| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| 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? |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.71 | You soothed not, therefore hurt not. But your people, | You sooth'd not, therefore hurt not: but your People, |
| 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 IV.i.7 | The tongues of soothers, but a braver place | The Tongues of Soothers. But a Brauer place |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.175 | And now, to soothe your forgery and his, | And now to sooth your Forgery, and his, |
| 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 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. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.297 | And soothe the devil that I warn thee from? | And sooth the diuell that I warne thee from. |