| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.128.1 | I am wrapped in dismal thinkings. | I am wrap'd in dismall thinkings. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.11 | But small to greater matters must give way. | But small to greater matters must giue way. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.12.1 | Not if the small come first. | Not if the fmall come first. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.152 | And after some small space, being strong at heart, | And after some small space, being strong at heart, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.6 | poverty of her, the small acquaintance, my sudden | pouertie of her, the small acquaintance, my sodaine |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.80 | Had fastened him unto a small spare mast | Had fastned him vnto a small spare Mast, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.26 | Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. | Small cheere and great welcome, makes a merrie feast. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.123 | If you'll bestow a small – of what you have little – | If you'l bestow a small (of what you haue little) |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.136 | The strongest nerves and small inferior veins | The strongest Nerues, and small inferiour Veines |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.114 | Small as an eunuch or the virgin voice | Small as an Eunuch, or the Virgin voyce |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iii.17 | The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing | The maine blaze of it is past, but a small thing |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iii.29 | seen small reflection of her wit. | seene small reflection of her wit. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.21 | The smallness of a gnat, to air: and then | The smalnesse of a Gnat, to ayre: and then |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.6 | (presenting a small box) | |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.181 | T' entreat your grace, but in a small request, | T'intreat your Grace, but in a small request, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.304 | Yet left in heaven as small a drop of pity | Yet left in Heauen, as small a drop of pittie |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.454 | With heraldry more dismal. Head to foot | With Heraldry more dismall: Head to foote |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.21 | Each small annexment, petty consequence, | Each small annexment, pettie consequence |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.361.2 | The sight is dismal, | The sight is dismall, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.159 | Ere break the smallest parcel of this vow. | Ere breake the smallest parcell of this Vow. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.37 | That with our small conjunction we should on, | That with our small coniunction we should on, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.89 | A kingdom for it was too small a bound. | A Kingdome for it was too small a bound: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.30 | Much smaller than the smallest of his thoughts, | Much smaller, then the smallest of his Thoughts, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.6 | it not show vilely in me to desire small beer? | it not shew vildely in me, to desire small Beere? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.11 | creature small beer. But indeed, these humble considerations | Creature, Small Beere. But indeede these humble considerations |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.145 | A night is but small breath and little pause | A Night is but small breathe, and little pawse, |
| Henry V | H5 Epil.chorus.5 | Small time, but in that small most greatly lived | Small time: but in that small, most greatly liued |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.105 | I must inform you of a dismal fight | I must informe you of a dismall fight, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.51 | For what you see is but the smallest part | For what you see, is but the smallest part, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.33 | To hazard all our lives in one small boat. | To hazard all our liues in one small Boat. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.18 | Small curs are not regarded when they grin, | Small Curres are not regarded when they grynne, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.59 | Devise strange deaths for small offences done? | Deuise strange deaths, for small offences done? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.41 | Whose dismal tune bereft my vital powers; | Whose dismall tune bereft my Vitall powres: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.106 | Small things make base men proud. This villain here, | Small things make base men proud. This Villaine heere, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.63 | ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer. | ten hoopes, and I wil make it Fellony to drink small Beere. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.17 | This small inheritance my father left me | This small inheritance my Father left me, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.129 | But, God He knows, thy share thereof is small. | But God he knowes, thy share thereof is small. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.17 | The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on, | The smallest Worme will turne, being troden on, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.18 | Like to a dismal clangour heard from far, | Like to a dismall Clangor heard from farre, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.58 | Now death shall stop his dismal threatening sound | Now death shall stop his dismall threatning sound, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.54 | You are the fount that makes small brooks to flow; | You are the Fount, that makes small Brookes to flow, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.64 | If not, the city being but of small defence, | If not, the Citie being but of small defence, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.48 | And chattering pies in dismal discords sung. | And chatt'ring Pies in dismall Discords sung: |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.1.1 | Hautboys. A small table under a state for the Cardinal, | Hoboies. A small Table vnder a State for the Cardinall, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.1.6 | some small distance, follows a Gentleman bearing the | some small distance, followes a Gentleman bearing the |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.128 | Your enemies are many, and not small; their practices | Your Enemies are many, and not small; their practises |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.47 | wife of small wit near him, that railed upon me till her | Wife of small wit, neere him, that rail'd vpon me, till her |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.139 | If he do break the smallest particle | If he do breake the smallest Particle |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.34 | Of that small handful of our enemies. | Of that small handfull of our enimies: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.40 | I feared he would have cropped our smaller power; | I feard he would haue cropt our smaller power, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.71 | The dismal charge of trumpets' loud retreat. | The dismall charge of Trumpets loud retreat: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.i.23 | But so it is, that for a smaller charge | But so it is, that for a smaller charge, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.37 | Some twenty naked starvelings with small flints | Some twentie naked staruelings with small flints, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.151 | That none so small advantage shall step forth | That none so small aduantage shall step forth |
| King John | KJ IV.i.94 | Then feeling what small things are boisterous there, | Then feeling what small things are boysterous there, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.127 | And if thou wantest a cord, the smallest thread | And if thou want'st a Cord, the smallest thred |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.263 | The worships of their name. O most small fault, | The worships of their name. O most small fault, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.128 | You shall do small respect, show too bold malice | You shall doe small respects, show too bold malice |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.61 | How chance the King comes with so small a number? | How chance the the King comes with so small a number? |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.108 | old lecher's heart – a small spark, all the rest on's body | old Letchers heart, a small spark, all the rest on's body, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.132 | But mice and rats and such small deer | But Mice, and Rats, and such small Deare, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.20 | Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge | Almost too small for sight. The murmuring Surge, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.112 | The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly | the Wren goes too't, and the small gilded Fly |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.21 | That violates the smallest branch herein. | That violates the smallest branch heerein: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.86 | Small have continual plodders ever won, | Small haue continuall plodders euer wonne, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.244 | That unlettered small-knowing soul – | that vnletered small knowing soule, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.84 | a love of that colour, methinks Samson had small reason | a Loue of that colour, methinkes Sampson had small reason |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.258 | Cutting a smaller hair than may be seen; | Cutting a smaller haire then may be seene, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.639 | No; he is best indued in the small. | No, he is best indued in the small. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.55 | The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict, | The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismall Conflict, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.v.21 | Unto a dismal and a fatal end. | Vnto a dismall, and a Fatall end. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.12 | Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir | Would at a dismall Treatise rowze, and stirre |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.37 | The smallest scruple of her excellence | The smallest scruple of her excellence, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.101 | this further charge: that you swerve not from the smallest | this further charge; / That you swerue not from the smallest |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.164 | Claudio's, to cross this in the smallest. | Claudio's, to crosse this in the smallest. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.149 | here's a simple line of life. Here's a small trifle of wives! | here's a simple line of life, here's a small trifle of wiues, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.60 | There's not the smallest orb which thou beholdest | There's not the smallest orbe which thou beholdst |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.45 | speaks small like a woman? | speakes small like a woman. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.46 | you may speak as small as you will. | you may speake as small as you will. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.5 | To make my small elves coats, and some keep back | To make my small Elues coates, and some keepe backe |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.186 | These things seem small and undistinguishable, | These things seeme small & vndistinguishable, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.216 | The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor – | The smallest monstrous mouse that creepes on floore) |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.246 | It appears by his small light of discretion that | It appeares by his smal light of discretion, that |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.248 | The smallest twine may lead me. | The smallest twine may lead me. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.157 | To suckle fools and chronicle small beer. | To suckle Fooles, and chronicle small Beere. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.364 | And thou by that small hurt hath cashiered Cassio. | And thou by that small hurt hath casheer'd Cassio: |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.186 | The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt, | The smallest feare, or doubt ofher reuolt, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.108 | The smallest opinion on my least misuse? | The small'st opinion on my least misvse? |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.68 | small vice. | small vice. |
| Pericles | Per III.iv.18 | Yet my good will is great, though the gift small. | Yet my good will is great, though the gift small. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.22 | With fingers long, small, white as milk; | With fingers long, small, white as milke, |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.74 | Makes me look dismal, will I clip to form, | makes mee looke dismall, will I clip to forme, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.35 | Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short. | Small showres last long, but sodaine stormes are short, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.102 | And yet, encaged in so small a verge, | And yet incaged in so small a Verge, |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.63 | And Bolingbroke my sorrow's dismal heir. | And Bullinbrooke my sorrowes dismall heyre: |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.153 | And that small model of the barren earth | And that small Modell of the barren Earth, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.198 | I play the torturer, by small and small | I play the Torturer, by small and small |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.61 | It is a matter of small consequence | It is a matter of small consequence, |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.17 | To thread the postern of a small needle's eye.’ | To thred the posterne of a Needles eye. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.109 | Small joy have I in being England's Queen. | Small ioy haue I in being Englands Queene. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.110 | And lessened be that small, God I beseech Him! | And lesned be that small, God I beseech him, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.7 | So full of dismal terror was the time. | So full of dismall terror was the time. |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.13 | ‘ Small herbs have grace; great weeds do grow apace.’ | Small Herbes haue grace, great Weeds do grow apace. |
| Richard III | R3 III.iii.12 | And, for more slander to thy dismal seat, | And for more slander to thy dismall Seat, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.78 | Within so small a time, my woman's heart | Within so small a time, my Womans heart |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.26 | And part in just proportion our small power. | And part in iust proportion our small Power. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.64 | Her traces, of the smallest spider web; | her Traces of the smallest Spiders web, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.67 | Her waggoner, a small grey-coated gnat, | her Waggoner, a small gray-coated Gnat, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.44 | This torture should be roared in dismal hell. | This torture should be roar'd in dismall hell, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.30 | The tears have got small victory by that, | The teares haue got small victorie by that: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.19 | My dismal scene I needs must act alone. | My dismall Sceane, I needs must act alone: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.1 | For God's sake, a pot of small ale. | For Gods sake a pot of small Ale. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.74 | And once again a pot o'th' smallest ale. | And once againe a pot o'th smallest Ale. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.132 | Faith, as you say, there's small choice in | Faith (as you say) there's small choise in |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.51 | Where small experience grows. But in a few, | Where small experience growes but in a few. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.100 | And this small packet of Greek and Latin books. | And this small packet of Greeke and Latine bookes: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.135 | ‘ With a small compassed cape.’ | With a small compast cape. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.253 | That there should be small love amongst these sweet knaves, | that there should bee small loue amongest these sweet Knaues, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.20 | part, I must needs confess, I have received some small | part, I must needes confesse, I haue receyued some small |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.387 | The dismall'st day is this that e'er I saw, | The dismall'st day is this that ere I saw, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.107 | Unto the body of a dismal yew | Vnto the body of a dismall yew, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.204 | O brother, with the dismall'st object hurt | Oh Brother, / With the dismal'st obiect |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.260 | Gnawing with thy teeth, and be this dismal sight | Gnawing with thy teeth, and be this dismall sight |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.66 | A joyless, dismal, black, and sorrowful issue. | A ioylesse, dismall, blacke &, sorrowfull issue, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.197 | Let me go grind their bones to powder small, | Let me goe grin'd their Bones to powder small, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.166 | How many thousand times hath these poor lips, | Shed yet some small drops from thy tender Spring, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.73 | between and between, but small thanks for my labour. | betweene and betweene, but small thankes for my labour. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.343 | And in such indexes, although small pricks | And in such Indexes, although small prickes |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.167 | Things small as nothing, for request's sake only, | Things small as nothing, for requests sake onely |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iv.32 | Is not more smooth and rubious. Thy small pipe | Is not more smooth, and rubious: thy small pipe |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.99 | Here's too small a pasture for such store of | Here's too small a Pasture for such store of |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.29 | His little speaking shows his love but small. | His little speaking, shewes his loue but small. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.20 | as small as a wand. This hat is Nan our maid. I am the | as small as a wand: this hat is Nan our maid: I am the |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.30 | But were you banished for so small a fault? | But were you banisht for so small a fault? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.24 | A smaller boon than this I cannot beg, | (A smaller boone then this I cannot beg, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.88.2 | Small winds shake him. | Small windes shake him, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.110 | The birch upon the breeches of the small ones, | The Birch upon the breeches of the small ones, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.113 | And, dainty Duke, whose doughty dismal fame | And daintie Duke, whose doughtie dismall fame |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.120 | The body of our sport, of no small study. | The body of our sport of no small study |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.58 | T' was one that sung, and by the smallness of it | T'was one that sung, and by the smallnesse of it |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.64 | Through a small glade cut by the fishermen, | Through a small glade cut by the Fisher men, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.38 | By some small start of time. He whom the gods | By some small start of time, he whom the gods |