| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.191 | Do not believe him. O behold this ring | Do not beleeue him. O behold this Ring, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.302.1 | And now behold the meaning. | And now behold the meaning. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.13 | Into a strumpet's fool. Behold and see. | Into a Strumpets Foole. Behold and see. |
| 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 III.iii.7.2 | Didst thou behold Octavia? | Did'st thou behold Octauia? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ix.3 | We may the number of the ships behold, | We may the number of the Ships behold, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.x.1 | Naught, naught, all naught! I can behold no longer. | Naught, naught, al naught, I can behold no longer: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.viii.22 | Get goal for goal of youth. Behold this man. | Get gole for gole of youth. Behold this man, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.25 | I robbed his wound of it. Behold it stained | I robb'd his wound of it: behold it stain'd |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.150.2 | See, Caesar; O behold, | See Casar: Oh behold, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.197.2 | Behold, sir. | Behold sir. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.103 | That would behold in me this shameful sport. | That would behold in me this shamefull sport. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.128 | See where they come. We will behold his death. | See where they come, we wil behold his death |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.331 | Most mighty Duke, behold a man much wronged. | Most mightie Duke, behold a man much wrong'd. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.21 | Behold, these are the Tribunes of the People, | Behold, these are the Tribunes of the People, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.68 | Therein behold themselves. I say again, | therein behold themselues: I say againe, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.6 | Though they themselves did suffer by't, behold | Though they themselues did suffer by't, behold |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.64 | suffering, behold now presently and swoon for what's to | suffering, behold now presently, and swoond for what's to |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.173 | And die among our neighbours. Nay, behold 's! | And dye among our Neighbours: Nay, behold's, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.184 | What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope, | What haue you done? Behold, the Heauens do ope, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.v.1 | Behold our patroness, the life of Rome! | Behold our Patronnesse, the life of Rome: |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.11 | there could behold the sun with as firm eyes as he. | there, could behold the Sunne, with as firme eyes as hee. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.99 | Once more let me behold it: is it that | Once more let me behold it: Is it that |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.16 | An earthly paragon! Behold divineness | An earthly Paragon. Behold Diuinenesse |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iv.18 | Behold their quartered fires; have both their eyes | Behold their quarter'd Fires; haue both their eyes |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.126 | But soft, behold, lo where it comes again! | But soft, behold: Loe, where it comes againe: |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.77 | All from her father's death – and now behold! | All from her Fathers death. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.269 | And only stays but to behold the face | And onely stayes but to behold the face |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.118 | tale of the sun's? If thou didst, then behold that | Tale of the Sunne? If thou didst, then behold that |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.313 | behold these exhalations? | behold these Exhalations? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.95 | Behold yourself so by a son disdained; | Behold your selfe, so by a Sonne disdained: |
| Henry V | H5 I.chorus.4 | And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! | And Monarchs to behold the swelling Scene. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.109 | Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp | Stood smiling, to behold his Lyons Whelpe |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.114 | quotidian tertian that it is most lamentable to behold. | quotidian Tertian, that it is most lamentable to behold. |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.7 | Play with your fancies, and in them behold | Play with your Fancies: and in them behold, |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.10 | To sounds confused; behold the threaden sails, | To sounds confus'd: behold the threaden Sayles, |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.14 | You stand upon the rivage and behold | You stand vpon the Riuage, and behold |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.26 | Behold the ordnance on their carriages, | Behold the Ordenance on their Carriages, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.28 | So many horrid ghosts. O now, who will behold | So many horride Ghosts. O now, who will behold |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.46 | Behold, as may unworthiness define, | Behold, as may vnworthinesse define. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.11 | How shall we then behold their natural tears? | How shall we then behold their naturall teares? |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.14 | Do but behold yon poor and starved band, | Doe but behold yond poore and starued Band, |
| Henry V | H5 V.chorus.9 | Athwart the sea. Behold, the English beach | Athwart the Sea: Behold the English beach |
| Henry V | H5 V.chorus.22 | Quite from himself to God. But now behold, | Quite from himselfe, to God. But now behold, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.9 | Right joyous are we to behold your face, | Right ioyous are we to behold your face, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.14 | As we are now glad to behold your eyes – | As we are now glad to behold your eyes, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.10 | And that hereafter ages may behold | And that hereafter Ages may behold |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.108 | Can you, my lord of Winchester, behold | Can you, my Lord of Winchester, behold |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.123 | Behold, my lord of Winchester, the Duke | Behold my Lord of Winchester, the Duke |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.26 | Behold, this is the happy wedding torch | Behold, this is the happy Wedding Torch, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.50 | Behold the wounds, the most unnatural wounds, | Behold the Wounds, the most vnnaturall Wounds, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.77 | You may behold confusion of your foes. | You may behold confusion of your foes. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.5 | Must I behold thy timeless cruel death? | Must I behold thy timelesse cruell death: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.4 | Will her ladyship behold and hear our exorcisms? | will her Ladyship behold and heare our Exorcismes? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.51 | So please your highness to behold the fight. | So please your Highnesse to behold the fight. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.18 | That were unworthy to behold the same? | That were vnworthy to behold the same. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.93 | Is my apparel sumptuous to behold? | Is my Apparrell sumptuous to behold? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.13 | That this is true, father, behold his blood. | That this is true (Father) behold his blood. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.159 | Both full of truth, I make King Lewis behold | (Both full of Truth) I make King Lewis behold |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.55.1 | Let's stand close, and behold him. | Let's stand close and behold him. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.2 | You come to take your stand here and behold | You come to take your stand heere, and behold |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.9 | To sit here at this present and behold | To sit heere at this present, and behold |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.21 | But few now living can behold that goodness – | (But few now liuing can behold that goodnesse) |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.208 | Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, | Whiles they behold a greater then themselues, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.267 | That mothers shall but smile when they behold | That Mothers shall but smile, when they behold |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.196 | Kind souls, what weep you when you but behold | Kinde Soules, what weepe you, when you but behold |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.33 | Come down; behold no more. | Come downe, behold no more: |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.108 | (drawing his sword) Lorraine, behold the sharpness of this steel. | Lorraine behold the sharpnes of this steele: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.12 | Whom now in heart I wish I might behold. | Whom now in heart I wish I might behold. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.78 | And now, behold, after my winter's toil, | And now behold after my winters toyle, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.56 | Behold, my liege, this knight and forty mo, | Behold my liege, this knight and fortie mo, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.119 | And thence behold the wretched Prince of Wales, | and thence behold the wretched prince of Wales, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.37 | Victorious prince – that thou art so, behold | Victorious Prince, that thou art so, behold |
| King John | KJ II.i.226 | Behold, the French, amazed, vouchsafe a parle. | Behold the French amaz'd vouchsafe a parle, |
| King John | KJ II.i.325 | Heralds, from off our towers we might behold, | Heralds, from off our towres we might behold |
| King John | KJ III.iv.89 | Must I behold my pretty Arthur more. | Must I behold my pretty Arthur more. |
| King John | KJ V.iv.32 | Behold another daybreak in the east. | Behold another day breake in the East: |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.169 | Take vantage, heavy eyes, not to behold | Take vantage heauie eyes, not to behold |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.118 | Behold yon simpering dame | Behold yond simpring Dame, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.159 | mightst behold the great image of authority: a dog's | might'st behold the great image of Authoritie, a Dogg's |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.127 | Behold; it is the privilege of mine honours, | Behold it is my priuiledge, / The priuiledge of mine Honours, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.279 | One of them we behold. | One of them we behold. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.34 | Do but behold the tears that swell in me, | Do but behold the teares that swell in me, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.92 | Toward that shade I might behold addressed | Toward that shade I might behold addrest, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.167 | Not to behold – | Not to beholde. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.168 | ‘ Once to behold ’, rogue! | Once to behold, rogue. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.169 | Once to behold with your sun-beamed eyes – | Once to behold with your Sunne beamed eyes, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.827 | Behold the window of my heart, mine eye, | Behold the window of my heart, mine eie: |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.68 | Behold! Look! Lo! – How say you? | Behold, looke, loe, how say you: |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.113 | When now I think you can behold such sights | When now I thinke you can behold such sights, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.20 | When I behold – Seyton, I say! – This push | When I behold: Seyton, I say, this push |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.93 | Hail, King! For so thou art. Behold where stands | Haile King, for so thou art. / Behold where stands |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.44 | Behold, behold, where Madam Mitigation comes. | Behold, behold, where Madam Mitigation comes. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.43 | To do it slander. And to behold his sway | To do in slander: And to behold his sway |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.68 | But my outside to behold. | But my outside to behold; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.4 | Behold, there stand the caskets, noble Prince. | Behold, there stand the caskets noble Prince, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.48 | Some that are mad if they behold a cat, | Some that are mad, if they behold a Cat: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.190 | Will you go with us to behold it? | Will you goe with vs to behold it? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.113 | What, wife, I say! Come, come forth! Behold what | What wife I say: Come, come forth: behold what |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.10 | New-bent in heaven – shall behold the night | Now bent in heauen, shal behold the night |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.147 | And – ere a man hath power to say ‘ Behold!’ – | And ere a man hath power to say, behold, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.209 | Tomorrow night, when Phoebe doth behold | To morrow night, when Phoebe doth behold |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.32 | Behold how like a maid she blushes here! | Behold how like a maid she blushes heere! |
| Othello | Oth II.i.82.2 | O, behold, | Oh behold, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.36 | craftily qualified too; and behold what innovation it | craftily qualified too: and behold what inouation it |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.393.1 | Behold her topped? | Behold her top'd? |
| Othello | Oth V.i.108 | Behold her well; I pray you look upon her. | Behold her well: I pray you looke vpon her: |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.257.2 | Behold, I have a weapon: | Behold, I haue a weapon: |
| Pericles | Per I.i.156 | Behold, here's poison, and here's gold. | Behold, heere's Poyson, and heere's Gold: |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.96.2 | She is alive. Behold, | She is aliue, behold |
| Pericles | Per V.i.33 | Behold him. This was a goodly person, | Behold him, this was a goodly person. |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.45 | Thou goest to Coventry, there to behold | Thou go'st to Couentrie, there to behold |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.68 | Yet looks he like a king. Behold, his eye, | Yet lookes he like a King: behold his Eye |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.8 | My fair rose wither. Yet look up, behold, | My faire Rose wither: yet looke vp; behold, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.54 | Behold this pattern of thy butcheries. | Behold this patterne of thy Butcheries. |
| Richard III | R3 III.iii.2 | Today shalt thou behold a subject die | To day shalt thou behold a Subiect die, |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.68 | See how I am bewitched: behold, mine arm | Looke how I am bewitch'd: behold, mine Arme |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.187 | And never more behold thy face again. | And neuer more behold thy face againe. |
| Richard III | R3 V.i.8 | Do through the clouds behold this present hour, | Do through the clowds behold this present houre, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.24 | At my poor house look to behold this night | At my poore house, looke to behold this night, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.81 | This night you shall behold him at our feast. | This night you shall behold him at our Feast, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.47 | Ere I again behold my Romeo. | Ere I againe behold my Romeo. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.94 | With Romeo till I behold him – dead – | With Romeo, till I behold him. Dead |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.61 | Give me some present counsel; or, behold, | Giue me some present counsell, or behold |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.51 | That ever, ever I did yet behold! | That euer, euer, I did yet behold. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.29 | Is partly to behold my lady's face, | Is partly to behold my Ladies face: |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.492 | Behold this maid. All corners else o'th' earth | Behold this Mayd: all corners else o'th' Earth |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.106.2 | Behold, sir King, | Behold Sir King |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.88 | May you a better feast never behold, | May you a better Feast neuer behold |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.419 | Why should you want? Behold, the earth hath roots; | Why should you want? Behold, the Earth hath Rootes: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.496 | Let me behold thy face. Surely this man | Let me behold thy face: Surely, this man |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.84 | Behold the poor remains alive and dead. | Behold the poore remaines aliue and dead! |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.322 | Behold, I choose thee, Tamora, for my bride, | Behold I choose thee Tamora for my Bride, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.177 | Where never man's eye may behold my body. | Where neuer mans eye may behold my body, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.218 | Will not permit mine eyes once to behold | Will not permit mine eyes once to behold |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.105 | Now I behold thy lively body so? | Now I behold thy liuely body so? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.124 | Looking all downwards to behold our cheeks, | Looking all downewards to behold our cheekes |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.13 | Be bold in us. We'll follow where thou lead'st, | Behold in vs, weele follow where thou lead'st, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.64 | Can the son's eye behold his father bleed? | Can the Sonnes eye, behold his Father bleed? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.118.2 | Behold the child: | Behold this Child, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.129 | And from the place where you behold us pleading | And from the place where you behold vs now, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.18 | Do you with cheeks abashed behold our works, | Do you with cheekes abash'd, behold our workes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.39 | The gentle Thetis, and anon behold | The gentle Thetis, and anon behold |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.106 | That most pure spirit of sense, behold itself, | |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.119 | Till he behold them formed in th' applause | Till he behold them formed in th'applause, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.240 | To talk with him, and to behold his visage | To talke with him, and to behold his visage, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.236.1 | Behold thy fill. | Behold thy fill. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.41.1 | Behold, I pray you. | Behold, I pray you. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.70 | You look upon that sleeve; behold it well. | You looke vpon that Sleeue? behold it well: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.85 | Behold distraction, frenzy, and amazement | Behold distraction, frenzie, and amazement, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.28 | Shall not behold her face at ample view, | Shall not behold her face at ample view: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.102 | Behold her that gave aim to all thy oaths, | Behold her, that gaue ayme to all thy oathes, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.113 | You may behold 'em. Lady, lady, alack, | You may behold 'em (Lady, Lady, alacke) |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.5 | View us their mortal herd, behold who err, | View us their mortall Heard, behold who erre, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.63 | Must we behold those comforts, never see | Must we behold those comforts, never see |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.187.2 | Behold, and wonder. | Behold, and wonder. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.97 | So like you, 'tis the worse. Behold, my lords, | So like you, 'tis the worse. Behold (my Lords) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.28 | Behold our human actions – as they do – | Behold our humane Actions (as they doe) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.36 | And played to take spectators. For behold me, | And play'd, to take Spectators. For behold me, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.23 | Should I, in these my borrowed flaunts, behold | Should I (in these my borrowed Flaunts) behold |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.48 | That you behold the while. Your guests are coming: | That you behold the while. Your guests are comming: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.123 | That die unmarried ere they can behold | That dye vnmarried, ere they can behold |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.786 | eye upon him, where he is to behold him with flies | eye vpon him; where hee is to behold him, with Flyes |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.20 | Still sleep mocked death. Behold, and say 'tis well! | Still Sleepe mock'd Death: behold, and say 'tis well. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.87 | For more amazement. If you can behold it, | For more amazement: if you can behold it, |