| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iv.33 | taught to find me? The search, sir, was profitable; and | taught to finde me? The search sir was profitable, and |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.7 | Deny us for our good; so find we profit | Deny vs for our good: so finde we profit |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.76 | 'Tis not my profit that does lead mine honour; | 'Tis not my profit that does lead mine Honour: |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.6 | goldenly of his profit: for my part, he keeps me rustically | goldenly of his profit: for my part, he keepes me rustically |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.95 | The soil, the profit, and this kind of life, | The soile, the profit, and this kinde of life, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.84 | If that an eye may profit by a tongue, | If that an eye may profit by a tongue, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.18 | Draws us a profit from all things we see: | Drawes vs a profit from all things we see: |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.163 | Where there's no profit. I prithee, to our rock, | Where there's no profit. I prythee to our Rocke, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.207 | and gallowses! I speak against my present profit, | and Galowses: I speake against my present profit, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.133 | How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable | How weary, stale, flat, and vnprofitable |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.24 | For the supply and profit of our hope, | For the supply and profit of our Hope, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.330 | both in reputation and profit, was better both ways. | both in reputation and profit was better both wayes. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.19 | That hath in it no profit but the name. | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.151 | and him the ears of profiting, that what thou speakest | and he the eares of profiting, that what thou speakest, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.59 | Come, come, no more of this unprofitable chat. | Come, come, no more of this vnprofitable Chat. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.160 | Exceedingly well read, and profited | Exceeding well read, and profited, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.80 | Has not the boy profited? | Hath not the boy profited? |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.107 | Unto the camp, and profits will accrue. | vnto the Campe, and profits will accrue. |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.31 | Some petty and unprofitable dukedoms. | Some petty and vnprofitable Dukedomes. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.270 | With profitable labour to his grave: | With profitable labour to his Graue: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.63 | That will not trust thee but for profit's sake? | That will not trust thee, but for profits sake? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.202 | While they do tend the profit of the land. | While they do tend the profit of the Land. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.204 | And common profit of his country! | And common profit of his Countrey. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.55 | Ill blows the wind that profits nobody. | Ill blowes the winde that profits no body, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.83 | But little for my profit. Can you think, lords, | But little for my profit can you thinke Lords, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.158 | Employed you where high profits might come home, | Imploy'd you where high Profits might come home, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.174 | The profit of the state. For your great graces | The profit of the State. For your great Graces |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.11 | For profit must with honour be commixed, | For profit must with honor be comixt, |
| King Lear | KL II.i.74 | If they not thought the profits of my death | If they not thought the profits of my death |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.90 | Have no more profit of their shining nights | Haue no more profit of their shining nights, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.75 | and their daughters profit very greatly under you. You | and their Daughters profit very greatly vnder you: you |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.745 | Is not by much so wholesome-profitable | Is not by much so wholsome profitable, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.62 | Profit again should hardly draw me here. | Profit againe should hardly draw me heere. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.61 | With profits of the mind, study, and fast. | With profits of the minde: Studie, and fast |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.128 | In profiting by them. Nay, call us ten times frail, | In profiting by them: Nay, call vs ten times fraile, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.31 | Ere this rude beast will profit. | Ere this rude beast will profit. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.122 | This nor hurts him nor profits you a jot; | This nor hurts him, nor profits you a iot, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.452 | Your suit's unprofitable. Stand up, I say. | Your suite's vnprofitable: stand vp I say: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.163 | Is not so estimable, profitable neither, | Is not so estimable, profitable neither |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.45 | Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day | Snaile-slow in profit, but he sleepes by day |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.30 | Since that the trade and profit of the city | Since that the trade and profit of the citty |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.15 | profits nothing in the world at his book. I pray you, | profits nothing in the world at his Booke: I pray you |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.4 | Which falls into mine ears as profitless | Which falls into mine eares as profitlesse, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.30 | To wake and wage a danger profitless. | To wake, and wage a danger profitlesse. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.380 | But for my sport and profit. I hate the Moor, | But for my Sport, and Profit: I hate the Moore, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.270 | profitably removed, without the which there were no | profitably remoued, without the which there were no |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.10 | That profit's yet to come 'tween me and you. | That profit's yet to come 'tweene me, and you. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.79 | Or sue to you to do a peculiar profit | Or sue to you, to do a peculiar profit |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.376 | I thank you for this profit, and from hence | I thanke you for this profit, and from hence |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.231 | Ay, if you dare do yourself a profit and a right. He | I: if you dare do your selfe a profit, and a right. He |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.4 | To yield thee so much profit. Let not conscience, | to yeelde thee so much profite: let not conscience |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.25 | Changed with this unprofitable woe! | Changd with this vnprofitable woe: |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.81 | Wherein my death might yield her any profit, | wherein my death might yeeld her anie profit, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.113 | despise profit where you have most gain. To weep that | despise profite, where you haue most gaine, to weepe that |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.116 | mere profit. | meere profite. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.38 | The noisome weeds which without profit suck | The noysome Weedes, that without profit sucke |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.224 | Against the state and profit of this land, | Against the State, and Profit of this Land: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.39 | No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en. | No profit growes, where is no pleasure tane: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.6 | Now, mistress, profit you in what you read? | Now Mistris, profit you in what you reade? |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.172 | Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit | Haue I, thy Schoolemaster, made thee more profit |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.313 | That profit us. What, ho! Slave! Caliban! | That profit vs: What hoa: slaue: Caliban: |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.363 | You taught me language, and my profit on't | You taught me Language, and my profit on't |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.80 | might answer thee profitably. | might answer thee profitably. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.40 | When we may profit meet and come too late. | When we may profit meete, and come too late. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.14 | Prithee, be silent, boy; I profit not by thy | Prythee be silent boy, I profit not by thy |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iv.22 | Rather than make unprofited return. | Rather then make vnprofited returne, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.18 | foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, and by my | foes sir, I profit in the knowledge of my selfe, and by my |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.310 | To see alike mine honour as their profits, | To see alike mine Honor, as their Profits, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.ii.19 | study, and my profit therein the heaping friendships. Of | studie, and my profite therein, the heaping friendshippes. Of |