| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.113 | bitter touch of sorrow that e'er I heard virgin exclaim | bitter touch of sorrow that ere I heard Virgin exclaime |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.75.1 | 'Tis bitter. | 'Tis bitter. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.331 | The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. | The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.185 | Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky | Freize, freize, thou bitter skie |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.69 | I'll sauce her with bitter words. (To Phebe) Why look | ile sauce / Her with bitter words: why looke |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.138 | I will be bitter with him and passing short. | I will be bitter with him, and passing short; |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.102 | Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy, | Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancie, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.41 | bid the Duke to the nuptial. But, O, how bitter a thing | bid the Duke to the Nuptiall. But O, how bitter a thing |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.104 | Bitter to me as death: your life, good master, | Bitter to me, as death: your life, good Master, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.133 | Which is our honour – bitter torture shall | (Which is our Honor) bitter torture shall |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.8 | For this relief much thanks. 'Tis bitter cold, | For this releefe much thankes: 'Tis bitter cold, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.575 | To make oppression bitter, or ere this | To make Oppression bitter, or ere this, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.398 | And do such bitter business as the day | And do such bitter businesse as the day |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.27 | For our advantage on the bitter cross. | For our aduantage on the bitter Crosse. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.165 | I have heard better news. | I haue heard bitter newes. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.165 | By my troth, captain, these are very bitter | By my troth Captaine, these are very bitter |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.79 | Are murdered for our pains. This bitter taste | are murthered for our paines. / This bitter taste |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.122 | Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty, | Sweeten the bitter Mock you sent his Maiestie; |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.42 | And thou hast given me most bitter terms. | And thou hast giuen me most bitter termes. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.124 | And for those wrongs, those bitter injuries, | And for those Wrongs, those bitter Iniuries, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.311 | I would invent as bitter searching terms, | I would inuent as bitter searching termes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.66 | Because he would avoid such bitter taunts | Because he would auoid such bitter taunts |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.74 | Is only bitter to him, only dying, | Is only bitter to him, only dying: |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.8 | To leave a thousandfold more bitter than | To leaue, a thousand fold more bitter, then |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.89 | How tastes it? Is it bitter? Forty pence, no. | How tasts it? Is it bitter? Forty pence, no: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.406 | And give the bitter potion of reproach | And giue the bitter portion of reproch: |
| King John | KJ III.iv.110 | And bitter shame hath spoiled the sweet world's taste, | And bitter shame hath spoyl'd the sweet words taste, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.47 | makes the world bitter to the best of our times, keeps our | makes the world bitter to the best of our times: keepes our |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.134 | A bitter fool! | A bitter Foole. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.136 | bitter fool and a sweet fool? | bitter Foole, and a sweet one. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.142 | The sweet and bitter fool | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.172.2 | Too bitter is thy jest. | Too bitter is thy iest. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.237.2 | Gall? Bitter. | Gall, bitter. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.75.2 | It is a bitter deputy. | It is a bitter Deputie. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.vi.8 | That's bitter to sweet end. | That's bitter, to sweet end. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.44 | Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe. | Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.306 | Good Hermia, do not be so bitter with me. | Good Hermia, do not be so bitter with me, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.361 | Then stir Demetrius up with bitter wrong, | Then stirre Demetrius vp with bitter wrong; |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.190 | base, though bitter, disposition of Beatrice that puts the | base (though bitter) disposition of Beatrice, that putt's the |
| Othello | Oth I.i.105.1 | To make this bitter to thee. | To make this bitter to thee. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.68 | You shall yourself read in the bitter letter | You shall your selfe read, in the bitter letter, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.345 | shortly as acerbe as the coloquintida. She must change | shortly, as bitter as Coloquintida. She must change |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.49 | The bitter clamour of two eager tongues, | The bitter clamour of two eager tongues, |
| Richard II | R2 III.i.21 | Eating the bitter bread of banishment | Eating the bitter bread of banishment; |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.103 | Your blunt upbraidings and your bitter scoffs. | Your blunt vpbraidings, and your bitter scoffes: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.235 | That thou hadst called me all these bitter names. | That thou hadst call'd me all these bitter names. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.189 | The bitter sentence of poor Clarence' death | The bitter sentence of poore Clarence death, |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.107 | And yet his punishment was bitter death. | And yet his punishment was bitter death. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.15.2 | O bitter consequence | O bitter consequence! |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.7 | Will prove as bitter, black, and tragical. | Will proue as bitter, blacke, and Tragicall. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.133 | And in the breath of bitter words let's smother | And in the breath of bitter words, let's smother |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.32 | Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool, | of my Dugge, and felt it bitter, pretty foole, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.92 | Now seeming sweet, convert to bitterest gall. | Now seeming sweet, conuert to bitter gall. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.78 | Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting. It is a most | Thy wit is a very Bitter-sweeting, / It is a most |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.116 | Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide! | Come bitter conduct, come vnsauoury guide, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.28 | When did she cross thee with a bitter word? | When did she crosse thee with a bitter word? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.13 | Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behaviour. | Hiding his bitter iests in blunt behauiour, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.45 | Have at you for a bitter jest or two. | Haue at you for a better iest or too. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.6 | And for these bitter tears which now you see | And for these bitter teares, which now you see, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.129 | And made a brine-pit with our bitter tears? | And made a brine pit with our bitter teares? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.232 | To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues. | To ease their stomackes with their bitter tongues, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.3 | As will revenge these bitter woes of ours. | As will reuenge these bitter woes of ours. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.46 | Good grandsire, leave these bitter deep laments; | Good grandsire leaue these bitter deepe laments, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.150 | But to torment you with my bitter tongue. | But to torment you with my bitter tongue. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.88 | Nor can I utter all our bitter grief, | Nor can I vtter all our bitter griefe, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.49 | The bitter disposition of the time | The bitter disposition of the time |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.68 | You are too bitter to your countrywoman. | You are too bitter to your country-woman. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.69 | She's bitter to her country. Hear me, Paris: | Shee's bitter to her countrey: heare me Paris, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.129 | With bitter fasts, with penitential groans, | With bitter fasts, with penitentiall grones, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.147 | When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills, | When I was sick, you gaue me bitter pils, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.236 | With many bitter threats of biding there. | With many bitter threats of biding there. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.47.1 | That are most early sweet and bitter. | That are most early sweet, and bitter. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.457 | In that be made more bitter. Fear o'ershades me. | In that be made more bitter. Feare ore-shades me: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.769 | heavy and vengeance bitter; but those that are germane | heauie, and Vengeance bitter; but those that are Iermaine |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.18 | Sorely to say I did. It is as bitter | Sorely, to say I did: it is as bitter |