| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.277 | From tyrant Duke unto a tyrant brother. | From tyrant Duke, vnto a tyrant Brother. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.61 | Are mere usurpers, tyrants, and what's worse | Are meere vsurpers, tyrants, and whats worse |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.14 | Should be called tyrants, butchers, murderers! | Should be called tyrants, butchers, murtherers. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.40 | She Phebes me; mark how the tyrant writes: | She Phebes me: marke how the tyrant writes. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.15 | Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant | dissembling Curtesie! How fine this Tyrant |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.265 | Thou art past the tyrant's stroke, | Thou art past the Tirants stroake, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.478 | So as a painted tyrant Pyrrhus stood, | So as a painted Tyrant Pyrrhus stood, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.14 | Is thought with child by the stern tyrant War, | Is thought with childe, by the sterne Tyrant, Warre, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.242 | We are no tyrant, but a Christian king, | We are no Tyrant, but a Christian King, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.54 | And beauty, that the tyrant oft reclaims, | And Beautie, that the Tyrant oft reclaimes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.69 | For how can tyrants safely govern home, | For how can Tyrants safely gouerne home, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.71 | To prove him tyrant this reason may suffice, | To proue him Tyrant, this reason may suffice, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.206 | And force the tyrant from his seat by war. | And force the Tyrant from his seat by Warre. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.29 | But to prevent the tyrant's violence – | But to preuent the Tyrants violence, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.92 | Therein, ye gods, you tyrants do defeat. | Therein, yee Gods, you Tyrants doe defeat. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.103 | And why should Caesar be a tyrant then? | And why should Casar be a Tyrant then? |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.70.1 | This Caesar was a tyrant. | This Casar was a Tyrant. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iv.5 | A foe to tyrants, and my country's friend. | A Foe to Tyrants, and my Countries Friend. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.40 | Than striving to rebate a tyrant's pride | Then stryuing to rebate a tyrants pride, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.129 | And now the tyrant hath begirt with siege | And now the tyrant hath beguirt with seege, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.95 | Even she, my liege; whose beauty tyrants fear, | Euen shee liege, whose beauty tyrants feare, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.118 | Ay, that approves thee, tyrant, what thou art: | I that approues thee tyrant what thou art, |
| King John | KJ V.iii.14 | Ay me! This tyrant fever burns me up, | Aye me, this tyrant Feauer burnes mee vp, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.63 | When misery could beguile the tyrant's rage | When misery could beguile the Tyranrs rage, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.325 | And plant in tyrants mild humility. | And plant in Tyrants milde humilitie. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.22 | His presence at the tyrant's feast, I hear | His presence at the Tyrants Feast, I heare |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.25 | From whom this tyrant holds the due of birth, | (From whom this Tyrant holds the due of Birth) |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.12 | This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues, | This Tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.36 | For the whole space that's in the tyrant's grasp, | For the whole Space that's in the Tyrants Graspe, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.45 | When I shall tread upon the tyrant's head | When I shall treade vpon the Tyrants head, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.104 | With an untitled tyrant, bloody-sceptred, | With an vntitled Tyrant, bloody Sceptred, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.178 | The tyrant has not battered at their peace? | The Tyrant ha's not batter'd at their peace? |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.185 | For that I saw the tyrant's power afoot. | For that I saw the Tyrants Power a-foot. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.11.2 | What does the tyrant? | What do's the Tyrant. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iv.8 | We learn no other but the confident tyrant | We learne no other, but the confident Tyrant |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.7 | Do we but find the tyrant's power tonight, | Do we but finde the Tyrants power to night, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.20 | Thou liest, abhorred tyrant! With my sword | Thou lyest abhorred Tyrant, with my Sword |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.24 | That way the noise is. Tyrant, show thy face. | That way the noise is: Tyrant shew thy face, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.35 | The tyrant's people on both sides do fight; | The Tyrants people, on both sides do fight, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.66.1 | ‘ Here may you see the tyrant.’ | Heere may you see the Tyrant. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.114 | You seemed of late to make the law a tyrant, | You seem'd of late to make the Law a tirant, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.169 | I'll prove a tyrant to him. As for you, | Ile proue a Tirant to him. As for you, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.186 | play the tyrant. | play the Tirant. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.57 | Thou art a tyrant to say so. Thou wouldst | Thou art a tyrant to say so: thou wouldst |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.20 | What is Pyramus? – a lover or a tyrant? | What is Pyramus, a louer, or a tyrant? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.25 | rest. – Yet my chief humour is for a tyrant. I could play | rest yet, my chiefe humour is for a tyrant. I could play |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.36 | This is Ercles' vein, a tyrant's vein. A lover is more | This is Ercles vaine, a tyrants vaine: a louer is more |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.158 | me speak after my custom, as being a professed tyrant | me speake after my custome, as being a professed tyrant |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.227 | The tyrant, custom, most grave Senators, | The Tirant Custome, most Graue Senators, |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.79 | 'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. | Tis time to feare when tyrants seemes to kisse. |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.84 | I knew him tyrannous, and tyrants' fears | I knew him tyrannous, and tyrants feare |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.103 | And justly too, I think, you fear the tyrant | And iustly too, I thinke you feare the tyrant, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.184 | Tyrants themselves wept when it was reported. | Tyrants themselues wept when it was reported. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.53 | That excellent grand tyrant of the earth | That excellent grand Tyrant of the earth, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.247 | A bloody tyrant and a homicide; | A bloudy Tyrant, and a Homicide: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.256 | If you do sweat to put a tyrant down, | If you do sweare to put a Tyrant downe, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.257 | You sleep in peace, the tyrant being slain; | You sleepe in peace, the Tyrant being slaine: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.20 | 'Tis all one. I will show myself a tyrant. When | 'Tis all one, I will shew my selfe a tyrant: when |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.75 | Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! | Beautifull Tyrant, fiend Angelicall: |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.159 | A plague upon the tyrant that I serve! | A plague vpon the Tyrant that I serue; |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.41 | As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, | As I told thee before, I am subiect to a Tirant, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.257 | Fury, Fury! There, Tyrant, there! Hark! | Fury, Fury: there Tyrant, there: harke, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.9 | And none but tyrants use it cruelly. | And none but Tyrants vse it cruelly. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.141 | Upon the Thracian tyrant in his tent | Vpon the Thracian Tyrant in his Tent, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.117 | If I confess much, you will play the tyrant. | If I confesse much you will play the tyrant: |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.122 | Live you the marble-breasted tyrant still. | Liue you the Marble-brested Tirant still. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.63 | A most unbounded tyrant, whose successes | A most unbounded Tyrant, whose successes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.78 | To call the fiercest tyrant from his rage | To call the feircest Tyrant from his rage; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.115 | Not she which burns in't. I'll not call you tyrant; | Not she which burnes in't. Ile not call you Tyrant: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.121 | Out of the chamber with her! Were I a tyrant, | Out of the Chamber with her. Were I a Tyrant, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.132 | Camillo a true subject; Leontes a jealous tyrant; his | Camillo a true Subiect, Leontes a iealous Tyrant, his |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.173 | What studied torments, tyrant, hast for me? | What studied torments (Tyrant) hast for me? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.205 | As I would do the gods. But, O thou tyrant, | As I would do the Gods. But, O thou Tyrant, |