| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.75 | She is too subtle for thee, and her smoothness, | She is too subtile for thee, and her smoothnes; |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.x.17 | Bolder, though not so subtle. My valour's poisoned | Bolder, though not so subtle: my valors poison'd, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.20 | Like to a bowl upon a subtle ground, | Like to a Bowle vpon a subtle ground |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.40 | We are beastly: subtle as the fox for prey, | We are beastly; subtle as the Fox for prey, |
| 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.167 | Wherein you range under this subtle King! | Wherein you range vnder this subtill King. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.25 | Or shall we think the subtle-witted French | Or shall we thinke the subtile-witted French, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.103 | A subtle knave! But yet it shall not serve. | A subtill Knaue, but yet it shall not serue: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.262 | Be it by gins, by snares, by subtlety, | Be it by Gynnes, by Snares, by Subtletie, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.191 | A subtle traitor needs no sophister. | A subtle Traitor needs no Sophister. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.33 | For Warwick is a subtle orator, | For Warwicke is a subtle Orator: |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.160 | As he is subtle, and as prone to mischief | As he is subtile, and as prone to mischiefe, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.175 | And let our hearts, as subtle masters do, | And let our Hearts, as subtle Masters do, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.318 | Subtle as Sphinx; as sweet and musical | Subtill as Sphinx, as sweet and musicall, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.95 | Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, | Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.93 | politic? Am I subtle? Am I a Machiavel? Shall I lose | politicke? Am I subtle? Am I a Machiuell? Shall I loose |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.351 | barbarian and a super-subtle Venetian be not too hard | Barbarian, and super-subtle Venetian be not too hard |
| Othello | Oth II.i.235 | – a slipper and subtle knave, a finder-out of occasions; | A slipper, and subtle knaue, a finder of occasion: |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.20 | That cannot say as much. This is a subtle whore, | That cannot say as much. This is a subtile Whore: |
| Pericles | Per II.v.43 | 'Tis the King's subtlety to have my life. | T'is the Kings subtiltie to haue my life: |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.37 | As I am subtle, false, and treacherous, | As I am Subtle, False, and Treacherous, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.152 | Was not incensed by his subtle mother | Was not incensed by his subtile Mother, |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.36 | We live to tell it, that the subtle traitor | We liue to tell it, that the subtill Traytor |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.172 | Thy age confirmed, proud, subtle, sly, and bloody, | Thy Age confirm'd, proud, subtle, slye, and bloody, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.44 | It must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate | It must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.47 | Ay, and a subtle, as he most learnedly | I, and a subtle, as he most learnedly |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.124 | Some subtleties o'th' isle, that will not let you | Some subtleties o'th' Isle, that will nor let you |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.431 | Here's gold. Go, suck the subtle blood o'th' grape | Heere's Gold. Go, sucke the subtle blood o'th'Grape, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.511 | Is not thy kindness subtle-covetous, | Is not thy kindnesse subtle, couetous, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.395 | How comes it that the subtle Queen of Goths | How comes it that the subtile Queene of Gothes, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.198 | What, art thou fallen? What subtle hole is this, | What art thou fallen? / What subtile Hole is this, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.83 | When subtle Greeks surprised King Priam's Troy. | When subtilGreekes surpriz'd King Priams Troy: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.22 | Too subtle-potent, tuned too sharp in sweetness, | Too subtile, potent, and too sharpe in sweetnesse, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.86 | Nor play at subtle games – fair virtues all, | Nor play at subtill games; faire vertues all; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.154 | Admits no orifex for a point as subtle | Admits no Orifex for a point as subtle, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.286 | With an invisible and subtle stealth, | With an inuisible, and subtle stealth |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.92 | Thou subtle, perjured, false, disloyal man, | Thou subtile, periur'd, false, disloyall man: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.113 | Did play a subtler game: the conquered triumphs, | Did play a subtler Game: The conquerd triumphes, |