| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.96 | entirely. | intirely. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.22 | Then put my tires and mantles on him, whilst | Then put my Tires and Mantles on him, whilst |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.iv.35.1 | Please you retire to your chamber? | Please you retyre to your Chamber? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.vii.1 | Retire! We have engaged ourselves too far. | Retire, we haue engag'd our selues too farre: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.vii.8.2 | They do retire. | They do retyre. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.viii.14 | Chain mine armed neck; leap thou, attire and all, | Chaine mine arm'd necke, leape thou, Attyre and all |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.25.1 | With thine entirely. | With thine intirely. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.228 | My best attires. I am again for Cydnus, | My best Attyres. I am againe for Cidrus, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.109 | I'll put myself in poor and mean attire | Ile put my selfe in poore and meane attire, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.24 | sir, that when gentlemen are tired gives them a sob and | sir, that when gentlemen are tired giues them a sob, and |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.43 | accusations. He hath faults, with surplus, to tire in | Accusations he hath faults (with surplus) to tyre in |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.28 | Beseech you, give me leave to retire myself. | Beseech you giue me leaue to retire my selfe. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.28 | He that retires, I'll take him for a Volsce, | He that retires, Ile take him for a Volce, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.57 | A carbuncle entire, as big as thou art, | A Carbuncle intire: as big as thou art |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.1.1 | Enter Cominius, as it were in retire, with Soldiers | Enter Cominius as it were in retire, with soldiers. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.3 | Nor cowardly in retire. Believe me, sirs, | Nor Cowardly in retyre: Beleeue me Sirs, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.50 | Retire to win our purpose. | retyre to win our purpose. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.90 | I am weary; yea, my memory is tired. | I am wearie, yea, my memorie is tyr'd: |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.11 | Yielded the town. He is retired to Antium. | Yeelded the Towne: he is retyred to Antium. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.97 | Th'art tired, then, in a word, I also am | Th'art tyr'd, then in a word, I also am |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.96 | That now thou tirest on, how thy memory | That now thou tyrest on, how thy memory |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.36 | Since the exile of Posthumus, most retired | Since the exile of Posthumus, most retyr'd |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vi.2 | I have tired myself: and for two nights together | I haue tyr'd my selfe: and for two nights together |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.40 | A stop i'th' chaser; a retire: anon | A stop i'th'Chaser; a Retyre: Anon |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.30.2 | to Posthumus, an old man, attired like a warrior, leading in his hand | to Posthumus, an old man, attyred like a warriour, leading in his hand |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.82 | And makes each petty artere in this body | And makes each petty Artire in this body, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.309 | Is in his retirement marvellous | Is in his retyrement, maruellous |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.53 | Of sallies, and retires, of trenches, tents, | Of Sallies, and Retires; Trenches, Tents, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.245 | and when thou hast tired thyself in base comparisons | and when thou hasttyr'd thy selfe in base comparisons, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.154 | As a tired horse, a railing wife, | As a tyred Horse, a rayling Wife, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.56 | A comfort of retirement lives in this. | A comfort of retyrement liues in this. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.5 | Lest your retirement do amaze your friends. | Least your retirement do amaze your friends. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.320 | See now whether pure fear and entire | See now whether pure Feare, and entire |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.13 | He is retired to ripe his growing fortunes | Hee is retyr'd, to ripe his growing Fortunes, |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.58 | Any retirement, any sequestration, | Any retyrement, any sequestration, |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.22 | it may – though patience be a tired mare, yet she will | it may, though patience be a tyred name, yet shee will |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.56 | Upon our soldiers, we will retire to Calais. | Vpon our Souldiers, we will retyre to Calis. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.91 | possession of the pridge, but he is enforced to retire, | possession of the Pridge, but he is enforced to retyre, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.86 | May make a peaceful and a sweet retire | May make a peacefull and a sweet retyre |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.61 | To swearing and stern looks, diffused attire, | To Swearing, and sterne Lookes, defus'd Attyre, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.2 | Our English troops retire, I cannot stay them; | Our English Troupes retyre, I cannot stay them, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.33 | It will not be. Retire into your trenches. | It will not be, retyre into your Trenches: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.21 | If thou retire, the Dauphin, well-appointed, | If thou retire, the Dolphin well appointed, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.128 | Thy sumptuous buildings and thy wife's attire | Thy sumptuous Buildings, and thy Wiues Attyre |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.106 | And go we to attire you for our journey. | And goe we to attyre you for our Iourney. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.109 | And show itself, attire me how I can. | And shew it selfe, attyre me how I can. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.39 | My gracious lord, retire to Killingworth, | My gracious Lord, retire to Killingworth, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ix.9 | Or is he but retired to make him strong? | Or is he but retir'd to make him strong? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.269 | Tire on the flesh of me and of my son! | Tyre on the flesh of me, and of my Sonne. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.14 | And when the hardiest warriors did retire, | And when the hardyest Warriors did retyre, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.149 | But ne'er till now his scandal of retire. | But ne're till now, his Scandall of Retire. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.187 | That cries ‘ Retire!’ if Warwick bid him stay. | That cries Retire, if Warwicke bid him stay. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.8 | Forced to retire by fury of the wind. | Forc'd to retyre by furie of the Winde. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.134 | Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England | Selfe-mettle tyres him: Not a man in England |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.48 | And do you now put on your best attire? | And do you now put on your best attyre? |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.115 | Did I the tired Caesar. And this man | Did I the tyred Casar: And this Man, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.155 | Is ours already, and the man entire | Is ours alreadie, and the man entire |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.227 | With untired spirits and formal constancy. | With vntyr'd Spirits, and formall Constancie, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.20 | That we most reverence and entirely love. | That we must reuerence and intirely loue, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.178 | A strong attirement for the Prince my son. | A strong attirement for the prince my sonne. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.8 | Is now retired and gone another way: | Is now retirde and gone an other way: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.31 | Our trumpets sound dishonour and retire; | Our trumpets sound dishonor, and retire, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.235 | Might at their presence tremble and retire. | Might at their presence tremble and retire. |
| King John | KJ II.i.253 | And with a blessed and unvexed retire, | And with a blessed and vn-vext retyre, |
| King John | KJ II.i.326 | From first to last, the onset and retire | From first to last, the on-set and retyre |
| King John | KJ V.iii.13 | The French fight coldly, and retire themselves. | The French fight coldly, and retyre themselues. |
| King John | KJ V.iv.53 | And like a bated and retired flood, | And like a bated and retired Flood, |
| King John | KJ V.v.4 | In faint retire! O, bravely came we off, | In faint Retire: Oh brauely came we off, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.240 | Aloof from th' entire point. Will you have her? | Aloofe from th'intire point, will you haue her? |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.13 | Than doth within a dull, stale, tired bed | Then doth within a dull stale tyred bed |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.96 | To his father that so tenderly and entirely | |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.165 | as I say, retire with me to my lodging, from whence I | as I say, retire with me to my lodging, from whence I |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.114.2 | Berowne and Rosaline converse apart | [Q1] BEROWNE Did not I dance with you in Brabant once? KATHER. Did not I dance with you in Brabant once? BEROWNE I know you did. KATH. How needles was it then to aske the question? BEROWNE You must not be so quicke. KATH. Tis long of you that spur me with such questions. BEROWNE Your wit's too hot, it speedes too fast, twill tire. KATH. Not till it leaue the rider in the mire. BEROWNE What time a day? KATH. The houre that fooles should aske. BEROWNE Now faire befall your maske. KATH. Faire fall the face it couers. BEROWNE And send you manie louers. KATH. Amen, so you be none. BEROWNE Nay then will I be gone. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.131 | Being but the one half of an entire sum | Being but th'one halfe, of an intire summe, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.220 | Why, all his behaviours did make their retire | Why all his behauiours doe make their retire, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.126 | master, the ape his keeper, the tired horse his rider. | master, the Ape his keeper, the tyred Horse his rider: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.300 | Other slow arts entirely keep the brain, | Other slow Arts intirely keepe the braine: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.577.1 | Nathaniel retires | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.590 | Keep some state in thy exit, and retire. | Keepe some state in thy exit, and vanish. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.591.1 | Mote retires | Exit Boy |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.628 | Holofernes retires | |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.39 | So withered and so wild in their attire, | So wither'd, and so wilde in their attyre, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.66 | At the south entry. Retire we to our chamber. | at the South entry: / Retyre we to our Chamber: |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.57 | Duke and Provost retire | |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.147 | entirely drunk. We have very oft awaked him, as if to | entirely drunke. We haue verie oft awak'd him, as if to |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.130 | In your retirement I had swinged him soundly. | In your retirment, I had swing'd him soundly. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.225 | They are entirely welcome. | they are intirely welcome. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.102.1 | They retire | |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.53 | the ship-tire, the tire-valiant, or any tire of Venetian | the Ship-tyre, the Tyre-valiant, or any Tire of Venetian |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.80 | and not retire. Let me have your good will. | And not retire. Let me haue your good will. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.70 | Finely attired in a robe of white. | finely attired in a robe of white. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.89 | As true as truest horse that yet would never tire, | As true as truest horse, that yet would neuer tyre, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.94 | cue is past. It is ‘ never tire.’ | cue is past; it is neuer tyre. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.96 | As true as truest horse, that yet would never tire. | as true as truest horse, that yet would neuer tyre: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.54 | That is some satire keen and critical, | The. That is some Satire keene and criticall, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.286 | And tire the hearer with a book of words. | And tire the hearer with a booke of words: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.37 | That Benedick loves Beatrice so entirely? | That Benedicke loues Beatrice so intirely? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.102 | I'll show thee some attires, and have thy counsel | Ile shew thee some attires, and haue thy counsell, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.12 | I like the new tire within excellently, if the | I like the new tire within excellently, if the |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.142 | For my part, I am so attired in wonder, | for my part, I am so attired |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.101 | think I care for a satire or an epigram? No; if a man will | think I care for a Satyre or an Epigram? no, if a man will |
| Othello | Oth II.i.65.1 | Does tire the ingener. | Do's tyre the Ingeniuer. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.369 | Retire thee; go where thou art billeted. | Retire thee, go where thou art Billited: |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.60 | Entirely to her love; but, if she lost it | Intirely to her loue: But if she lost it, |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.110 | Entirely honour. I would not be delayed. | Intirely honour, I would not be delayd. |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.92 | Othello retires | |
| Othello | Oth V.i.7 | He retires | |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.144 | Of one entire and perfect chrysolite, | Of one entyre and perfect Chrysolite, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.269 | And he retires. Where should Othello go? | And he retires. Where should Othello go? |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.II.37 | Till Fortune, tired with doing bad, | Till Fortune tir'd with doing bad, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.21 | Rich tire about you, should at these early hours | rich tire about you, should at these early howers, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.36 | He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes. | He tyres betimes, that spurs too fast betimes; |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.17 | Divides one thing entire to many objects, | Diuides one thing intire, to many obiects, |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.46 | That he, our hope, might have retired his power, | That he our hope, might haue retyr'd his power, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.96 | And, toiled with works of war, retired himself | And toyl'd with workes of Warre, retyr'd himselfe |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.178 | Which tired majesty did make thee offer: | Which tyred Maiestie did make thee offer: |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.94 | Spurred, galled, and tired by jauncing Bolingbroke. | Spur-gall'd, and tyrd by iauncing Bullingbrooke. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.44 | Hath he so long held out with me, untired, | Hath he so long held out with me, vntyr'd, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.9.1 | Queen Margaret retires | |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.189 | Which in the day of battle tire thee more | Which in the day of Battell tyre thee more |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.1 | I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire. | I pray thee good Mercutio lets retire, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.1 | Ay, those attires are best. But, gentle Nurse, | I those attires are best, but gentle Nurse |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.11.1 | Page retires | |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.21.1 | Paris retires | |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.44 | Balthasar retires | |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.123 | He hath some meaning in his mad attire. | He hath some meaning in his mad attire, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.1 | Fie, fie on all tired jades, on all mad masters, and | Fie, fie on all tired Iades, on all mad Masters, & |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.47 | First know my horse is tired, my master and | First know my horse is tired, my master & |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.23 | Of your entire affection to Bianca, | Of your entire affection to Bianca, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.91 | With that which, but by being so retired, | with that, which but by being so retir'd |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.161 | If you be pleased, retire into my cell | If you be pleas'd, retire into my Cell, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.88 | Ariel sings and helps to attire him | Ariell sings, and helps to attire him. |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.311 | And thence retire me to my Milan, where | And thence retire me to my Millaine, where |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.167 | I have retired me to a wasteful cock | I haue retyr'd me to a wastefull cocke, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.540.1 | Exit Flavius; Timon retires to his cave | Exit |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.32 | him. It must be a personating of himself; a satire against | him: / It must be a personating of himselfe: / A Satyre against |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.57 | Hearing you were retired, your friends fall'n off, | Hearing you were retyr'd, your Friends falne off, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.114.1 | He beats them off the stage, and retires to his cave | Exeunt |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.98 | Then should not we be tired with this ado. | Then should not we be tir'd with this adoo: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.43 | And were they but attired in grave weeds, | And were they but attired in graue weedes, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.30 | Why art thou thus attired, Andronicus? | Why art thou thus attir'd Andronicus? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.281 | If none, he'll say in Troy when he retires, | If none, hee'l say in Troy when he retyres, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.174 | Want similes, truth tired with iteration – | Wants similes, truth tir'd with iteration, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.53 | Beckoning with fiery truncheon my retire; | Beckning with fierie trunchion my retire; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iv.20.2 | Thou dost miscall retire; | Thou do'st miscall retire: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.viii.15 | Hark, a retire upon our Grecian part. | Harke, a retreat vpon our Grecian part. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iv.1 | Enter Valentine, and Viola in man's attire | Enter Valentine, and Viola in mans attire. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.137 | till our very pastime, tired out of breath, prompt us to | til our very pastime tyred out of breath, prompt vs to |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.247 | But this my masculine usurped attire, | But this my masculine vsurp'd attyre: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.182 | If I had such a tire this face of mine | If I had such a Tyre, this face of mine |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.109 | If we be found, we are wretched. O, retire | If we be found, we are wretched, O retire |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.15.1 | To tire your royalty. | To tyre your Royaltie. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.74 | (To Antigonus) Thou dotard, thou art woman-tired, unroosted | Thou dotard, thou art woman-tyr'd: vnroosted |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.ii.31 | have missingly noted he is of late much retired from | haue (missingly) noted, he is of late much retyred from |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.124 | Your sad tires in a mile-a. | Your sad tyres in a Mile-a. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.13 | To see you so attired, swoon, I think, | To see you so attyr'd: sworne I thinke, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.62 | She would to each one sip. You are retired, | She would to each one sip. You are retyred, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.645 | Come home to ye! – you must retire yourself | Come home to ye:) you must retire your selfe |