| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iv.31 | But with the word the time will bring on summer, | But with the word the time will bring on summer, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.92 | nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night: for, | Nun; if it had not bin for a hot Midsomer-night, for |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.133 | Five summers have I spent in farthest Greece, | Fiue Sommers haue I spent in farthest Greece, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.95 | Than boys pursuing summer butterflies, | Then Boyes pursuing Summer Butter-flies, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.12 | A look untender? If't be summer news, | A looke vntender? If't be Summer Newes |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.219 | Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, | Whil'st Sommer lasts, and I liue heere, Fidele, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iv.29 | But to be still hot Summer's tanlings, and | But to be still hot Summers Tanlings, and |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.157 | All-hallown summer! | Alhollown Summer. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.158 | In any summer house in Christendom. | In any Summer-House in Christendome. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.203 | Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower | Sung by a faire Queene in a Summers Bowre, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.102 | And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer, | And gorgeous as the Sunne at Mid-summer, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.133 | Shadow will serve for summer. Prick him, for | Shadow will serue for Summer: pricke him: For |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.91 | O Westmorland, thou art a summer bird, | O Westmerland, thou art a Summer Bird, |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.65 | Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night, | Grew like the Summer Grasse, fastest by Night, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.86 | So that, as clear as is the summer's sun, | So, that as cleare as is the Summers Sunne, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.194 | Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds; | Make boote vpon the Summers Veluet buddes: |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.63 | the pridge as you shall see in a summer's day. But it is | the Pridge, as you shall see in a Summers day: but it is |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.22 | look you, as you shall desire in a summer's day. Here is | looke you, as you shall desire in a Summers day. Heere is |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.303 | summered and warm kept, are like flies at Bartholomew-tide, | Summer'd, and warme kept, are like Flyes at Bartholomew-tyde, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.308 | summer; and so I shall catch the fly, your cousin, in the | Summer; and so I shall catch the Flye, your Cousin, in the |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.131 | Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon days, | Expect Saint Martins Summer, Halcyons dayes, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.79 | In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, | In Winters cold, and Summers parching heate, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.2 | And after summer evermore succeeds | And after Summer, euermore succeedes |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.176 | Like to the summer's corn by tempest lodged. | Like to the Summers Corne by Tempest lodged: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.164 | And that thy summer bred us no increase, | And that thy Summer bred vs no increase, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.8 | The common people swarm like summer flies; | |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.17 | They never then had sprung like summer flies; | They neuer then had sprung like Sommer Flyes: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vii.18 | Went all afoot in summer's scalding heat, | Went all afoote in Summers scalding heate, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.360 | This many summers in a sea of glory, | This many Summers in a Sea of Glory, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.54 | But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer. | But, to those men that sought him, sweet as Summer. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.173 | 'Twas on a summer's evening in his tent, | 'Twas on a Summers Euening in his Tent, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.81 | O summer's day! See where my cousin comes! | O Sommers day, see where my Cosin comes: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.42 | There is no summer but in her cheerful looks, | There is no summer, but in her cheerefull lookes, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.61 | Then in the summer arbour sit by me; | Then in the sommer arber sit by me, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.108 | To music every summer-leaping swain | To musicke euery sommer leaping swaine, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.161 | That she doth cheer fresh summer like the sun, | That she doth cheere fresh sommer like the sunne, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.234 | It haunts the sunshine of my summer's life. | Yt hauntes the sunshineof my summers life, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.439 | The freshest summer's day doth soonest taint | The freshest summers day doth soonest taint, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.167 | As when a whirlwind takes the summer dust | As when a wherle winde takes the Summer dust, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.82 | My summer's hope, my travel's sweet reward, | My Summers hope, my trauels sweet reward: |
| King John | KJ V.vii.30 | There is so hot a summer in my bosom, | There is so hot a summer in my bosome, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.102 | Well, say I am! Why should proud summer boast | Wel, say I am, why should proud Summer boast, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.293 | Blow like sweet roses in this summer air. | Blow like sweet Roses, in this summer aire. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.408 | Figures pedantical – these summer flies | Figures pedanticall, these summer flies, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.895 | And maidens bleach their summer smocks, | And Maidens bleach their summer smockes: |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vi.3.2 | This guest of summer, | This Guest of Summer, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.110 | And overcome us like a summer's cloud, | And ouercome vs like a Summers Clowd, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.86 | Than summer-seeming lust; and it hath been | Then Summer-seeming Lust: and it hath bin |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.94 | To show how costly summer was at hand, | To show how costly Sommer was at hand, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.58 | summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not | Sommmer as a Christian is: if you pricke vs doe we not |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.264 | In summer, where the ways are fair enough. | In Sommer, where the waies are faire enough: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.116 | Take heed, ere summer comes or cuckoo-birds do sing. | Take heed, ere sommer comes, or Cuckoo-birds do sing. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.81 | summer's day; a most lovely, gentlemanlike man. Therefore | summers day; a most louely Gentleman-like man, therfore |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.82 | And never since the middle summer's spring | And neuer since the middle Summers spring |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.110 | An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds | An odorous Chaplet of sweet Sommer buds |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.111 | Is as in mockery set. The spring, the summer, | Is as in mockry set. The Spring, the Sommer, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.146 | The summer still doth tend upon my state, | The Summer still doth tend vpon my state, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.71 | Since summer first was leavy: | Since summer first was leauy, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.65 | O, ay! As summer flies are in the shambles, | Oh I, as Sommer Flyes are in the Shambles, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.39 | Those palates who, not yet two summers younger, | Those pallats who not yet too sauers younger, |
| Pericles | Per II.v.35 | As a fair day in summer, wondrous fair. | As a faire day in Sommer: woondrous faire. |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.17 | While summer days doth last. Ay me, poor maid, | while Sommer dayes doth last: Aye me poore maid, |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.20 | Is hacked down, and his summer leaves all faded, | Is hackt downe, and his summer leafes all vaded |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.141 | Till twice five summers have enriched our fields | Till twice fiue Summers haue enrich'd our fields, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.299 | By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? | by thinking on fantasticke summers heate? |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.43 | And lay the summer's dust with showers of blood | And lay the Summers dust with showers of blood, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.162 | Our sighs and they shall lodge the summer corn, | Our sighes, and they, shall lodge the Summer Corne, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.2 | Made glorious summer by this sun of York, | Made glorious Summer by this Son of Yorke: |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.94 | (aside) Short summers lightly have a forward spring. | Short Summers lightly haue a forward Spring. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.13 | Which in their summer beauty kissed each other. | And in their Summer Beauty kist each other. |
| Richard III | R3 V.ii.8 | That spoiled your summer fields and fruitful vines, | (That spoyl'd your Summer Fields, and fruitfull Vines) |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.10 | Let two more summers wither in their pride, | Let two more Summers wither in their pride, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.78 | Verona's summer hath not such a flower. | Veronas Summer hath not such a flower. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.121 | This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, | This bud of Loue by Summers ripening breath, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.19 | That idles in the wanton summer air, | That ydles in the wanton Summer ayre, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.92 | After summer merrily. | after Sommer merrily. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.30 | The swallow follows not summer more willing | The Swallow followes not Summer more willing, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.33 | summer birds are men. (To them) Gentlemen, our | Summer Birds are men. Gentlemen, our |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.94 | The trees, though summer, yet forlorn and lean, | The Trees though Sommer, yet forlorne and leane, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.19 | In summer's drought I'll drop upon thee still, | In summers drought: Ile drop vpon thee still, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.14 | Like stinging bees in hottest summer's day | Like stinging Bees in hottest Sommers day, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.170 | This goodly summer with your winter mixed. | This goodly Sommer with your Winter mixt, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.79 | Show not their mealy wings but to the summer, | Shew not their mealie wings, but to the Summer: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.19 | and for turning away, let summer bear it out. | and for turning away, let summer beare it out. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.56 | Why, this is very midsummer madness. | Why this is verie Midsommer madnesse. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.160 | Disdain to root the summer-swelling flower | Disdaine to roote the Sommer-swelling flowre, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.98 | Summer shall come, and with her all delights, | Sommer shall come, and with her all delights; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.i.5 | I think this coming summer the King of Sicilia | I thinke, this comming Summer, the King of Sicilia |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.11 | Are summer songs for me and my aunts | Are Summer songs for me and my Aunts |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.80 | Not yet on summer's death nor on the birth | Not yet on summers death, nor on the birth |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.107 | Of middle summer, and I think they are given | Of middle summer, and I thinke they are giuen |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.51 | So many summers dry. Scarce any joy | So many Summers dry: scarce any Ioy |