| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.5 | A certainty, vouched from our cousin Austria, | A certaintie vouch'd from our Cosin Austria |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.169 | Upon thy certainty and confidence | Vpon thy certainty and confidence, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.87 | A very tainted fellow, and full of wickedness. | A verie tainted fellow, and full of wickednesse, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.69 | pen down my dilemmas, encourage myself in my certainty, | pen downe my dilemma's, encourage my selfe in my certaintie, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.30.2 | His taints and honours | His taints and Honours, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.194 | Until I know this sure uncertainty, | Vntill I know this sure vncertaintie, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.13 | Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted; | Beare a faire presence, though your heart be tainted, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.16 | What simple thief brags of his own attaint? | What simple thiefe brags of his owne attaine? |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.108 | As well as speak – it tauntingly replied | As well as speake, it taintingly replyed |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ii.31 | I speak from certainties. Nay more, | I speake from Certainties. Nay more, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.124 | And here remain with your uncertainty! | And heere remaine with your vncertaintie. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vii.38 | Which out of daily fortune ever taints | Which out of dayly Fortune euer taints |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.133 | it from tainting; but I see you have some religion in | it from tainting; but I see you haue some Religion in |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.96 | Than to be sure they do – for certainties | Then to be sure they do. For Certainties |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.26 | must act for me, if thy faith be not tainted with the | must acte for me, if thy Faith be not tainted with the |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vi.5 | When from the mountain-top Pisanio showed thee, | When from the Mountaine top, Pisanio shew'd thee, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iv.27 | The certainty of this hard life, aye hopeless | The certainty of this heard life, aye hopelesse |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.65 | To taint his nobler heart and brain | To taint his Nobler hart & braine, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.85 | Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive | Taint not thy mind; nor let thy Soule contriue |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.32 | That they may seem the taints of liberty, | That they may seeme the taints of liberty; |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.142 | If you desire to know the certainty | If you desire to know the certaintie |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.293 | Which now we hold at much uncertainty. | Which now we hold at much vncertainty. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.31 | And he is furnished with no certainties | And he is furnish'd with no certainties, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.36 | and odd posts: and here, travel-tainted as I am, | score and odde Postes: and heere (trauell-tainted as I am) |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.39 | But freshly looks, and overbears attaint | But freshly lookes, and ouer-beares Attaint, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.55 | Your roof were not sufficient to contain't. | Your Roofe were not sufficient to contayn't. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.92 | And by his treason standest not thou attainted, | And by his Treason, stand'st not thou attainted, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.96 | My father was attached, not attainted, | My Father was attached, not attainted, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.46 | My age was never tainted with such shame. | My Age was neuer tainted with such shame. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.183 | Never yet taint with love, I send the King. | Neuer yet taint with loue, I send the King. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.45 | Corrupt and tainted with a thousand vices, | Corrupt and tainted with a thousand Vices: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.81 | My tender youth was never yet attaint | My tender youth was neuer yet attaint |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.106 | And her attainture will be Humphrey's fall. | And her Attainture, will be Humphreyes fall: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.183 | Gloucester, see here the tainture of thy nest, | Gloster, see here the Taincture of thy Nest, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.59 | I must offend before I be attainted; | I must offend, before I be attainted: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.232 | What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! | What stronger Brest-plate then a heart vntainted? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.336 | Though standing naked on a mountain-top, | Though standing naked on a Mountaine top, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.205 | As on a mountain-top the cedar shows, | As on a Mountaine top, the Cedar shewes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.40 | And Nero will be tainted with remorse, | And Nero will be tainted with remorse, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.4 | And the mountain-tops that freeze, | And the Mountaine tops that freeze, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.55 | To taint that honour every good tongue blesses, | To taint that honour euery good Tongue blesses; |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.332.1 | I will not taint my mouth with. | I will not taint my mouth with. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.14 | As a man sorely tainted, to his answer, | As a man sorely tainted, to his Answer, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.28 | Commotions, uproars, with a general taint | Commotions, vprores, with a generall Taint |
| 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.9 | 'Tis bruited for a certainty, my lord, | Tis bruted for a certenty my Lord, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.26 | Rebel against us, find myself attainted | Rebell against vs, finde my selfe attainted |
| King Lear | KL I.i.221 | Fall into taint; which to believe of her | Fall into taint, which to beleeue of her |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.84 | On capital treason, and, in thy attaint, | On capitall Treason; and in thy arrest, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.811 | | Hence euer then, my heart is in thy brest. / Ber. And what to me my Loue? and what to me? / Ros. You must be purged too, your sins are rack'd. / You are attaint with faults and periurie: / Therefore if you my fauor meane to get, / A tweluemonth shall you spend, and neuer rest, / But seeke the wearie beds of people sicke. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.124 | The taints and blames I laid upon myself | The taints, and blames I laide vpon my selfe, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.3 | I cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm? | I cannot taint with Feare. What's the Boy Malcolme? |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.43 | art tainted or free. | art tainted, or free. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.254 | saved, your honour untainted, the poor Mariana | saued, your honor vntainted, the poore Mariana |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.182 | Not a resemblance, but a certainty. Yet since I see | Not a resemblance, but a certainty; yet since I see |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iv.4 | wisdom be not tainted. And why meet him at the gates, | wisedome bee not tainted: and why meet him at the gates |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.26 | Who are you? Tell me for more certainty, | Who are you? tell me for more certainty, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.75 | In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, | In Law, what Plea so tanted and corrupt, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.114 | I am a tainted wether of the flock, | I am a tainted Weather of the flocke, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.90 | Corrupt, corrupt, and tainted in desire! | Corrupt, corrupt, and tainted in desire. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.141.1 | To her foul tainted flesh! | To her foule tainted flesh. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.268 | That my disports corrupt and taint my business, | That my Disports corrupt, and taint my businesse: |
| Othello | Oth II.i.259 | either by speaking too loud, or tainting his discipline, or | either by speaking too loud, or tainting his discipline, or |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.160 | But never taint my love. I cannot say ‘ whore ’: | But neuer taynt my Loue. I cannot say Whore, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.7 | Sweet Prince, the untainted virtue of your years | Sweet Prince, the vntainted vertue of your yeers |
| Richard III | R3 III.vi.9 | Untainted, unexamined, free, at liberty. | Vntainted, vnexamin'd, free, at libertie. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.84 | Go thither, and, with unattainted eye | Go thither and with vnattainted eye, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.76 | Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are. | because their breath with Sweet meats tainted are. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.10 | Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops. | Stands tipto on the mistie Mountaines tops, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.25 | glimpse of, nor any man an attaint but he carries some | glimpse of, nor any man an attaint, but he carries some |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.374 | In taint of our best man. No, make a lottery, | In taint of our best man. No, make a Lott'ry, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.232 | And danger, like an ague, subtly taints | And danger like an ague subtly taints |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.66 | But wise men, folly-fallen, quite taint their wit. | But wisemens folly falne, quite taint their wit. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.13 | come, for sure the man is tainted in's wits. | come, for sure the man is tainted in's wits. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.131 | taint. | taint. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.347 | Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption | Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.136 | Punish my life, for tainting of my love! | Punish my life, for tainting of my loue. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.355 | Taint the condition of this present hour, | Taint the condition of this present houre, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.101 | Not tainted with extremes, runs through his body, | (Not tainted with extreames) runs through his body, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.9 | No deafing, but to hear; not taint mine eye | No deaffing, but to heare; not taint mine eye |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.167 | Of all incertainties himself commended, | Of all Incertainties, himselfe commended, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.38 | evidences proclaim her with all certainty to be the King's | Euidences, proclayme her, with all certaintie, to be the Kings |