| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.78 | Belong to Egypt. Good now, play one scene | Belong to Egypt. Good now, play one Scene |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.139 | Presents more woeful pageants than the scene | Presents more wofull Pageants then the Sceane |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.164 | And whistles in his sound; last Scene of all, | And whistles in his sound. Last Scene of all, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.94 | When he might act the woman in the scene, | When he might act the Woman in the Scene, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.185 | The gods look down, and this unnatural scene | The Gods looke downe, and this vnnaturall Scene |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.51 | Goes into the trunk. The scene closes | Exit. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.398 | scene individable, or poem unlimited. | Scene indiuidible: or Poem vnlimited. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.438 | an excellent play, well digested in the scenes, set down | an excellent Play; well digested in the Scoenes, set downe |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.588 | Have by the very cunning of the scene | Haue by the very cunning of the Scoene, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.86 | One scene of it comes near the circumstance, | One Scoene of it comes neere the Circumstance |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.34 | | [Q1 replaces this scene with the following] Enter Horatio and the Queene. HOR. Madame, your sonne is safe arriv'de in Denmarke, This letter I euen now receiv'd of him, Whereas he writes how he escap't the danger, And subtle treason that the king had plotted, Being crossed by the contention of the windes, He found the Packet sent to the king of England, Wherein he saw himselfe betray'd to death, As at his next conuersion with your grace, He will relate the circumstance at full. QUEENE. Then I perceiue there's treason in his lookes That seem'd to sugar o're his villanie: But I will soothe and please him for a time, For murderous mindes are alwayes jealous, But know not you Horatio where he is? HOR. Yes Madame, and he hath appoynted me To meete him on the east side of the Cittie To morrow morning. QUEENE. O faile not, good Horatio, and withall, commend me A mothers care to him, bid him a while Be wary of his presence, lest that he Faile in that he goes about. HOR. Madam, neuer make doubt of that: I thinke by this the news be come to court: He is arriv'de, obserue the king, and you shall Quickely finde, Hamlet being here, Things fell not to his minde. QUEENE. But what became of Gilderstone and Rossencraft? HOR. He being set ashore, they went for England, And in the Packet there writ down that doome To be perform'd on them poynted for him: And by great chance he had his fathers Seale, So all was done without discouerie. QUEENE. Thankes be to heauen for blessing of the prince, Horatio once againe I take my leaue, With thowsand mothers blessings to my sonne. HORAT. Madam adue. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.224 | obscene, greasy tallow-catch – | obscene greasie Tallow Catch. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.159 | On bloody courses, the rude scene may end, | On bloody Courses, the rude Scene may end, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.197 | For all my reign hath been but as a scene | For all my Reigne, hath beene but as a Scene |
| Henry V | H5 I.chorus.4 | And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! | And Monarchs to behold the swelling Scene. |
| Henry V | H5 II.chorus.34 | The King is set from London; and the scene | The King is set from London, and the Scene |
| Henry V | H5 II.chorus.42 | Unto Southampton do we shift our scene. | Vnto Southampton do we shift our Scene. |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.1 | Thus with imagined wing our swift scene flies | Thus with imagin'd wing our swift Scene flyes, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.48 | And so our scene must to the battle fly; | And so our Scene must to the Battaile flye: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.10 | What scene of death hath Roscius now to act? | What Scene of death hath Rossius now to Acte? |
| Henry VIII | H8 prologue.4 | Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, | Such Noble Scoenes, as draw the Eye to flow |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.112 | Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, | Shall this our lofty Scene be acted ouer, |
| King John | KJ II.i.376 | At your industrious scenes and acts of death. | At your industrious Scenes and acts of death. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.236 | encounter that obscene and most preposterous event that | encounter that obscene and most preposterous euent that |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.144 | When it comes so smoothly off, so obscenely as it were, so fit. | When it comes so smoothly off, so obscenely, as it were, so fit. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.161 | O, what a scene of foolery have I seen, | O what a Scene of fool'ry haue I seene. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.717 | Worthies, away! The scene begins to cloud. | Worthies away, the Scene begins to cloud. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.17 | Hath a great scene. The image of the jest | Hath a great Scene; the image of the iest |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.100 | obscenely and courageously. Take pains; be perfect. | obscenely and couragiously. Take paines, be perfect, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.15 | Forsook his scene and entered in a brake, | Forsooke his Scene, and entred in a brake, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.56 | A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus | Lis. A tedious breefe Scene of yong Piramus, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.213 | that's the scene that I would see, which will be merely a | that's the Scene that I would see, which will be meerely a |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.6 | Whom our fast-growing scene must find | Whom our fast growing scene must finde |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.7 | Where our scene seems to live. I do beseech you | Where our sceanes seemes to liue, / I doe beseech you |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.15 | Old Escanes, whom Helicanus late | Old Escenes, whom Hellicanus late |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.48 | By Lady Fortune, while our scene must play | By Lady Fortune, while our Steare must play, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.164 | Allowing him a breath, a little scene, | Allowing him a breath, a little Scene, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.131 | Should show so heinous, black, obscene a deed! | Should shew so heynous, black, obscene a deed. |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.78 | Our scene is altered from a serious thing, | Our Scene is alter'd from a serious thing, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.38 | What means this scene of rude impatience? | What meanes this Scene of rude impatience? |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.27 | Woe's scene, world's shame, grave's due by life usurped, | Woes Scene, Worlds shame, Graues due, by life vsurpt, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.91 | A queen in jest, only to fill the scene. | A Queene in ieast, onely to fill the Scene. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.prologue.2 | In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, | |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.19 | My dismal scene I needs must act alone. | My dismall Sceane, I needs must act alone: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC prologue.1 | In Troy there lies the scene. From isles of Greece | IN Troy there lyes the Scene: From Iles of Greece |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.173 | Must be the scene of mirth; to cough and spit, | Must be the Scene of myrth, to cough, and spit, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.134 | The scene's not for our seeing; go we hence, | The Sceane's not for our seeing, goe we hence, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.4 | Whose modest scenes blush on his marriage day, | (Whose modest Sceanes blush on his marriage day, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.28 | Scenes, though below his art, may yet appear | Sceanes though below his Art, may yet appeare |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.i.16 | I turn my glass, and give my scene such growing | I turne my glasse, and giue my Scene such growing |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.590 | The scene you play were mine. For instance, sir, | The Scene you play, were mine. For instance Sir, |