| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.85 | That I should love a bright particular star | That I should loue a bright particuler starre, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.87 | In his bright radiance and collateral light | In his bright radience and colaterall light, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.193 | Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, | Finish good Lady, the bright day is done, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.79 | And thou wilt show more bright and seem more virtuous | And thou wilt show more bright, & seem more vertuous |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.51 | If the scorn of your bright eyne | If the scorne of your bright eine |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.33 | Made Lud's town with rejoicing-fires bright, | Made Luds-Towne with reioycing-Fires bright, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.210 | And like bright metal on a sullen ground, | And like bright Mettall on a sullen ground: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.200 | To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, | To plucke bright Honor from the pale-fac'd Moone, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.163 | bright and never changes, but keeps his course truly. | bright, and neuer changes, but keepes his course truly. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.56 | Than Julius Caesar or bright – | Then Iulius Casar, or bright---- |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.144 | Bright star of Venus, fallen down on the earth, | Bright Starre of Venus, falne downe on the Earth, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.45 | To save a paltry life and slay bright fame, | To saue a paltry Life, and slay bright Fame, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.3 | Ring, bells, aloud; burn bonfires clear and bright, | Ring Belles alowd, burne Bonfires cleare and bright |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.226 | Like a bright exhalation in the evening, | Like a bright exhalation in the Euening, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.88 | Invite me to a banquet, whose bright faces | Inuite me to a Banquet, whose bright faces |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.50 | Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine, | Where euer the bright Sunne of Heauen shall shine, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.14 | It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, | It is the bright day, that brings forth the Adder, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.310 | That I should owe bright gold and render lead: | That I shouid owe bright gould and render lead, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.67 | But, drawing near, their glorious bright aspect, | But drawing neere, their glorious bright aspect, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.17 | Too bright a morning brings a louring day. | Too bright a morning breeds a louring daie. |
| King John | KJ II.i.315 | Their armours that marched hence so silver-bright | Their Armours that march'd hence so siluer bright, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.79 | Your sword is bright, sir; put it up again. | Your sword is bright sir, put it vp againe. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.28 | Nor shines the silver moon one half so bright | Nor shines the siluer Moone one halfe so bright, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.265 | And since her time are colliers counted bright. | And since her time, are Colliers counted bright. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.319 | As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair. | As bright Apollo's Lute, strung with his haire. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.205 | Vouchsafe, bright moon, and these thy stars, to shine – | Vouchsafe bright Moone, and these thy stars to shine, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.28 | Be bright and jovial among your guests tonight. | Be bright and Iouiall among your Guests to Night. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.22 | Angels are bright still though the brightest fell. | Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.78 | Thus wisdom wishes to appear most bright | Thus wisdome wishes to appeare most bright, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.1 | The moon shines bright. In such a night as this, | The moone shines bright. In such a night as this, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.59 | Is thick inlaid with patens of bright gold. | Is thicke inlayed with pattens of bright gold, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.234 | dares not present itself. She is too bright to be looked | dares not present it selfe: shee is too bright to be look'd |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.149 | So quick bright things come to confusion. | So quicke bright things come to confusion. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.98 | How came her eyes so bright? Not with salt tears – | How came her eyes so bright? Not with salt teares. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.60 | Yet you, the murderer, look as bright, as clear, | Yet you the murderer looks as bright as cleare, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.265 | I thank thee, moon, for shining now so bright; | I thanke thee Moone, for shining now so bright: |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.59 | Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them. | Keepe vp your bright Swords, for the dew will rust them. |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.99 | Their fringes of bright gold. The diamonds | their fringes of bright gold, / The Diamonds |
| Pericles | Per III.iii.28 | By bright Diana, whom we honour, all | by bright Diana, whom we honour, / All |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.111 | With hard bright steel, and hearts harder than steel. | With hard bright Steele, and hearts harder then Steele: |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.67 | Of his bright passage to the occident. | Of his bright passage to the Occident. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.69 | As bright as is the eagle's, lightens forth | (As bright as is the Eagles) lightens forth |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.267 | Whose bright outshining beams thy cloudy wrath | Whose bright out-shining beames, thy cloudy wrath |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.53 | A shadow like an angel, with bright hair | A Shadow like an Angell, with bright hayre |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.20 | And by the bright track of his fiery car | And by the bright Tract of his fiery Carre, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.180 | Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, | Feather of lead, bright smoake, cold fire, sicke health, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.44 | O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! | O she doth teach the Torches to burne bright: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.i.17 | I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes, | I coniure thee by Rosalines bright eyes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.21 | Would through the airy region stream so bright | Would through the ayrie Region streame so bright, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.26 | O, speak again, bright angel! – for thou art | Oh speake againe bright Angell, for thou art |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.v.2 | Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines the moon! | Good Lord how bright and goodly shines the Moone. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.v.4 | I say it is the moon that shines so bright. | I say it is the Moone that shines so bright. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.v.5 | I know it is the sun that shines so bright. | I know it is the Sunne that shines so bright. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.384 | 'Twixt natural son and sire, thou bright defiler | Twixt naturall Sunne and fire: thou bright defiler |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.327 | And tapers burn so bright, and everything | And Tapers burne so bright, and euery thing |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.19 | I will be bright and shine in pearl and gold | I will be bright and shine in Pearle and Gold, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.ii.1 | The hunt is up, the morn is bright and grey, | The hunt is vp, the morne is bright and gray, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.69 | Or brought a faggot to bright-burning Troy? | Or brought a faggot to bright burning Troy? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.151 | Keeps honour bright: to have done is to hang | Keepes honor bright, to haue done, is to hang |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.106 | Tear my bright hair, and scratch my praised cheeks; | Teare my bright heire, and scratch my praised cheekes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.25 | More bright in zeal than the devotion which | More bright in zeale, then the deuotion which |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.143 | On whose bright crest Fame with her loud'st oyes | On whose bright crest, fame with her lowd'st (O yes) |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.89 | Boldly to gaze against bright arms, and say | Boldly to gaze against bright armes, and say |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.290 | As her bright eyes shine on ye! Would I were | As her bright eies shine on ye. would I were |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.9 | Her bright eyes break each morning 'gainst thy window | Her bright eyes breake each morning gainst thy window, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.35 | This bright young virgin; pray observe her goodness. | This bright yong Virgin; pray observe her goodnesse; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.124 | The next, the Lord of May and Lady bright; | The next the Lord of May, and Lady bright, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.78.1 | A bright bay, I remember. | A bright Bay I remember. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.146 | That fortunate bright star, the fair Emilia – | That fortunate bright Star, the faire Emilia |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.39 | These the bright lamps of beauty, that command | These the bright lamps of beauty, that command |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.3 | Burn bright with sacred fires, and the altars | Burne bright with sacred fires, and the Altars |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.124 | Bright Phoebus in his strength – a malady | Bright Phoebus in his strength (a Maladie |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.95.1 | That e'er the sun shone bright on. | That ere the Sunne shone bright on. |