.107 | of passion came so near the life of passion as she | of passion, came so neere the life of passion as she |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.109 | Why, what effects of passion shows she? | Why what effects of passion shewes she? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.83 | And counsel him to fight against his passion. | And counsaile him to fight against his passion, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.23 | Their counsel turns to passion, which before | Their counsaile turnes to passion, which before, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.200 | And passion, having my best judgement collied, | And passion (hauing my best iudgement collied) |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.123.1 | That passion cannot rule. | That Passion cannot rule. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.388 | I see, sir, you are eaten up with passion. | I see you are eaten vp with Passion: |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.40 | invest herself in such shadowing passion without some | inuest her selfe in such shadowing passion, without some |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.77 | A passion most unsuiting such a man – | (A passion most resulting such a man) |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.259 | Concerning this, sir – O, well-painted passion! – | Concerning this Sir, (oh well-painted passion) |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.268 | Whom passion could not shake? Whose solid virtue | Whom Passion could not shake? Whose solid vertue |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.44 | Some bloody passion shakes your very frame: | Some bloody passion shakes your very Frame: |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.11 | Then it is thus: the passions of the mind, | Then it is thus, the passions of the mind, |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.23.4 | and in a mighty passion departs. The rest go out | and in a mighty passion departs. |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.24 | This borrowed passion stands for true old woe, | This borrowed passion stands for true olde woe: |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.174 | It boots thee not to be compassionate. | It boots thee not to be compassionate, |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.48 | And in compassion weep the fire out; | And in compassion, weepe the fire out: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.119 | this passionate humour of mine will change. It was wont | this passionate humor of mine, will change, / It was wont |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.7 | Melting with tenderness and mild compassion, | Melted with tendernesse, and milde compassion, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.chorus.13 | But passion lends them power, time means, to meet, | But passion lends them Power, time, meanes to meete, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.i.7 | Romeo! Humours! Madman! Passion! Lover! | Romeo, Humours, Madman, Passion, Louer, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.104 | My true-love passion. Therefore pardon me, | My true Loues passion, therefore pardon me, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.95 | You break into some merry passion | You breake into some merrie passion, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.72 | A re, to plead Hortensio's passion – | Are, to plead Hortensio's passion: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.105 | not – Cock's passion, silence! I hear my master. | not--- Cockes passion, silence, I heare my master. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.27 | The very virtue of compassion in thee, | The very vertue of compassion in thee: |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.393 | Allaying both their fury and my passion | Allaying both their fury, and my passion |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.143 | This is strange. Your father's in some passion | This is strange: your fathers in some passion |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.24 | Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art? | Passion as they, be kindlier mou'd then thou art? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.137 | Our own precedent passions do instruct us | Our owne precedent passions do instruct vs |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.i.56 | I feel my master's passion. This slave, | I feele my Masters passion. This Slaue |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.5 | Honour, health, and compassion to the Senate! | Honor, health, and compassion to the Senate. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.21 | And with such sober and unnoted passion | And with such sober and vnnoted passion |
| 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 II.i.36 | And plead my passions for Lavinia's love. | And plead my passions for Lauinia's loue. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.217 | Aaron is gone, and my compassionate heart | Aaron is gone, / And my compassionate heart |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.216 | Then be my passions bottomless with them. | Then be my passions bottomlesse with them. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.6 | And cannot passionate our tenfold grief | And cannot passionate our tenfold griefe, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.48 | Alas, the tender boy in passion moved | Alas, the tender boy in passion mou'd, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.124 | And not relent, or not compassion him? | And not relent, or not compassion him? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.170 | To the hot passion of distempered blood | To the hot passion of distemp'red blood, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.33 | Even such a passion doth embrace my bosom. | Euen such a passion doth imbrace my bosome: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.165 | With that which here his passion doth express? | With that which here his passion doth expresse? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.184 | Your passion draws ears hither. | Your passion drawes eares hither. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iv.24 | O, then unfold the passion of my love. | O then, vnfold the passion of my loue, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.ii.22 | She loves me, sure, the cunning of her passion | She loues me sure, the cunning of her passion |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.4 | Methought it did relieve my passion much, | Me thought it did releeue my passion much, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.93 | Can bide the beating of so strong a passion | Can bide the beating of so strong a passion, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.149 | Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide. | Nor wit, nor reason, can my passion hide: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.202 | With the same 'haviour that your passion bears | With the same hauiour that your passion beares, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.364 | Methinks his words do from such passion fly | Me thinkes his words do from such passion flye |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.51 | Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion, sway | Let thy fayre wisedome, not thy passion sway |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.16 | How now, what means this passion at his name? | How now? what meanes this passion at his name? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.124 | Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus, | Poore forlorne Protheus, passionate Protheus: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.231 | Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire – | Could penetrate her vncompassionate Sire; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.164 | Madam, 'twas Ariadne passioning | (Madam) 'twas Ariadne, passioning |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.30.1 | What passion would enclose thee! | What passion would enclose thee. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.31 | Thou shouldst perceive my passion, if these signs | Thou shouldst perceive my passion, if these signes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.48 | This gentleness of answer: 'tis your passion | This gentlenesse of answer; tis your passion |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.213 | Compassion to 'em both, how would you place it? | Compassion to 'em both, how would you place it? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.232 | Not made in passion neither, but good heed. | Not made in passion neither, but good heede. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.239 | To all but your compassion – how their lives | To all but your compassion) how their lives |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.271 | What may be done? For now I feel compassion. | What may be done? for now I feele compassion. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.11 | His rash oath or the sweet compassion | His rash o'th, or the sweet compassion |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.132 | Which yields compassion where he conquers; sharp | Which yeelds compassion where he conquers: sharpe |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.28 | Fear you his tyrannous passion more, alas, | Feare you his tyrannous passion more (alas) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.493 | Upon his passion. Let myself and Fortune | Vpon his passion: Let my selfe, and Fortune |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.16 | passion of wonder appeared in them; but the wisest | passion of Wonder appeared in them: but the wisest |