| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.18 | that ‘ had,’ how sad a passage 'tis! – whose skill was | that had, how sad a passage tis, whose skill was |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.136 | With an importing visage, and she told me, | With an importing visage, and she told me |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.48 | There's a palm presages chastity, if nothing else. | There's a Palme presages Chastity, if nothing els. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.49 | E'en as the o'erflowing Nilus presageth | E'ne as the o're-flowing Nylus presageth |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.86 | To bring bad news. Give to a gracious message | To bring bad newes: giue to a gratious Message |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xii.38 | Patient Octavia plough thy visage up | Patient Octauia, plough thy visage vp |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.99 | Now in the stirring passage of the day, | Now in the stirring passage of the day, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.38 | The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands; |
The passages of allies, creekes, and narrow lands: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.92 | The blood upon your visage dries, 'tis time | The bloud vpon your Visage dryes, 'tis time |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.208 | He will mow all down before him, and leave his passage | He will mowe all downe before him, and leaue his passage |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.76 | With bloody passage led your wars even to | With bloody passage led your Warres, euen to |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.93 | It is no act of common passage, but | It is no acte of common passage, but |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.i.20 | angry for my so rough usage: but my mother, having | angry for my so rough vsage: but my Mother hauing |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.23 | Made good the passage, cried to those that fled, | Made good the passage, cryed to those that fled. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.22 | He hath not failed to pester us with message | He hath not fayl'd to pester vs with Message, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.81 | Nor the dejected 'haviour of the visage, | Nor the deiected hauiour of the Visage, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.551 | That from her working all his visage wanned, | That from her working, all his visage warm'd; |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.47 | 'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage | 'Tis too much prou'd, that with Deuotions visage, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.47 | But to confront the visage of offence? | But to confront the visage of Offence? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.86 | When he is fit and seasoned for his passage? | When he is fit and season'd for his passage? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.51 | With tristful visage, as against the Doom, | With tristfull visage as against the doome, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.111 | And that I see, in passages of proof, | And that I see in passages of proofe, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.233 | To sing a requiem and such rest to her | To sing sage Requiem, and such rest to her |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.392 | To have proved most royal. And for his passage | To haue prou'd most royally: / And for his passage, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.8 | But thou dost in thy passages of life | But thou do'st in thy passages of Life, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.69 | By unkind usage, dangerous countenance, | By vnkinde vsage, dangerous countenance, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.3 | Put not you on the visage of the times | Put not you on the visage of the Times, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.121 | Down, royal state! All you sage counsellors, hence! | Downe Royall State: All you sage Counsailors, hence: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iv.8 | thee what, thou damned tripe-visaged rascal, an the | thee what, thou damn'd Tripe-visag'd Rascall, if the |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.86 | The severals and unhidden passages | The seueralls and vnhidden passages |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.299 | This was a merry message. | This was a merry Message. |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.16 | Will cut their passage through the force of France, | Will cut their passage through the force of France? |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.110 | This is his claim, his threatening, and my message – | This is his Clayme, his Threatning, and my Message: |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.90 | most prave passages. Marry, th' athversary was have | most praue passages: marry, th' athuersarie was haue |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.37 | Our fertile France, put up her lovely visage? | Our fertile France, put vp her louely Visage? |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.217 | deceive de most sage demoiselle dat is en France. | deceiue de most sage Damoiseil dat is en Fraunce. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.222 | poor and untempering effect of my visage. Now beshrew | poore and vntempering effect of my Visage. Now beshrew |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.12 | By message craved, so is Lord Talbot come. | By Message crau'd, so is Lord Talbot come. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.108 | Might but redeem the passage of your age! | Might but redeeme the passage of your Age. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.22 | Here is the best and safest passage in? | Here is the best and safest passage in. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.140 | And that within ourselves we disagree, | And that within our selues we disagree; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.191 | But that it doth presage some ill event. | But that it doth presage some ill euent. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.53 | On what submissive message art thou sent? | On what submissiue message art thou sent? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.58 | Yet, if this servile usage once offend, | Yet if this seruile vsage once offend, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.121 | The hollow passage of my poisoned voice, | The hollow passage of my poyson'd voyce, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.272 | Could send such message to their sovereign. | Could send such Message to their Soueraigne: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.379 | Go tell this heavy message to the King. | Go tell this heauy Message to the King. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.114 | I go of message from the Queen to France; | I go of Message from the Queene to France: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.69 | O, let me view his visage, being dead, | Oh let me view his Visage being dead, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iii.22 | Hath stopped the passage where thy words should enter. | hath stopt the passage / Where thy words should enter. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.41 | And give sweet passage to my sinful soul! | And giue sweet passage to my sinfull soule. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iii.20 | Unless our halberds did shut up his passage. | Vnlesse our Halberds did shut vp his passage. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.v.6 | He hath good usage and great liberty, | He hath good vsage, and great liberty, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.92 | As Henry's late presaging prophecy | As Henries late presaging Prophecie |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.71 | My mind presageth happy gain and conquest. | My minde presageth happy gaine, and Conquest. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.115.3 | The Cardinal in his passage fixeth his eye on Buckingham, | The Cardinall in his passage, fixeth his eye onBuckham, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.165 | The passages made toward it. On my honour, | The passages made toward it; on my Honour, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.88 | There's more in't than fair visage. Bullen! | There's more in't then faire Visage. Bullen? |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.64 | I sent your message, who returned her thanks | I sent your Message, who return'd her thankes |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.162 | I guess thy message. Is the Queen delivered? | I gesse thy Message. Is the Queene deliuer'd? |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.81 | To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy; | To maske thy monstrous Visage? Seek none Conspiracie, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.78 | And partly credit things that do presage. | And partly credit things that do presage. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.93 | I hold thy message but as scurrilous, | I hold thy message but as scurrylous, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.21 | Touching your embassage, return and say | Touching your embassage, returne and say, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.147 | Presageth nought, yet inly beautified | Presageth nought, yet inly beautified, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.369 | Against his child an embassage so bad. | Against his child, an embassage so bad. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.384 | To do a message to thee from the King. | To do a message to thee from the king: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.87 | His mother's visage: those his eyes are hers, | His mothers visage, those his eies are hers, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.209 | With comfortable good-presaging signs, | With comfortable good persaging signes, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.97 | That, in despite, I carved my passage forth, | That in despight I craud my passage forth, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.21 | What fearful words are those thy looks presage? | What fearefull words are those thy lookes presage? |
| King John | KJ I.i.28 | And sullen presage of your own decay. | And sullen presage of your owne decay: |
| King John | KJ II.i.336 | Whose passage, vexed with thy impediment, | Whose passage vext with thy impediment, |
| King John | KJ II.i.449 | The mouth of passage shall we fling wide ope | The mouth of passage shall we fling wide ope, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.158 | Abortives, presages, and tongues of heaven, | Abbortiues, presages, and tongues of heauen, |
| King John | KJ V.i.18 | Upon your stubborn usage of the Pope; | Vpon your stubborne vsage of the Pope: |
| King John | KJ V.ii.154 | For your own ladies and pale-visaged maids, | For your owne Ladies, and pale-visag'd Maides, |
| 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.305 | She'll flay thy wolvish visage. Thou shalt find | Shee'l flea thy Woluish visage. Thou shalt finde, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.79 | A plague upon your epileptic visage! | A plague vpon your Epilepticke visage, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.25 | Thou mightst deserve or they impose this usage, | Thou might'st deserue, or they impose this vsage, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.119 | Whose face between her forks presages snow, | whose face betweene her Forkes presages Snow; |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.34 | Like humble-visaged suitors, his high will. | Like humble visag'd suters his high will. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.49 | A message well sympathized – a horse to be ambassador | A message well simpathis'd, a Horse to be embassadour |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.104 | All unseen, can passage find; | All vnseene, can passage finde. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.98 | That well by heart hath conned his embassage. | That well by heart hath con'd his embassage, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.144 | With visages displayed, to talk and greet. | With Visages displayd to talke and greete. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.19 | Like valour's minion carved out his passage | (Like Valours Minion) caru'd out his passage, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.35.1 | Than would make up his message. | Then would make vp his Message. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.42 | Stop up the access and passage to remorse, | Stop vp th' accesse, and passage to Remorse, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.47 | His message ere he come, that a swift blessing | His Message ere he come, that a swift blessing |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.10 | Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear. | Shall neuer sagge with doubt, nor shake with feare. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.93 | Whose settled visage and deliberate word | Whose setled visage, and deliberate word |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.73 | And satisfy the deputy with the visage | And satisfie the Deputie with the visage |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.350 | Show your knave's visage, with a pox to you. Show | show your knaues visage with a poxe to you: show |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.457 | No, my good lord, it was by private message. | No my good Lord: it was by priuate message. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.88 | There are a sort of men whose visages | There are a sort of men, whose visages |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.164 | I did receive fair speechless messages. | I did receiue faire speechlesse messages: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.175 | I have a mind presages me such thrift | I haue a minde presages me such thrift, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.59 | With bleared visages come forth to view | With bleared visages come forth to view |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.173 | Let it presage the ruin of your love | Let it presage the ruine of your loue, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.210 | Her silver visage in the watery glass, | Her siluer visage, in the watry glasse, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.78 | O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now! | Oh, how mine eyes doth loath this visage now! |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.259 | embassage; and so I commit you – | Embassage, and so I commit you. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.247 | embassage to the Pigmies, rather than hold three words' | embassage to the Pigmies, rather then hould three words |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.245 | You take pleasure then in the message? | You take pleasure then in the message. |
| Othello | Oth I.i.50 | Who, trimmed in forms and visages of duty, | Who trym'd in Formes, and visages of Dutie, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.159 | Lead to the Sagittary the raised search; | Lead to the Sagitary the raised Search: |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.98 | For if such actions may have passage free, | For if such Actions may haue passage free, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.115 | Send for the lady to the Sagittary, | Send for the Lady to the Sagitary. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.249 | I saw Othello's visage in his mind | I saw Othello's visage in his mind, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.384 | As Dian's visage is now begrimed and black | As Dians Visage, is now begrim'd and blacke |
| Othello | Oth V.i.37 | What, ho! No watch? No passage? Murder, murder! | What hoa? no Watch? No passage? / Murther, Murther. |
| Pericles | Per I.iii.32 | With message unto princely Pericles, | with message vnto princely Pericles, |
| Pericles | Per I.iii.35 | Now my message must return from whence it came. | now message must returne from whence it came. |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.91.1 | How's this? How's this? Some more. Be sage. | How's this? how's this? some more, be sage. |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.125 | Through the false passage of thy throat thou liest! | Through the false passage of thy throat; thou lyest: |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.265 | The sullen passage of thy weary steps | The sullen passage of thy weary steppes |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.272 | To foreign passages, and in the end, | |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.141 | Farewell. If heart's presages be not vain, | Farewell, if hearts presages be not vaine, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.69 | My Lord of Hereford, my message is to you. | My Lord of Hereford, my Message is to you. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.67 | Of his bright passage to the occident. | Of his bright passage to the Occident. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.93 | Doth not thy embassage belong to me, | Doth not thy Embassage belong to me? |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.15 | Upon his visage, and that all the walls | Vpon his visage: and that all the walles, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.61 | From whence this stream through muddy passages | From whence this streame, through muddy passages |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.20 | May tear a passage through the flinty ribs | May teare a passage through the Flinty ribbes |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.9 | Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front, | Grim-visag'd Warre, hath smooth'd his wrinkled Front: |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.3 | I every day expect an embassage | I, euery day expect an Embassage |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.226 | Cousin of Buckingham, and sage grave men, | Cousin of Buckingham, and sage graue men, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.29 | Give me a case to put my visage in. | Giue me a Case to put my visage in, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.64 | Henceforward do your messages yourself. | Henceforward do your messages your selfe. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.2 | My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. | My dreames presage some ioyfull newes at hand: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.i.29 | A visage of demand. For I do fear, | A visage of demand: for I do feare |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.80 | What, are my doors opposed against my passage? | What, are my dores oppos'd against my passage? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.20 | By humble message and by promised means. | By humble Message, and by promist meanes: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.12 | Keep then this passage to the Capitol, | Keepe then this passage to the Capitoll: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.269 | Princely shall be thy usage every way. | Princely shall be thy vsage euery way. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.116 | Come, come, thou'lt do thy message, wilt thou not? | Come, come, thou'lt do thy message, wilt thou not? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.2 | He hath some message to deliver us. | He hath some message to deliuer vs. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.3 | Ay, some mad message from his mad grandfather. | I some mad message from his mad Grandfather. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.104 | Aemilius, do this message honourably, | Emillius do this message Honourably, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.219 | Do a fair message to his kingly ears? | Do a faire message to his Kingly eares? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.130 | The passage and whole carriage of this action | The passage and whole carriage of this action |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.240 | To talk with him, and to behold his visage | To talke with him, and to behold his visage, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.118 | Pleads your fair usage, and to Diomed | Pleades your faire visage, and to Diomed |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.129 | Let me be privileged by my place and message | Let me be priuiledg'd by my place and message, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.v.14 | Sore hurt and bruised; the dreadful Sagittary | Sore hurt and bruised; the dreadfull Sagittary |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.36 | her as long as there is a passage in my throat and drink | her as long as there is a passage in my throat, & drinke |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.169 | usage. | vsage. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.184 | my message. | my message. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.61 | And his opposite the youth bears in his visage no | And his opposit the youth beares in his visage no |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.62 | great presage of cruelty. | great presage of cruelty. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.68 | such impossible passages of grossness. He's in yellow | such impossible passages of grossenesse. Hee's in yellow |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.196 | message for a challenge. | message for a Challenge. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.369 | We'll whisper o'er a couplet or two of most sage saws. | Weel whisper ore a couplet or two of most sage sawes. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.85 | Your message done, hie home unto my chamber, | Your message done, hye home vnto my chamber, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.87 | How many women would do such a message? | How many women would doe such a message? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.109 | To hear me speak the message I am sent on. | To heare me speake the message I am sent on. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.306 | Now usage like to princes and to friends. | Now usage like to Princes, and to Friends: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.97 | I will between the passages of this project come in | I will betweene the passages of / This project, come in |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.41 | Arcite is gently visaged, yet his eye | Arcite is gently visagd; yet his eye |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.44 | Are bedfellows in his visage. Palamon | Are bedfellowes in his visage: Palamon |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.114 | The victor has the loss; yet in the passage | The victor has the Losse: yet in the passage, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.127 | The visages of bridegrooms we'll put on | The visages of Bridegroomes weele put on |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.266 | By its own visage; if I then deny it, | By it's owne visage; if I then deny it, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.116 | But this most cruel usage of your queen – | But this most cruell vsage of your Queene |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.89 | Shalt feel our justice, in whose easiest passage | Shalt feele our Iustice; in whose easiest passage, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.i.5 | To me or my swift passage that I slide | To me, or my swift passage, that I slide |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.442 | Hides not his visage from our cottage, but | Hides not his visage from our Cottage, but |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.152 | Exposed this paragon to th' fearful usage, | Expos'd this Paragon to th' fearefull vsage |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.187 | My marvel and my message. To your court | My meruaile, and my Message. To your Court |