| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.22 | terrible shows in the wrack of maidenhood, cannot for | terrible shewes in the wracke of maiden-hood, cannot for |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.10 | The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, | the Racke dislimes, and makes it indistinct |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.41 | Crack thy frail case! Apace, Eros, apace! | Cracke thy fraile Case. Apace Eros, apace; |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.15 | A greater crack. The round world | A greater cracke. The round World |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.115 | Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests, | Gaue healthfull welcome to their ship-wrackt guests, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.144 | sent whole armadoes of carracks to be ballast at her nose. | sent whole Armadoes of Carrects to be ballast at her nose. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.49 | Hath he not lost much wealth by wrack of sea? | Hath he not lost much wealth by wrack of sea, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.309 | Hast thou so cracked and splitted my poor tongue | Hast thou so crack'd and splitted my poore tongue |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.350 | Besides her urging of her wrack at sea – | Besides her vrging of her wracke at sea, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.68 | The way it takes, cracking ten thousand curbs | The way it takes: cracking ten thousand Curbes |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.69 | A crack, madam. | A Cracke Madam. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.v.5 | At a cracked drachma. Cushions, leaden spoons, | At a crack'd Drachme: Cushions, Leaden Spoones, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.16 | A pair of tribunes that have wracked for Rome | A paire of Tribunes, that haue wrack'd for Rome, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.9 | Whom with a cracked heart I have sent to Rome, | Whom with a crack'd heart I haue sent to Rome, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.17 | I would have broke mine eye-strings, cracked them, but | I would haue broke mine eye-strings; |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.18 | To look upon him, till the diminution | Crack'd them, but to looke vpon him, till the diminution |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.84 | You look on me: what wreck discern you in me | You looke on me: what wrack discerne you in me |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.29 | Like eggshells moved upon their surges, cracked | Like Egge-shels mou'd vpon their Surges, crack'd |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.236 | Have got the mannish crack, sing him to th' ground, | Haue got the mannish cracke, sing him to'th'ground |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.366 | In this sad wreck? How came't? Who is't? | In this sad wracke? How came't? Who is't? |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iv.50 | My cracked one to more care. Have with you, boys! | My crack'd one to more care. Haue with you Boyes: |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.207 | But think her bond of chastity quite cracked, | But thinke her bond of Chastity quite crack'd, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.108 | Or – not to crack the wind of the poor phrase, | Or not to crack the winde of the poore Phrase, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.113 | And meant to wrack thee. But beshrew my jealousy. | And meant to wracke thee: but beshrew my iealousie: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.427 | gold, be not cracked within the ring. – Masters, you are | Gold be not crack'd within the ring. Masters, you are |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.482 | A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still, | A silence in the Heauens, the Racke stand still, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.353 | Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet Prince, | Now cracke a Noble heart: / Goodnight sweet Prince, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.96 | We must have bloody noses, and cracked crowns, | We must haue bloodie Noses, and crack'd Crownes, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.233 | at the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would | at the Strappado, or all the Racks in the World, I would |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.20 | not racket there – as thou hast not done a great while, | not Racket there, as thou hast not done a great while, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.30 | crack, not thus high; and the very same day did I fight | Crack, not thus high: and the very same day did I fight |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.61 | By the mass, you'll crack a quart together – ha! | You'l cracke a quart together? Ha, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.165 | With sunken wrack and sunless treasuries. | With sunken Wrack, and sum-lesse Treasuries. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.262 | When we have matched our rackets to these balls, | When we haue matcht our Rackets to these Balles, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.95 | Even as men wrecked upon a sand, that | Euen as men wrackt vpon a Sand, that |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.135 | Hence grew the general wrack and massacre; | Hence grew the generall wrack and massacre: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.11 | And from my shoulders crack my arms asunder, | And from my shoulders crack my Armes asunder, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.3 | Even like a man new haled from the rack, | Euen like a man new haled from the Wrack, |
| 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 V.v.8 | Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive | Either to suffer Shipwracke, or arriue |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.105 | Hume's knavery will be the Duchess' wrack, | Humes Knauerie will be the Duchesse Wracke, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.122 | The commonwealth hath daily run to wrack, | The Common-wealth hath dayly run to wrack, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.126 | The commons hast thou racked; the clergy's bags | The Commons hast thou rackt, the Clergies Bags |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.376 | Say he be taken, racked, and tortured, | Say he be taken, rackt, and tortured; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.82 | Was I for this nigh wrecked upon the sea, | Was I for this nye wrack'd vpon the Sea, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.27 | Not separated with the racking clouds, | Not seperated with the racking Clouds, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.5 | Ay, as the rocks cheer them that fear their wrack: | I, as the rockes cheare them that feare their wrack, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.23 | From shelves and rocks that threaten us with wrack. | From Shelues and Rocks, that threaten vs with Wrack. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.23 | And with what zeal! For, now he has cracked the league | And with what zeale? For now he has crackt the League |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.149 | Shipwrecked upon a kingdom, where no pity, | Shipwrack'd vpon a Kingdome, where no Pitty, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.193 | Though all the world should crack their duty to you, | (Though all the world should cracke their duty to you, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.437 | Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in, | Found thee a way (out of his wracke) to rise in: |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.46 | Which heretofore was racked in ignorance, | Which heretofore was rakt in ignorance, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.123 | Cracked and dissevered, my renowned lord. | Crackt and disseuered my renowned Lord: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.4 | That rack upon the carriage of the winds, | That racke vpon the carriage of the windes, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.151 | Give earnest penny of a further wrack, | Giue earnest peny of a further wracke, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.85 | And better some do go to wrack, than all. | And better some do go to wrack then all. |
| King John | KJ II.i.146 | Or lay on that shall make your shoulders crack. | Or lay on that shall make your shoulders cracke. |
| King John | KJ II.i.147 | What cracker is this same that deafs our ears | What cracker is this same that deafes our eares |
| King John | KJ III.i.92 | But on this day let seamen fear no wrack; | But (on this day) let Sea-men feare no wracke, |
| King John | KJ V.iii.11 | Are wracked three nights ago on Goodwin Sands. | Are wrack'd three nights ago on Goodwin sands. |
| King John | KJ V.vii.52 | The tackle of my heart is cracked and burnt, | The tackle of my heart, is crack'd and burnt, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.108 | discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt | discord; in Pallaces, Treason; and the Bond crack'd, 'twixt |
| King Lear | KL II.i.89 | O madam, my old heart is cracked; it's cracked. | O Madam, my old heart is crack'd, it's crack'd. |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.1 | Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! | Blow windes, & crack your cheeks; Rage, blow |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.8 | Crack Nature's moulds, all germens spill at once | Cracke Natures moulds, all germaines spill at once |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.215 | Began to crack. Twice then the trumpets sounded, | |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.257 | That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever. | That Heauens vault should crack: she's gone for euer. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.312 | That would upon the rack of this tough world | That would vpon the wracke of this tough world |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.266 | And Ethiops of their sweet complexion crack. | And Athiops of their sweet complexion crake. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.19 | companions, such rackers of orthography, as to | companions, such rackers of ortagriphie, as to |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.415 | My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw. | My loue to thee is sound, sans cracke or flaw. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.811 | | Hence euer then, my heart is in thy brest. / Ber. And what to me my Loue? and what to me? / Ros. You must be purged too, your sins are rack'd. / You are attaint with faults and periurie: / Therefore if you my fauor meane to get, / A tweluemonth shall you spend, and neuer rest, / But seeke the wearie beds of people sicke. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.26 | Shipwracking storms and direful thunders; | Shipwracking Stormes, and direfull Thunders: |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.37 | As cannons overcharged with double cracks; | As Cannons ouer-charg'd with double Cracks, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.28 | Wracked as homeward he did come. | Wrackt, as homeward he did come. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.113 | He laboured in his country's wrack, I know not; | he labour'd / In his Countreyes wracke, I know not: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.116 | What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom? | What will the Line stretch out to'th' cracke of Doome? |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.51 | Ring the alarum bell! – Blow wind, come wrack, | Ring the Alarum Bell, blow Winde, come wracke, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.103 | cracking the stones of the foresaid prunes – | cracking the stones of the foresaid prewyns. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.218 | her brother Frederick was wrecked at sea, having in that | her brother Fredericke was wrackt at Sea, hauing in that |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.64.1 | And rack thee in their fancies. | And racke thee in their fancies. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.309 | Take him hence. To th' rack with him. We'll touse you | Take him hence; to th' racke with him: we'll towze you |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.313 | Dare rack his own. His subject am I not, | Dare racke his owne: his Subiect am I not, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.181 | That shall be racked even to the uttermost | That shall be rackt euen to the vttermost, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.3 | hath a ship of rich lading wrecked on the narrow seas, | hath a ship of rich lading wrackt on the narrow Seas; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.95 | wrack. | wracke. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.25 | For as I am, I live upon the rack. | For as I am, I liue vpon the racke. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.26 | Upon the rack, Bassanio? Then confess | Vpon the racke Bassanio, then confesse |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.32 | Ay, but I fear you speak upon the rack, | I, but I feare you speake vpon the racke, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.274 | is ready to crack with impatience. Who says this is | is ready to cracke with impatience: who saies this is |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.218 | Why, then we rack the value, then we find | Why then we racke the value, then we finde |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.99 | I'll tell thee what, Prince; a college of wit-crackers | Ile tell thee what Prince: a Colledge of witte-crackers |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.50 | Faith, he tonight hath boarded a land carrack: | Faith, he to night hath boarded a Land Carract, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.23 | Hath seen a grievous wrack and sufferance | Hath seene a greeuous wracke and sufferance |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.315 | naming, this crack of your love shall grow stronger than | naming, this cracke of your Loue, shall grow stronger, then |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.332 | Avaunt! Be gone! Thou hast set me on the rack. | Auant, be gone: Thou hast set me on the Racke: |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.121 | Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both. | Who shuns not to breake one, will cracke both. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.II.32 | Should house him safe is wracked and split, | Should house him safe; is wrackt and split, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.134 | I thank thee for't. My shipwreck now's no ill, | I thanke thee for't, my shipwracke now's no ill, |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.85 | And after shipwreck driven upon this shore. | and after shipwracke, driuen vpon this shore. |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.50.1 | 'Tis of some wreck. | tis of some wracke. |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.75 | That ever cracks for woe. This chanced tonight. | That euer cracks for woe, this chaunc'd to night. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.12 | That monster envy, oft the wrack | That monster Enuie oft the wracke |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.140 | Crack the glass of her virginity, and make the rest | crack the glasse of her virginitie, and make the rest |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.19 | Is cracked, and all the precious liquor spilt; | Is crack'd, and all the precious liquor spilt; |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.267 | We see the very wrack that we must suffer, | We see the very wracke that we must suffer, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.269 | For suffering so the causes of our wrack. | For suffering so the causes of our wracke. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.66 | To dim his glory and to stain the track | To dimme his glory, and to staine the tract |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.234 | And cracking the strong warrant of an oath, | And cracking the strong Warrant of an Oath, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.288 | For there it is, cracked in a hundred shivers. | For there it is, crackt in an hundred shiuers. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.127 | These eyes could not endure that beauty's wrack; | These eyes could not endure yt beauties wrack, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.24 | Methoughts I saw a thousand fearful wracks; | Me thoughts, I saw a thousand fearfull wrackes: |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.52 | Are cracked in pieces by malignant death, | Are crack'd in pieces, by malignant death, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.96 | And each hour's joy wracked with a week of teen. | And each howres ioy wrackt with a weeke of teene. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.20 | And by the bright track of his fiery car | And by the bright Tract of his fiery Carre, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.19 | with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but | with a man for cracking Nuts, hauing no other reason, but |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.95 | As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack. | As thunder, when the clouds in Autumne cracke. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.40 | Come hither, crack-hemp. | Come hither crackhempe. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.26 | The direful spectacle of the wrack, which touched | The direfull spectacle of the wracke which touch'd |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.203 | And sight-outrunning were not. The fire and cracks | And sight out-running were not; the fire, and cracks |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.236 | Supposing that they saw the King's ship wracked, | Supposing that they saw the Kings ship wrackt, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.369 | What I command, I'll rack thee with old cramps, | What I command, Ile racke thee with old Crampes, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.391 | Weeping again the King my father's wrack, | Weeping againe the King my Fathers wracke. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.415 | Was in the wrack; and, but he's something stained | Was in the wracke: and but hee's something stain'd |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.437.1 | The King my father wracked. | The King my Father wrack't. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.489 | The wrack of all my friends, nor this man's threats | The wracke of all my friends, nor this mans threats, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.26 | I had rather crack my sinews, break my back, | I had rather cracke my sinewes, breake my backe, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.156 | Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff | Leaue not a racke behinde: we are such stuffe |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.2 | My charms crack not, my spirits obey, and time | My charmes cracke not: my Spirits obey, and Time |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.137 | Were wracked upon this shore; where I have lost – | Were wrackt vpon this shore? where I haue lost |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.161 | Upon this shore, where you were wracked, was landed | Vpon this shore (where you were wrackt) was landed |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.154 | And mar men's spurring. Crack the lawyer's voice, | And marre mens spurring. Cracke the Lawyers voyce, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.190 | One that rejoices in the common wrack, | One that reioyces in the common wracke, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.3 | Secure of thunder's crack or lightning flash, | Secure of Thunders cracke or lightning flash, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.24 | And see his shipwreck and his commonweal's. | And see his shipwracke, and his Commonweales. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.139 | Without the rack. | Without the racke. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.99 | Divert and crack, rend and deracinate | Diuert, and cracke, rend and deracinate |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.101 | were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel. | were as good cracke a fustie nut with no kernell. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.107 | Crack my clear voice with sobs, and break my heart | Cracke my cleere voyce with sobs, and breake my heart |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.7 | Now crack thy lungs, and split thy brazen pipe; | Now cracke thy lungs, and split thy brasen pipe: |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.77 | Did I redeem; a wrack past hope he was. | Did I redeeme: a wracke past hope he was: |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.216 | How have the hours racked and tortured me | How haue the houres rack'd, and tortur'd me, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.263 | I shall have share in this most happy wrack. | I shall haue share in this most happy wracke, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.145 | Go, go, be gone, to save your ship from wreck, | Go, go, be gone, to saue your Ship from wrack, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iv.14 | A carrack of a cockleshell, and sail | A Carecke of a Cockle shell, and sayle |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.23 | have our livers perished, cracked to pieces with love, | have our Lyvers, perish'd, crakt to peeces with / Love, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.74 | When neither curb would crack, girth break, nor differing plunges | When neither Curb would cracke, girth breake nor diffring plunges |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.322 | Believe this crack to be in my dread mistress, | Beleeue this Crack to be in my dread Mistresse |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.44 | How he hath drunk, he cracks his gorge, his sides, | How he hath drunke, he cracks his gorge, his sides |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.171 | O cut my lace, lest my heart, cracking it, | O cut my Lace, least my heart (cracking it) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.174 | What wheels? Racks? Fires? What flaying? Boiling | What Wheeles? Racks? Fires? What flaying? boyling? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.67 | Wracked the same instant of their | Wrackt the same instant of their |