| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.9 | sirrah. The complaints I have heard of you I do not all | sirra: the complaints I haue heard of you I do not all |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.31 | Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry, | Creeking my shooes on the plaine Masonry, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.22 | But the plain single vow that is vowed true. | But the plaine single vow, that is vow'd true: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.163 | Both suffer under this complaint we bring, | Both suffer vnder this complaint we bring, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.315 | If it appear not plain and prove untrue, | If it appeare not plaine, and proue vntrue, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.78.2 | Enjoy thy plainness; | Inioy thy plainnesse, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.52 | The why is plain as way to parish church. | The why is plaine, as way to Parish Church: |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.28 | by nature nor art may complain of good breeding, or | by Nature, nor Art, may complaine of good breeding, or |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.43 | After the shepherd that complained of love, | After the Shepheard that complain'd of loue, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.73 | And piteous plainings of the pretty babes, | And pitteous playnings of the prettie babes |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.37 | As much or more we should ourselves complain. | As much, or more, we should our selues complaine: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.52 | Nay, he struck so plainly I could | Nay, hee strooke so plainly, I could |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.74 | Marry, sir, by a rule as plain as | Marry sir, by a rule as plaine as |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.75 | the plain bald pate of Father Time himself. | the plaine bald pate of Father time himselfe. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.93 | hairy men plain dealers, without wit. | hairy men plain dealers without wit. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.94 | The plainer dealer, the sooner | The plainer dealer, the sooner |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.22 | No? Why, 'tis a plain case: he | No? why 'tis a plaine case: he |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.113 | Complain unto the Duke of this indignity. | Complaine vnto the Duke of this indignity. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.121 | The former agents, if they did complain, | The former Agents, if they did complaine, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.207 | They vented their complainings; which being answered, | They vented their Complainings, which being answer'd |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.47 | the first complaint, hasty and tinder-like upon too | the first complaint, hasty and Tinder-like vppon, to |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.14 | his noble carelessness lets them plainly see't. | his Noble carelesnesse lets them plainely see't. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.61.1 | I'th' plain way of his merit. | I'th' plaine Way of his Merit. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.3 | You must report to th' Volscian lords how plainly | You must report to th' Volcian Lords, how plainly |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.375 | Thou mov'st no less with thy complaining than | Thou mou'st no lesse with thy complaining, then |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.132 | I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth | I would not, in plaine tearmes, from this time forth, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.70 | On Holmedon's plains. Of prisoners Hotspur took | On Holmedons Plaines. Of Prisoners, Hotspurre tooke |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.250 | plain tale shall put you down. Then did we two set on | plaine Tale shall put you downe. Then did we two, set on |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.431 | The complaints I hear of thee are grievous. | The complaints I heare of thee, are grieuous. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.17 | And of so easy and so plain a stop | And of so easie, and so plaine a stop, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.3 | Speak plainly your opinions of our hopes. | Speake plainly your opinions of our hopes, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.66 | Our very veins of life. Hear me more plainly. | Our very Veines of Life: heare me more plainely. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.114 | Whereof you did complain, which, by mine honour, | Whereof you did complaine; which, by mine Honor, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.221 | Then plain and right must my possession be, | Then plaine and right must my possession be; |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.35 | There is many complaints, Davy, against that | There are many Complaints Dauy, against that |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.26 | Are every one a woe, a sore complaint | Are euery one, a Woe, a sore Complaint, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.245 | Therefore with frank and with uncurbed plainness | Therefore with franke and with vncurbed plainnesse, |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.5 | humour of it is too hot, that is the very plainsong of it. | humor of it is too hot, that is the very plaine-Song of it. |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.6 | The plainsong is most just; for humours do abound. | The plaine-Song is most iust: for humors doe abound: |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.50 | put into mine; for it is plain pocketing up of wrongs. I | put into mine; for it is plaine pocketting vp of Wrongs. I |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.28 | Our madams mock at us, and plainly say | Our Madames mock at vs, and plainely say, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vi.8 | Larding the plain; and by his bloody side, | Larding the plaine: and by his bloody side, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.108 | But in plain shock and even play of battle, | But in plaine shock, and euen play of Battaile, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.124 | couldst, thou wouldst find me such a plain king that | could'st, thou would'st finde me such a plaine King, that |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.148 | there, let thine eye be thy cook. I speak to thee plain | there? let thine Eye be thy Cooke. I speake to thee plaine |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.152 | liv'st, dear Kate, take a fellow of plain and uncoined | liu'st, deare Kate, take a fellow of plaine and vncoyned |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.46 | Then, for the truth and plainness of the case, | Then for the truth, and plainnesse of the Case, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.202 | Which is so plain that Exeter doth wish | Which is so plaine, that Exeter doth wish, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.51 | No more but plain and bluntly ‘ To the King?’ | No more but plaine and bluntly? (To the King.) |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.57 | Together with the pitiful complaints | Together with the pittifull complaints |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.87 | What is that wrong whereof you both complain? | What is that wrong, wherof you both complain |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.189 | Thy deeds, thy plainness, and thy housekeeping | Thy deeds, thy plainnesse, and thy house-keeping, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.96 | Yet I do find it so; for, to be plain, | Yet I doe finde it so: for to be plaine, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.95 | As for the Duke of York, this late complaint | As for the Duke of Yorke, this late Complaint |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.35 | Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains | Safer shall he be vpon the sandie Plaines, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.67 | Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains | Safer shall he be vpon the sandie Plaines, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.ii.53 | What plain proceedings is more plain than this? | What plaine proceedings is more plain then this? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.95 | Or hast thou a mark to thyself, like a honest plain-dealing | Or hast thou a marke to thy selfe, like a honest plaindealing |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iii.3 | Chaplain, away! Thy priesthood saves thy life. | Chaplaine away, thy Priesthood saues thy life. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.23 | Bootless are plaints, and cureless are my wounds; | Bootlesse are Plaints, and Curelesse are my Wounds: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.41 | To hear and see her plaints, her brinish tears. | To heare and see her plaints, her Brinish Teares. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.69 | To tell thee plain, I aim to lie with thee. | To tell thee plaine, I ayme to lye with thee. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.70 | To tell you plain, I had rather lie in prison. | To tell you plaine, I had rather lye in Prison. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.19 | Be plain, Queen Margaret, and tell thy grief; | Be plaine, Queene Margaret, and tell thy griefe, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.8 | I mind to tell him plainly what I think. | I minde to tell him plainly what I thinke. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.76 | And so I was, which plainly signified | And so I was, which plainly signified, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.162 | John de la Car, my chaplain, a choice hour | Iohn de la Car, my Chaplaine, a choyce howre |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.166 | My chaplain to no creature living but | My Chaplaine to no Creature liuing, but |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.173 | On the complaint o'th' tenants. Take good heed | On the complaint o'th'Tenants; take good heed |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.45 | A long time out of play, may bring his plainsong, | A long time out of play, may bring his plaine song, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.1 | If you will now unite in your complaints | If you will now vnite in your Complaints, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.37.25 | 10. Certain Ladies or Countesses, with plain circlets | 10 Certaine Ladies or Countesses, with plaine Circlets |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.48 | Given ear to our complaint, of his great grace | Giuen eare to our Complaint, of his great Grace, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.99 | Grievous – complaints of you; which, being considered, | Greeuous complaints of you; which being consider'd, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.16 | The whole realm, by your teaching and your chaplains' – | The whole Realme, by your teaching & your Chaplaines |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.71 | That's the plain truth. Your painted gloss discovers, | That's the plaine truth; your painted glosse discouers |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.54 | To all the plains about him; our children's children | To all the Plaines about him: Our Childrens Children |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.219 | But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, | But (as you know me all) a plaine blunt man |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.ii.22 | There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; | There are no trickes, in plaine and simple Faith: |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.146 | Whose habit rude and manners blunt and plain | Whose habit rude, and manners blunt and playne, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.279 | Or are her words sweet chaplains to her beauty? | Or are her words sweet chaplaines to her bewtie, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.108 | And bring he ne'er so plain a pedigree, | And bring he nere so playne a pedegree, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.42 | He hath withdrawn himself to Crécy plains, | He hath with drawen himselfe to Cressey plaines, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.166 | Now on this plain of Crécy spread yourselves – | Now on this plaine of Cressie spred your selues, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.66 | What tidings, messenger? Be plain and brief. | What tidings messenger, be playne and briefe. |
| King John | KJ II.i.295 | Up higher to the plain, where we'll set forth | Vp higher to the plaine, where we'l set forth |
| King John | KJ II.i.462 | He speaks plain cannon – fire and smoke and bounce; | He speakes plaine Cannon fire, and smoake, and bounce, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.159 | Plainly denouncing vengeance upon John. | Plainly denouncing vengeance vpon Iohn. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.22 | Of plain old form is much disfigured; | Of plaine old forme, is much disfigured, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.129 | Let pride, which she calls plainness, marry her. | Let pride, which she cals plainnesse, marry her: |
| King Lear | KL I.i.148 | When power to flattery bows? To plainness honour's bound | When power to flattery bowes? / To plainnesse honour's bound, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.33 | tale in telling it, and deliver a plain message bluntly. | tale in telling it, and deliuer a plaine message bluntly: |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.322 | Each buzz, each fancy, each complaint, dislike, | Each buz, each fancie, each complaint, dislike, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.81 | Goose, if I had you upon Sarum Plain, | Goose, if I had you vpon Sarum Plaine, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.90 | Sir, 'tis my occupation to be plain. | Sir, 'tis my occupation to be plaine, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.97 | An honest mind and plain – he must speak truth! | An honest mind and plaine, he must speake truth, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.98 | And they will take it, so; if not, he's plain. | And they will take it so, if not, hee's plaine. |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.99 | These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness | These kind of Knaues I know, which in this plainnesse |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.109 | you in a plain accent was a plain knave; which, for my | you in a plaine accent, was a plaine Knaue, which for my |
| King Lear | KL III.i.39 | The King hath cause to plain. | |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.242 | 'Chill be plain with you. | chill be plaine with you. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.62 | And, to deal plainly, | And to deale plainely, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.71 | mail, sir! O, sir, plantain, a plain plantain! No l'envoy, | male sir. Or sir, Plantan, a plaine Plantan: no lenuoy, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.80 | No, page; it is an epilogue or discourse to make plain | No Page, it is an epilogue or discourse to make plaine, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.119 | This will I send, and something else more plain, | This will I send, and something else more plaine. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.270 | 'Twere good yours did; for, sir, to tell you plain, | 'Twere good yours did: for sir to tell you plaine, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.346 | Now to plain dealing. Lay these glosses by. | Now to plaine dealing, Lay these glozes by, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.177 | That some plain man recount their purposes. | That some plaine man recount their purposes. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.281 | Well, better wits have worn plain statute-caps. | Well, better wits haue worne plain statute caps, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.302 | Let us complain to them what fools were here, | Let vs complaine to them what fooles were heare, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.452 | By heaven you did! And, to confirm it plain, | By heauen you did; and to confirme it plaine, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.561 | My scutcheon plain declares that I am Alisander. | My Scutcheon plaine declares that I am Alisander. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.595 | Judas Maccabaeus clipped is plain Judas. | Iudas Machabeus clipt, is plaine Iudas. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.748 | Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief; | Honest plain words, best pierce the ears of griefe |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.113 | complain of? Come me to what was done to her. | complaine of? Come me to what was done to her. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.235 | you before me again upon any complaint whatsoever; | you before me againe vpon any complaint whatsoeuer; |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.238 | to you. In plain dealing, Pompey, I shall have you | to you: in plaine dealing Pompey, I shall haue you |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.82 | To be received plain, I'll speak more gross: | To be receiued plaine, Ile speake more grosse: |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.141 | Plainly conceive, I love you. | Plainlie conceiue I loue you. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.171 | To whom should I complain? Did I tell this, | To whom should I complaine? Did I tell this, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iv.11 | of complaints, and to deliver us from devices hereafter, | of Complaints, and to deliuer vs from deuices heereafter, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.24 | Till you have heard me in my true complaint | Till you haue heard me, in my true complaint, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.114.1 | Thou cam'st here to complain. | Thou cam'st heere to complaine. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.153 | Being come to knowledge that there was complaint | Being come to knowledge, that there was complaint |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.249 | Hath set the women on to this complaint. | Hath set the women on to this Complaint; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.59 | or as you would say in plain terms, gone to heaven. | or as you would say in plaine tearmes, gone to heauen. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.11 | without any slips of prolixity or crossing the plain highway | without any slips of prolixity, or crossing the plaine high-way |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.3 | you I fear you. I was always plain with you, and so now | you, I feare you, I was alwaies plaine with you, and so now |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.53 | thee understand a plain man in his plain meaning: go | thee vnderstand a plaine man in his plaine meaning: goe |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.82 | But with all brief and plain conveniency | But with all briefe and plaine conueniencie |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.166 | You were to blame – I must be plain with you – | You were too blame, I must be plaine with you, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.103 | Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me | Now, Master Shallow, you'll complaine of me to |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.55 | A plain kerchief, Sir John. My brows | A plaine Kerchiefe, Sir Iohn: My browes |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.22 | Full of vexation come I, with complaint | Full of vexation, come I, with complaint |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.200 | Or rather do I not in plainest truth | Or rather doe I not in plainest truth, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.41 | let him name his name, and tell them plainly he is Snug | let / him name his name, and tell him plainly hee is Snug |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.124 | The plainsong cuckoo grey, | The plainsong Cuckow gray; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.404.1 | To plainer ground. | to plainer ground. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.127 | But wonder on, till truth make all things plain. | But wonder on, till truth make all things plaine. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.29 | man, it must not be denied but I am a plain-dealing | man) it must not be denied but I am a plaine dealing |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.18 | He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose, like an | he was wont to speake plaine, & to the purpose (like an |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.73 | meaning; I meant plain holy-thistle. You may think perchance | meaning, I meant plaine holy thissell, you may thinke perchance |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.1 | Come, Friar Francis, be brief; only to the plain | Come Frier Francis, be briefe, onely to the plaine |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.240 | Come, bring away the plaintiffs; by this time | Come, bring away the plaintiffes, by this time |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.292 | white and black, this plaintiff here, the offender, did call | white and black, this plaintiffe here, the offendour did call |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.52 | sense, so forcible is thy wit. But I must tell thee plainly, | sence, so forcible is thy wit, but I must tell thee plainely, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.98 | In honest plainness thou hast heard me say | In honest plainenesse thou hast heard me say, |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.19 | Shall out-tongue his complaints. 'Tis yet to know – | Shall out-tongue his Complaints. 'Tis yet to know, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.303 | Knavery's plain face is never seen till used. | Knaueries plaine face, is neuer seene, till vs'd. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.14 | What's dumb in show, I'll plain with speech. | What's dumbe in shew, I'le plaine with speach. |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.42 | Where then, alas, may I complain myself? | Where then (alas may I) complaint my selfe? ? |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.175 | After our sentence plaining comes too late. | After our sentence, plaining comes too late. |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.128 | My brother Gloucester, plain well-meaning soul – | My brother Gloucester, plaine well meaning soule |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.50 | Upon the grassy carpet of this plain. | Vpon the Grassie Carpet of this Plaine: |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.18 | And what I want it boots not to complain. | And what I want, it bootes not to complaine. |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.126 | That hearing how our plaints and prayers do pierce, | That hearing how our plaints and prayres do pearce, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.76 | Humbly complaining to her deity | Humbly complaining to her Deitie, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.118 | Simple plain Clarence, I do love thee so | Simple plaine Clarence, I do loue thee so, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.236 | But the plain devil and dissembling looks? | But the plaine Diuell, and dissembling lookes? |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.43 | Who is it that complains unto the King | Who is it that complaines vnto the King, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.51 | Cannot a plain man live and think no harm, | Cannot a plaine man liue, and thinke no harme, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.61 | But you must trouble him with lewd complaints. | But you must trouble him with lewd complaints. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.67 | I am not barren to bring forth complaints. | I am not barren to bring forth complaints: |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.25 | I took him for the plainest harmless creature | I tooke him for the plainest harmelesse Creature, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.87 | Poor heart, adieu! I pity thy complaining. | Poore heart adieu, I pittie thy complaining. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.18 | Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead, | Shall I be plaine? I wish the Bastards dead, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.29 | The chaplain of the Tower hath buried them; | The Chaplaine of the Tower hath buried them, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.358 | An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. | An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.359 | Then plainly to tell her my loving tale. | Then plainly to her, tell my louing tale. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.360 | Plain and not honest is too harsh a style. | Plaine and not honest, is too harsh a style. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.292 | I will lead forth my soldiers to the plain, | I will leade forth my Soldiers to the plaine, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.chorus.7 | But to his foe supposed he must complain, | But to his foe suppos'd he must complaine, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.51 | Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift. | Be plaine good Son, rest homely in thy drift, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.53 | Then plainly know my heart's dear love is set | Then plainly know my hearts deare Loue is set, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.149 | And now in plainness do confess to thee, | And now in plainnesse do confesse to thee |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.40 | these words plain, ‘ Sirrah, knock me here, rap me here, | these words plaine? Sirra, Knocke me heere: rappe me heere: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.170 | Say that she rail, why then I'll tell her plain | Say that she raile, why then Ile tell her plaine, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.185 | You lie, in faith, for you are called plain Kate, | You lye infaith, for you are call'd plaine Kate, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.262 | Thus in plain terms – your father hath consented | Thus in plaine termes: your father hath consented |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.26 | or shall I complain on thee to our mistress, whose hand | or shall I complaine on thee to our mistris, whose hand |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.39 | Your plainness and your shortness please me well. | Your plainnesse and your shortnesse please me well: |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.82 | And prompt me, plain and holy innocence. | And prompt me plaine and holy innocence. |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.266 | Is a plain fish, and no doubt marketable. | Is a plaine Fish, and no doubt marketable. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.214 | Not so well as plain dealing, which will not | Not so well as plain-dealing, which wil not |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.24 | is ever the duller for his act; and but in the plainer | is euer the duller for his acte, / And but in the plainer |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.ii.24 | Makes way and run like swallows o'er the plain. | Makes way, and runnes likes Swallowes ore the plaine |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.301 | Let them not speak a word, the guilt is plain; | Let them not speake a word, the guilt is plaine, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.39 | Speechless complainer, I will learn thy thought. | Speechlesse complaynet, I will learne thy thought: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.68 | This sandy plot is plain; guide, if thou canst, | This sandie plot is plaine, guide if thou canst |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.74 | Heaven guide thy pen to print thy sorrows plain, | Heauen guide thy pen to print thy sorrowes plaine, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC prologue.13 | Their warlike fraughtage; now on Dardan plains | Their warlike frautage: now on Dardan Plaines |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.80 | Hollow upon this plain, so many hollow factions. | Hollow vpon this Plaine, so many hollow Factions. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.28 | Ay, ay, ay, ay, 'tis too plain a case. | I, I, I, I, 'tis too plaine a case. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.105 | With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare. | With truth and plainnesse I doe weare mine bare: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.107 | Is ‘ plain and true;’ there's all the reach of it. | Is plaine and true, ther's all the reach of it. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.24 | Thus proudly pight upon our Phrygian plains, | Thus proudly pight vpon our Phrygian plaines: |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.43 | Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain. | Marke it Cesario, it is old and plaine; |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.9 | As plain as I see you now. | As plaine as I see you now. |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.38 | are as lustrous as ebony. And yet complainest thou of | are as lustrous as Ebony: and yet complainest thou of |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.17 | Now my foes tell me plainly, I am an ass; so that by my | now my foes tell me plainly, I am an Asse: so that by my |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.352 | Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge | Thou shalt be both the Plaintiffe and the Iudge |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.127 | He couples it to his complaining names. | He couples it, to his complaining Names; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.86 | Will well become such sweet complaining grievance. | Will well become such sweet complaining grieuance: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.5 | And to the nightingale's complaining notes | And to the Nightingales complaining Notes |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.82 | And, that my love may appear plain and free, | And that my loue may appeare plaine and free, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.54 | Bring him to th' plains, his learning makes no cry. | bring him to'th plaines, his learning makes no cry. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.105.2 | Plainly spoken. | Plainely spoken, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.265 | Be plainer with me, let me know my trespass | Be plainer with me, let me know my Trespas |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.315 | Plainly as heaven sees earth and earth sees heaven | Plainely, as Heauen sees Earth, and Earth sees Heauen, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.149 | Do plainly give you out an unstained shepherd, | Do plainly giue you out an vnstain'd Shepherd |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.176 | As 'twere, my daughter's eyes; and, to be plain, | As 'twere my daughters eyes: and to be plaine, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.440 | I was about to speak and tell him plainly, | I was about to speake, and tell him plainely, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.705 | complaint may be to the flight of my master. | Complaint may be to the flight of my Master. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.716 | We are but plain fellows, sir. | We are but plaine fellowes, Sir. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.790 | plain men, what you have to the King. Being something | plaine men) what you haue to the King: being something |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.832 | complaint they have to the King concerns him nothing, | Complaint they haue to the King, concernes him nothing, |