| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.220 | Impossible be strange attempts to those | Impossible be strange attempts to those |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.36 | So like a courtier, contempt nor bitterness | So like a Courtier, contempt nor bitternesse |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.249 | And pray God's blessing into thy attempt. | And praie Gods blessing into thy attempt: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.ii.6 | special, when you put off that with such contempt? But | speciall, when you put off that with such contempt, but |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.156 | We please to have it grow. Check thy contempt. | We please to haue it grow. Checke thy contempt: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.31 | For the contempt of empire. | For the contempt of Empire. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.62 | the attempt for a worthy exploit. If you speed well in it | the attempt for a worthy exploit: if you speede well in it, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.75 | but the attempt I vow. | but the attempt I vow. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.48 | Contempt his scornful perspective did lend me, | Contempt his scornfull Perspectiue did lend me, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.124 | What our contempts doth often hurl from us, | What our contempts doth often hurle from vs, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.11 | Tempt him not so too far. I wish, forbear. | Tempt him not so too farre. I wish forbeare, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.167 | give over this attempt. | giue ouer this attempt. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.45 | heart, stagger in this attempt; for here we have no temple | heart, stagger in this attempt: for heere wee haue no Temple |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.181 | But wrong not that wrong with a more contempt. | But wrong not that wrong with a more contempt. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.1 | Ah, Luciana, did he tempt thee so? |
Ah Luciana, did he
tempt thee so? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.13 | With what persuasion did he tempt thy love? |
With what perswasion did he tempt thy loue? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.48 | Satan, avoid! I charge thee, tempt me not! | Sathan auoide, I charge thee tempt me not. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.199 | He did solicit you in free contempt | He did sollicite you in free Contempt, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.201 | That his contempt shall not be bruising to you | That his Contempt shall not be brusing to you, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.220 | With what contempt he wore the humble weed, | With what Contempt he wore the humble Weed, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.20 | (aside) Shall I be tempted to infringe my vow | Shall I be tempted to infringe my vow |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.146 | But with his last attempt he wiped it out, | But with his last Attempt, he wip'd it out: |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.75 | That prosperously I have attempted and | That prosperously I haue attempted, and |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.58 | less attemptable than any the rarest of our ladies in | lesse attemptible then any, the rarest of our Ladies in |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.109 | offence herein too, I durst attempt it against any | offence heerein to, I durst attempt it against any |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.113 | worthy of by your attempt. | worthy of, by your Attempt. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.115 | A repulse: though your attempt – as you call it – | A Repulse though your Attempt (as you call it) |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.9 | From fairies and the tempters of the night, | From Fayries, and the Tempters of the night, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.91 | And make me put into contempt the suits | and makes me put into contempt the suites |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.184 | All that good time will give us. This attempt | All that good time will giue vs. This attempt, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.42.1 | Can her contempt be answered? | Can her contempt be answer'd? |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.141 | be a torment to her contempt. He on the ground, | be a torment to hir contempt. He on the ground, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.27 | Nature hath meal, and bran; contempt, and grace. | "Nature hath Meale, and Bran; Contempt, and Grace. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.69 | What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, | What if it tempt you toward the Floud my Lord? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.183 | Let the bloat King tempt you again to bed, | Let the blunt King tempt you againe to bed, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.56 | Follow him at foot. Tempt him with speed aboard. | Follow him at foote, / Tempt him with speed aboord: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.181 | Revenge the jeering and disdained contempt | Reuenge the geering and disdain'd contempt |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.168 | Might so have tempted him as you have done | Might so haue tempted him, as you haue done, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.13 | Such poor, such bare, such lewd, such mean attempts, | Such poore, such bare, such lewd, such meane attempts, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.61 | The quality and hair of our attempt | The qualitie and Heire of our Attempt |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.50 | How showed his tasking? Seemed it in contempt? | How shew'd his Talking? Seem'd it in contempt? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.15 | That your attempts may overlive the hazard | That your Attempts may ouer-liue the hazard, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.45 | We have supplies to second our attempt. | Wee haue Supplyes, to second our Attempt: |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.172 | His subjects to oppression and contempt, | His Subiects to oppression, and contempt, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.117 | Scorn and defiance, slight regard, contempt, | Scorne and defiance, sleight regard, contempt, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.75 | To shine on my contemptible estate. | To shine on my contemptible estate. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.123 | These women are shrewd tempters with their tongues. | These women are shrewd tempters with their tongues. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.31 | Once, in contempt, they would have bartered me; | Once in contempt they would haue barter'd me: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.79 | But mark: as in this haughty great attempt | But marke: as in this haughtie great attempt, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.10 | You tempt the fury of my three attendants, | You tempt the fury of my three attendants, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.81 | Contemptuous base-born callet as she is, | Contemptuous base-borne Callot as she is, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.114 | How often have I tempted Suffolk's tongue – | How often haue I tempted Suffolkes tongue |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.78 | Who in contempt shall hiss at thee again; | Who in contempt shall hisse at thee againe. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.209 | And tread it under foot with all contempt, | And tread it vnder foot with all contempt, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.88 | Or die renowned by attempting it. | Or dye renowned by attempting it. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.133 | Mine ear hath tempted judgement to desire. | Mine eare hath tempted iudgement to desire. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.ii.26 | You that will follow me to this attempt, | You that will follow me to this attempt, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.55 | In tempting of your patience, but am boldened | In tempting of your patience; but am boldned |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.42 | Turn me away, and let the foul'st contempt | Turne me away: and let the fowl'st Contempt |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.17 | Bar his access to th' King, never attempt | Barre his accesse to'th'King, neuer attempt |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.53 | But wherefore did you so much tempt the heavens? | But wherefore did you so much tempt the Heauens? |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.136 | To our attempts. Am I not stayed for, Cinna? | To our Attempts. Am I not stay'd for, Cinna? |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.266 | And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air, | And tempt the Rhewmy, and vnpurged Ayre, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.36 | Have mind upon your health; tempt me no further. | Haue minde vpon your health: Tempt me no farther. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.59 | Peace, peace! You durst not so have tempted him. | Peace, peace, you durst not so haue tempted him. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.62.1 | What, durst not tempt him? | What? durst not tempt him? |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.123.2 | attempting to restrain him | |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.40 | Thou shouldst attempt it. Come now, keep thine oath; | Thou should'st attempt it. Come now, keepe thine oath, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.26 | And that's the special ground of their contempt | And thats the speciall ground of their contempt: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.349 | Well may I tempt myself to wrong myself, | Well may I tempt my self to wrong my self, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.147 | Let it forbid you to attempt the other. | Let it forbid you to attempt the other: |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.9 | Contemptuous villains, call ye now for truce? | Gontemptuous villaines, call ye now for truce? |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.90 | For what is he that will attempt great deeds | For what is he that will attmpt great deeds, |
| King John | KJ II.i.88 | Their proud contempt that beats His peace to heaven. | Their proud contempt that beats his peace to heauen. |
| King John | KJ II.i.384 | The flinty ribs of this contemptuous city. | The flintie ribbes of this contemptuous Citie, |
| King John | KJ II.i.591 | But for my hand, as unattempted yet, | But for my hand, as vnattempted yet, |
| King John | KJ III.i.208 | O Lewis, stand fast! The devil tempts thee here | O Lewis, stand fast, the deuill tempts thee heere |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.84 | Nor tempt the danger of my true defence; | Nor tempt the danger of my true defence; |
| King John | KJ V.ii.111 | Till my attempt so much be glorified | Till my attempt so much be glorified, |
| King John | KJ V.vi.38 | And tempt us not to bear above our power! | And tempt vs not to beare aboue our power. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.284 | To laughter and contempt, that she may feel | To laughter, and contempt: That she may feele, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.120 | For him attempting who was self-subdued; | For him attempting, who was selfe-subdued, |
| King Lear | KL II.iii.8 | That ever penury, in contempt of man, | That euer penury in contempt of man, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.218 | Let not my worser spirit tempt me again | Let not my worser Spirit tempt me againe |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.187 | Sir, the contempts thereof are as touching me. | Sir the Contempts thereof are as touching mee. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.165 | can that be true love which is falsely attempted? Love | can that be true loue, which is falsly attempted? Loue |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.167 | Love. Yet was Samson so tempted, and he had an | Loue, yet Sampson was so tempted, and he had an |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.255 | Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light. | Diuels soonest tempt resembling spirits of light. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.149 | Why, that contempt will kill the speaker's heart, | Why that contempt will kill the keepers heart, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.322 | Had he been Adam, he had tempted Eve. | Had he bin Adam, he had tempted Eue. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.10 | And 'tis not done. The attempt and not the deed | And 'tis not done: th' attempt, and not the deed, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.39.1 | Prepares for some attempt of war. | Prepares for some attempt of Warre. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.79 | By fearing to attempt. Go to Lord Angelo, | By fearing to attempt: Goe to Lord Angelo |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.17 | 'Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, | 'Tis one thing to be tempted (Escalus) |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.158 | For I am that way going to temptation, | For I am that way going to temptation, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.163 | The tempter, or the tempted, who sins most? | The Tempter, or the Tempted, who sins most? |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.165 | Not she, nor doth she tempt; but it is I | Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.182 | Is that temptation that doth goad us on | Is that temptation, that doth goad vs on |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.256 | will I frame and make fit for his attempt. If you think | will I frame, and make fit for his attempt: if you thinke |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.184 | persuasion can with ease attempt you, I will go further than | perswasion, can with ease attempt you, I wil go further then |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.91 | the devil be within and that temptation without, I know | the diuell be within, and that temptation without, I know |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.i.39 | And either not attempt to choose at all | And either not attempt to choose at all, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.3 | tempts me, saying to me ‘ Gobbo, Launcelot Gobbo, | tempts me, saying to me, Iobbe, Launcelet Iobbe, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.347 | That by direct or indirect attempts | That by direct, or indirect attempts |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.418 | Dear sir, of force I must attempt you further. | Deare sir, of force I must attempt you further, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.200 | waste, attempt us again. | waste, attempt vs againe. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.211 | Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit; | Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.140 | Thy lips – those kissing cherries – tempting grow! | Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow! |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.180 | as you know all, hath a contemptible spirit. | (as you know all) hath a contemptible spirit. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.109 | Contempt, farewell! and maiden pride, adieu! | Contempt, farewell, and maiden pride, adew, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.50 | I never tempted her with word too large, | I neuer tempted her with word too large, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.29 | Neglecting an attempt of ease and gain | Neglecting an attempt of ease, and gaine |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.22 | therefore I will attempt the doing of it. | therefore I will attempt the doing it. |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.8 | The devil their virtue tempts, and they tempt heaven. | The Diuell their vertue tempts, and they tempt Heauen. |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.236 | your pleasure. I will be near to second your attempt, | your pleasure. I will be neere to second your Attempt, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.253 | (within) If thou attempt it, it will cost thee dear; | If thou attempt it, it will cost thee deere; |
| Pericles | Per V.i.174 | And having wooed a villain to attempt it, | and hauing wooed a villaine, / To attempt it, |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.27 | Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes | Euen so, or with much more contempt, mens eyes |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.65 | That tempers him to this extremity. | That tempts him to this harsh Extremity. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.172 | For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. | For kissing Lady, not for such contempt. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.79 | Held in contempt, while great promotions | Held in contempt, while great Promotions |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.12 | Who from my cabin tempted me to walk | Who from my Cabin tempted me to walke, |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.48 | To warn false traitors from the like attempts. | To warne false Traytors from the like Attempts. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.35 | Would tempt unto a close exploit of death? | Will tempt vnto a close exploit of Death? |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.39 | And will, no doubt, tempt him to anything. | And will (no doubt) tempt him to any thing. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.119 | With such contempt? Made I him king for this? | With such contempt? made I him King for this? |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.418 | Shall I be tempted of the devil thus? | Shall I be tempted of the Diuel thus? |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.419 | Ay, if the devil tempt you to do good. | I, if the Diuell tempt you to do good. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.266 | For me, the ransom of my bold attempt | For me, the ransome of my bold attempt, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.268 | But if I thrive, the gain of my attempt | But if I thriue, the gaine of my attempt, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.68 | And what love can do, that dares love attempt. | And what Loue can do, that dares Loue attempt: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.71 | Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back. | Contempt and beggery hangs vpon thy backe: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.59 | Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man. | Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.116 | And then with kind embracements, tempting kisses, | And then with kinde embracements, tempting kisses, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.130 | Attempts her love. I prithee, noble lord, | Attempts her loue: I prythee (Noble Lord) |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.ii.15 | Walks, like contempt, alone. More of our fellows. | Walkes like contempt alone. More of our Fellowes. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.ii.32 | Since riches point to misery and contempt? | Since Riches point to Misery and Contempt? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.8 | But by contempt of nature. | But by contempt of Nature. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.10 | The senator shall bear contempt hereditary, | The Senators shall beare contempt Hereditary, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.50 | For which attempt the judges have pronounced | For which attempt the Iudges haue pronounc'st |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.4 | Of egall justice, used in such contempt? | Of egall iustice, vs'd in such contempt? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.34 | For these contempts. (Aside) Why, thus it shall become | For these contempts. Why thus it shall become |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.12 | Ingrateful Rome requites with foul contempt, | Ingratefull Rome requites with foule contempt: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.90 | That tempts most cunningly. But be not tempted. | That tempts most cunningly: but be not tempted. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.95 | When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, | When we will tempt the frailtie of our powers, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.19 | Sweet honey Greek, tempt me no more to folly. | Sweete hony Greek, tempt me no more to folly. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.34 | And tempt not yet the brushes of the war. | And tempt not yet the brushes of the warre. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.vii.21 | the son of a whore fight for a whore, he tempts | the Sonne of a whore fight for a whore, he tempts |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.277 | Placed in contempt. Farewell, fair cruelty! | Plac'd in contempt: Farwell fayre crueltie. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.118 | at anything more than contempt, you would not give | at any thing more then contempt, you would not giue |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.88 | her great P's. It is, in contempt of question, her hand. | her great P's. It is in contempt of question her hand. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.196 | but turn him into a notable contempt. If you will see it, | but turn him into a notable contempt: if you wil see it |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.143 | In the contempt and anger of his lip! | In the contempt and anger of his lip, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.27 | do redeem it by some laudable attempt either of valour | do redeeme it, by some laudable attempt, either of valour |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.340 | Can lack persuasion? Do not tempt my misery, | Can lacke perswasion. Do not tempt my misery, |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.41 | If thou darest tempt me further, draw thy sword. | If thou dar'st tempt me further, draw thy sword. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.112 | Trampling contemptuously on thy disdain. | Trampling contemptuously on thy disdaine. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.131 | For, in revenge of my contempt of love, | For in reuenge of my contempt of loue, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vi.8 | Teach me, thy tempted subject, to excuse it! | Teach me (thy tempted subiect) to excuse it. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.4 | Thebes, and the temptings in't, before we further | Thebs, and the temptings in't, before we further |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.115 | For my contempt; then all the world will scorn us, | For my contempt; Then all the world will scorne us, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.77 | Temptations have since then been born to's: for | Temptations haue since then been borne to's: for |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.189 | Will hiss me to my grave. Contempt and clamour | Will hisse me to my Graue: Contempt and Clamor |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.373 | A lip of much contempt, speeds from me, and | A Lippe of much contempt, speedes from me, and |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.ii.50 | But durst not tempt a minister of honour | But durst not tempt a minister of honour |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.729 | on thy baseness court-contempt? Think'st thou, for | on thy Basenesse, Court-Contempt? Think'st thou, for |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.73.1 | You tempt him overmuch. | You tempt him ouer-much. |