| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.155 | I wonder, sir, since wives are monsters to you, | I wonder sir, sir, wiues are monsters to you, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.73 | loose-wived, so it is a deadly sorrow to behold a foul | loose-Wiu'd, so it is a deadly sorrow, to beholde a foule |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.69 | Would we had all such wives, that the men | Would we had all such wiues, that the men |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.viii.8 | Enter the city, clip your wives, your friends, | Enter the Citty, clip your Wiues, your Friends, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.264 | acquainted with goldsmiths' wives, and conned them | acquainted with goldsmiths wiues, & cond thẽ |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.54 | beholding to your wives for. But he comes armed in his | beholding to your wiues for: but he comes armed in his |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.138 | changes when they are wives. I will be more jealous | changes when they are wiues: I will bee more iealous |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.41 | If you'll stand fast, we'll beat them to their wives, | If you'l stand fast, wee'l beate them to their Wiues, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iv.5 | Lest that thy wives with spits and boys with stones | Least that thy Wiues with Spits, and Boyes with stones |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.22 | Ourselves, our wives and children, on our knees | Our selues, our wiues, and children, on our knees, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.84 | To see your wives dishonoured to your noses – | To see your Wiues dishonour'd to your Noses. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.i.4 | Must murder wives much better than themselves | Must murther Wiues much better then themselues |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.91 | Upon the parting of your wives and you. | Vpon the parting of your Wiues and you. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.138 | Break with your wives of your departure hence. | Breake with your Wiues, of your departure hence: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.185 | Here come our wives, and let us take our leave. | Heere come your Wiues, and let vs take our leaue. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.69 | to bakers' wives. They have made bolters of them. | to Bakers Wiues, and they haue made Boulters of them. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.52 | stews, I were manned, horsed, and wived. | Stewes, I were Mann'd, Hors'd, and Wiu'd. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.24 | kingdom – but the midwives say the children are not in | |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.306 | overscutched housewives that he heard the carmen | |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.40 | Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry | Doe breake the Clouds; as did the Wiues of Iewry, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.145 | leaving their wits with their wives; and then, give them | leauing their Wits with their Wiues: and then giue them |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.135 | some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon | some vpon their Wiues, left poore behind them; some vpon |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.224 | Our debts, our careful wives, | Our Debts, our carefull Wiues, |
| Henry V | H5 V.chorus.10 | Pales in the flood with men, with wives, and boys, | Pales in the flood; with Men, Wiues, and Boyes, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.100 | We and our wives and children all will fight | Wee and our Wiues and Children all will fight, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.53 | So worthless peasants bargain for their wives, | So worthlesse Pezants bargaine for their Wiues, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.127 | Large sums of gold and dowries with their wives; | Large summes of Gold, and Dowries with their wiues, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.169 | May, even in their wives' and children's sight, | May euen in their Wiues and Childrens sight, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.117 | wives be as free as heart can wish or tongue can tell. | wiues be as free as heart can wish, or tongue can tell. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.29 | wives and daughters before your faces. For me, I will | Wiues and Daughters before your faces. For me, I will |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.41 | Men for their sons', wives for their husbands', | Men for their Sonnes, Wiues for their Husbands, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.97 | Men, wives, and children stare, cry out, and run, | Men, Wiues, and Children, stare, cry out, and run, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.71 | Here, if you stay, your wives will be abused, | Here if you staie your wiues will be abused, |
| King John | KJ I.i.120 | That marry wives. Tell me, how if my brother, | That marry wiues: tell me, how if my brother |
| King John | KJ II.i.257 | And leave your children, wives, and you, in peace. | And leaue your children, wiues, and you in peace. |
| King John | KJ III.i.89 | Or, if it must stand still, let wives with child | Or if it must stand still, let wiues with childe |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.36 | Do not curst wives hold that self-sovereignty | Do not curst wiues hold that selfe-soueraigntie |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.61 | In my voluptuousness. Your wives, your daughters, | In my Voluptuousnesse: Your Wiues, your Daughters, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.125 | shrive me than wive me. Come, Nerissa. Sirrah, go | shriue me then wiue me. Come Nerrissa, sirra go |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.149 | here's a simple line of life. Here's a small trifle of wives! | here's a simple line of life, here's a small trifle of wiues, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.150 | Alas, fifteen wives is nothing; eleven widows and nine | alas, fifteene wiues is nothing, a leuen widdowes and nine |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.23 | When you shall please to play the thieves for wives, | When you shall please to play the theeues for wiues |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.58 | The rest aloof are the Dardanian wives, | The rest aloofe are the Dardanian wiues: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.163 | our wives are a yoke of his discarded men – very rogues, | our wiues, are a yoake of his discarded men: very rogues, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.35 | They are laid; and our revolted wives share damnation | they are laide, and our reuolted wiues share damnation |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.99 | Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. | Wiues may be merry, and yet honest too: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.12 | But let our plot go forward. Let our wives | But let our plot go forward: Let our wiues |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.106 | Now, good Sir John, how like you Windsor wives? | Now (good Sir Iohn) how like you Windsor wiues? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.225 | Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate. | Money buyes Lands, and wiues are sold by fate. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.117 | hearts and our wives' heels. | hearts, and our wiues heeles. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.269 | Let housewives make a skillet of my helm, | Let House-wiues make a Skillet of my Helme, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.60 | But, good Lieutenant, is your General wived? | But good Lieutenant, is your Generall wiu'd? |
| Othello | Oth II.i.111 | housewifery, and housewives in your beds. | Huswiferie, and Huswiues in your Beds. |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.64 | And bid me, when my fate would have me wive, | And bid me (when my Fate would haue me Wiu'd) |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.17 | There's no man happy. The purest of their wives | There's no man happy. The purest of their Wiues |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.86 | If wives do fall. Say that they slack their duties, | If Wiues do fall: (Say, that they slacke their duties, |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.93 | Their wives have sense like them: they see and smell, | Their wiues haue sense like them: They see, and smell, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.103 | Be it our wives, our children, or ourselves, | Be it our Wiues, our Children, or our selues, |
| Pericles | Per V.ii.10 | That he is promised to be wived | That he is promisde to be wiued |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.159 | Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed, | Some poyson'd by their Wiues, some sleeping kill'd, |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.81 | Which stretched unto their servants, daughters, wives, | Which stretcht vnto their Seruants, Daughters, Wiues, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.8 | And his enforcement of the city wives; | And his enforcement of the Citie Wiues, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.260 | If you do fight in safeguard of your wives, | If you do fight in safegard of your wiues, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.261 | Your wives shall welcome home the conquerors; | Your wiues shall welcome home the Conquerors. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.322 | You having lands, and blessed with beauteous wives, | You hauing Lands, and blest with beauteous wiues, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.337 | Shall these enjoy our lands? Lie with our wives? | Shall these enioy our Lands? lye with our Wiues? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.141 | Enter Prince, Montague, Capulet, their wives, and all | Enter Prince, old Montague, Capulet, their Wiues and all. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.55 | Haply to wive and thrive as best I may. | Happily to wiue and thriue, as best I may: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.74 | I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; | I come to wiue it wealthily in Padua: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.118 | See where she comes, and brings your froward wives | See where she comes, and brings your froward Wiues |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.19 | Make wells and Niobes of the maids and wives, | Make wels, and Niobes of the maides and wiues; |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.394 | But when I came, alas, to wive, | But when I came alas to wiue, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.199 | That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind | That haue reuolted Wiues, the tenth of Mankind |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.268 | Taleporter, and five or six honest wives that were present. | Tale-Porter, and fiue or six honest Wiues, that were present. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.56 | No more such wives, therefore no wife: one worse, | No more such Wiues, therefore no Wife: one worse, |