| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.i.26 | Though time seem so adverse and means unfit. | Though time seeme so aduerse, and meanes vnfit: |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.43 | I'll give you a verse to this note, that I made | Ile giue you a verse to this note, / That I made |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.1 | Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love, | Hang there my verse, in witnesse of my loue, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.109 | This is the very false gallop of verses. Why do you infect | This is the verie false gallop of Verses, why doe you infect |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.159 | Didst thou hear these verses? | Didst thou heare these verses? |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.161 | some of them had in them more feet than the verses | some of them had in them more feete then the Verses |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.163 | That's no matter: the feet might bear the verses. | That's no matter: the feet might beare ye verses. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.165 | themselves without the verse, and therefore stood lamely | themselues without the verse, and therefore stood lamely |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.166 | in the verse. | in the verse. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.254 | I pray you, mar no moe of my verses with | I pray you marre no moe of my verses with |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.375 | in good sooth, are you he that hangs the verses on the | in good sooth, are you he that hangs the verses on the |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.10 | When a man's verses cannot be understood, | When a mans verses cannot be vnderstood, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.36 | O, that's a brave man! He writes brave verses, | O that's a braue man, hee writes braue verses, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.38 | them bravely, quite traverse, athwart the heart of his | them brauely, quite trauers athwart the heart of his |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.28 | Nay then, God buy you, an you talk in blank verse. | Nay then God buy you, and you talke in blanke verse. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.58 | three year old, conversed with a magician, most profound | three yeare old conuerst with a Magitian, most profound |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.15 | To admit no traffic to our adverse towns. | To admit no trafficke to our aduerse townes: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.169 | Did you converse, sir, with this gentlewoman? | Did you conuerse sir with this gentlewoman: |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.48 | trivial motion; one that converses more with the buttock | triuiall motion: One, that conuerses more with the Buttocke |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.53 | palate adversely, I make a crooked face at it. I cannot | Palat aduersly, I make a crooked face at it, I can |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.19 | some bald, but that our wits are so diversely coloured. | some bald; but that our wits are so diuersly Coulord; |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.42 | Your party in converse, him you would sound, | your party in conuerse; him you would sound, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.325 | freely, or the blank verse shall halt for't. What players | freely; or the blanke Verse shall halt for't: what Players |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.437 | thy companion. Why dost thou converse with that trunk of | thy Companion: Why do'st thou conuerse with that Trunke of |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.264 | Hold, Wart, traverse. Thas! Thas! Thas! | Hold Wart, Trauerse: thus, thus, thus. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.3 | Fills the wide vessel of the universe. | Fills the wide Vessell of the Vniuerse. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.132 | Marry, if you would put me to verses, or to | Marry, if you would put me to Verses, or to |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.27 | By magic verses have contrived his end? | By Magick Verses haue contriu'd his end. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.54 | Combat with adverse planets in the heavens! | Combat with aduerse Planets in the Heauens; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.25 | Well, let them practise and converse with spirits. | Well, let them practise and conuerse with spirits. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.29 | If I were covetous, ambitious, or perverse, | If I were couetous, ambitious, or peruerse, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.129 | To bear with their perverse objections, | To beare with their peruerse Obiections: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.190 | Honour and virtue, and conversed with such | Honor and Vertue, and conuers't with such, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.17.2 | sheet and verses written on her back and pinned on and | Sheet, and |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.368 | Hath he conversed with the enemy, | Hath he conuersed with the Enemie, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.iii.30 | Tear him for his bad verses, tear him | Teare him for his bad verses, teare him |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.iii.31 | for his bad verses! | for his bad Verses. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.265 | Sole reigning Adam on the universe, | Sole ragning Adam on the vniuerse, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.35 | As wilful stubbornness hath made perverse. | As wilfull stubbornnes hath made peruerse. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.50 | The feeble handful on the adverse part. | The feeble handfull on the aduerse part. |
| King John | KJ II.i.57 | Hath put himself in arms. The adverse winds, | Hath put himselfe in Armes, the aduerse windes |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.172 | When adverse foreigners affright my towns | When aduerse Forreyners affright my Townes |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.15 | to converse with him that is wise and says little, to fear | to conuerse with him that is wise and saies little, to feare |
| 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 IV.ii.101 | as Horace says in his – What, my soul, verses? | as Horrace sayes in his, What my soule verses. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.103 | Let me hear a staff, a stanze, a verse. Lege, | Let me heare a staffe, a stanze, a verse, Lege |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.148 | colourable colours. But to return to the verses: did | colourable colours. But to returne to the Verses, Did |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.156 | those verses to be very unlearned, neither savouring of | those Verses to be very vnlearned, neither sauouring of |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.6 | strange without heresy. I did converse this quondam | strange without heresie: I did conuerse this quondam |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.34 | Nay, I have verses too, I thank Berowne; | Nay, I haue Verses too, I thanke Berowne, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.50 | Some thousand verses of a faithful lover; | Some thousand Verses of a faithfull Louer. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.230 | They converse apart | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.238.1 | They converse apart | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.242.1 | They converse apart | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.256 | They converse apart | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.522.2 | converse apart | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.730 | In the converse of breath. Your gentleness | In the conuerse of breath (your gentlenesse |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.812 | The King and the Princess converse apart | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.822 | They converse apart | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.826.1 | They converse apart | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.840 | Visit the speechless sick, and still converse | Visite the speechlesse sicke, and still conuerse |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.vi.6 | He speak against me on the adverse side, | He speake against me on the aduerse side, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.68 | proper man's picture, but, alas, who can converse with a | proper mans picture, but alas who can conuerse with a |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.12 | That do converse and waste the time together, | That do conuerse and waste the time together, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.22 | traverse, to see thee here, to see thee there, to see thee | trauerse, to see thee heere, to see thee there, to see thee |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.23 | pass thy punto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy distance, | passe thy puncto, thy stock, thy reuerse, thy distance, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.61 | he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he | he dances, he has eies of youth: he writes verses, hee |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.31 | With feigning voice verses of feigning love, | With faining voice, verses of faining loue, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.46 | Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will | Grow this to what aduerse issue it can, I will |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.179 | Prove you that any man with me conversed | Proue you that any man with me conuerst, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.34 | blank verse, why, they were never so truly turned over | blanke verse, why they were neuer so truely turned ouer |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.365 | womb of time, which will be delivered. Traverse! Go, | Wombe of Time, which wilbe deliuered. Trauerse, go, |
| Othello | Oth III.i.37 | Out of the way, that your converse and business | Out of the way, that your conuerse and businesse |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.82 | Of thy adverse pernicious enemy! | Of thy amaz'd pernicious enemy. |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.88 | Is Clarence dead? The order was reversed. | Is Clarence dead? The Order was reuerst. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.28 | I will converse with iron-witted fools | I will conuerse with Iron-witted Fooles, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.191 | My prayers on the adverse party fight, | My Prayers on the aduerse party fight, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.13 | Which they upon the adverse faction want. | Which they vpon the aduerse Faction want. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.96 | I'll frown, and be perverse, and say thee nay, | Ile frowne and be peruerse, and say thee nay, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.60 | Displant a town, reverse a prince's doom, | Displant a Towne, reuerse a Princes Doome, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.136 | Without a sudden calm will overset | Without a sudden calme will ouer set |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.16 | It stains the glory in that happy verse | It staines the glory in that happy Verse, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.82 | Why, thy verse swells with stuff so fine and smooth | Why thy Verse swels with stuffe so fine and smooth, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.7 | Have wandered with our traversed arms, and breathed | Haue wander'd with our trauerst Armes, and breath'd |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.24 | Unbind my sons, reverse the doom of death, | Vnbinde my sonnes, reuerse the doome of death, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.1.3 | bundle of weapons and verses writ upon them | bundle of weapons, and verses writ vpon them. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.22 | O, 'tis a verse in Horace, I know it well; | O 'tis a verse in Horace, I know it well. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.24 | Ay, just – a verse in Horace, right you have it. | I iust, a verse in Horace: right, you haue it, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.180 | ‘ As true as Troilus ’ shall crown up the verse, | As true as Troylus, shall crowne vp the Verse, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.21 | nothing, for we may live to have need of such a verse. | nothing, for we may liue to haue neede of such a Verse: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.40 | loathed? What verse for it? What instance for it? – Let | loath'd? What Verse for it? what instance for it? let |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.7 | Come, but one verse. | Come, but one verse. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.82 | Into the danger of this adverse town; | Into the danger of this aduerse Towne, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.110 | What, to perverseness? You uncivil lady, | What to peruersenesse? you vnciuill Ladie |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.31 | Hear sweet discourse, converse with noblemen, | Heare sweet discourse, conuerse with Noblemen, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.61 | We have conversed and spent our hours together; | We haue conuerst, and spent our howres together, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.223 | Which, unreversed, stands in effectual force – | (Which vn-reuerst stands in effectuall force) |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.28 | Ay, and perversely she persevers so. | I, and peruersly, she perseuers so: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.101 | Nor was not to be, equalled; thus your verse | Nor was not to be equall'd, thus your Verse |