| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.67 | That thee may furnish and my prayers pluck down, | That thee may furnish, and my prayers plucke downe, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.209 | Farewell. When thou hast leisure, say thy prayers; when | farewell: When thou hast leysure, say thy praiers: when |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iv.16 | You had my prayers to lead them on, and to | You had my prayers to leade them on, and to |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.42 | prayers. Fare you well, my lord, and believe this of me: | prayers. Fare you well my Lord, and beleeue this of me, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.i.9.1 | Against our borrowing prayers. | Against our borrowing prayers. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.27 | Unless her prayers, whom heaven delights to hear | Vnlesse her prayers, whom heauen delights to heare |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.69 | prayer, though thou deny me a matter of more weight; | Prayer, though thou denie me a matter of more waight: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.71 | Amen. Dear goddess, hear that prayer of the people! | Amen, deere Goddesse, heare that prayer of the people. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.8.1 | By losing of our prayers. | By loosing of our Prayers. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.iii.3 | Before the gods my knee shall bow my prayers | before the Gods my knee shall bowe my ptayers |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iv.17 | Undo that prayer by crying out as loud | Vndo that prayer, by crying out as loud, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iv.19 | Prays, and destroys the prayer; no midway | Prayes, and distroyes the prayer, no midway |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ix.26 | Swoons rather, for so bad a prayer as his | Swoonds rather, for so bad a Prayer as his |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.56 | How then might your prayers move? | How then might your praiers moue? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.53 | To yield possession to my holy prayers, | To yeeld possession to my holie praiers, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.104 | With wholesome syrups, drugs, and holy prayers, | With wholsome sirrups, drugges, and holy prayers |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.115 | And never rise until my tears and prayers | And neuer rise vntill my teares and prayers |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.80 | with my prayers, but I cannot go thither. | with my prayers: but I cannot go thither. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.x.21 | The prayers of priests nor times of sacrifice, | The Prayers of Priests, nor times of Sacrifice: |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.4 | Not according to the prayer of the people, for | Not according to the prayer of the people, for |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.ii.44.2 | Take my prayers with you. | Take my Prayers with you. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.105 | Our prayers to the gods, which is a comfort | Our prayers to the Gods, which is a comfort |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.171 | Than pity to our prayers. Down! An end; | Then pitty to our Prayers. Downe: an end, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.391 | And on it said a century of prayers – | And on it said a Century of prayers |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.118 | Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet. | Let not thy Mother lose her Prayers Hamlet: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.48 | And what's in prayer but this twofold force, | And what's in Prayer, but this two-fold force, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.51 | My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer | My fault is past. But oh, what forme of Prayer |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.226 | Till the last trumpet. For charitable prayers, | Till the last Trumpet. For charitable praier, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.124 | friendship. Say thy prayers, and farewell. | frendship / Say thy prayers, and farewell. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.14 | To Scotland, and concludes in hearty prayers | To Scotland; and concludes in heartie prayers, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.135 | Cried hate upon him, and all their prayers and love | Cry'd hate vpon him: and all their prayers, and loue, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.50 | I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers. | I know thee not, old man: Fall to thy Prayers: |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.38 | his prayers, lest 'a should be thought a coward; but his | his Prayers, lest a should be thought a Coward: but his |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.54 | They have said their prayers, and they stay for death. | They haue said their prayers, / And they stay for death. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.32 | The Church's prayers made him so prosperous. | The Churches Prayers made him so prosperous. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.67 | I would prevail, if prayers might prevail, | I would preuayle, if Prayers might preuayle, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.173 | Farewell, my lord. Good wishes, praise, and prayers | Farewell my Lord, good wishes, praise, & praiers, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.63 | Prayers and tears have moved me, gifts could never. | Prayres and Teares haue mou'd me, Gifts could neuer. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.107 | Ah, countrymen, if, when you make your prayers, | Ah Countrimen: If when you make your prair's, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.155 | As he is famed for mildness, peace, and prayer. | As he is fam'd for Mildnesse, Peace, and Prayer. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.13 | Enter King Henry, disguised, with a prayer-book | Enter the King with a Prayer booke. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.62 | My love till death, my humble thanks, my prayers; | My loue till death, my humble thanks, my prayers, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.7 | But if an humble prayer may prevail, | But, if an humble prayer may preuaile, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.63 | Live where their prayers did, and it's come to pass | Liue where their prayers did: and it's come to passe, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.77 | Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice, | Make of your Prayers one sweet Sacrifice, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.88 | You met him half in heaven. My vows and prayers | You met him halfe in Heauen: my vowes and prayers |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.67 | More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers | More then my All, is Nothing: Nor my Prayers |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.69 | More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes | More worth, then empty vanities: yet Prayers & Wishes |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.132 | Almost forgot my prayers to content him, | Almost forgot my Prayres to content him? |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.180 | He has my heart yet, and shall have my prayers | He ha's my heart yet, and shall haue my Prayers |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.177 | My prayers to heaven for you, my loyalty, | My Prayres to heauen for you; my Loyaltie |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.426 | The King shall have my service, but my prayers | The King shall haue my seruice; but my prayres |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.123 | But now I am past all comforts here but prayers. | But now I am past all Comforts heere, but Prayers. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.73 | Prithee to bed, and in thy prayers remember | Prythee to bed, and in thy Prayres remember |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.78.1 | Remember in my prayers. | Remember in my Prayers. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.83 | Men's prayers then would seek you, not their fears. | Mens prayers then would seeke you, not their feares. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.59 | If I could pray to move, prayers would move me; | If I could pray to mooue, Prayers would mooue me: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.105 | Commends this book, full fraught with prayers, | Commends this booke full fraught with prayers, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.116 | Then render back this commonplace of prayer | Then render backe this common place of prayer, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.119 | And therefore knows no prayers for my avail. | and therefore knowes no praiers for my auaile, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.120 | Ere night his prayer may be to pray to God | Ere night his praier may be to praie to God, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.121 | To put it in my heart to hear his prayer. | To put it in my heart to heare his praier, |
| King John | KJ III.i.293 | Upon which better part our prayers come in, | Vpon which better part, our prayrs come in, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.142 | As my great patron thought on in my prayers – | As my great Patron thought on in my praiers. |
| King Lear | KL II.iii.19 | Sometimes with lunatic bans, sometime with prayers, | Sometimes with Lunaticke bans, sometime with Praiers |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.24 | But they did say their prayers and addressed them | But they did say their Prayers, / And addrest them |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.49.2 | I'll send my prayers with him. | Ile send my Prayers with him. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.154 | Put on with holy prayers; and 'tis spoken, | Put on with holy Prayers, and 'tis spoken |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.69 | Unless you have the grace by your fair prayer | Vnlesse you haue the grace, by your faire praier |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.151 | As fancy values them; but with true prayers | As fancie values them: but with true prayers, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.153 | Ere sunrise: prayers from preserved souls, | Ere Sunne rise: prayers from preserued soules, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.159.1 | Where prayers cross. | Where prayers crosse. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.71 | If that be sin, I'll make it my morn prayer | If that be sin, Ile make it my Morne-praier, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.149 | I'll pray a thousand prayers for thy death, | Ile pray a thousand praiers for thy death, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.146 | you speak. But if ever the Duke return – as our prayers | you speake. But if euer the Duke returne (as our praiers |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.228 | events, with a prayer they may prove prosperous, and | euents, with a praier they may proue prosperous, & |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.40 | your prayers, for look you, the warrant's come. | your prayers: for looke you, the Warrants come. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.179 | Wear prayer books in my pocket, look demurely, | Weare prayer bookes in my pocket, looke demurely, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.20 | prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew. | praier, for here he comes in the likenes of a Iew. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.20 | I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers. | Ile follow him no more with bootlesse prayers: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.28 | To live in prayer and contemplation, | To liue in prayer and contemplation, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.126 | Of thy sharp envy. Can no prayers pierce thee? | Of thy sharpe enuy. Can no prayers pierce thee? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.198 | And that same prayer doth teach us all to render | And that same prayer, doth teach vs all to render |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.13 | prayer. He is something peevish that way, but nobody | prayer; hee is something peeuish that way: but no body |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.96 | nor evening prayer, as any is in Windsor, whoe'er be | nor euening prayer, as any is in Windsor, who ere bee |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.94 | my prayers, I would repent. | I would repent: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.50 | That, ere she sleep, has thrice her prayers said, | That ere she sleepe has thrice her prayers said, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.197 | O that my prayers could such affection move! | O that my prayers could such affection mooue. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.68 | Amen, amen, to that fair prayer say I, | Amen, amen, to that faire prayer, say I, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.95 | The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace. | The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.250 | Thy threats have no more strength than her weak prayers. | Thy threats haue no more strength then her weak praise. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.92 | I say my prayers aloud. | I say my prayers alowd. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.151 | To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart | To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.40 | A sequester from liberty, fasting and prayer, | A sequester from Liberty: Fasting, and Prayer, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.84.1 | But while I say one prayer! | But while I say one prayer. |
| Pericles | Per III.iii.19 | For which the people's prayers still fall upon you, | for which, / The peoples prayers still fall vpon you, |
| Pericles | Per III.iii.34.2 | Madam, my thanks and prayers. | Madam, my thanks and prayers. |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.66 | Come, say your prayers. | Come say your prayers. |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.68 | If you require a little space for prayer, | If you require a little space for praier, |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.8 | master reasons, her prayers, her knees, that she would | master reasons, her prayers, her knees, that shee would |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.138 | saying his prayers too. | saying his prayers too. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.73 | Add proof unto mine armour with thy prayers, | Adde proofe vnto mine Armour with thy prayres, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.96 | Unto my mother's prayers I bend my knee. | Vnto my mothers prayres, I bend my knee. |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.100 | His eyes do drop no tears, his prayers are in jest; | His eyes do drop no teares: his prayres are in iest: |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.106 | His prayers are full of false hypocrisy, | His prayers are full of false hypocrisie, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.108 | Our prayers do outpray his: then let them have | Our prayers do out-pray his, then let them haue |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.109 | That mercy which true prayer ought to have. | That mercy, which true prayers ought to haue. |
| 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.iii.21 | To your good prayers will scarcely say amen. | To your good prayer, will scarsely say, Amen. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.69 | O God! If my deep prayers cannot appease Thee, | O God! if my deepe prayres cannot appease thee, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.15 | With earnest prayers all to that effect. | With earnest prayers, all to that effect. |
| Richard III | R3 III.iii.19 | To hear her prayers for them, as now for us! | To heare her prayer for them, as now for vs: |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.46 | And look you get a prayer-book in your hand | And looke you get a Prayer-Booke in your hand, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.97 | And see, a book of prayer in his hand – | And see a Booke of Prayer in his hand, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.14 | A book of prayers on their pillow lay, | A Booke of Prayers on their pillow lay, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.191 | My prayers on the adverse party fight, | My Prayers on the aduerse party fight, |
| Richard III | R3 V.i.21 | Hath turned my feigned prayer on my head | Hath turn'd my fained Prayer on my head, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.242 | The prayers of holy saints and wronged souls, | The Prayers of holy Saints and wronged soules, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.87 | And being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two | and being thus frighted, sweares a prayer or two |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.102 | Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer. | I Pilgrim, lips that they must vse in prayer. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.105 | Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake. | Saints do not moue, / Though grant for prayers sake. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.106 | Then move not while my prayer's effect I take. | Then moue not while my prayers effect I take: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.193 | Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses. | Nor teares, nor prayers shall purchase our abuses. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.50 | All lost! To prayers, to prayers! All lost! | All lost, to prayers, to prayers, all lost. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.52 | The King and Prince at prayers, let's assist them, | The King, and Prince, at prayers, let's assist them, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.423 | On whom these airs attend! Vouchsafe my prayer | On whom these ayres attend: Vouchsafe my pray'r |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.35 | Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers, | Cheefely, that I might set it in my prayers, |
| The Tempest | Tem epilogue.16 | Unless I be relieved by prayer, | Vnlesse I be relieu'd by praier |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.75 | In bootless prayer have they been held up, | In bootelesse prayer haue they bene held vp, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.209 | Do then, dear heart, for heaven shall hear our prayers, | Doe then deare heart, for heauen shall heare our prayers, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.41 | As begging hermits in their holy prayers. | As begging Hermits in their holy prayers. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.184 | I am no baby, I, that with base prayers | I am no Baby I, that with base Prayers |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.18 | thou learn a prayer without book. Thou canst strike, | yu learn a prayer without booke: Thou canst strike, canst |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.20 | a placket. I have said my prayers, and devil Envy say | a placket. I haue said my prayers and diuell, enuie, say |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.35 | prayer? | prayer? |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.118 | Get him to say his prayers, good Sir Toby; get him | Get him to say his prayers, good sir Toby gette him |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.120 | My prayers, minx! | My prayers Minx. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.17 | Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers, | Commend thy grieuance to my holy prayers, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.193 | As I shall here make trial of my prayers, | As I shall here make tryall of my prayres, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.148 | Or prayers to the gods; a thousand chances, | Or praiers to the gods; a thousand chaunces |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.210.1 | Next hear my prayers – | Next heare my prayers. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.2 | Tender their holy prayers; let the temples | Tender their holy prayers: Let the Temples |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.16 | I'll leave you to your prayers, and betwixt ye | Ile leave you to your prayers, and betwixt ye |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.141 | A prayer upon her grave. I'll not seek far – | A prayer vpon her graue. Ile not seeke farre |