| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.231 | manifold linguist, and the armipotent soldier. | manifold Linguist, and the army-potent souldier. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.206 | With all the spots o'th' world taxed and debauched, | With all the spots a'th world, taxt and debosh'd, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.12 | His faults, in him, seem as the spots of heaven, | His faults in him, seeme as the Spots of Heauen, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.i.8 | Mesopotamia, and the shelters whither | Mesapotamia, and the shelters, whether |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.95 | And gives his potent regiment to a trull | And giues his potent Regiment to a Trull |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xii.35 | Follow his chariot, like the greatest spot | Follow his Chariot, like the greatest spot |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.404 | sound sheep's heart, that there shall not be one spot of | sound sheepes heart, that there shal not be one spot of |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.166 | A land itself at large, a potent dukedom. | A land it selfe at large, a potent Dukedome. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.53 | What are you sewing here? A fine spot, in good faith. | What are you sowing heere? A fine spotte in good faith. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.49 | To th' pot, I warrant him. | To th' pot I warrant him. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.x.15 | True sword to sword, I'll potch at him some way | True Sword to Sword: Ile potche at him some way, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.71 | flag against all patience, and, in roaring for a chamber-pot, | Flagge against all Patience, and in roaring for a Chamber-pot, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.210 | Of Phoebus' burning kisses. Such a pother | Of Phoebus burning Kisses: such a poother, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.181 | A place of potency and sway o'th' state, | A place of Potencie, and sway o'th' State, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.38 | A mole cinque-spotted: like the crimson drops | A mole Cinque-spotted: Like the Crimson drops |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.84 | and potent injuries. | and potent iniuries: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.29 | Who, impotent and bedrid, scarcely hears | Who Impotent and Bedrid, scarsely heares |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.66 | That so his sickness, age, and impotence | That so his Sicknesse, Age, and Impotence |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.202 | powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not | powerfully, and potently beleeue; yet I holde it not |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.600 | As he is very potent with such spirits, | As he is very potent with such Spirits, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.91 | And there I see such black and grained spots | And there I see such blacke and grained spots, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.171 | With wondrous potency. Once more, good night. | Once more goodnight, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.320.1 | Drink off this potion. | Drinke off this Potion: |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.347 | The potent poison quite o'ercrows my spirit. | The potent poyson quite ore-crowes my spirit, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.109 | omnipotent villain that ever cried ‘ Stand!’ to a true man. | omnipotent Villaine, that euer cryed, Stand, to a true man. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.230 | I would have him poisoned with a pot of ale. | I would haue poyson'd him with a pot of Ale. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.390 | Peace, good pint-pot, peace, good | Peace good Pint-pot, peace good |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.11 | No man so potent breathes upon the ground | No man so potent breathes vpon the ground, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.55 | As all the poisonous potions in the world, | As all the poysonous Potions in the world, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.197 | As men drink potions, that their weapons only | As men drinke Potions; that their Weapons only |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.128 | patient. Your lordship may minister the potion of | Patient: your Lordship may minister the Potion of |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.74 | such a matter to get a pottle-pot's maidenhead? | such a matter to get a Pottle-pots Maiden-head? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.122 | thin potations, and to addict themselves to sack. | thinne Potations, and to addict themselues to Sack. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.163 | Preserving life in medicine potable; | Preseruing life, in Med'cine potable: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.63 | Yea, sir, in a pottle-pot. | Yes Sir, in a pottle pot. |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.12 | give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety. | giue all my fame for a Pot of Ale, and safetie. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.155 | his cause never so spotless, if it come to the arbitrement | his Cause neuer so spotlesse, if it come to the arbitrement |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.156 | of swords, can try it out with all unspotted soldiers. | of Swords, can trye it out with all vnspotted Souldiers: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.19 | My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; | My thoughts are whirled like a Potters Wheele, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.136 | But kings and mightiest potentates must die, | But Kings and mightiest Potentates must die, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.57 | And wash away thy country's stained spots. | And wash away thy Countries stayned Spots. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.182 | Yes, my good lord: a pure unspotted heart, | Yes, my good Lord, a pure vnspotted heart, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.64 | And here's a pot of good double beer, | And here's a Pot of good Double-Beere |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.100 | A heart unspotted is not easily daunted. | A Heart vnspotted, is not easily daunted. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.iii.17 | Give me some drink; and bid the apothecary | Giue me some drinke, and bid the Apothecarie |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.62 | loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have | Loaues sold for a peny: the three hoop'd pot, shall haue |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.13 | it hath served me instead of a quart pot to drink in; | it hath seru'd me insteede of a quart pot to drinke in: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.117 | O blood-bespotted Neapolitan, | O blood-bespotted Neopolitan, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.186 | To force a spotless virgin's chastity, | To force a spotlesse Virgins Chastitie, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.105 | The Cardinal's malice and his potency | The Cardinals Malice, and his Potency |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.76 | Induced by potent circumstances, that | (Induc'd by potent Circumstances) that |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.301 | And spotless shall mine innocence arise | And spotlesse, shall mine Innocence arise, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.134 | You are potently opposed, and with a malice | You are Potently oppos'd, and with a Malice |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.61 | A most unspotted lily shall she pass | A most vnspotted Lilly shall she passe |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.182 | The angry spot doth glow on Caesar's brow, | The angry spot doth glow on Casars brow, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.i.6 | He shall not live. Look, with a spot I damn him. | He shall not liue; looke, with a spot I dam him. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.241 | And she an angel, pure, divine, unspotted: | And shee an Angell pure deuine vnspotted, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.406 | And give the bitter potion of reproach | And giue the bitter portion of reproch: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.124 | Whom should they follow, aged impotent, | Whom should they follow, aged impotent, |
| King John | KJ II.i.358 | You equal potents, fiery-kindled spirits! | You equall Potents, fierie kindled spirits, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.253 | Not painted with the crimson spots of blood. | Not painted with the Crimson spots of blood, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.30 | Upon the spot of this enforced cause – | Vpon the spot of this inforced cause, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.107 | To rest without a spot for evermore. | To rest without a spot for euermore. |
| King Lear | KL I.i.172 | Our potency made good, take thy reward. | Our potencie made good, take thy reward. |
| King Lear | KL II.i.75 | Were very pregnant and potential spurs | Were very pregnant and potentiall spirits |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.130 | fie! Pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, | fie; pah, pah: Giue me an Ounce of Ciuet; good Apothecary |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.197 | To use his eyes for garden water-pots, | To vse his eyes for Garden water-pots. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.136 | A most toad-spotted traitor. Say thou ‘ no,’ | A most Toad-spotted Traitor. Say thou no, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.642 | The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty, | The Armipotent Mars, of Launces the almighty, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.649 | The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty, | The Armipotent Mars of Launces the almighty, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.675 | Dost thou infamonize me among potentates? | Dost thou infamonize me among Potentates? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.843 | To enforce the pained impotent to smile. | To enforce the pained impotent to smile. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.909 | While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. | While greasie Ione doth keele the pot. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.918 | While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. | While greasie Ione doth keele the pot. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.9 | Boil thou first i'the charmed pot. | Boyle thou first i'th' charmed pot. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.75 | More potent than the first. | More potent then the first. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.31 | Yet here's a spot. | Yet heere's a spot. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.34 | Out, damned spot! Out, I say! – One: two: why | Out damned spot: out I say. One: Two: Why |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.67 | I would to heaven I had your potency, | I would to heauen I had your potencie, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.17 | that stabbed Pots, and I think forty more, all great doers | that stabb'd Pots, and I thinke fortie more, all great doers |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.197 | None, I protest. But I'll give you a pottle of burnt | None, I protest: but Ile giue you a pottle of burn'd |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.94 | my doctor? No; he gives me the potions and the | my Doctor? No, hee giues me the Potions and the |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.26 | pottle of sack finely. | pottle of Sacke finely. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.87 | Potent at court. He, none but he, shall have her, | Potent at Court: he, none but he shall haue her, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.104 | white spot about her. | white spot about her. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.7 | Leda. O omnipotent love, how near the god drew to the | Leda: O omnipotent Loue, how nere the God drew to the |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.19 | potatoes. Let it thunder to the tune of ‘ Greensleeves,’ | Potatoes: let it thunder, to the tune of Greenesleeues, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.110 | Upon this spotted and inconstant man. | Vpon this spotted and inconstant man. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.11 | In their gold coats spots you see – | In their gold coats, spots you see, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.9 | You spotted snakes with double tongue, | You spotted Snakes with double tongue, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.264 | Out, loathed medicine! O hated potion, hence! | Out loathed medicine; O hated poison hence. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iii.27 | Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey. | Dapples the drowsie East with spots of grey: |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.13 | And hath in his effect a voice potential | And hath in his effect a voice potentiall |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.76 | Most potent, grave and reverend signors, | Most Potent, Graue, and Reueren'd Signiors, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.158 | O, most lame and impotent conclusion! | Oh most lame and impotent conclusion. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.50 | Potations pottle-deep; and he's to watch. | Potations, pottle-deepe; and he's to watch. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.72 | potent in potting. Your Dane, your German, and your | potent in Potting. Your Dane, your Germaine, and your |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.78 | gives your Hollander a vomit, ere the next pottle can be | giues your Hollander a vomit, ere the next Pottle can be |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.432 | Spotted with strawberries, in your wife's hand? | Spotted with Strawberries, in your wiues hand? |
| Othello | Oth V.i.36 | Thy bed, lust-stained, shall with lust's blood be spotted. | Thy Bed lust-stain'd, shall with Lusts blood bee spotted. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.54 | But my unspotted fire of love to you. | But my vnspotted fire of Loue, to you: |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.68 | That ministers a potion unto me | That ministers a potion vnto me: |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.9 | That can recover him. (To Second Servant) Give this to the pothecary | That can recouer him: giue this to the Pothecary, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.61 | O you most potent gods, what's here? A corse? | Oh you most potent Gods! what's here, a Corse? |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.175 | Yea, but not change his spots. Take but my shame | Yea, but not change his spots: take but my shame, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.178 | Is spotless reputation. That away, | Is spotlesse reputation: that away, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.134 | Make war upon their spotted souls for this. | make warre / Vpon their spotted Soules for this Offence. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.85 | Yet know, my master, God omnipotent, | Yet know, my Master, God Omnipotent, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.282 | Thy garments are not spotted with our blood, | Thy Garments are not spotted with our blood: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.53 | Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary. | Delay leds impotent and Snaile-pac'd Beggery: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.1 | Where's Potpan, that he helps not | Where's Potpan, that he helpes not |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.10 | Anthony, and Potpan! | Anthonie and Potpan. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.37 | I do remember an apothecary, | I do remember an Appothecarie, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.46 | Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds, | Greene earthen pots, Bladders, and mustie seedes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.57.1 | What, ho! Apothecary! | What ho? Appothecarie? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.57 | Enter Apothecary | Enter Appothecarie. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.108 | Depart again. Here, here will I remain | Depart againe: come lie thou in my armes, / Heere's to thy health, where ere thou tumblest in. / O true Appothecarie! |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.119 | Here's to my love! (He drinks) O true Apothecary! | Heere's to my Loue. O true Appothecary: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.244 | A sleeping potion; which so took effect | A sleeping Potion, which so tooke effect |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.249 | Being the time the potion's force should cease. | Being the time the Potions force should cease. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.289 | Of a poor pothecary, and therewithal | Of a poore Pothecarie, and therewithall |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.1 | For God's sake, a pot of small ale. | For Gods sake a pot of small Ale. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.24.1 | A Servingman brings him a pot of ale | |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.74 | And once again a pot o'th' smallest ale. | And once againe a pot o'th smallest Ale. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.98.2 | a pot of ale | |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.5 | were not I a little pot and soon hot, my very lips might | were not I a little pot, & soone hot; my very lippes might |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.275 | By help of her more potent ministers, | By helpe of her more potent Ministers, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.34 | What would my potent master? Here I am. | What would my potent master? here I am. |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.261 | With aged cramps, and more pinch-spotted make them | With aged Cramps, & more pinch-spotted make them, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.50 | By my so potent art. But this rough magic | By my so potent Art. But this rough Magicke |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.22 | Your potent and infectious fevers heap | Your potent and infectious Feauors, heape |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.343 | spots of thy kindred were jurors on thy life. All thy | spottes of thy Kindred, were Iurors on thy life. All thy |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.34 | And by the hazard of the spotted die | And by the hazard of the spotted dye, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.35.1 | Let die the spotted. | Let dye the spotted. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.185 | This palliament of white and spotless hue, | This Palliament of white and spotlesse Hue, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.74 | Spotted, detested, and abominable. | Spotted, detested, and abhominable. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.175 | Than hands or tongue, her spotless chastity, | Then Hands or tongue, her spotlesse Chastity, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.148 | pot of her eyes; did her eyes run o'er too? | pot of her eyes: did her eyes run ore too? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.22 | Too subtle-potent, tuned too sharp in sweetness, | Too subtile, potent, and too sharpe in sweetnesse, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.192 | The reasons are more potent and heroical. | The reasons are more potent and heroycall: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.96 | Presuming on their changeful potency. | Presuming on their changefull potencie. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.129 | Bounds in my father's ’ – by Jove multipotent, | Bounds in my fathers: by Ioue multipotent, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.57 | potato-finger, tickles these together! Fry, lechery, fry! | potato finger, tickles these together: frye lechery, frye. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.18 | Than spotted livers in the sacrifice. | Then spotted Liuers in the sacrifice. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.200 | But such a headstrong, potent fault it is, | But such a head-strong potent fault it is, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.400 | With tosspots still had drunken heads, | With tospottes still had drunken beades, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.77 | With commendation from great potentates, | With Commendation from great Potentates, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.196.1 | By your own spotless honour – | By your owne spotlesse honour. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.59 | That my unspotted youth must now be soiled | That my unspotted youth must now be soyld |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.54 | With hand armipotent from forth blue clouds | With hand armenypotent from forth blew clowdes, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.51 | As potent as a lord's. Will you go yet? | As potent as a Lords. Will you goe yet? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.319 | I could do this, and that with no rash potion, | I could doe this, and that with no rash Potion, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.328 | Which to preserve is sleep, which being spotted | (Which to preserue, is Sleepe; which being spotted, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.131 | Please you t' accept it, that the Queen is spotless | Please you t' accept it, that the Queene is spotlesse |