| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.15 | Pray you, sir, who's his tailor? | Pray you sir whose his Tailor? |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.18 | workman, a very good tailor. | workeman, a verie good Tailor. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.86 | Perchance he's hurt i'th' battle. | Perchance he's hurt i'th battaile. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.271 | of his salvation, the inheritance of it, and cut th' entail | of his saluation, the inheritance of it, and cut th' intaile |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.6 | King than by that red-tailed humble-bee I speak of. | King, then by that red-tail'd humble Bee I speak of. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.164 | from him, it shows to man the tailors of the earth; | from him, it shewes to man the Tailors of the earth: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.iii.37 | His cocks do win the battle still of mine | His Cocks do winne the Battaile, still of mine, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.viii.3 | Strike not by land; keep whole: provoke not battle | Strike not by Land, / Keepe whole, prouoke not Battaile |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ix.2 | In eye of Caesar's battle; from which place | In eye of Casars battaile, from which place |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.i.11 | Know that tomorrow the last of many battles | know, / That to morrow, the last of many Battailes |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ix.3 | Is shiny, and they say we shall embattle | Is shiny, and they say, we shall embattaile |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.45 | mine enemy, I have undone three tailors, I have had | mine enemie, I haue vndone three Tailors, I haue had |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.7 | Even now a tailor called me in his shop | Euen now a tailor cal'd me in his shop, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.11 | And given to Lartius and to Martius battle. | And giuen to Lartius and to Martius Battaile: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.56 | By all the battles wherein we have fought, | By all the Battailes wherein we haue fought, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.viii.1.1 | Alarum, as in battle. Enter Martius and Aufidius at | Alarum, as in Battaile. Enter Martius and Auffidius at |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.98 | And in the brunt of seventeen battles since | And in the brunt of seuenteene Battailes since, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.116 | And to the battle came he, where he did | And to the Battaile came he, where he did |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.127 | Of wounds two dozen odd. Battles thrice six | Of Wounds, two dozen odde: Battailes thrice six |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.227 | increase tailors, and breed ballad-makers. | encrease Taylors, / and breed Ballad-makers. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.i.12 | any standers-by to curtail his oaths. Ha? | any standers by to curtall his oathes. Ha? |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.78 | Than some whose tailors are as dear as yours | Then some whose Taylors are as deere as yours, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.i.4 | him that made the tailor, not be fit too? The rather – | him that made the Taylor, not be fit too? The rather |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.81.2 | No, nor thy tailor, rascal, | No, nor thy Taylor, Rascall: |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.84.1 | My tailor made them not. | My Taylor made them not. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.144 | If we do fear this body hath a tail | If we do feare this Body hath a taile |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.ii.11.1 | The battle continues, the Britons fly, Cymbeline is taken: then enter | The Battaile continues, the Britaines fly, Cymbeline is taken: Then enter |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.389 | And your three motives to the battle, with | And your three motiues to the Battaile? with |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.470 | Of yet this scarce-cold battle, at this instant | Of yet this scarse-cold-Battaile, at this instant |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.242 | breath to utter what is like thee! You tailor's-yard, you | breth to vtter. What is like thee? You Tailors yard, you |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.253 | 'Tis the next way to turn tailor, or be redbreast | 'Tis the next way to turne Taylor, or be Red-brest |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.105 | To bloody battles, and to bruising arms. | To bloody Battailes, and to brusing Armes. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.129 | What may the King's whole battle reach unto? | What may the Kings whole Battaile reach vnto? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.32 | More than he haply may retail from me. | More then he (haply) may retaile from me. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.149 | A woman's tailor, sir. | A Womans Taylor sir. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.151 | You may; but if he had been a man's tailor | You may: But if he had beene a mans Taylor, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.153 | an enemy's battle as thou hast done in a woman's | an enemies Battaile, as thou hast done in a Womans |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.156 | Well said, good woman's tailor! Well said, | Well said, good Womans Tailour: Well sayde |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.159 | woman's tailor well, Master Shallow; deep, Master | womans Taylour well Master Shallow, deepe Maister |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.162 | I would thou wert a man's tailor, that thou | I would thou wert a mans Tailor, that yu |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.261 | this Feeble the woman's tailor run off! O, give me the | this Feeble, the Womans Taylor, runne off. O, giue me the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.152 | Our battle is more full of names than yours, | Our Battaile is more full of Names then yours, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.177 | In sight of both our battles we may meet, | In sight of both our Battailes, wee may meete |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.44 | A fearful battle rendered you in music. | A fearefull Battaile rendred you in Musique. |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.15 | Dieu de batailles! Where have they this mettle? | Dieu de Battailes, where haue they this mettell? |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.162 | We would not seek a battle as we are, | We would not seeke a Battaile as we are, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.9 | Each battle sees the other's umbered face. | Each Battaile sees the others vmber'd face. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.48 | And so our scene must to the battle fly; | And so our Scene must to the Battaile flye: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.132 | and arms, and heads, chopped off in a battle, shall join | and Armes, and Heads, chopt off in a Battaile, shall ioyne |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.137 | I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle, | I am afear'd, there are few dye well, that dye in a Battaile: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.282 | O God of battles, steel my soldiers' hearts; | O God of Battailes, steele my Souldiers hearts, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.12 | The English are embattled, you French peers. | The English are embattail'd, you French Peeres. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.26 | About our squares of battle, were enow | About our Squares of Battaile, were enow |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.52 | To demonstrate the life of such a battle | To demonstrate the Life of such a Battaile, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.2 | The King himself is rode to view their battle. | The King himselfe is rode to view their Battaile. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.69 | The French are bravely in their battles set, | The French are brauely in their battailes set, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.75 | Without more help, could fight this royal battle! | Without more helpe, could fight this Royall battaile. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.6 | cowardly rascals that ran from the battle ha' done this | Cowardly Rascalls that ranne from the battaile ha' done this |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.108 | But in plain shock and even play of battle, | But in plaine shock, and euen play of Battaile, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.31 | The battles of the Lord of Hosts he fought; | The Battailes of the Lord of Hosts he fought: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.129 | And rushed into the bowels of the battle. | And rusht into the Bowels of the Battaile. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.78 | In thirteen battles Salisbury o'ercame; | In thirteene Battailes, Salisbury o'recame: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.6 | And like a peacock sweep along his tail; | And like a Peacock sweepe along his tayle, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.28 | Wilt thou yet leave the battle, boy, and fly, | Wilt thou yet leaue the Battaile, Boy, and flie, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.13 | Into the clustering battle of the French; | Into the clustring Battaile of the French: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.154 | Hath clapped his tail between his legs and cried; | Hath clapt his taile, betweene his legges and cride, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.8 | Charged our main battle's front, and, breaking in, | Charg'd our maine Battailes Front: and breaking in, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.194 | But be it as it may. (to York) I here entail | But be it as it may: I here entayle |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.235 | To entail him and his heirs unto the crown, | To entayle him and his Heires vnto the Crowne, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.70 | And issue forth and bid them battle straight. | And issue forth, and bid them Battaile straight. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.73 | Many a battle have I won in France, | Many a Battaile haue I wonne in France, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.11 | I saw him in the battle range about, | I saw him in the Battaile range about, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.120 | Our battles joined, and both sides fiercely fought; | Our Battailes ioyn'd, and both sides fiercely fought: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.74 | Whiles lions war and battle for their dens, | Whiles Lyons Warre, and battaile for their Dennes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.44 | See who it is; and, now the battle's ended, | See who it is. / And now the Battailes ended, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.235 | Shall cross the seas and bid false Edward battle; | Shall crosse the Seas, and bid false Edward battaile: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.63 | Will issue out again and bid us battle; | Will issue out againe, and bid vs battaile; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.77 | Of force enough to bid his brother battle; | Of force enough to bid his Brother Battaile: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.111 | And bid thee battle, Edward, if thou darest. | And bid thee Battaile, Edward, if thou dar'st. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.66 | Here pitch our battle; hence we will not budge. | Here pitch our Battaile, hence we will not budge. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.20 | That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and tailors. | That fill the Court with quarrels, talke, and Taylors. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.4 | It proves not so; their battles are at hand; | It proues not so: their battailes are at hand, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.16 | Octavius, lead your battle softly on | Octauius, leade your Battaile softly on |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.23 | Mark Antony, shall we give sign of battle? | Mark Antony, shall we giue signe of Battaile? |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.97 | If we do lose this battle, then is this | If we do lose this Battaile, then is this |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.107.2 | Then, if we lose this battle, | Then, if we loose this Battaile, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.108 | Labeo and Flavius, set our battles on. | Labio and Flauio set our Battailes on: |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.59 | The Guyen dukedom is entailed to thee, | The Guyen Dukedome is entayld to thee, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.97 | Shall pitch your battles on the lower hand; | Shall pitch your battailes on the lower hand, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.187 | And bid them battle ere they range too far. | And bid them battaile ere they rainge to farre, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.44 | He means to bid us battle presently. | He meanes to byd vs battaile presently, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.106 | So end the battle when we meet today: | So end the battaile when we meet to daie, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.137 | Father, range your battles, prate no more. | Father range your battailes, prate no more, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.150 | Curtail and curb your sweetest liberty. | Curtall and courb your swetest libertie. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.219 | Then thus our steeled battles shall be ranged: | Then this our steelde Battailes shall be rainged, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.76 | Should ever rise and break the battle 'ray, | Should euer rise and breake the battaile ray, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.14 | His party stronger battled than our whole. | His partie stronger battaild then our whole: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.33 | The fatal cross-bows, and the battle there | The fatall Crosbowes, and the battaile there, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.136 | Here stood a battle of ten thousand horse; | Heere stood a battaile of ten tstousand horse, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.150 | The battles join, and, when we could no more | The battailes ioyne, and when we could no more, |
| King John | KJ II.i.34 | To make a more requital to your love. | To make a more requitaIl to your loue. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.78 | Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set. | Like Heralds 'twixt two dreadfull battailes set: |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.195 | With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news; | With open mouth swallowing a Taylors newes, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.200 | That were embattailed and ranked in Kent. | That were embattailed, and rank'd in Kent. |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.129 | Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so | Dragons taile, and my Natiuity was vnder Vrsa Maior, so |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.51 | cowardly rascal, nature disclaims in thee: a tailor made | cowardly Rascall, nature disclaimes in thee: a Taylor made |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.53 | Thou art a strange fellow. A tailor make a | Thou art a strange fellow, a Taylor make a |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.55 | Ay tailor, sir. A stone-cutter or a painter could not | A Taylor Sir, a Stone-cutter, or a Painter, could not |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.65 | ‘ Spare my grey beard,’ you wagtail! | Spare my gray-beard, you wagtaile? |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.23 | Your high-engendered battles 'gainst a head | Your high-engender'd Battailes, 'gainst a head |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.83 | When nobles are their tailors' tutors, | When Nobles are their Taylors Tutors, |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.69 | Or bobtail tike, or trundle-tail, | Or Bobtaile tight, or Troudle taile, |
| King Lear | KL V.i.40 | Before you fight the battle, ope this letter. | Before you fight the Battaile, ope this Letter: |
| King Lear | KL V.i.63 | His countenance for the battle, which being done, | His countenance for the Battaile, which being done, |
| King Lear | KL V.i.67 | The battle done and they within our power, | The Battaile done, and they within our power, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.317 | He is wit's pedlar, and retails his wares | He is Wits Pedler, and retailes his Wares, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.i.4 | When the battle's lost and won. | When the Battaile's lost, and wonne. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.9 | And like a rat without a tail | And like a Rat without a tayle, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.13 | English tailor come hither for stealing out of a French | English Taylor come hither, for stealing out of a French |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.14 | hose. Come in, tailor; here you may roast your goose. | Hose: Come in Taylor, here you may rost your Goose. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.88 | fill-horse has on his tail. | philhorse has on his taile. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.89 | It should seem then that Dobbin's tail grows | It should seeme then that Dobbins taile growes |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.90 | backward. I am sure he had more hair on his tail than I | backeward. I am sure he had more haire of his |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.91 | have on my face when I last saw him. | taile then I haue of my face when I lost saw him. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.24 | That's certain. I for my part knew the tailor | That's certaine, I for my part knew the Tailor |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.240 | too strongly embattled against me. What say you to't, | too strongly embattaild against me: what say you too't, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.31 | thine shall be a tailor to thee and shall make thee a new | thine shall be a Tailor to thee, and shal make thee a new |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.46 | Ay, that I will, come cut and long-tail, under | I that I will, come cut and long-taile, vnder |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.1.3 | and Snout the tinker, and Starveling the tailor | Snout the Tinker, and Starueling the Taylor. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.54 | Robin Starveling, the tailor? | Robin Starueling the Taylor. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.54 | And ‘ Tailor ’ cries, and falls into a cough; | And tailour cries, and fals into a coffe. |
| Othello | Oth I.i.23 | Nor the division of a battle knows | Nor the deuision of a Battaile knowes |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.87 | More than pertains to feats of broil and battle; | More then pertaines to Feats of Broiles, and Battaile, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.129 | From year to year – the battles, sieges, fortunes | From yeare to yeare: the Battaile, Sieges, Fortune, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.152 | To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail; | To change the Cods-head for the Salmons taile: |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.87 | With that he called the tailor lown. | With that he cal'd the Tailor Lowne: |
| Othello | Oth III.i.8 | O, thereby hangs a tail. | Oh, thereby hangs a tale. |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.92 | Besides I say, and will in battle prove | Besides I say, and will in battaile proue, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.18 | I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, | I, that am curtail'd of this faire Proportion, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.256 | And entertain a score or two of tailors | And entertaine a score or two of Taylors, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.129 | In Margaret's battle at Saint Alban's slain? | In Margarets Battaile, at Saint Albons, slaine? |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.77 | As 'twere retailed to all posterity, | As 'twere retayl'd to all posteritie, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.335 | To whom I will retail my conquest won, | To whom I will retaile my Conquest wonne, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.24 | I'll draw the form and model of our battle, | Ile draw the Forme and Modell of our Battaile, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.163 | Tomorrow in the battle think on me, | To morrow in the Battaile, thinke on me, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.170 | O, in the battle think on Buckingham, | O, in the Battaile think on Buckingham, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.347 | After the battle let George Stanley die. | After the battaile, let George Stanley dye. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.40 | yard and the tailor with his last, the fisher with his pencil | Yard, and the Tayler with his Last, the Fisher with his Pensill, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.79 | And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's tail | & somtime comes she with Tith pigs tale, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.26 | the sun. Didst thou not fall out with a tailor for wearing | the Sun. Did'st thou not fall out with a Tailor for wearing |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.214.1 | In his tail. | In his taile. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.215 | Yours, if you talk of tails, and so farewell. | Yours if you talke of tales, and so farewell. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.216 | What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again. | What with my tongue in your taile. / Nay, come againe, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.84 | horse-tail till they kiss their hands. Are they all ready? | horse-taile, till they kisse their hands. Are they all readie? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.59 | What, hast thou dined? The tailor stays thy leisure, | What hast thou din'd? The Tailor staies thy leasure, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.61 | Enter Tailor | Enter Tailor. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.61 | Come, tailor, let us see these ornaments. | Come Tailor, let vs see these ornaments. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.86 | Thy gown? Why, ay. Come, tailor, let us see't. | Thy gowne, why I: come Tailor let vs see't. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.92 | Why, what a devil's name, tailor, call'st thou this? | Why what a deuils name Tailor cal'st thou this? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.160 | Hortensio, say thou wilt see the tailor paid. | Hortensio, say thou wilt see the Tailor paide: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.161 | (to the Tailor) Go take it hence, be gone, and say no more. | Go take it hence, be gone, and say no more. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.162 | Tailor, I'll pay thee for thy gown tomorrow. | Tailor, Ile pay thee for thy gowne to morrow, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.164 | Exit Tailor | Exit Tail. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.52 | Yet a tailor might scratch her where'er she did itch. | Yet a Tailor might scratch her where ere she did itch. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.10 | brave monster indeed if they were set in his tail. | braue Monster indeede if they were set in his taile. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.69 | Successful in the battles that he fights, | Successefull in the Battailes that he fights, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.26 | As doth a battle, when they charge on heaps | As doth a battaile, when they charge on heapes |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.87 | A maiden battle, then? – O, I perceive you. | A maiden battaile then? O I perceiue you. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.viii.21 | Come, tie his body to my horse's tail; | Come, tye his body to my horses tayle; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.4 | He's dead; and at the murderer's horse's tail, | Hee's dead: and at the murtherers Horses taile, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.44 | And being once subdued in armed tail, | And being once subdu'd in armed taile, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.73 | tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta, for thy | Tailor make thy doublet of changeable Taffata, for thy |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.47 | In my tail! | In thy Taile. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.v.32 | will; if he shake his tail and say nothing, it will. | will: if hee shake his taile, and say nothing, it will. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.51 | Follows his tailor, haply so long until | Followes his Taylor, haply so long untill |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.1.1.1 | Cornets. A battle struck within; then a retreat. | Cornets. A Battaile strooke withim: Then a Retrait: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.29 | I heard them reported in the battle to be the | I heard them reported in the Battaile, to be the |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.29.1 | Of the jades' tails tomorrow. | Of the Iades tailes to morrow. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.24.2 | How tastes your victuals? | How tasts your vittails? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.34 | My friend, carry your tail without offence | My friend, carry your taile without offence |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.50 | A learned poet says, unless by th' tail | A learned Poet sayes: unles by'th taile |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.131 | The bavian, with long tail and eke long tool, | The Bavian with long tayle, and eke long toole, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.134 | Are making battle, thus like knights appointed, | Are making Battaile, thus like Knights appointed, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.108 | And ‘ Bonny Robin.’ Are not you a tailor? | And Bony Robin. Are not you a tailour? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.62.3 | burst of a battle, whereupon they all rise and bow to | burst of a Battaile, whereupon they all rise and bow to |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.166 | If well inspired, this battle shall confound | If well inspird, this Battaile shal confound |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.47 | And for a jig, come cut and long tail to him, | And for a Iigge, come cut and long taile to him, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.329 | Is goads, thorns, nettles, tails of wasps; | Is Goades, Thornes, Nettles, Tayles of Waspes) |