| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.78.1 | And write to her a love-line. | And write to her a loue-line. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.197 | I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man, to which | I must tell thee sirrah, I write Man: to which |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.286 | And wherefore I am fled; write to the King | And wherefore I am fled: Write to the King |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.10 | Let me see what he writes, and when he | Let me see what he writes, and when he |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.59 | ‘ then ’ I write a ‘ never.’ | (then) I write a Neuer. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.8 | Write, write, that from the bloody course of war | Write, write, that from the bloodie course of warre, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.24 | She might have been o'erta'en; and yet she writes | She might haue beene ore-tane: and yet she writes |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.29 | Of greatest justice. Write, write, Rynaldo, | Of greatest Iustice. Write, write Rynaldo |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.65 | I warrant, good creature, wheresoe'er she is, | I write good creature, wheresoere she is, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.I.29 | Grants scarce distinction. Thou wilt write to Antony? | graunts scarce distinction: thou wilt write to Anthony. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.17 | Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number – hoo! – | Thinke speake, cast, write, sing, number: hoo, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iii.46 | Where I will write. All may be well enough. | where I will write; all may be well enough. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.28 | Ourselves alone. I'll write it. Follow me. | Our selues alone: Ile write it: Follow me. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.v.13 | Detain no jot, I charge thee. Write to him – | Detaine no iot I charge thee: write to him, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.133 | Will I ‘ Rosalinda ’ write, | Will I Rosalinda write, |
| 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.v.134 | I'll write to him a very taunting letter, | Ile write to him a very tanting Letter, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.136.2 | I'll write it straight: | Ile write it strait: |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.20 | Why writes she so to me? Well, shepherd, well, | Why writes she so to me? well Shepheard, well, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.23.1 | Phebe did write it. | Phebe did write it. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.40 | She Phebes me; mark how the tyrant writes: | She Phebes me: marke how the tyrant writes. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.i.42 | other; for all your writers do consent that ‘ ipse ’ is he. | other. For all your Writers do consent, that ipse is hee: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.73 | Where, ere we do repose us, we will write | Where ere we doe repose vs, we will write |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.122 | Titus Lartius writes they fought together, | Titus Lartius writes, they fought together, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.30 | Known but by letter; thither write, my queen, | Knowne but by Letter; thither write (my Queene) |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.2 | And question'dst every sail: if he should write, | And questioned'st euery Saile: if he should write, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.208.2 | I will write. | I will write: |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.24 | To note the chamber: I will write all down: | To note the Chamber, I will write all downe, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.43 | Why should I write this down, that's riveted, | Why should I write this downe, that's riueted, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.105.2 | She writes so to you? Doth she? | She writes so to you? doth shee? |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.183 | Not half so old as that. I'll write against them, | Not halfe so old as that. Ile write against them, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.1 | How? Of adultery? Wherefore write you not | How? of Adultery? Wherefore write you not |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.105 | I'll write to my lord she's dead: O Innogen, | Ile write to my Lord she's dead: Oh Imogen, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.316 | Hast here cut off my lord. To write, and read | Hath heere cut off my Lord. To write, and read, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.110 | He writes | |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.349 | writers do them wrong to make them exclaim against | Writers do them wrong, to make them exclaim against |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.34 | A baseness to write fair, and laboured much | A basenesse to write faire; and laboured much |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.34 | | [Q1 replaces this scene with the following] Enter Horatio and the Queene. HOR. Madame, your sonne is safe arriv'de in Denmarke, This letter I euen now receiv'd of him, Whereas he writes how he escap't the danger, And subtle treason that the king had plotted, Being crossed by the contention of the windes, He found the Packet sent to the king of England, Wherein he saw himselfe betray'd to death, As at his next conuersion with your grace, He will relate the circumstance at full. QUEENE. Then I perceiue there's treason in his lookes That seem'd to sugar o're his villanie: But I will soothe and please him for a time, For murderous mindes are alwayes jealous, But know not you Horatio where he is? HOR. Yes Madame, and he hath appoynted me To meete him on the east side of the Cittie To morrow morning. QUEENE. O faile not, good Horatio, and withall, commend me A mothers care to him, bid him a while Be wary of his presence, lest that he Faile in that he goes about. HOR. Madam, neuer make doubt of that: I thinke by this the news be come to court: He is arriv'de, obserue the king, and you shall Quickely finde, Hamlet being here, Things fell not to his minde. QUEENE. But what became of Gilderstone and Rossencraft? HOR. He being set ashore, they went for England, And in the Packet there writ down that doome To be perform'd on them poynted for him: And by great chance he had his fathers Seale, So all was done without discouerie. QUEENE. Thankes be to heauen for blessing of the prince, Horatio once againe I take my leaue, With thowsand mothers blessings to my sonne. HORAT. Madam adue. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.405 | the name of pitch. This pitch – as ancient writers do report – | the Name of Pitch: this Pitch (as ancient Writers doe report) |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.137 | I'll haste the writer, and withal | Ile haste the Writer; and withall, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.31 | He writes me here that inward sickness – | He writes me here, that inward sicknesse, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.39 | For, as he writes, there is no quailing now, | For, as he writes, there is no quailing now, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iv.40 | Therefore make haste – I must go write again | Therefore make hast, I must go write againe |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.102 | how he writes – | he writes. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.104 | But wet her fair words still in foulest terms? | But write her faire words still in foulest Letters? |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.64 | Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say, | Eight hundred fiue. Besides, their Writers say, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.330 | having any occasion to write for matter of grant, shall | hauing any occasion to write for matter of Graunt, shall |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.67 | It is the worst, and all, my lord, he writes. | It is the worst, and all (my Lord) he writes. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.74 | Writes not so tedious a style as this. | Writes not so tedious a Stile as this. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.66 | I'll call for pen and ink, and write my mind. | Ile call for Pen and Inke, and write my minde: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.31 | As the Spirit speaks, Bolingbroke writes the answer | |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.24 | And so will I, and write home for it straight. | And so will I, and write home for it straight. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.80 | The clerk of Chartham; he can write and read and | The Clearke of Chartam: hee can write and |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.87 | Nay, he can make obligations, and write court-hand. | Nay, he can make Obligations, and write Court hand. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.92 | They use to write it on the top of letters. 'Twill go | They vse to writ it on the top of Letters: 'Twill go |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.94 | Let me alone. Dost thou use to write thy name? | Let me alone: Dost thou vse to write thy name? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.98 | that I can write my name. | that I can write my name. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.200 | And that I'll write upon thy burgonet, | And that Ile write vpon thy Burgonet, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.169 | Write up his title with usurping blood. | Write vp his Title with vsurping blood. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.271 | I'll write unto them and entreat them fair. | Ile write vnto them, and entreat them faire; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.56 | Write in the dust this sentence with thy blood: | Write in the dust this Sentence with thy blood, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.46 | We write in water. May it please your highness | We write in Water. May it please your Highnesse |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.128.1 | I caused you write yet sent away? | I caus'd you write, yet sent away? |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.126 | Mark him and write his speeches in their books, | Marke him, and write his Speeches in their Bookes, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.143 | Write them together, yours is as fair a name; | Write them together: Yours, is as faire a Name: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.278 | Caesar did write for him to come to Rome. | Casar did write for him to come to Rome. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.6 | You wronged yourself to write in such a case. | You wrong'd your selfe to write in such a case. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.69 | And when thou writ'st of tears, encouch the word | And when thou writest of teares, encouch the word, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.95.2 | Write I to a woman? | Writ I to a woman? |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.105 | Write on, while I peruse her in my thoughts. | Write on while I peruse her in my thoughts, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.125 | If not, write but in letters capital | If not, write but in letters Capitall my mistres name, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.184 | Give me the pen and paper; I will write. | Giue me the pen and paper I will write, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.393 | The poets write that great Achilles' spear | The Poets write that great Achilles speare, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.57 | write this? a heart and brain to breed it in? When came | write this? A heart and braine to breede it in? When came |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.142 | I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed | I promise you, the effects he writes of, succeede |
| King Lear | KL I.iii.26 | That I may speak. I'll write straight to my sister | Ile write straight to my Sister |
| King Lear | KL IV.v.19 | Why should she write to Edmund? Might not you | Why should she write to Edmund? |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.36 | About it; and write happy when th' hast done. | About it, and write happy, when th'hast done, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.117 | And to the strictest decrees I'll write my name. | And to the strictest decrees Ile write my name. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.153 | So to the laws at large I write my name, | So to the Lawes at large I write my name, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.177 | sure I shall turn sonnet. Devise, wit; write, pen; for I | sure I shall turne Sonnet. Deuise Wit, write Pen, for I |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.201 | Well, I will love, write, sigh, pray, sue, and groan; | Well, I will loue, write, sigh, pray, shue, grone, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.55 | These numbers will I tear, and write in prose. | These numbers will I teare, and write in prose. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.179 | When shall you see me write a thing in rhyme? | When shall you see me write a thing in rime? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.322 | Never durst poet touch a pen to write | Neuer durst Poet touch a pen to write, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.419 | Write ‘ Lord have mercy on us ’ on those three. | Write Lord haue mercie on vs, on those three, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.100 | That writes them all alike. And so of men. | That writes them all alike: and so of men. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.7 | write upon't, read it, afterwards seal it, and again return | write vpon't, read it, afterwards Seale it, and againe re-turne |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.55 | Matters of needful value. We shall write to you, | Matters of needfull value: We shall write to you |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.16 | Let's write ‘ good Angel ’ on the devil's horn, | Let's write good Angell on the Deuills horne |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.91 | Now will I write letters to Varrius – | Now wil I write Letters to Angelo, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.118 | Than to live still, and write mine epitaph. | Then to liue still, and write mine Epitaph. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.164 | You hear the learn'd Bellario, what he writes, | You heare the learn'd Bellario what he writes, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.9 | master parson, who writes himself Armigero – in any | (Master Parson) who writes himselfe Armigero, in any |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.88 | He writes | |
| 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 |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.69 | And Honi soit qui mal y pense write | And, Hony Soit Qui Mal-y-Pence, write |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.16 | Write me a prologue, and let the prologue seem to say | Write me a Prologue, and let the Prologue seeme to say, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.212 | Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream. It shall be | PeterQuince to write a ballet of this dreame, it shall be |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.245 | great letters as they write ‘ Here is good horse to hire,’ | great Letters as they write, heere is good horse to hire: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.131 | scorn, write to him that I love him?’ | scorne, write to him that I loue him? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.133 | write to him; for she'll be up twenty times a night, and | write to him, for shee'll be vp twenty times a night, and |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.144 | to write to one that she knew would flout her. | to write, to one that shee knew would flout her: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.12 | for they can write and read. | for they can write and reade. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.15 | man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes | is the gift of Fortune, but to write and reade, comes |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.v.58 | the learned writer to set down our excommunication, | the learned writer to set downe our excommunication, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.54 | Out on thee! Seeming! I will write against it. | Out on thee seeming, I will write against it, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.12 | Pray, write down, Borachio. Yours, sirrah? | Pray write downe Borachio. Yours sirra. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.15 | Write down Master Gentleman Conrade. | Write downe Master gentleman Conrade: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.18 | Write down, that they hope they serve God – | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.19 | and write God first, for God defend but God should go | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.39 | Write down Prince John a villain. Why, this is | Write down, Prince Iohn a villaine: why this is |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.69 | write down the Prince's officer coxcomb. Come, bind | write downe the Princes Officer Coxcombe: come, binde |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.73 | not suspect my years? O that he were here to write me | not suspect my yeeres? O that hee were heere to write mee |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.4 | Will you then write me a sonnet in praise of | Will you then write me a Sonnet in praise of |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.45.2 | Write from us: wish him | Write from vs, / To him, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.115.1 | You shall not write my praise. | You shall not write my praise. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.116 | What wouldst thou write of me, if thou shouldst praise me? | What would'st write of me, if thou should'st praise me? |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.71 | Made to write ‘ whore ’ upon? What committed! | Made to write Whore vpon? What commited, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.186 | Nor never write, regreet, nor reconcile | Nor euer write, regreete, or reconcile |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.147 | Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. | Write Sorrow on the Bosome of the Earth. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.46 | With that sour ferryman which poets write of, | With that sowre Ferry-man which Poets write of, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vi.5 | Eleven hours I have spent to write it over, | Eleuen houres I haue spent to write it ouer, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.428 | I go. Write to me very shortly, | I go, write to me very shortly, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.10 | Any man that can write may answer a letter. | Any man that can write, may answere a Letter. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.ii.27 | But I will write again to Mantua, | But I will write againe to Mantua, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.288 | And here he writes that he did buy a poison | And heere he writes, that he did buy a poyson |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.152 | And write in thee the figures of their love, | And write in thee the figures of their loue, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.3 | Write down thy mind, bewray thy meaning so, | Write downe thy mind, bewray thy meaning so, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.12 | For these two, tribunes, in the dust I write | For these, Tribunes, in the dust I write |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.69.1 | He writes his name with his staff, and guides it with | He writes his Name with his staffe, and guides it with |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.72 | Write thou, good niece, and here display at last | Write thou good Neece, and heere display at last, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.76.2 | her stumps, and writes | her stumps and writes. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.102 | And with a gad of steel will write these words, | And with a Gad of steele will write these words, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.105 | Give me pen and ink. (Writes) | Giue me pen and inke. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.13 | And now he writes to heaven for his redress. | And now he writes to heauen for his redresse. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.127 | And underwrite in an observing kind | And vnder write in an obseruing kinde |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.96 | Writes me that man – how dearly ever parted, | Writes me, that man, how dearely euer parted, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.259 | Write loyal cantons of contemned love | Write loyall Cantons of contemned loue, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.125 | Do't, knight, I'll write thee a challenge; or I'll | Doo't knight, Ile write thee a Challenge: or Ile |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.152 | feelingly personated. I can write very like my lady, your | feelingly personated. I can write very like my Ladie your |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.40 | Go, write it in a martial hand. Be curst and | Go, write it in a martial hand, be curst and |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.47 | in thy ink, though thou write with a goose pen, no | in thy inke, though thou write with a Goose-pen, no |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.309 | Did he write this? | Did he write this? |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.330 | Write from it if you can, in hand or phrase, | Write from it if you can, in hand, or phrase, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.42 | Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud | Yet Writers say; as in the sweetest Bud, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.45 | And writers say, as the most forward bud | And Writers say; as the most forward Bud |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.56 | There is no news, my lord, but that he writes | There is no newes (my Lord) but that he writes |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.82 | Last night she enjoined me to write some | Last night she enioyn'd me, / To write some |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.107 | No, madam; so it stead you, I will write, | No (Madam) so it steed you, I will write |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.122 | Please you, I'll write your ladyship another. | Please you, Ile write your Ladiship another. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.133 | That my master, being scribe, to himself should write the letter? | That my master being scribe, / To himselfe should write the Letter? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.144 | What need she, when she hath made you write to | What need she, / When shee hath made you write to |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.159 | Herself hath taught her love himself to write unto her lover. | Her self hath taught her Loue himself, to write vnto her louer. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.75 | Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears | Write till your inke be dry: and with your teares |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.55.2 | Can he write and read too? | Can he write and reade too. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.19 | From me the witless chaff of such a writer | From me the witles chaffe of such a wrighter |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.557 | Things known betwixt us three – I'll write you down, | Things knowne betwixt vs three, Ile write you downe, |