| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.33 | lordship sees the bottom of his success in't, and to what | Lordship sees the bottome of this successe in't, and to what |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.29 | The bottom of your purpose. | the bottome of your purpose. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.193 | bottom, like the Bay of Portugal. | bottome, like the Bay of Portugall. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.79 | West of this place, down in the neighbour bottom, | West of this place, down in the neighbor bottom |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.204 | bottom of the news is, our general is cut i'th' middle and | bottome of the Newes is, our Generall is cut i'th' middle, & |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.39 | I'th' bottom of a cowslip. Here's a voucher, | I'th'bottome of a Cowslippe. Heere's a Voucher, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.117.1 | Nor tent, to bottom that. But speak. | Nor tent, to bottome that. But speake. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.204 | Who ever yet could sound thy bottom, find | Who euer yet could sound thy bottome? Finde |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.201 | Or dive into the bottom of the deep, | Or diue into the bottome of the deepe, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.101 | To rob me of so rich a bottom here. | To rob me of so rich a Bottome here. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.50 | The very bottom and the soul of hope, | The very Bottome, and the Soule of Hope, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.292 | bottom of Justice Shallow. Lord, Lord, how subject we | bottome of Iustice Shallow. How subiect wee |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.51 | To sound the bottom of the after-times. | To sound the bottome of the after-Times. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.53 | I'll pledge you a mile to th' bottom. | Ile pledge you a mile to the bottome. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.164 | As is the ooze and bottom of the sea | As is the Owse and bottome of the Sea |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.97 | That knew'st the very bottom of my soul, | That knew'st the very bottome of my soule, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.78 | If you be ta'en, we then should see the bottom | If you be tane, we then should see the bottome |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.90 | Even to the bottom of thy master's throat. | Euen to the bottom of thy masters throat, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.60 | That has a name. But there's no bottom, none, | That ha's a name. But there's no bottome, none |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.78 | To look into the bottom of my place. | To looke into the bottome of my place : |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.42 | My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, | My ventures are not in one bottome trusted, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.12 | bottom were as deep as hell, I should down. I had been | bottome were as deepe as hell, I shold down. I had beene |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.1.2 | Bottom the weaver, and Flute the bellows-mender, | Bottome the Weauer, Flute the bellowes-mender, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.16 | Answer as I call you. Nick Bottom, the weaver? | Answere as I call you. Nick Bottome the Weauer. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.19 | You, Nick Bottom, are set down for Pyramus. | You Nicke Bottome are set downe for Pyramus. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.103 | Exeunt Bottom and his fellows | Exeunt• |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.1.1 | Enter the clowns: Bottom, Quince, Snout, Starveling, | Enter the Clownes. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.7 | What sayest thou, Bully Bottom? | What saist thou, bully Bottome? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.19 | tell them that I, Pyramus, am not Pyramus, but Bottom | tell them, that I Piramus am not Piramus, but Bottome |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.60 | Bottom? | Bottome? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.97 | Enter Puck, and Bottom with an ass's head | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.108 | O Bottom, thou art changed. What do I see on | O Bottom, thou art chang'd; What doe I see on |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.112 | Bless thee, Bottom! Bless thee! Thou art | Blesse thee Bottome, blesse thee; thou art |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.196 | Exit Titania with Bottom and the Fairies | Exit. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.1.1 | Enter Titania, and Bottom, and Fairies; and Oberon | Enter Queene of Fairies, and Clowne, and Fairies, and the King |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.83 | (to Bottom, removing the ass's head) | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.199 | Bottom wakes | Bottome wakes. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.213 | called ‘ Bottom's Dream ’, because it hath no bottom; and | called Bottomes Dreame, because it hath no bottome; and |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.ii.18 | O, sweet Bully Bottom! Thus hath he lost sixpence | O sweet bully Bottome: thus hath he lost sixepence |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.ii.23.1 | Enter Bottom | Enter Bottome. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.ii.24 | Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy | Bottome, ô most couragious day! O most happie |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.ii.29 | Let us hear, sweet Bottom! | Let vs heare, sweet Bottome. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.ii.40 | Exeunt Bottom and his fellows | Exeunt. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.126.1 | Enter Bottom as Pyramus, Flute as Thisbe, Snout as | Tawyer with a Trumpet before them. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.150 | Exeunt Quince, Bottom, Flute, Snug, and Starveling | Exit all but Wall. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.166 | Enter Bottom as Pyramus | Enter Pyramus. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.200.1 | Exeunt Bottom and Flute | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.264 | Enter Bottom as Pyramus | Enter Piramus. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.352 | A dance. Exeunt Bottom and his fellows | |
| Pericles | Per V.i.165 | I'll hear you more, to the bottom of your story, | Ile heare you more too'th bottome of your storie, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.28 | All scattered in the bottom of the sea. | All scattred in the bottome of the Sea, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.32 | That wooed the slimy bottom of the deep | That woo'd the slimy bottome of the deepe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.56 | As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. | As one dead in the bottome of a Tombe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.198 | That sees into the bottom of my grief? | That sees into the bottome of my griefe? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.132 | in the skirts of it and beat me to death with a bottom of | in the skirts of it, and beate me to death with a bottome of |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.231 | Most often do so near the bottom run | (Most often) do so neere the bottome run |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.262 | Now to the bottom dost thou search my wound: | Now to the bottome dost thou search my wound, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.215 | Is not my sorrows deep, having no bottom? | Is not my sorrow deepe, hauing no bottome? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.17 | To th' bottom of the worst. Let Helen go: | To'th'bottome of the worst. Let Helen go, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.198 | Finds bottom in th' uncomprehensive deeps, | Findes bottome in th'vncomprehensiue deepes; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.309 | And I myself see not the bottom of it. | And I my selfe see not the bottome of it. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.54 | With the most noble bottom of our fleet, | With the most noble bottome of our Fleete, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.53 | You must provide to bottom it on me; | You must prouide to bottome it on me: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.110 | Even from the bottom of these miseries, | Even from the bottom of these miseries |