| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.92 | the black gown of a big heart. I am going, forsooth. The | the blacke-Gowne of a bigge heart: I am going forsooth, the |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.44 | Was I, in sooth? And I was the first that lost thee. | Was I insooth? And I was the first that lost thee. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.2 | Alexas, almost most absolute Alexas, where's the soothsayer | Alexas, almost most absolute Alexas, where's the Soothsayer |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.6 | Soothsayer! | Soothsayer. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.7 | Enter a Soothsayer | |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.14 | (to Soothsayer) Good sir, give me good | Good sir, giue me good |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.52 | soothsay. | Soothsay. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.iii.10.1 | Enter the Soothsayer | Exit. Enter Soothsaier. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.iii.33 | Exit Soothsayer | Exit. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.iv.8.1 | Sooth, la, I'll help; thus it must be. | Sooth-law Ile helpe: Thus it must bee. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.278 | Yes, forsooth. I wish you joy o'th' worm. | Yes forsooth: I wish you ioy o'th'worm. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.348 | brambles; all, forsooth, deifying the name of Rosalind. | brambles; all (forsooth) defying the name of Rosalinde. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.375 | in good sooth, are you he that hangs the verses on the | in good sooth, are you he that hangs the verses on the |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.67 | Sir, sooth to say, you did not dine at home. | Sir sooth to say, you did not dine at home. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.77 | Is't good to soothe him in these contraries? | Is't good to sooth him in these crontraries? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.243 | Forsooth, took on him as a conjurer, | Forsooth tooke on him as a Coniurer: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.44 | Made all of false-faced soothing. When steel grows | Made all of false-fac'd soothing: / When Steele growes |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.71 | You soothed not, therefore hurt not. But your people, | You sooth'd not, therefore hurt not: but your People, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.69 | In soothing them we nourish 'gainst our Senate | In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our Senate |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.85 | Thyself, forsooth, hereafter theirs, so far | Thy selfe (forsooth) hereafter theirs so farre, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.333.1 | Enter Lucius, Captains, and a Soothsayer | Enter Lucius, Captaines, and a Soothsayer. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.69.1 | Enter Lucius, Iachimo, the Soothsayer, and other Roman | Enter Lucius, Iachimo, and other Roman |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.427 | Call forth your soothsayer: as I slept, methought | Call forth your Sooth-sayer: As I slept, me thought |
| 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 I.iii.138 | He will forsooth have all my prisoners, | He will (forsooth) haue all my Prisoners: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.254.2 | I have done, i'faith. | I haue done insooth. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.82 | As you are tossed with. In faith, | as you are tost with. In sooth |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.41 | Forsooth, five years, and as much as to – | Forsooth fiue yeares, and as much as to--- |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.240 | Not mine, in good sooth. | Not mine, in good sooth. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.241 | Not yours, in good sooth! Heart! you swear like | Not yours, in good sooth? You sweare like |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.242 | a comfit-maker's wife – ‘ Not you, in good sooth!’, and | a Comfit-makers Wife: / Not you, in good sooth; and, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.248 | A good mouth-filling oath, and leave ‘ In sooth,’ | A good mouth-filling Oath: and leaue in sooth, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.7 | The tongues of soothers, but a braver place | The Tongues of Soothers. But a Brauer place |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.78 | And now forsooth takes on him to reform | And now (forsooth) takes on him to reforme |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.35 | rascally yea-forsooth knave, to bear a gentleman in hand, | Rascally-yea-forsooth-knaue, to beare a Gentleman in hand, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.36 | Sick of a calm, yea, good faith. | Sick of a Calme: yea, good-sooth. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.140 | Without impeachment: for, to say the sooth, | Without impeachment: for to say the sooth, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.157 | Because, forsooth, the King of Scots is crowned. | Because (forsooth) the King of Scots is Crown'd. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.83 | And yet, forsooth, she is a virgin pure! | And yet forsooth she is a Virgin pure. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.29 | That my master was? No, forsooth; my master said | That my Mistresse was? No forsooth: my Master said, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.113 | Because the King, forsooth, will have it so. | Because the King forsooth will haue it so. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.61 | Forsooth, a blind man at Saint Alban's shrine | Forsooth, a blinde man at Saint Albones Shrine, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.92 | Most true, forsooth; and many time and oft | Most true, forsooth: / And many time and oft |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.111 | Black, forsooth, coal-black as jet. | Black forsooth, Coale-Black, as Iet. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.81 | Peter, forsooth. | Peter forsooth. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.183 | And you, forsooth, had the good Duke to keep; | And you (forsooth) had the good Duke to keepe: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.175 | And now, to soothe your forgery and his, | And now to sooth your Forgery, and his, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.30 | Which, to say sooth, are blessings; and which gifts, | Which, to say sooth, are Blessings; and which guifts |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.87 | And live a subject? Nay, forsooth, my friends, | And liue a Subiect? Nay forsooth, my Friends, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.124 | Forsooth, an inventory, thus importing | Forsooth an Inuentory, thus importing |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.1.3 | Casca, a Soothsayer, and a great crowd; after them | Caska, a Soothsayer: after them |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.19 | A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March. | A Sooth-sayer bids you beware the Ides of March |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.iv.20 | Sooth, madam, I hear nothing. | Sooth Madam, I heare nothing. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.iv.21 | Enter the Soothsayer | Enter the Soothsayer. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.1.4 | Artemidorus, Publius, and the Soothsayer | Artimedorus, Publius, and the Soothsayer. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.1 | (to the Soothsayer) The ides of March are come. | The Ides of March are come. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.7 | To lay aside unnecessary soothing, | To lay aside vnnecessary soothing, |
| King John | KJ I.i.123 | In sooth, good friend, your father might have kept | Insooth, good friend, your father might haue kept |
| King John | KJ I.i.125 | In sooth he might. Then, if he were my brother's, | Insooth he might: then if he were my brothers, |
| King John | KJ III.i.121 | And soothest up greatness. What a fool art thou, | And sooth'st vp greatnesse. What a foole art thou, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.29 | In sooth, I would you were a little sick, | Insooth I would you were a little sicke, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.105 | No, in good sooth: the fire is dead with grief, | No, in good sooth: the fire is dead with griefe, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.190 | art nothing. (To Gonerill) Yes, forsooth, I will hold my | art nothing. Yes forsooth I will hold my |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.171 | Good my lord, soothe him: let him take the fellow. | Good my Lord, sooth him: / Let him take the Fellow. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.170 | And I, forsooth, in love! | O, and I forsooth in loue, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.579 | good neighbour, faith, and a very good bowler; | good neighbour insooth, and a verie good Bowler: |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.36 | If I say sooth I must report they were | If I say sooth, I must report they were |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.40 | Till famine cling thee. If thy speech be sooth, | Till Famine cling thee: If thy speech be sooth, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.96 | Yes, in good sooth, the vice is of a great kindred. | Yes in good sooth, the vice is of a great kindred; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.1 | In sooth I know not why I am so sad. | IN sooth I know not why I am so sad, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.42 | They in themselves, good sooth, are too too light. | They in themselues goodsooth are too too light. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.248 | No, I thank you, forsooth, heartily. I am very | No, I thank you forsooth, hartely; I am very |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.251 | I am not a-hungry, I thank you, forsooth. | I am not a-hungry, I thanke you, forsooth: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.18 | Ay, forsooth. | I forsooth. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.21 | No, forsooth. He hath but a little wee face, with a | No forsooth: he hath but a little wee-face; with a |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.24 | Ay, forsooth. But he is as tall a man of his hands | I forsooth: but he is as tall a man of his hands, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.46 | Ay, forsooth, I'll fetch it you. | I forsooth ile fetch it you: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.77 | Ay, forsooth, to desire her to – | I forsooth: to desire her to --- |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.153 | Ay, forsooth; and, I pray, how does | I forsooth: and I pray how do's |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.83 | Ay, forsooth; and then you may | I, forsooth: and then you may |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.5 | I had rather, forsooth, go before you like a man | I had rather (forsooth) go before you like a man, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.145 | To the laundress, forsooth. | To the Landresse forsooth? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.103 | had her; or, in sooth, I would Master Fenton had her. | had her: or (in sooth) I would M. Fenton had her; |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.71 | and instigated by his distemper, and, forsooth, to | and instigated by his distemper, and (forsooth) to |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.71 | Forsooth, I have forgot. | Forsooth, I haue forgot. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.96 | From the two parties, forsooth. | From the two parties forsooth. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.ii.4 | Ay, forsooth. I have spoke with her, and we have | I forsooth, I haue spoke with her, & we haue |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.70 | But that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon, | But that forsooth the bouncing Amazon |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.135 | Good troth, you do me wrong – good sooth, you do – | Good troth you do me wrong (good-sooth you do) |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.230 | And tender me forsooth affection, | And tender me (forsooth) affection, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.265.2 | Yes, sooth, and so do you. | Yes sooth, and so do you. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.293 | Her height, forsooth, she hath prevailed with him. | Her height (forsooth) she hath preuail'd with him. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.55 | Note notes, forsooth, and nothing. | Note notes forsooth, and nothing. |
| Othello | Oth I.i.19 | Forsooth, a great arithmetician, | For-sooth, a great Arithmatician, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.52 | Yes, faith; so humbled | I sooth; so humbled, |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.94.2 | I'faith you are to blame. | Insooth, you are too blame. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.87 | Good sooth, I care not for you. | Good sooth, I care not for you. |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.44 | When Signor Sooth here does proclaim peace, | When signior sooth here does proclaime peace, |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.89 | Good sooth, it showed well in you. Do so now. | good sooth it shewde well in you, do so now, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.136 | With words of sooth! O that I were as great | With words of sooth: Oh that I were as great |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.44 | That I, forsooth, am stern, and love them not? | Thar I (forsooth) am sterne, and loue them not? |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.297 | And soothe the devil that I warn thee from? | And sooth the diuell that I warne thee from. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.12 | Ay, forsooth. | I forsooth. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.256 | Sir, understand you this of me in sooth, | Sir vnderstand you this of me (insooth) |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.234.2 | In sooth, you scape not so. | Insooth you scape not so. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.8 | No shame but mine. I must forsooth be forced | No shame but mine, I must forsooth be forst |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.115 | Good sooth, even thus. Therefore ha' done with words; | Good sooth euen thus: therefore ha done with words, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.99 | He is my father, sir, and, sooth to say, | He is my father sir, and sooth to say, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.1 | No, no, forsooth, I dare not for my life. | No, no forsooth I dare not for my life. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.144 | Well drawn, monster, in good sooth! | Well drawne Monster, in good sooth. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.40 | Yea, forsooth, an your mistress-ship be Emperial. | Yea forsooth, and your Mistership be Emperiall. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.172 | And then, forsooth, the faint defects of age | And then (forsooth) the faint defects of Age |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.108 | Yes, good sooth; to, Achilles! To, Ajax, to! | Yes good sooth, to Achilles, to Aiax, to--- |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.55 | Rude, in sooth; in good sooth, very rude. | Rude in sooth, in good sooth very rude. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.9 | No, sooth, sir; my determinate voyage is mere | No sooth sir: my determinate voyage is meere |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.20 | sweet a breath to sing, as the fool has. In sooth, thou | sweet a breath to sing, as the foole has. Insooth thou |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.46 | Do use to chant it. It is silly sooth, | Do vse to chaunt it: it is silly sooth, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.87.2 | Sooth, but you must. | Sooth but you must. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.17.2 | Very sooth, tomorrow. | Very sooth, to morrow. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.160 | That makes her blood look out. Good sooth, she is | That makes her blood looke on't: Good sooth she is |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.173 | He looks like sooth. He says he loves my daughter. | He lookes like sooth: he sayes he loues my daughter, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.344 | Your mind from feasting. Sooth, when I was young | Your minde from feasting. Sooth, when I was yong, |