| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.125 | is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve | is not politicke, in the Common-wealth of Nature, to preserue |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.12 | Of all the learned and authentic fellows – | Of all the learned and authenticke fellowes. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.40 | How now, monsieur! This drum sticks sorely | How now Monsieur? This drumme sticks sorely |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.21 | very politic. But couch, ho! Here he comes to beguile | very politicke. But couch hoa, heere hee comes, to beguile |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.47 | Equality of two domestic powers | Equality of two Domesticke powers, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.41 | This orient pearl. His speech sticks in my heart. | This Orient Pearle. His speech stickes in my heart. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.123 | Anticked us all. What needs more words? Good night. | Antickt vs all. What needs more words? goodnight. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.230 | Sticks me at heart. – Sir, you have well deserved. | Sticks me at heart: Sir, you haue well deseru'd, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.47 | If that I do not dream or be not frantic – | If that I doe not dreame, or be not franticke, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.31 | Under an oak whose antick root peeps out | Vnder an oake, whose anticke roote peepes out |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.402 | nook merely monastic. And thus I cured him, and this | nooke meerly Monastick: and thus I cur'd him, and this |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.13 | ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the | ambitious: nor the Lawiers, which is politick: nor the |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.44 | lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with | Lady, I haue bin politicke with my friend, smooth with |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.174 | And fall into our rustic revelry: | And fall into our Rusticke Reuelrie: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.93 | And tell his wife that, being lunatic, | And tell his wife, that being Lunaticke, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.111 | Go bind this man, for he is frantic too. | Go binde this man, for he is franticke too. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.258 | Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow | tickled with good successe, disdaines the shadow |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.269 | Opinion that so sticks on Martius, shall | Opinion that so stickes on Martius, shall |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.244 | But now 'tis odds beyond arithmetic, | But now 'tis oddes beyond Arithmetick, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.73 | To shame unvulnerable, and stick i'th' wars | To shame vnvulnerable, and sticke i'th Warres |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.16 | Can tickle where she wounds! My dearest husband, | Can tickle where she wounds? My deerest Husband, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.142 | Spare your arithmetic, never count the turns: | Spare your Arethmaticke, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.65 | Thyself domestic officers – thine enemy: | Thy selfe Domesticke Officers) thine Enemy: |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.10 | Stick to your journal course: the breach of custom | Sticke to your Iournall course: the breach of Custome, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.100 | Yield, rustic mountaineer. | Yeeld Rusticke Mountaineer. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.210 | Thus smiling, as some fly had tickled slumber, | Thus smiling, as some Fly had tickled slumber, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.458 | To the majestic cedar joined; whose issue | To the Maiesticke Cedar ioyn'd; whose Issue |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.40.2 | O my prophetic soul! | O my Propheticke soule: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.172 | To put an antic disposition on – | To put an Anticke disposition on:) |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.324 | are tickle o'th' sere; and the lady shall say her mind | are tickled a'th' sere: and the Lady shall say her minde |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.467 | Striking too short at Greeks. His antique sword, | Striking too short at Greekes. His anticke Sword, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.477 | Of reverend Priam, seemed i'th' air to stick. | Of Reuerend Priam, seem'd i'th' Ayre to sticke: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.200 | Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree, | Which now like Fruite vnripe stickes on the Tree, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.68 | For like the hectic in my blood he rages, | For like the Hecticke in my blood he rages, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.94 | Will nothing stick our person to arraign | Will nothing sticke our persons to Arraigne |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.168 | Therewith fantastic garlands did she make | There with fantasticke Garlands did she come, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.251.1 | Stick fiery off indeed. | Sticke fiery off indeede. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.60 | the rusty curb of old Father Antic the law? Do not thou | the rustie curbe of old Father Anticke the Law? Doe not thou |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.302 | Yea, and to tickle our noses with spear-grass, | Yea, and to tickle our Noses with Spear-grasse, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.391 | tickle-brain. | Tickle-braine. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.433 | Nay, I'll tickle ye for a young prince, i'faith. | Nay, Ile tickle ye for a young Prince. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.472 | Heigh, heigh, the devil rides upon a fiddlestick. | Heigh, heigh, the Deuill rides vpon a Fiddle-sticke: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.125 | I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned, | I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.22 | will not stick to say his face is a face-royal. God may | will not sticke to say, his Face is a Face-Royall. Heauen may |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.58 | I'll tickle your catastrophe! | Ile tucke your Catastrophe. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.65 | will stick by thee, I can assure thee that; 'a will not out, | will sticke by thee, I can assure thee that. He will not out, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.67 | And I'll stick by him, sir. | And Ile sticke by him, sir. |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.37 | Do you not remember, 'a saw a flea stick upon | Doe you not remember a saw a Flea sticke vpon |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.43 | The horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks, | The Horsemen sit like fixed Candlesticks, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.150 | me, and stick it in thy cap. When Alençon and myself were | me, and sticke it in thy Cappe: when Alanson and my selfe |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.101 | With silence, nephew, be thou politic. | With silence, Nephew, be thou pollitick, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.214 | Stands on a tickle point now they are gone. | Stands on a tickle point, now they are gone: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.33 | That he that breaks a stick of Gloucester's grove | That he that breakes a sticke of Glosters groue, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.148 | She's tickled now; her fume needs no spurs, | Shee's tickled now, her Fume needs no spurres, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.174 | Look, on the sheets his hair, you see, is sticking; | Looke on the sheets his haire (you see) is sticking, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.47 | Thy leg a stick compared with this truncheon; | Thy legge a sticke compared with this Truncheon, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.215 | Foul stigmatic, that's more than thou canst tell. | Foule stygmaticke that's more then thou canst tell. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.136 | But like a foul misshapen stigmatic, | But like a foule mishapen Stygmaticke, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.94 | And stick them in our will. Sixth part of each? | And sticke them in our Will. Sixt part of each? |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.125 | They will not stick to say you envied him, | They will not sticke to say, you enuide him; |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.114 | Domestics to you, serve your will as't please | (Domestickes to you) serue your will, as't please |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.130 | So get the start of the majestic world, | So get the start of the Maiesticke world, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.263 | Domestic fury and fierce civil strife | Domesticke Fury, and fierce Ciuill strife, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.317 | Thou wilt not stick to swear what thou hast said, | Thou wilt not sticke to sweare what thou hast said, |
| King John | KJ I.i.142 | That in mine ear I durst not stick a rose | That in mine eare I durst not sticke a rose, |
| King John | KJ II.i.573 | That smooth-faced gentleman, tickling commodity; | That smooth-fac'd Gentleman, tickling commoditie, |
| King John | KJ III.iii.44 | Which else runs tickling up and down the veins, | Which else runnes tickling vp and downe the veines, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.67 | Sticking together in calamity. | Sticking together in calamitie. |
| King John | KJ III.iv.126 | Now hear me speak with a prophetic spirit; | Now heare me speake with a propheticke spirit: |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.21 | In this the antique and well noted face | In this the Anticke, and well noted face |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.79 | A plague upon your epileptic visage! | A plague vpon your Epilepticke visage, |
| King Lear | KL II.iii.19 | Sometimes with lunatic bans, sometime with prayers, | Sometimes with Lunaticke bans, sometime with Praiers |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.119 | o'the coxcombs with a stick and cried ‘ Down, wantons, | o'th'coxcombs with a sticke, and cryed downe wantons, |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.46 | To whose hands you have sent the lunatic King? Speak! | To whose hands/ You haue sent the Lunaticke King: Speake. |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.57 | In his anointed flesh rash boarish fangs. | In his Annointed flesh, sticke boarish phangs. |
| King Lear | KL V.i.30 | For these domestic and particular broils | For these domesticke and particurlar broiles, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.172 | A very beadle to a humorous sigh, | A verie Beadle to a humerous sigh: A Criticke, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.168 | And critic Timon laugh at idle toys! | And Critticke Tymon laugh at idle toyes. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.26 | make frantic, lunatic. | make franticke, lunaticke? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.106 | delightful ostentation, or show, or pageant, or antic, or | delightfull ostentation, or show, or pageant, or anticke, or |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.60 | But screw your courage to the sticking place, | But screw your courage to the sticking place, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.49 | Stick deep; and in his royalty of nature | sticke deepe, / And in his Royaltie of Nature |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.85 | Sticks deeper, grows with more pernicious root | stickes deeper: growes with more pernicious roote |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.17 | His secret murders sticking on his hands; | His secret Murthers sticking on his hands, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.171 | I warrant it is, an thy head stands so tickle on thy | I warrant it is: And thy head stands so tickle on thy |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.189 | should be thus foolishly lost at a game of tick-tack. | should bee thus foolishly lost, at a game of ticke-tacke: |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.25 | Only to stick it in their children's sight | Onely to sticke it in their childrens sight, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.175 | friar, I am a kind of burr, I shall stick. | Friar, I am a kind of Burre, I shal sticke. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.472 | And so deep sticks it in my penitent heart | And so deepe sticks it in my penitent heart, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.59 | bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison | bleede? if you tickle vs, doe we not laugh? if you poison |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.100 | Thou stick'st a dagger in me. I shall never see | Thou stick'st a dagger in me, I shall neuer see |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.73 | I beseech you, be not so phlegmatic. | I beseech you be not so flegmaticke: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.219 | admittance, authentic in your place and person, generally | admittance, authenticke in your place and person, generally |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.44 | raw rheumatic day? | raw-rumaticke day? |
| 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 |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.117 | Why, this is lunatics. This is mad as a mad dog. | Why, this is Lunaticks: this is madde, as a mad dogge. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.105 | That rheumatic diseases do abound; | That Rheumaticke diseases doe abound. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.3 | And stick muskroses in thy sleek, smooth head, | And sticke muske roses in thy sleeke smoothe head, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.25 | I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me, I | I am such a tender asse, if my haire do but tickle me, I |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.3 | These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. | These anticke fables, nor these Fairy toyes, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.7 | The lunatic, the lover, and the poet | The Lunaticke, the Louer, and the Poet, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.10 | That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic, | That is the mad man. The Louer, all as franticke, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.63 | If black, why, Nature, drawing of an antic, | If blacke, why Nature drawing of an anticke, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.80 | Which is as bad as die with tickling. | Which is as bad as die with tickling. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.209 | To manage private and domestic quarrel | To Manage priuate, and domesticke Quarrell? |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.450 | Never, Iago. Like to the Pontic sea, | Neuer Iago. Like to the Ponticke Sea, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.453 | To the Propontic and the Hellespont, | To the Proponticke, and the Hellespont: |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.72 | In her prophetic fury sewed the work: | In her Prophetticke furie sow'd the Worke: |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.107 | How have I been behaved, that he might stick | How haue I bin behau'd, that he might sticke |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.148.1 | That sticks on filthy deeds. | That stickes on filthy deeds. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.299 | By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? | by thinking on fantasticke summers heate? |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.115.2 | – a lunatic lean-witted fool, | And thou, a lunaticke leane-witted foole, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.185 | Makes him speak fondly, like a frantic man. | Makes him speake fondly, like a frantick man: |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.88 | Thou frantic woman, what dost thou make here? | Thou franticke woman, what dost yu make here, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.246 | False-boding woman, end thy frantic curse, | False boding Woman, end thy frantick Curse, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.253 | Dispute not with her; she is lunatic. | Dispute not with her, shee is lunaticke. |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.60 | And being seated, and domestic broils | And being seated, and Domesticke broyles |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.64 | And frantic outrage, end thy damned spleen, | And franticke outrage, end thy damned spleene, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.68 | And the beholders of this frantic play, | And the beholders of this franticke play, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.36 | Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels. | Tickle the sencelesse rushes with their heeles: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.42 | Of – save your reverence – love, wherein thou stickest | Or saue your reuerence loue, wherein thou stickest |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.80 | Tickling a parson's nose as 'a lies asleep; | tickling a Parsons nose as a lies asleepe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.47 | discords. Here's my fiddlestick. Here's that shall make | discords: heere's my fiddlesticke, heere's that shall make |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.102 | by the book of arithmetic! Why the devil came you between | by the booke of Arithmeticke, why the deu'le came you betweene |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.79 | Dry up your tears, and stick your rosemary | Drie vp your teares, and sticke your Rosemarie |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.61 | Persuade him that he hath been lunatic, | Perswade him that he hath bin Lunaticke, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.99 | Were he the veriest antic in the world. | Were he the veriest anticke in the world. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.37 | The mathematics and the metaphysics | The Mathematickes, and the Metaphysickes |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.73 | As are the swelling Adriatic seas. | As are the swelling Adriaticke seas. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.56 | Cunning in music and the mathematics, | Cunning in Musicke, and the Mathematickes, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.82 | mathematics. His name is Cambio. Pray accept his | Mathematickes: / His name is Cambio: pray accept his |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.280 | To wish me wed to one half lunatic, | To wish me wed to one halfe Lunaticke, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.12 | I told you, I, he was a frantic fool, | I told you I, he was a franticke foole, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.174 | Thus have I politicly begun my reign, | Thus haue I politickely begun my reigne, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.63 | What, is the man lunatic? | What is the man lunaticke? |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.473 | For I can here disarm thee with this stick, | For I can heere disarme thee with this sticke, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.160 | I'll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee, | I'le beare him no more Stickes, but follow thee, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.118 | This is a most majestic vision, and | This is a most maiesticke vision, and |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.189 | Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains, | Nurture can neuer sticke: on whom my paines |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.58.2 | Here enters Ariel before; then Alonso with a frantic | Heere enters Ariel before: Then Alonso with a franticke |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.i.30 | When every feather sticks in his own wing, | When euery Feather stickes in his owne wing, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iii.29 | devil knew not what he did when he made man politic – | diuell knew not what he did, when hee made man Politicke; |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.17 | Domestic awe, night-rest, and neighbourhood, | Domesticke awe, Night-rest, and Neighbour-hood, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.59 | Sly, frantic wretch, that holp'st to make me great, | Sly franticke wretch, that holp'st to make me great, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.63 | Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed. | Die franticke wretch, for this accursed deed. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC prologue.20 | Now expectation, tickling skittish spirits | Now Expectation tickling skittish spirits, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.137 | tickled his chin – indeed, she has a marvellous white | tickled his chin, indeed shee has a maruel's white |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.73 | When rank Thersites opes his mastic jaws | When ranke Thersites opes his Masticke iawes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.103 | And I will fill them with prophetic tears. | And I will fill them with Propheticke teares. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.117 | But tickles still the sore. | But tickles still the sore: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.110 | they'll stick where they are thrown. | they'le sticke where they are throwne. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.179 | As truth's authentic author to be cited, | (As truths authenticke author to be cited) |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.193 | Yea, let them say, to stick the heart of falsehood, | Yea, let them say, to sticke the heart of falsehood, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.312 | tick in a sheep than such a valiant ignorance. | Ticke in a Sheepe, then such a valiant ignorance. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.61 | To every tickling reader! Set them down | To euery tickling reader: set them downe, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.57 | potato-finger, tickles these together! Fry, lechery, fry! | potato finger, tickles these together: frye lechery, frye. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.134 | To stubborn critics, apt, without a theme | To stubborne Criticks, apt without a theame |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.180 | He'll tickle it for his concupy. | Heele tickle it for his concupie. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.86 | Like witless antics one another meet, | Like witlesse Antickes one another meete, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.v.38 | Mad and fantastic execution, | Mad and fantasticke execution; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.viii.18 | And, stickler-like, the armies separates. | And stickler-like the Armies seperates |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.3 | That old and antique song we heard last night. | That old and Anticke song we heard last night; |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.22 | caught with tickling. | caught with tickling. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.155 | open. I will be proud, I will read politic authors, I will | open, I will bee proud, I will reade politicke Authours, I will |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.22 | the lunatic. | the Lunaticke. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.190 | if he had not been in drink, he would have tickled you | if he had not beene in drinke, hee would haue tickel'd you |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.101 | If the ground be overcharged, you were best stick | If the ground be ouer-charg'd, you were best sticke |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.56 | Unless you have a codpiece to stick pins on. | Vnlesse you haue a cod-peece to stick pins on. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.28 | Let the plough play today; I'll tickle't out | Let the plough play to day, ile tick'lt out |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.137 | As twenty to dispatch; he'll tickle it up | As twenty to dispatch, hee'l tickl't up |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.44 | Must put my garland on me, where she sticks, | Must put my Garland on, where she stickes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.54 | Stick misbecomingly on others, on him | Sticke misbecomingly on others, on them |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.84 | Our rustic garden's barren, and I care not | Our rusticke Gardens barren, and I care not |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.228 | Pins and poking-sticks of steel; | Pins, and poaking-stickes of steele. |