| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.92 | the black gown of a big heart. I am going, forsooth. The | the blacke-Gowne of a bigge heart: I am going forsooth, the |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.38 | Almost to bursting, and the big round tears | Almost to bursting, and the big round teares |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.162 | For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, | For his shrunke shanke, and his bigge manly voice, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.112 | She is too big, I hope, for me to compass. | She is too bigge I hope for me to compasse, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.57 | A carbuncle entire, as big as thou art, | A Carbuncle intire: as big as thou art |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.128 | With as big heart as thou. Do as thou list. | With as bigge heart as thou. Do as thou list, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.i.39 | Big of this gentleman – our theme – deceased | Bigge of this Gentleman (our Theame) deceast |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.140 | Another stain, as big as hell can hold, | Another staine, as bigge as Hell can hold, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.77 | An arm as big as thine? A heart as big? | An arme as bigge as thine? A heart, as bigge: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.58 | If that the devil and mischance look big | If that the Deuill and Mischance looke bigge |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.13 | Whiles the big year, swollen with some other grief, | Whil'st the bigge yeare, swolne with some other griefes, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.8 | To look with forehead bold and big enough | To looke with forhead bold and big enough |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.252 | stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man? Give me | stature, bulke, and bigge assemblance of a man? giue mee |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.41 | Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggared host, | Bigge Mars seemes banqu'rout in their begger'd Hoast, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.119 | Shall lessen this big look. | Shall lessen this bigge looke. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.282 | Thy heart is big; get thee apart and weep. | Thy heart is bigge: get thee a-part and weepe: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.45 | That, big with child, was every day in arms, | That big with child was euery day in armes, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.206 | Whilst I was big in clamour, came there in a man, | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.125 | for that Worthy's thumb; he is not so big as the end of | for that Worthies thumb, hee is not so big as the end of |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.546 | I Pompey am, Pompey surnamed the Big – | I Pompey am, Pompey surnam'd the big. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.637 | His leg is too big for Hector's. | His legge is too big for Hector. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.41 | be too little for your thief, your true man thinks it big | be too little for your theefe, your true man thinkes it bigge |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.42 | enough. If it be too big for your thief, your thief | enough. If it bee too bigge for your Theefe, your Theefe |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.viii.46 | And even there, his eye being big with tears, | And euen there his eye being big with teares, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.125 | He's too big to go in there. What shall I | He's too big to go in there: what shall I |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.66 | woman's gown big enough for him. Otherwise he might | womans gowne bigge enough for him: otherwise he might |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.73 | big as he is; and there's her thrummed hat and her | big as he is: and there's her thrum'd hat, and her |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.129 | And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind; | And grow big bellied with the wanton winde: |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.346 | Farewell the plumed troops and the big wars | Farewell the plumed Troopes, and the bigge Warres, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.114 | Strive to speak big and clap their female joints | Striue to speake bigge, and clap their female ioints |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.54 | A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone, | a bumpe as big as a young Cockrels stone? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.68 | Not half so big as a round little worm | not halfe so bigge as a round little Worme, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.227 | Nay, look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret, | Nay, looke not big, nor stampe, nor stare, nor fret, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.169 | My mind hath been as big as one of yours, | My minde hath bin as bigge as one of yours, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.33 | This eye shoots forth! How big imagination | This eye shootes forth? How bigge imagination |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.173 | Full of protest, of oath, and big compare, | Full of protest, of oath and big compare; |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.95 | So big to hold so much, they lack retention. | So bigge, to hold so much, they lacke retention. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.45 | the sheet were big enough for the bed of Ware in England, | the sheete were bigge enough for the bedde of Ware in England, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.54 | offered her mine own, who is a dog as big as ten of | offer'd her mine owne, who is a dog / As big as ten of |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.61 | With that she's big with: for 'tis Polixenes | With that shee's big-with, for 'tis Polixenes |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.102 | The centre is not big enough to bear | The Centre is not bigge enough to beare |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.103 | had but looked big and spit at him, he'd have run. | had but look'd bigge, and spit at him, hee'ld haue runne. |