| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.115 | in the defence yet is weak. Unfold to us some warlike | in the defence yet is weak: vnfold to vs some war-like |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.85 | Than I dare blame my weakness. Will you see her, | Then I dare blame my weakenesse: will you see her? |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.137 | Oft does them by the weakest minister. | Oft does them by the weakest minister: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.176 | His powerful sound within an organ weak; | His powerfull sound, within an organ weake: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.32 | In a most weak – | In a most weake--- |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.41 | My heart is heavy and mine age is weak; | My heart is heauie, and mine age is weake, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.130 | Five or six thousand, but very weak and | Fiue or sixe thousand, but very weake and |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.121 | Is weaker than the wine, and mine own tongue | Is weaker then the Wine, and mine owne tongue |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iv.29 | The Jove of power make me, most weak, most weak, | The Ioue of power make me most weake, most weake, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.67 | My sword, made weak by my affection, would | My Sword, made weake by my affection, would |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.342.2 | O, noble weakness! | Oh Noble weakenesse: |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.249 | Or Charles or something weaker masters thee. | Or Charles, or something weaker masters thee. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.51 | The means of weakness and debility; | The meanes of weaknesse and debilitie, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.6 | weaker vessel as doublet and hose ought to show itself | weaker vessell, as doublet and hose ought to show it selfe |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.133 | Oppressed with two weak evils, age and hunger, | Opprest with two weake euils, age, and hunger, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.184 | Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, | Whose weaknesse married to thy stranger state, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.35 | Smothered in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, | Smothred in errors, feeble, shallow, weake, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.143 | Thy country's strength and weakness – thine own ways, | Thy Countries strength and weaknesse, thine own waies |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.70 | Raised only that the weaker sort may wish | Rais'd onely, that the weaker sort may wish |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.45 | with such weak breath as this? No, you are deceived, | with such weake breath as this? No, you are deceiu'd, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.3 | I have read three hours then: mine eyes are weak, | I haue read three houres then: / Mine eyes are weake, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.23 | bleeding in me. I speak not out of weak surmises, | bleeding in me. I speak not out of weake Surmises, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.79 | That cravens my weak hand. Come, here's my heart – | That crauens my weake hand: Come, heere's my heart: |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.10 | I am weak with toil, yet strong in appetite. | I am weake with toyle, yet strong in appetite. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.viii.5 | Full weak to undertake our wars against | Full weake to vndertake our Warres against |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.18 | Holding a weak supposal of our worth, | Holding a weake supposall of our worth; |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.148 | Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness, | Thence to a Watch, thence into a Weaknesse, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.201 | with most weak hams; all which, sir, though I most | with weake Hammes. All which Sir, though I most |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.571 | Tweaks me by the nose? Gives me the lie i'th' throat | Tweakes me by'th'Nose? giues me the Lye i'th'Throate, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.599 | Out of my weakness and my melancholy, | Out of my Weaknesse, and my Melancholly, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.115 | Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. | Conceit in weakest bodies, strongest workes. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.255 | Your grace has laid the odds o'th' weaker side. | Your Grace hath laide the oddes a'th'weaker side. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.11 | I hold as little counsel with weak fear | I hold as little counsaile with weake feare, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iv.19 | I fear the power of Percy is too weak | I feare the Power of Percy is too weake, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.140 | And as the wretch whose fever-weakened joints, | And as the Wretch, whose Feauer-weakned ioynts, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.144 | Weakened with grief, being now enraged with grief, | (Weak'ned with greefe) being now inrag'd with greefe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.8 | to remember so weak a composition. | to remember so weake a Composition. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.59 | you are the weaker vessel, as they say, the emptier | you are the weaker Vessell; as they say, the emptier |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.61 | Can a weak empty vessel bear such a huge full | Can a weake emptie Vessell beare such a huge full |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.246 | faculties 'a has that show a weak mind and an able | Faculties hee hath, that shew a weake Minde, and an able |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.351 | And there are twenty weak and wearied posts | And there are twentie weake and wearied Postes, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.81 | And weak beginning lie intreasured. | And weake beginnings lye entreasured: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.100 | Is held from falling with so weak a wind | Is held from falling, with so weake a winde, |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.15 | And, to relief of lazars and weak age, | And to reliefe of Lazars, and weake age |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.46 | Which of a weak and niggardly projection | Which of a weake and niggardly proiection, |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.52 | villainy goes against my weak stomach, and therefore | Villany goes against my weake stomacke, and therefore |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.122 | imperial: England shall repent his folly, see his weakness, | imperiall: England shall repent his folly, see his weakenesse, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.130 | own person kneeling at our feet but a weak and worthless | owne person kneeling at our feet, but a weake and worthlesse |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.153 | My army but a weak and sickly guard: | My Army, but a weake and sickly Guard: |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.267 | weak list of a country's fashion. We are the makers of | weake Lyst of a Countreyes fashion: wee are the makers |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.158 | The English army is grown weak and faint; | The English Army is growne weake and faint: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.106 | Christ's Mother helps me, else I were too weak. | Christs Mother helpes me, else I were too weake. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.74 | But weakly guarded, where the breach was made. | But weakely guarded, where the breach was made: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.22 | It cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp | It cannot be, this weake and writhled shrimpe |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.1 | Kind keepers of my weak decaying age, | Kind Keepers of my weake decaying Age, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.10 | Weak shoulders, overborne with burdening grief, | Weake Shoulders, ouer-borne with burthening Griefe, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.7 | And that we find the slothful watch but weak, | And that we finde the slouthfull Watch but weake, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.25 | No way to that, for weakness, which she entered. | No way to that (for weaknesse) which she entred. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iv.16 | To beat assailing death from his weak legions; | To beate assayling death from his weake Regions, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.4 | When sapless age and weak unable limbs | When saplesse Age, and weake vnable limbes |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.27 | My ancient incantations are too weak, | My ancient Incantations are too weake, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.31 | Till Henry be more weak and I more strong. – | Till Henry be more weake, and I more strong. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.134 | I know not what to say; my title's weak. – | I know not what to say, my Titles weake: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.13 | And weak we are and cannot shun pursuit. | And weake we are, and cannot shun pursuite. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.145 | But if your title to the crown be weak, | But if your Title to the Crowne be weake, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.12 | Which are so weak of courage and in judgement | Which are so weake of courage, and in iudgement, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.v.7 | And, often but attended with weak guard, | And often but attended with weake guard, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.37 | And, weakling, Warwick takes his gift again; | And Weakeling, Warwicke takes his gift againe, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.38 | 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. | 'Twere childish weakenesse to lament, or feare. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.82 | By sick interpreters, once weak ones, is | By sicke Interpreters (once weake ones) is |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.40 | Then you are weakly made. Pluck off a little; | Then you are weakly made; plucke off a little, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.43 | Cannot vouchsafe this burden, 'tis too weak | Cannot vouchsafe this burthen, tis too weake |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.106 | I am a simple woman, much too weak | I am a simple woman, much too weake |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.20 | With me, a poor weak woman, fall'n from favour? | With me, a poore weake woman, falne from fauour? |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.72 | More near my life, I fear, with my weak wit, | (More neere my Life I feare) with my weake wit; |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.169 | With these weak women's fears. A noble spirit, | With these weake Womens feares. A Noble Spirit |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.390 | Than my weak-hearted enemies dare offer. | Then my Weake-hearted Enemies, dare offer. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.117 | Who grieves much for your weakness, and by me | Who greeues much for your weaknesse, and by me |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.72 | To men that understand you, words and weakness. | To men that vnderstand you, words and weaknesse. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.175 | That my weak words have struck but thus much show | that my weake words / Haue strucke but thus much shew |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.91 | Therein, ye gods, you make the weak most strong; | Therein, yee Gods, you make the weake most strong; |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.108 | Begin it with weak straws. What trash is Rome, | Begin it with weake Strawes. What trash is Rome? |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.116 | If these be motives weak, break off betimes, | If these be Motiues weake, breake off betimes, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.236 | Your weak condition to the raw cold morning. | Your weake condition, to the raw cold morning. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.iv.39 | I must go in. Ay me, how weak a thing | I must go in: / Aye me! How weake a thing |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.274 | I think it is the weakness of mine eyes | I thinke it is the weakenesse of mine eyes |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.58 | Mean'st thou to fight, Douglas? We are too weak. | Meanst thou to fight, Duglas we are to weake. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.68 | Leave therefore now to persecute the weak, | Leaue therfore now to persecute the weake, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.27 | With strong surprise of weak and yielding fear. | With strong surprise of weake and yeelding feare. |
| King John | KJ V.ii.87 | With that same weak wind which enkindled it. | With that same weake winde, which enkindled it: |
| King John | KJ V.iii.17 | Weakness possesseth me, and I am faint. | Weaknesse possesseth me, and I am faint. |
| King John | KJ V.vii.78 | Out of the weak door of our fainting land. | Out of the weake doore of our fainting Land: |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.224 | Either his notion weakens, his discernings | Either his Notion weakens, his Discernings |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.196 | I pray you, father, being weak, seem so. | I pray you Father being weake, seeme so. |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.20 | A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. | A poore, infirme, weake, and dispis'd old man: |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.195 | Alack, too weak the conflict to support – | (Alacke too weake the conflict to support) |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.261 | For Jaquenetta – so is the weaker vessel called – | For Iaquenetta (so is the weaker vessell called) |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.15 | Showed like a rebel's whore. But all's too weak: | Shew'd like a Rebells Whore: but all's too weake: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.16 | To offer up a weak poor innocent lamb | To offer vp a weake, poore innocent Lambe |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.123 | Owe and succeed thy weakness. | Owe, and succeed thy weaknesse. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.i.34 | May turn by fortune from the weaker hand. | May turne by fortune from the weaker hand: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.30 | Were but a weak disabling of myself. | Were but a weake disabling of my selfe. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.115 | Meetest for death. The weakest kind of fruit | Meetest for death, the weakest kinde of fruite |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.27 | Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears thus strong, | Their sense thus weake, lost with their feares thus strong, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.250 | Thy threats have no more strength than her weak prayers. | Thy threats haue no more strength then her weak praise. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.268 | A weak bond holds you. I'll not trust your word. | A weake bond holds you; Ile not trust your word. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.417 | And this weak and idle theme, | And this weake and idle theame, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.54 | All matter else seems weak. She cannot love, | All matter else seemes weake: she cannot loue, |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.75 | That weakens motion. I'll have't disputed on; | That weakens Motion. Ile haue't disputed on, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.38 | not task my weakness with any more. | not taske my weakenesse with any more. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.338 | With his weak function. How am I then a villain | With his weake Function. How am I then a Villaine, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.185 | Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw | Nor from mine owne weake merites, will I draw |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.440 | One is too poor, too weak for my revenge. | One is too poore, too weake for my reuenge. |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.91.1 | And save poor me, the weaker. | and saue poore mee the weaker. |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.83 | Who weak with age cannot support myself. | Who weake with age, cannot support my selfe: |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.153 | Because my power is weak and all ill-left. | Because my power is weake, and all ill left: |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.62 | Weak men must fall; for heaven still guards the right. | Weake men must fall, for Heauen still guards the right. |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.65 | Than this weak arm. Discomfort guides my tongue | Then this weake arme; discomfort guides my tongue, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.181 | Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe, | Giues in your weakenesse, strength vnto your Foe; |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.27 | Transformed and weakened? Hath Bolingbroke | Transform'd, and weaken'd? Hath Bullingbrooke |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.19 | Unlikely wonders – how these vain weak nails | Vnlikely wonders; how these vaine weake nailes |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.24 | Why I, in this weak piping time of peace, | Why I (in this weake piping time of Peace) |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.136 | The King is sickly, weak, and melancholy, | The King is sickly, weake, and melancholly, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.28 | Bear with her weakness, which I think proceeds | Beare with her weaknesse, which I thinke proceeds |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.37 | My Lord of Buckingham, if my weak oratory | My Lord of Buckingham, if my weake Oratorie |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.12 | That shows thee a weak slave. For the weakest | That shewes thee a weake slaue, for the weakest |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.15 | weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the wall. Therefore I | weaker Vessels, are euer thrust to the wall: therefore I |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.211 | From love's weak childish bow she lives uncharmed. | From loues weake childish Bow, she liues vncharm'd. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.19 | Within the infant rind of this weak flower | Within the infant rin'd of this weake flower, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.167 | weak dealing. | weake dealing. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.164 | Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth, | Why are our bodies soft, and weake, and smooth, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.173 | Our strength as weak, our weakness past compare, | Our strength as weake, our weakenesse past compare, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.488 | My father's loss, the weakness which I feel, | My Fathers losse, the weaknesse which I feele, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.191 | discretion so weakly. Will you laugh me asleep, for I | discretion so weakly: Will you laugh me asleepe, for I |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.236 | Although this lord of weak remembrance, this, | Although this Lord of weake remembrance; this |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.142 | monster! I afeard of him? A very weak monster! The | Monster: I afeard of him? a very weake Monster: / The |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.159 | Bear with my weakness; my old brain is troubled. | Beare with my weakenesse, my old braine is troubled: |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.41 | Weak masters though ye be – I have bedimmed | (Weake Masters though ye be) I haue bedymn'd |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.146 | To make the dear loss, have I means much weaker | To make the deere losse, haue I meanes much weaker |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.57 | Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, | Heere's that which is too weake to be a sinner, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.9 | But I am weaker than a woman's tear, | But I am weaker then a womans teare; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.43 | Whose weak untimbered sides but even now | Whose weake vntimber'd sides but euen now |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.137 | Troy in our weakness lives, not in her strength. | Troy in our weaknesse liues, not in her strength. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.195 | To weaken and discredit our exposure, | To weaken and discredit our exposure, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.129 | Such things as might offend the weakest spleen | Such things as might offend the weakest spleene, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.130 | Cunning in dumbness, from my weakness draws | Comming in dumbnesse, from my weakenesse drawes |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.222 | Sweet, rouse yourself, and the weak wanton Cupid | Sweete, rouse your selfe; and the weake wanton Cupid |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.7 | Or brew it to a weak and colder palate, | Or brew it to a weake and colder pallat, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.110 | one of thy kin has a most weak pia mater. | One of thy kin has a most weake Pia-mater. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.69 | Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought. | Made Wit with musing, weake; hart sick with thought. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.6 | This weak impress of love is as a figure | This weake impresse of Loue, is as a figure |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.67 | Then weaker than your eyes – laid by his club; | (Then weaker than your eies) laide by his Club, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.12.1 | Our gain but life and weakness. | Our gaine but life, and weakenes. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.86 | Now alack, weak sister, | Now alacke weake Sister, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.125 | I fear less than my fortune. Know, weak cousin, | I feare lesse then my fortune: know weake Cosen |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.52 | Weakens his price, and many will not buy | Weakens his price, and many will not buy |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.24 | Weak as we are, and almost breathless swim | Weake as we are, and almost breathlesse swim |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.72 | And our weak spirits ne'er been higher reared | And our weake Spirits ne're been higher rear'd |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.1 | Nor night nor day no rest! It is but weakness | Nor night, nor day, no rest: It is but weaknesse |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.2 | To bear the matter thus, mere weakness. If | To beare the matter thus: meere weaknesse, if |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.118 | Than your own weak-hinged fancy – something savours | Then your owne weake-hindg'd Fancy) something sauors |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.179 | Fancies too weak for boys, too green and idle | Fancies too weake for Boyes, too greene and idle |