| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.5 | smell somewhat strong of her strong displeasure. | smell somewhat strong of her strong displeasure. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.7 | smell so strongly as thou speakest of. I will henceforth | smell so strongly as thou speak'st of: I will hencefoorth |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.318 | Mine eyes smell onions, I shall weep anon. | Mine eyes smell Onions, I shall weepe anon: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.21 | With knaves that smells of sweat. Say this becomes him – | With knaues that smels of sweate: Say this becoms him |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.101 | Thou losest thy old smell. | Thou loosest thy old smell. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.5 | A goodly house. The feast smells well, but I | A goodly House: / The Feast smels well: but I |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.i.16 | To have smelt like a fool. | To haue smell'd like a Foole. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.115 | Was sulphurous to smell: the holy eagle | Was sulphurous to smell: the holy Eagle |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.36 | O, my offence is rank. It smells to heaven. | Oh my offence is ranke, it smels to heauen, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.80 | Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all, | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.53 | To see him shine so brisk, and smell so sweet, | To see him shine so briske, and smell so sweet, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.271 | I smell it! Upon my life it will do well! | I smell it: Vpon my life, it will do wond'rous well. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.157 | To wake a wolf is as bad as smell a fox. | To wake a Wolfe, is as bad as to smell a Fox. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.100 | as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the | as I am: the Violet smells to him, as it doth to me; the |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.103 | The smell whereof shall breed a plague in France. | The smell whereof shall breed a Plague in France. |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.20 | Hence! I am qualmish at the smell of leek. | Hence; I am qualmish at the smell of Leeke. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.253 | With whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed, | With whose sweet smell the Ayre shall be perfum'd, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.274 | That this foul deed shall smell above the earth | That this foule deede, shall smell aboue the earth |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.452 | Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds; | Lillies that fester, smel far worse then weeds, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.113 | For I am stifled with this smell of sin. | For I am stifled with this smell of sinne. |
| King Lear | KL I.i.15 | bed. Do you smell a fault? | bed. Do you smell a fault? |
| King Lear | KL I.v.23 | what a man cannot smell out he may spy into. | what a man cannot smell out, he may spy into. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.68 | not a nose among twenty but can smell him that's | not a nose among twenty, but can smell him that's |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.178 | I smell the blood of a British man.’ | I smell the blood of a Brittish man. |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.92 | Go thrust him out at gates and let him smell | Go thrust him out at gates, and let him smell |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.134 | Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality. | Let me wipe it first, / It smelles of Mortality. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.180 | Thou knowest the first time that we smell the air | Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the Ayre |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.15 | you snuffed up love by smelling love, with your hat | you snuft vp loue by smelling loue with your hat |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.119 | O, marry me to one Frances! I smell some | O, marrie me to one Francis, I smell some |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.124 | smelling out the odoriferous flowers of fancy, the jerks | smelling out the odoriferous flowers of fancy? the ierkes |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.74 | O, I smell false Latin! ‘ Dunghill ’ for | Oh I smell false Latine, dunghel for |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.563 | Your nose smells ‘ no ’ in this, most tender-smelling knight. | Your nose smels no, in this most tender smelling Knight. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vi.6 | Smells wooingly here; no jutty, frieze, | Smells wooingly here: no Iutty frieze, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.48 | Here's the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes | Heere's the smell of the blood still: all the per-fumes |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.159 | And smell of calumny. I have begun, | And smell of calumnie. I haue begun, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.31 | Yes, to smell pork, to eat of the habitation | Yes, to smell porke, to eate of the habitation |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.266 | prunes – and, by my troth, I cannot abide the smell of | Prunes) and by my troth, I cannot abide the smell of |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.64 | after coach, letter after letter, gift after gift, smelling so | after Coach, letter after letter, gift after gift, smelling so |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.62 | speaks holiday, he smells April and May. He will | speakes holliday, he smels April and May, he wil |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.68 | men's apparel and smell like Bucklersbury in simple-time. | mens apparrell, and smell like Bucklers-berry in simple time: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.84 | rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended | rankest compound of villanous smell, that euer offended |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.80 | But stay – I smell a man of middle earth. | But stay, I smell a man of middle earth. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.46 | Nay, 'a rubs himself with civet; can you smell | Nay a rubs himselfe with Ciuit, can you smell |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.57 | I am stuffed, cousin, I cannot smell. | I am stuft cosin, I cannot smell. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.230 | Foh! One may smell in such a will most rank, | Foh, one may smel in such, a will most ranke, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.67 | Who art so lovely fair, and smell'st so sweet | Who art so louely faire, and smell'st so sweete, |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.93 | Their wives have sense like them: they see and smell, | Their wiues haue sense like them: They see, and smell, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.15 | It must needs wither. I'll smell it on the tree. | It needs must wither. Ile smell thee on the Tree. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.190 | I think upon't, I think – I smell't – O villainy! | I thinke vpon't, I thinke: I smel't: O Villany: |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.59.1 | It smells most sweetly in my sense. | it smels most sweetly in my sense. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.78 | And then dreams he of smelling out a suit. | & then dreames he of smelling out a sute: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.44 | By any other word would smell as sweet. | By any other word would smell as sweete, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.46 | So early waking – what with loathsome smells, | So early waking, what with loathsome smels, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.70 | I smell sweet savours and I feel soft things. | I smel sweet sauours, and I feele soft things: |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.25 | or alive? A fish! He smells like a fish; a very ancient and | or aliue? a fish, hee smels like a fish: a very ancient and |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.26 | fishlike smell; a kind of not-of-the-newest poor-John. | fish-like smell: a kinde of, not of the newest poore-Iohn: |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.199 | Monster, I do smell all horse-piss, at which | Monster, I do smell all horse-pisse, at which |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.124 | Taste, touch, smell, all pleased from thy table rise; | tast, touch all pleas'd from thy Table rise: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.161 | Smells from the general weal. Make curled-pate ruffians bald, | Smels from the generall weale. Make curld' pate Ruffians bald |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.132 | Thy counsel, lad, smells of no cowardice. | Thy counsell Lad smells of no cowardise. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.155 | Excellent! I smell a device. | Excellent, I smell a deuice. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.22 | acquainted with the smell before, knew it was Crab, and | acquainted with the smell before, knew it was Crab; and |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.2 | Not royal in their smells alone, | Not royall in their smels alone, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.5 | Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, | Dazies smel-lesse, yet most quaint |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.86 | Perfumes to kill the smell o'th' prison. After, | Perfumes to kill the smell o'th prison, after |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.ii.17 | Smell where resistance is. I'll set it down | Smell where resistance is. Ile set it downe |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.151 | You smell this business with a sense as cold | You smell this businesse with a sence as cold |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.638 | Are you in earnest, sir? (Aside) I smell the | Are you in earnest, Sir? (I smell the |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.668 | for a cutpurse; a good nose is requisite also, to smell out | for a Cut-purse; a good Nose is requisite also, to smell out |