| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.75 | Among nine bad if one be good, | among nine bad if one be good, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.76 | Among nine bad if one be good, | among nine bad if one be good, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.108 | He bade me store up as a triple eye, | He bad me store vp, as a triple eye, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.84 | I bade her, if her fortunes ever stood | I bad her if her fortunes euer stoode |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.202 | So bad an instrument: his name's Parolles. | So bad an instrument, his names Parrolles. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.96 | The nature of bad news infects the teller. | The Nature of bad newes infects the Teller. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.55 | The good and bad together. He's friends with Caesar, | The good and bad together: he's friends with Casar, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.86 | To bring bad news. Give to a gracious message | To bring bad newes: giue to a gratious Message |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ix.26 | Swoons rather, for so bad a prayer as his | Swoonds rather, for so bad a Prayer as his |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.82 | To do this when I bade thee? Do it at once, | To do this when I bad thee? Do it at once, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.13 | Did tell me of you, bade me trust you, but | Did tell me of you, bad me trust you, but |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.112 | Truly, the tree yields bad fruit. | Truely the tree yeelds bad fruite. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iii.12 | only prologues to a bad voice? | onely prologues to a bad voice. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.39 | And by me, had not our hap been bad. | And by me; had not our hap beene bad: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.67 | Still did I tell him it was vile and bad. | Still did I tell him, it was vilde and bad. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.71 | If any think brave death outweighs bad life | If any thinke, braue death out-weighes bad life, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.3 | Good or bad? | Good or bad? |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.21 | the people is as bad as that which he dislikes – to flatter | the People, is as bad, as that which he dislikes, to flatter |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.i.17 | Too bad for bad report: and he that hath her – | Too bad, for bad report: and he that hath her, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.49 | The fear's as bad as falling: the toil o'th' war, | The feare's as bad as falling. The toyle o'th'Warre, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.112 | To lose so bad employment, in the which | To loose so bad employment, in the which |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.134 | From one bad thing to worse, not frenzy, not | From one bad thing to worse: Not Frenzie, / Not |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.128 | Since she is living, let the time run on, | To good, or bad. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.129.1 | To good, or bad. | |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.249 | either good or bad but thinking makes it so. To me it is | either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.255 | have bad dreams. | haue bad dreames. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.523 | After your death you were better have a bad epitaph | After your death, you were better haue a bad Epitaph, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.29 | A bloody deed – almost as bad, good mother, | A bloody deed, almost as bad good Mother, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.180 | Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. | Thus bad begins, and worse remaines behinde. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.150 | And that our drift look through our bad performance, | And that our drift looke through our bad performance, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.101 | – I cannot tell how. But, my lord, his majesty bade me | I cannot tell how: but my Lord, his Maiesty bad me |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.127 | of them is fat, and grows old. God help the while, a bad | of them is fat, and growes old, God helpe the while, a bad |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.157 | To wake a wolf is as bad as smell a fox. | To wake a Wolfe, is as bad as to smell a Fox. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.194 | And good from bad find no partition. | And good from bad finde no partition. |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.116 | The King hath run bad humours on the knight, that's | The King hath run bad humors on the Knight, that's |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.63 | Your highness bade me ask for it today. | Your Highnesse bad me aske for it to day. |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.118 | But he that tempered thee bade thee stand up, | But he that temper'd thee, bad thee stand vp, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.21 | trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So 'a bade | trouble himselfe with any such thoughts yet: so a bad |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.26 | These be good humours! Your honour wins bad | These be good humors: your Honor wins bad |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.39 | few bad words are matched with as few good deeds, for | few bad Words are matcht with as few good Deeds; for |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.6 | For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers, | For our bad Neighbour makes vs early stirrers, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.4 | And with them scourge the bad revolting stars | And with them scourge the bad reuolting Stars, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.89 | Lords, view these letters full of bad mischance. | Lords view these Letters, full of bad mischance. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.46 | Not half so bad as thine to England's king, | Not halfe so bad as thine to Englands King, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.28 | So good a quarrel and so bad a peer. | So good a Quarrell, and so bad a Peere. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.96 | That's bad enough, for I am but reproach; | That's bad enough, for I am but reproach: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.333 | You bade me ban, and will you bid me leave? | You bad me ban, and will you bid me leaue? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.iii.30 | So bad a death argues a monstrous life. | So bad a death, argues a monstrous life. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.46 | That things ill got had ever bad success? | That things ill got, had euer bad successe. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.91 | Counting myself but bad till I be best. | Counting my selfe but bad, till I be best. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.42.1 | This bold bad man. | This bold bad man. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.81 | Was in his countenance. You he bade | Was in his countenance. You he bad |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.248 | Bade me enjoy it, with the place and honours, | Bad me enioy it, with the Place, and Honors |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.14 | conscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles. | Conscience, which is indeed Sir, a Mender of bad soules. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.106 | And bade him follow; so indeed he did. | And bad him follow: so indeed he did. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.125 | Ay, and that tongue of his, that bade the Romans | I, and that Tongue of his, that bad the Romans |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.248 | the bad air. | the bad Ayre. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.151 | And so bestow these papers as you bade me. | And so bestow these Papers as you bad me. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.131 | That welcome wrongs; unto bad causes swear | That welcome wrongs: Vnto bad causes, sweare |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.125 | And, being prostrate, thus he bade me say: | And being prostrate, thus he bad me say: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.192 | That one of two bad ways you must conceit me, | That one of two bad wayes you must conceit me, |
| 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. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.29 | Good words are better than bad strokes, Octavius. | Good words are better then bad strokes Octauius. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.30 | In your bad strokes, Brutus, you give good words; | In your bad strokes Brutus, you giue good words |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.369 | Against his child an embassage so bad. | Against his child, an embassage so bad. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.436 | Be it good or bad, that he shall undertake; | Be it good or bad that he shall vndertake, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.73 | Some will return with tidings, good or bad. | Some will returne with tidings good or bad. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.212 | Howe'er it falls, it cannot be so bad | How ere it fals, it cannot be so bad, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.100 | Three foot of it doth hold – bad world the while! | Three foot of it doth hold; bad world the while: |
| King Lear | KL II.i.95 | I know not, madam. 'Tis too bad, too bad! | I know not Madam, 'tis too bad, too bad. |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.38 | Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, | Bad is the Trade that must play Foole to sorrow, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.98 | Else your memory is bad, going o'er it erewhile. | Else your memorie is bad, going ore it erewhile. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.21 | Which ne'er shook hands nor bade farewell to him | Which neu'r shooke hands, nor bad farwell to him, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.104 | He bade me from him call thee Thane of Cawdor | He bad me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor: |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iv.41 | That would make good of bad, and friends of foes! | That would make good of bad, and Friends of Foes. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.58 | And bade them speak to him. Then prophet-like, | And bad them speake to him. Then Prophet-like, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.55 | Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. | Things bad begun, make strong themselues by ill: |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.62 | serves a bad woman, whose house, sir, was, as they say, | serues a bad woman: whose house Sir was (as they say) |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.15 | To make bad good, and good provoke to harm. | To make bad, good; and good prouoake to harme. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.438 | For being a little bad. So may my husband. | For being a little bad: So may my husband. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.448 | His act did not o'ertake his bad intent, | his Act did not ore-take his bad intent, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.56 | bad habit of frowning than the Count Palatine; he is | bad habite of frowning then the Count Palentine, he is |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.40 | There I have another bad match! A bankrupt, | There I haue another bad match, a bankrout, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.113.1 | By the bad voice. | by the bad voice? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.69 | then comes repentance and, with his bad legs, falls into | then comes repentance, and with his bad legs falls into |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.42 | O, good my lord, tax not so bad a voice | O good my Lord, taxe not so bad a voyce, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.82 | God his bad voice bode no mischief. I had as lief have | God his bad voyce bode no mischiefe, I had as liefe haue |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.80 | Which is as bad as die with tickling. | Which is as bad as die with tickling. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.29 | me say, ‘ saving your reverence, a husband ’; and bad | me say, sauing your reuerence a husband: and bad |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.194 | Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends, | Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.55 | And I pray thee now, tell me for which of my bad parts | and I pray thee now tell me, for which of my bad parts |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.56.1 | He comes to bad intent. | He comes to bad intent. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.132 | To th' very moment that he bade me tell it: | Toth'very moment that he bad me tell it. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.163 | And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, | And bad me, if I had a Friend that lou'd her, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.175 | Destruction on my head, if my bad blame | Destruction on my head, if my bad blame |
| Othello | Oth II.i.150 | Bade her wrong stay, and her displeasure fly; | Bad her wrong stay, and her displeasure flie: |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.80 | Bade him anon return and here speak with me, | Bad him anon returne: and heere speake with me, |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.21 | I have laid those sheets, you bade me, on the bed. | I haue laid those Sheetes you bad me on the bed. |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.104 | Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend! | Not to picke bad, from bad; but by bad, mend. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.I.27 | Bad child, worse father, to entice his own | Bad child, worse father, to intice his owne |
| Pericles | Per I.i.126 | Then were it certain you were not so bad | Then were it certaine you were not so bad, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.II.20 | To killen bad, keep good alive, | To killen bad, keepe good aliue: |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.II.37 | Till Fortune, tired with doing bad, | Till Fortune tir'd with doing bad, |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.76 | I never spake bad word nor did ill turn | I neuer spake bad worde, nor did ill turne |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.158 | Neither of these are so bad as thou art, | Neither of these are so bad as thou art, |
| Pericles | Per V.ii.13 | As Dian bade: whereto being bound, | As Dian bad, whereto being bound, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.40 | Too good to be so, and too bad to live, | Too good to be so, and too bad to liue, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.99 | Upon his bad life to make all this good, | Vpon his bad life, to make all this good. |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.213 | But by bad courses may be understood | But by bad courses may be vnderstood, |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.71 | Doubly divorced! Bad men, you violate | Doubly diuorc'd? (bad men) ye violate |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.63 | Thy overflow of good converts to bad, | Thy ouerflow of good, conuerts to bad, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.135 | No news so bad abroad as this at home: | No newes so bad abroad, as this at home: |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.138 | Now, by Saint John, that news is bad indeed! | Now by S. Iohn, that Newes is bad indeed. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.69 | Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses. | Which renders good for bad, Blessings for Curses. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.69 | I cannot tell; the world is grown so bad | I cannot tell, the world is growne so bad, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.25 | Bade me rely on him as on my father, | Bad me rely on him, as on my Father, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vi.13 | Bad is the world, and all will come to naught | Bad is the World, and all will come to nought, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.45 | Good or bad news, that thou com'st in so bluntly? | Good or bad newes, that thou com'st in so bluntly? |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.46 | Bad news, my lord. Morton is fled to Richmond, | Bad news my Lord, Mourton is fled to Richmond, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.122 | Bettering thy loss makes the bad causer worse; | Bett'ring thy losse, makes the bad causer worse, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.458 | Nor none so bad but well may be reported. | Nor none so bad, but well may be reported. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.459 | Hoyday, a riddle! Neither good nor bad! | Hoyday, a Riddle, neither good nor bad: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.3 | I bade her come. What, lamb! What, ladybird! – | I bad her come, what Lamb: what Ladi-bird, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.35 | Is thy news good or bad? Answer to that. | Is thy newes good or bad? answere to that, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.37 | Let me be satisfied, is't good or bad? | Let me be satisfied, ist good or bad? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.31 | For it was bad enough before their spite. | For it was bad inough before their spight. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.37 | I bade the rascal knock upon your gate, | I bad the rascall knocke vpon your gate, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.120.1 | Good wombs have borne bad sons. | Good wombes haue borne bad sonnes. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.194 | Performed to point the tempest that I bade thee? | Performd to point, the Tempest that I bad thee. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.216 | Thou gavest thine ears, like tapsters that bade welcome, | Thou gau'st thine eares (like Tapsters, that bad welcom) |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.362 | A plague on thee! Thou art too bad to curse. | A plague on thee, / Thou art too bad to curse. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.30 | a man so bad as is thyself. | a man so badde / As is thy selfe. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.345 | In a bad quarrel slain a virtuous son. | In a bad quarrell, slaine a Vertuous sonne. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.108 | For these base bondmen to the yoke of Rome. | For these bad bond-men to the yoake of Rome. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.13 | The hope of Rome, for so he bid me say. | The hope of Rome, for so he bad me say: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC prologue.31 | Now good or bad, 'tis but the chance of war. | Now good, or bad, 'tis but the chance of Warre. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.94 | Sans check, to good and bad. But when the planets | Sans checke, to good and bad. But when the Planets |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.263 | Is rusty grown. He bade me take a trumpet, | Is rusty growne. He bad me take a Trumpet, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.342 | Of good or bad unto the general, | Of good or bad, vnto the Generall: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.90 | I bade the vile owl go learn me the tenor of the | I bad thee vile Owle, goe learne me the tenure of the |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.118 | Nor fear of bad success in a bad cause, | Nor feare of bad successe in a bad cause, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.71.1 | Hector bade ask. | Hector bad aske? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.180 | She's well, but bade me not commend her to you. | Shee's well, but bad me not commend her to you. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iv.13 | mongrel cur, Ajax, against that dog of as bad a kind, | mungrill curre Aiax, against that dogge of as bad a kinde, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.v.42 | Bade him win all. | bad him win all. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.18 | Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage; | Many a good hanging, preuents a bad marriage: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.47 | so beauty's a flower. The lady bade take away the fool; | so beauties a flower; The Lady bad take away the foole, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.49 | Sir, I bade them take away you. | Sir, I bad them take away you. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.6 | leave, that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad | leaue, that I may beare my euils alone. It were a bad |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.29 | Pardon me, sir, your bad entertainment. | Pardon me sir, your bad entertainment. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.94 | bade me tell you that, though she harbours you as her | bad me tell you, that though she harbors you as her |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.104 | I bade you never speak again of him. | I bad you neuer speake againe of him; |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.335 | Bade me come smiling and cross-gartered to you, | Bad me come smiling, and crosse-garter'd to you, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.9 | Why, sir, who bade you call her? | Why sir, who bad you call her? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vi.6 | Love bade me swear, and Love bids me forswear. | Loue bad mee sweare, and Loue bids me for-sweare; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vi.13 | To learn his wit t' exchange the bad for better. | To learne his wit, t' exchange the bad for better; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vi.14 | Fie, fie, unreverend tongue, to call her bad | Fie, fie, vnreuerend tongue, to call her bad, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.206 | So much of bad already hath possessed them. | So much of bad already hath possest them. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.208 | For they are harsh, untuneable, and bad. | For they are harsh, vn-tuneable, and bad. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.44 | bade me. | bad me. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.98.1 | 'Tis bad he goes about. | Tis bad he goes about. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.93 | A bed-swerver, even as bad as those | A Bed-swaruer, euen as bad as those |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.i.2 | Of good and bad; that makes and unfolds error, | Of good, and bad: that makes, and vnfolds error, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.145 | He bade me say so – more than all the sceptres | (He bad me say so) more then all the Scepters, |