| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.24 | O my sweet lord, that you will stay behind us! | Oh my sweet Lord yt you wil stay behind vs. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.183 | who stay behind, commenting on this wedding | Parolles and Lafew stay behind, commenting of this wedding. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.19.1 | I will not stay behind. | I will not stay behinde. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.53 | By looking back what I have left behind | By looking backe what I haue left behinde |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.vii.14 | And snatch 'em up, as we take hares, behind. | And snatch 'em vp, as we take Hares behinde, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.64 | Is come indeed, when I should see behind me | Is come indeed: When I should see behinde me |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.35 | The soldiers approach Cleopatra from behind | |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.104 | stay behind her; she is at the court, and no less beloved | stay behind her; she is at the Court, and no lesse beloued |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.30 | Did steal behind him as he lay along | Did steale behinde him as he lay along |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.91 | Leave me not behind thee | leaue me not behind thee: |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.177 | behind your hour, I will think you the most pathetical | behinde your houre, I will thinke you the most patheticall |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.76 | Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind. | I and breake it in your face, so he break it not behinde. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.19 | He that came behind you, sir, like an evil angel, and bid | hee that came behinde you sir, like an euill angel, and bid |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.122 | Behind the ditches of the abbey here. | Behinde the ditches of the Abbey heere. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.241.1 | Ere stay behind this business. | Ere stay behinde this Businesse. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.248 | Exeunt Patricians. Sicicnius and Brutus stay behind | Exeunt. Citizens steale away. Manet Sicin. &Brutus. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.37 | All hurt behind! Backs red, and faces pale | All hurt behinde, backes red, and faces pale |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.152 | he carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears. | hee carryes Noyse; / And behinde him, hee leaues Teares: |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.153 | Sicinius and Brutus stay behind | Manet Sicinius and Brutus. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.91 | The Guard and Menenius stay behind | Manet the Guard and Menenius. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.152 | Behind our rock, and let it to the sea, | Behinde our Rocke, and let it to the Sea, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.12 | With dead men, hurt behind, and cowards living | With deadmen, hurt behinde, and Cowards liuing |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.69.2 | Prisoners, guarded; Posthumus behind, and Innogen | prisoners, Leonatus behind, and Imogen. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.163 | Be you and I behind an arras then. | Be you and I behinde an Arras then, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.185 | And thou shalt live in this fair world behind, | And thou shalt liue in this faire world behinde, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.28 | Behind the arras I'll convey myself | Behinde the Arras Ile conuey my selfe |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.9 | Polonius hides behind the arras | |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.24 | (behind) | |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.180 | Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. | Thus bad begins, and worse remaines behinde. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.9 | Behind the arras hearing something stir, | Behinde the Arras, hearing something stirre, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.339 | Things standing thus unknown, shall I leave behind me! | (Things standing thus vnknowne) shall liue behind me. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.68 | Sirrah Jack, thy horse stands behind the hedge. | Sirra Iacke, thy horse stands behinde the hedg, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.102.2 | runs away too, leaving the booty behind them | leauing the booty behind them. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.485 | Go hide thee behind the arras. The rest, | Goe hide thee behinde the Arras, the rest |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.513 | Falstaff! Fast asleep behind the arras, and snorting | Falstaffe? fast asleepe behinde the Arras, and snorting |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.181 | Loseth men's hearts and leaves behind a stain | Loseth mens hearts, and leaues behinde a stayne |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.96 | The other night I fell asleep here, behind the | The other Night I fell asleepe heere behind the |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.87 | In deputation left behind him here, | In deputation left behinde him heere, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.7 | (from behind them) | |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.229.1 | Enter, behind, the Prince and Poins disguised as | Enter the Prince and Poines disguis'd. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.31 | with one Sampson Stockfish, a fruiterer, behind Gray's | with one Sampson Stock-fish, a Fruiterer, behinde Greyes- |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.10 | Come here, Pistol, stand behind me. (To | Come heere Pistol, stand behind me. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.47 | There left behind and settled certain French, | There left behind and settled certaine French: |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.23 | Nor leave not one behind that doth not wish | Nor leaue not one behinde, that doth not wish |
| 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 VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.132 | He, being in the vaward, placed behind | He being in the Vauward, plac't behinde, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.66 | Where is the Dauphin? Come, come from behind; | Where is the Dolphin? Come, come from behinde, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.78.2 | À Talbot!’ They fly, leaving their clothes behind | a Talbot: they flye, leauing their Clothes behind. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.34 | Fortune in favour makes him lag behind. | Fortune in fauor makes him lagge behinde. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.ii.19 | And left behind him Richard, his only son, | And left behinde him Richard, his onely Sonne, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.77 | O monstrous coward! What, to come behind folks? | O monstrous Coward! What, to come behinde Folkes? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.49 | I'll leave my son my virtuous deeds behind; | Ile leaue my Sonne my Vertuous deeds behinde, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.84 | And leave me here in wretchedness behind ye? | And leaue me heere in wretchednesse, behinde ye? |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.55 | still; when suddenly a file of boys behind 'em, loose | stil, when sodainly a File of Boyes behind 'em, loose |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.43 | Whilst damned Casca, like a cur, behind | Whil'st damned Caska, like a Curre, behinde |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.226 | And Derby in the rearward march behind. | And Darby in the rereward march behind, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.30 | Behind us too the hill doth bear his height, | Behinde vs two the hill doth beare his height, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.38 | And on the hill behind stands certain death | And on the Hill behind stands certaine death, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.51 | Before, behind us, and on either hand, | Before, behinde vs, and on either hand, |
| King John | KJ III.iii.1 | So shall it be – your grace shall stay behind, | So shall it be: your Grace shall stay behinde |
| King John | KJ V.vii.70 | Art thou gone so? I do but stay behind | Art thou gone so? I do but stay behinde, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.117 | Tripped me behind; being down, insulted, railed, | Tript me behind: being downe, insulted, rail'd, |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.99.1 | Thou must not stay behind. | |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.103 | Leaving free things and happy shows behind; | |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.80 | She takes a sword and runs at him behind | Killes him. |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.7 | Who hath he left behind him general? | |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.116 | The greatest is behind. – Thanks for your pains. | The greatest is behinde. Thankes for your paines. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.526 | There's more behind that is more gratulate. | There's more behinde that is more gratulate. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.536 | What's yet behind, that's meet you all should know. | What's yet behinde, that meete you all should know. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.viii.47 | Turning his face, he put his hand behind him, | Turning his face, he put his hand behinde him, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.129 | Doth limp behind the substance. Here's the scroll, | Doth limpe behinde the substance. Here's the scroule, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.290 | 'Tis well you offer it behind her back, | 'Tis well you offer it behinde her backe, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.62 | for the varld I shall leave behind. | for the varld I shall leaue behinde. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.84 | She shall not see me. I will ensconce me behind | She shall not see me, I will ensconce mee behinde |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.62 | I came beyond Eton, they threw me off, from behind | I came beyond Eaton, they threw me off, from behinde |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.319 | A foolish heart that I leave here behind. | A foolish heart, that I leaue here behinde. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.1.2 | behind them | behinde them. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.47 | For, meeting her of late behind the wood | For meeting her of late behinde the wood, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.380 | To sweep the dust behind the door. | To sweep the dust behinde the doore. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.57 | behind the arras, and there heard it agreed upon that | behind the Arras, and there heard it agreed vpon, that |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.110 | No glory lives behind the back of such. | No glory liues behinde the backe of such. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.v.36 | must ride behind. An honest soul, i'faith, sir; by my | must ride behinde, an honest soule yfaith sir, by my |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.252 | So that, dear lords, if I be left behind | So that (deere Lords) if I be left behind |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.277 | Othello, leave some officer behind, | Othello, leaue some Officer behind |
| Othello | Oth II.i.86 | Before, behind thee, and on every hand, | Before, behinde thee, and on euery hand |
| Othello | Oth II.i.154 | See suitors following and not look behind: | See Suitors following, and not looke behind: |
| Othello | Oth V.i.1 | Here, stand behind this bulk: straight will he come. | Heere, stand behinde this Barke, / Straight will he come: |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.233.2 | Iago stabs Emilia from behind and exit | |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.13 | Old Helicanus goes along. Behind | Old Helicanus goes along behind, |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.51 | I left behind an ancient substitute. | I left behind an ancient substitute, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.96 | Why, foolish boy, the King is left behind, | Why foolish Boy, the King is left behind, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.38 | Behind the globe, that lights the lower world, | Behind the Globe, that lights the lower World, |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.115 | I'll not be long behind – though I be old, | Ile not be long behind: though I be old, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.109 | Enter old Queen Margaret, behind | Enter old Queene Margaret. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.271 | Look behind you, my lord! | Looke behinde you, my Lord. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.154 | Toward Ludlow then, for we'll not stay behind. | Toward London then, for wee'l not stay behinde. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.494 | Go then, and muster men. But leave behind | Goe then, and muster men: but leaue behind |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.183 | And stay, good Nurse, behind the abbey wall. | And stay thou good Nurse behind the Abbey wall, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.28 | Being spoke behind your back, than to your face. | Benig spoke behind your backe, then to your face. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.172 | So shall I no whit be behind in duty | So shal I no whit be behinde in dutie |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.60 | master riding behind my mistress – | Master riding behinde my Mistris. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.76 | Faith, nothing – but 'has left me here behind, | Faith nothing: but has left mee here behinde |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.42 | They have left their viands behind, for we have stomachs. | They haue left their Viands behinde; for wee haue stomacks. |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.11.1 | And make it halt behind her. | And make it halt, behinde her. |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.156 | Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff | Leaue not a racke behinde: we are such stuffe |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.51 | Leaving no tract behind. | Leauing no Tract behinde. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.160 | 'Tis pity bounty had not eyes behind, | 'Tis pitty Bounty had not eyes behinde, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.83 | fool to stay behind her father; let her to the Greeks, | Foole to stay behinde her Father: Let her to the Greeks, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.57 | Troilus will not come far behind him; let them take | Troylus will not come farre behind him, let them take |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.291 | The County's man. He left this ring behind him, | The Countes man: he left this Ring behinde him |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.16 | whom I know you have heard of. He left behind him | whom I know you haue heard of. He left behinde him, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.131 | And then I comes behind. | And then I. comes behind. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.132 | Ay, an you had any eye behind you, you might | I, and you had any eye behinde you, you might |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iii.4 | I could not stay behind you. My desire, | I could not stay behinde you: my desire |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.69 | And in a word, for far behind his worth | And in a word (for far behinde his worth |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.67 | And as an east wind leave 'em all behind us, | And as an Eastwind leave 'em all behinde us, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.53 | In the great lake that lies behind the palace, | In the great Lake that lies behind the Pallace, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.99 | She left me far behind her. Three or four | Shee left me farre behinde her; three, or foure, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.83 | His hair hangs long behind him, black and shining | His haire hangs long behind him, blacke and shining |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.53 | one cries ‘ O that ever I did it behind the arras!’, and | One cries, o, that ever I did it behind the arras, and |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.41 | To let him there a month behind the gest | To let him there a Moneth, behind the Gest |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.43 | I love thee not a jar o'th' clock behind | I loue thee not a Iarre o'th' Clock, behind |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.63 | Two lads that thought there was no more behind | Two Lads, that thought there was no more behind, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.244 | Which hoxes honesty behind, restraining | Which hoxes honestie behind, restrayning |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.34 | Behind the tuft of pines I met them. Never | Behind the tuft of Pines I met them, neuer |