| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.68 | Was this fair face the cause, quoth she, | Was this faire face the cause, quoth she, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.111 | With that malignant cause wherein the honour | With that malignant cause, wherein the honour |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.115 | And though I kill him not, I am the cause | And though I kill him not, I am the cause |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.140 | between them and a great cause they should be esteemed | betweene them and a great cause, they should be esteemed |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.179 | The cause of our expedience to the Queen | The cause of our Expedience to the Queene, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.46 | For they have entertained cause enough | For they haue entertained cause enough |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.55 | Having alike your cause? Of this, my letters | Hauing alike your cause. Of this, my Letters |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.63 | Your partner in the cause 'gainst which he fought, | Your Partner in the cause 'gainst which he fought, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.180 | We have cause to be glad that matters are so | We haue cause to be glad, that matters are so |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.84.1 | Have given myself the cause. | Haue giuen my selfe the cause. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.35 | Though you be therein curious, the least cause | Though you be therein curious, the lest cause |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.41 | You have not called me so, nor have you cause. | You haue not call'd me so, nor haue you cause. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.68.1 | Obey it on all cause. | Obey it on all cause. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.128 | The horned herd! For I have savage cause, | The horned Heard, for I haue sauage cause, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.v.15 | Say that I wish he never find more cause | Say, that I wish he neuer finde more cause |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.viii.6 | Not as you served the cause, but as't had been | Not as you seru'd the Cause, but as't had beene |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.5 | Proportioned to our cause, must be as great | Proportion'd to our cause, must be as great |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.64.1 | Find cause in Caesar. | Finde cause in Casar. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.121 | I cannot project mine own cause so well | I cannot proiect mine owne cause so well |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.91.1 | I have more cause. | I haue more cause. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.26 | pasture makes fat sheep; and that a great cause of the | pasture makes fat sheepe: and that a great cause of the |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.4 | But have I not cause to weep? | But haue I not cause to weepe? |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.5 | As good cause as one would desire; therefore weep. | As good cause as one would desire, / Therefore weepe. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.128 | I have more cause to hate him than to love him, | Haue more cause to hate him then to loue him, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.88 | love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed out with a | loue cause: Troilous had his braines dash'd out with a |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.49 | upon the seventh cause. | vpon the seuenth cause. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.50 | How seventh cause? – Good my lord, like this | How seuenth cause? Good my Lord, like this |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.64 | But for the seventh cause. How did you find the | But for the seuenth cause. How did you finde the |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.65 | quarrel on the seventh cause? | quarrell on the seuenth cause? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.29 | Well, Syracusian, say in brief the cause | Well Siracusian; say in briefe the cause |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.31 | And for what cause thou camest to Ephesus. | And for what cause thou cam'st to Ephesus. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.33 | They can be meek that have no other cause. | They can be meeke, that haue no other cause: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.91 | Plead on her part some cause to you unknown. | Plead on your part some cause to you vnknowne; |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.123 | Upon what cause? | Vpon what cause? |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.83 | As cause will be obeyed. Please you to march; | (As cause will be obey'd:) please you to March, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.66 | cause between an orange-wife and a faucet-seller, and | cause betweene an Orendge wife, and a Forfet-seller, and |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.74 | cause is calling both the parties knaves. You are a pair of | Cause, is calling both the parties Knaues. You are a payre of |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.139 | worships! Martius is coming home. He has more cause | Worships? Martius is comming home: hee ha's more cause |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.221 | With the least cause these his new honours, which | With the least cause, these his new Honors, / Which |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.61 | You know the cause, sir, of my standing here. | You know the cause (Sir) of my standing heere. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.193 | As cause had called you up, have held him to; | As cause had call'd you vp, haue held him to; |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.19 | I wish I had a cause to seek him there, | I wish I had a cause to seeke him there, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.129 | All cause unborn, could never be the native | All cause vnborne, could neuer be the Natiue |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.143 | Where one part does disdain with cause, the other | Whereon part do's disdaine with cause, the other |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.234.1 | Leave us to cure this cause. | Leaue vs to cure this Cause. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.18.1 | And power i'th' truth o'th' cause. | And power i'th Truth a'th Cause. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.41 | A cause for thy repeal, we shall not send | A cause for thy Repeale, we shall not send |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.ii.49 | And, by my troth, you have cause. You'll sup with me? | And by my troth you haue cause: you'l Sup with me. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iii.46 | cause to be glad of yours. | cause to be glad of yours. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.96 | What cause do you think I have to | What cause do you thinke I haue to |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.200 | Stand to me in this cause. O mother! Wife! | Stand to me in this cause. Oh Mother! Wife! |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.59 | Sir, we have all great cause to give great thanks. | Sir, we haue all great cause to giue great thanks. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.24 | O lady, weep no more, lest I give cause | O Lady, weepe no more, least I giue cause |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.118 | O dearest soul: your cause doth strike my heart | O deerest Soule: your Cause doth strike my hart |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.73 | Thou mayst be valiant in a better cause; | Thou mayst be valiant in a better cause; |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.19.1 | That we have given him cause. | That we haue giuen him cause. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.112 | cause to use thee with a serious industry, that is, | cause to vse thee with a serious industry, that is, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.112 | Is oft the cause of fear. But, see, thy brother. | Is oft the cause of Feare. / But see thy Brother. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.71 | That striking in our country's cause | That striking in our Countries cause, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.49 | The very cause of Hamlet's lunacy. | The very cause of Hamlets Lunacie. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.101 | That we find out the cause of this effect – | That we finde out the cause of this effect, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.102 | Or rather say, the cause of this defect, | Or rather say, the cause of this defect; |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.103 | For this effect defective comes by cause. | For this effect defectiue, comes by cause, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.565 | Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, | Like Iohn a-dreames, vnpregnant of my cause, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.6 | But from what cause 'a will by no means speak. | But from what cause he will by no meanes speake. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.39 | That your good beauties be the happy cause | That your good Beauties be the happy cause |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.344 | Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? | Good my Lord, what is your cause of distemper? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.127 | His form and cause conjoined, preaching to stones, | His forme and cause conioyn'd, preaching to stones, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.28 | That inward breaks, and shows no cause without | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.45 | Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.63 | Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.122.2 | What is the cause, Laertes, | What is the cause Laertes, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.77 | For by the image of my cause I see | For by the image of my Cause, I see |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.333 | Thou livest. Report me and my cause aright | Thou liu'st, report me and my causes right |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.377 | Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, | Of death's put on by cunning, and forc'd cause, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.385 | Of that I shall have also cause to speak, | Of that I shall haue alwayes cause to speake, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.100 | And for this cause awhile we must neglect | And for this cause a-while we must neglect |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.68 | And breed a kind of question in our cause. | And breede a kinde of question in our cause: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.80 | Such water-colours to impaint his cause, | Such water-colours, to impaint his cause: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.120 | And God befriend us as our cause is just! | And God befriend vs, as our cause is iust. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.206 | Derives from heaven his quarrel and his cause; | Deriues from heauen, his Quarrell, and his Cause: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.10 | myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. I do here | my selfe, but the cause that wit is in other men. I doe heere |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.117 | and perturbation of the brain. I have read the cause of | and perturbation of the braine. I haue read the cause of |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.1 | Thus have you heard our cause and known our means, | Thus haue you heard our causes, & kno our Means: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.26 | It was young Hotspur's cause at Shrewsbury. | It was yong Hotspurres case, at Shrewsbury. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.37 | Indeed, the instant action, a cause on foot, | Indeed the instant action: a cause on foot, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.109 | cause the false way. It is not a confident brow, nor the | cause, the false way. It is not a confident brow, nor the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.154 | Our armour all as strong, our cause the best; | Our Armor all as strong, our Cause the best; |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.169 | All members of our cause, both here and hence, | All members of our Cause, both here, and hence, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.188 | That every slight and false-derived cause, | That euery slight, and false-deriued Cause, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.66 | Your majesty hath no just cause to hate me. | Your Maiesty hath no iust cause to hate mee. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.144 | No prince nor peer shall have just cause to say, | No Prince, nor Peere, shall haue iust cause to say, |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.45 | Turn him to any cause of policy, | Turne him to any Cause of Pollicy, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.125 | They know your grace hath cause and means and might – | They know your Grace hath cause, and means, and might; |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.289 | That shall have cause to curse the Dauphin's scorn. | That shal haue cause to curse the Dolphins scorne. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.294 | My rightful hand in a well-hallowed cause. | My rightfull hand in a wel-hallow'd cause. |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.32 | We therefore have great cause of thankfulness, | We therefore haue great cause of thankfulnes, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.107 | Working so grossly in a natural cause | Working so grossely in an naturall cause, |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.19 | What is't to me, when you yourselves are cause, | What is't to me, when you your selues are cause, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.86 | I think it be; but we have no great cause to desire | I thinke it be: but wee haue no great cause to desire |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.123 | contented as in the King's company, his cause being | contented, as in the Kings company; his Cause being |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.128 | cause be wrong, our obedience to the King wipes the | Cause be wrong, our obedience to the King wipes the |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.130 | But if the cause be not good, the King himself | But if the Cause be not good, the King himselfe |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.155 | his cause never so spotless, if it come to the arbitrement | his Cause neuer so spotlesse, if it come to the arbitrement |
| Henry V | H5 V.chorus.34 | To welcome him! Much more, and much more cause, | To welcome him? much more, and much more cause, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.67 | These news would cause him once more yield the ghost. | These news would cause him once more yeeld the Ghost. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.29 | To know the cause of your abrupt departure. | To know the cause of your abrupt departure? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.34 | And for that cause I trained thee to my house. | And for that cause I trayn'd thee to my House. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.53 | And for alliance' sake, declare the cause | And for Alliance sake, declare the cause |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.55 | That cause, fair nephew, that imprisoned me | That cause (faire Nephew) that imprison'd me, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.59 | Discover more at large what cause that was, | Discouer more at large what cause that was, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.55 | What's here? (He reads) I have, upon especial cause, | What's heere? I haue vpon especiall cause, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.112 | When for so slight and frivolous a cause | When for so slight and friuolous a cause, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.136 | Quite to forget this quarrel and the cause. | Quite to forget this Quarrell, and the cause. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.44 | But curse the cause I cannot aid the man. | But curse the cause I cannot ayde the man. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.106 | Sweet madam, give me hearing in a cause – | Sweet Madam, giue me hearing in a cause. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.205 | And so says York – (aside) for he hath greatest cause. | And so sayes Yorke, / For he hath greatest cause. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.86 | With thy confederates in this weighty cause. | With thy Confederates in this weightie cause. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.63 | Madam, be patient. As I was cause | Madame be patient: as I was cause |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.47 | Injurious duke, that threatest where's no cause. | Iniurious Duke, that threatest where's no cause. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.199 | And poise the cause in Justice' equal scales, | And poyse the Cause in Iustice equall Scales, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.200 | Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails. | Whose Beame stands sure, whose rightful cause preuailes. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.289 | What counsel give you in this weighty cause? | What counsaile giue you in this weightie cause? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.120 | Thou shalt have cause to fear before I leave thee. | Thou shalt haue cause to feare before I leaue thee. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.42 | for that cause they have been most worthy to live. | for that cause they haue beene most worthy to liue. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.35 | The cause why I have brought this army hither | The cause why I haue brought this Armie hither, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iii.45 | Then let me die, for now thou hast no cause. | Then let me dye, for now thou hast no cause. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iii.46 | No cause? | No cause? thy Father slew my Father: therefore dye. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.132 | I cheered them up with justice of our cause, | I cheer'd them vp with iustice of our Cause, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.13 | From such a cause as fills mine eyes with tears | From such a cause, as fills mine eyes with teares, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.30 | This is the cause that I, poor Margaret, | This is the cause that I, poore Margaret, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.14 | Suppose they take offence without a cause, | Suppose they take offence without a cause: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.143 | And Hastings as he favours Edward's cause! | And Hastings, as hee fauours Edwards cause. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.38 | He never was so womanish. The cause | He neuer was so womanish, the cause |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.14.2 | What's the cause? | What's the cause? |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.19 | In what have I offended you? What cause | In what haue I offended you? What cause |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.61 | To plead your cause. It shall be therefore bootless | To pleade your Cause. It shall be therefore bootlesse, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.120 | To bring my whole cause 'fore his holiness, | To bring my whole Cause 'fore his Holinesse, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.29.1 | The full cause of our coming. | The full cause of our comming. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.45 | A strange tongue makes my cause more strange, suspicious; | A strange Tongue makes my cause more strange, suspitious: |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.61.1 | And comforts to your cause. | And comforts to our cause. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.79 | Let me have time and counsel for my cause. | Let me haue time and Councell for my Cause: |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.93 | Put your main cause into the King's protection; | Put your maine cause into the Kings protection, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.95 | Both for your honour better and your cause; | Both for your Honour better, and your Cause: |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.118 | Put my sick cause into his hands that hates me? | Put my sicke cause into his hands, that hates me? |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.156 | Upon what cause, wrong you? Alas, our places, | Vpon what cause wrong you? Alas, our Places, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.58 | Has left the cause o'th' King unhandled, and | Ha's left the cause o'th'King vnhandled, and |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.100 | Our cause, that she should lie i'th' bosom of | Our cause, that she should lye i'th'bosome of |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.151 | As I will lend you cause, my doing well | (As I will lend you cause) my doing well, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.269 | His noble jury and foul cause can witness. | His Noble Iurie, and foule Cause can witnesse. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.78 | Cause the musicians play me that sad note | Cause the Musitians play me that sad note |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.3 | The chief cause concerns his grace of Canterbury. | The chiefe cause concernes his Grace of Canterbury. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.99 | By virtue of that ring I take my cause | By vertue of that Ring, I take my cause |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.121 | The cause betwixt her and this great offender. | The cause betwixt her, and this great offender. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.62 | But if you would consider the true cause | But if you would consider the true cause, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.11 | I know no personal cause to spurn at him, | I know no personall cause, to spurne at him, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.123 | What need we any spur but our own cause | What neede we any spurre, but our owne cause |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.135 | To think that or our cause or our performance | To thinke, that or our Cause, or our Performance |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.256 | Make me acquainted with your cause of grief. | Make me acquainted with your cause of greefe. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.69 | Most mighty Caesar, let me know some cause, | Most mighty Casar, let me know some cause, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.71 | The cause is in my will: I will not come; | The cause is in my Will, I will not come, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.47 | Know, Caesar doth not wrong, nor without cause | Know, Casar doth not wrong, nor without cause |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.181 | And then we will deliver you the cause | And then, we will deliuer you the cause, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.13 | Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, | Romans, Countrey-men, and Louers, heare mee for my cause, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.103 | You all did love him once, not without cause; | You all did loue him once, not without cause, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.104 | What cause withholds you then to mourn for him? | What cause with-holds you then, to mourne for him? |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.ii.8 | Hath given me some worthy cause to wish | Hath giuen me some worthy cause to wish |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.213 | Our legions are brimful, our cause is ripe. | Our Legions are brim full, our cause is ripe, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.48 | Come, come, the cause. If arguing make us sweat, | Come, come, the cause. If arguing make vs swet, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.47 | Having so rich and fair a cause to stay. – | Hauing so rich and faire a cause to stay. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.203 | Acquaint me with your cause of discontent. | Acquant me with theyr cause of discontent. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.46 | Who willingly will venture in thy cause. | Who willingly will venture in thy cause. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.82 | To paint thy vicious and deformed cause, | To painte thy vitious and deformed cause, |
| King John | KJ III.i.28 | That give you cause to prove my saying true. | That giue you cause to proue my saying true. |
| King John | KJ III.i.96 | By heaven, lady, you shall have no cause | By heauen Lady, you shall haue no cause |
| King John | KJ III.iii.30 | Good friend, thou hast no cause to say so yet, | Good friend, thou hast no cause to say so yet, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.12 | Such temperate order in so fierce a cause, | Such temperate order in so fierce a cause, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.156 | But they will pluck away his natural cause | But they will plucke away his naturall cause, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.205 | Thy hand hath murdered him: I had a mighty cause | Thy hand hath murdred him: I had a mighty cause |
| King John | KJ V.ii.30 | Upon the spot of this enforced cause – | Vpon the spot of this inforced cause, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.91 | To the seaside, and put his cause and quarrel | To the sea side, and put his cause and quarrell |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.299 | Beweep this cause again, I'll pluck ye out | Beweepe this cause againe, Ile plucke ye out, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.187 | Make it your cause! Send down and take my part! | Make it your cause: Send downe, and take my part. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.279.1 | I have full cause of weeping; | I haue full cause of weeping. |
| King Lear | KL III.i.39 | The King hath cause to plain. | |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.148.1 | What is the cause of thunder? | What is the cause of Thunder? |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.76 | about her heart. Is there any cause in nature that makes | about her heart. Is there any cause in Nature that make |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.51 | And leave you to attend him. Some dear cause | |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.109 | I pardon that man's life. What was thy cause? | I pardon that mans life. What was thy cause? |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.215 | Though that the Queen on special cause is here, | Though that the Queen on special cause is here |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.75.1 | You have some cause; they have not. | You haue some cause, they haue not. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.75.2 | No cause, no cause. | No cause, no cause. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.103 | Before the birds have any cause to sing? | Before the Birds haue any cause to sing? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.196 | Well, sir, be it as the style shall give us cause to | Well sir, be it as the stile shall giue vs cause to |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.171 | Spaniard's rapier. The first and second cause will not | Spaniards Rapier: The first and second cause will not |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.216 | We cannot cross the cause why we were born; | We cannot crosse the cause why we are borne: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.355 | So much I hate a breaking cause to be | So much I hate a breaking cause to be |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.787 | If for my love – as there is no such cause – | If for my Loue (as there is no such cause) |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.33 | When therewithal we shall have cause of state | When therewithall, we shall haue cause of State, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.21 | But, peace! For from broad words, and 'cause he failed | But peace; for from broad words, and cause he fayl'd |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.196 | The general cause, or is it a fee-grief | The generall cause, or is it a Fee-griefe |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.15 | He cannot buckle his distempered cause | He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.83 | Ay, and brought off the field. Your cause of sorrow | I, and brought off the field: your cause of sorrow |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.112 | What was done to Elbow's wife, that he hath cause to | what was done to Elbowes wife, that hee hath cause to |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.130 | And leave you to the hearing of the cause, | And leaue you to the hearing of the cause; |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.131 | Hoping you'll find good cause to whip them all. | Hoping youle finde good cause to whip them all. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.1 | He's hearing of a cause; he will come straight; | Hee's hearing of a Cause; he will come straight, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.125 | Duke, and I believe I know the cause of his | Duke, and I beleeue I know the cause of his |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.127 | What, I prithee, might be the cause? | What (I prethee) might be the cause? |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.123 | Forbear it therefore, give your cause to heaven. | Forbeare it therefore, giue your cause to heauen, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.139 | At Mariana's house tonight. Her cause and yours | At Mariana's house to night. Her cause, and yours |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.v.6 | As cause doth minister. Go call at Flavius' house, | As cause doth minister: Goe call at Flauia's house, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.167 | Of your own cause. Is this the witness, friar? | Of your owne Cause: Is this the Witnes Frier? |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.181 | Silence that fellow. I would he had some cause | Silence that fellow: I would he had some cause |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.298 | Then is your cause gone too. The Duke's unjust, | Then is your cause gone too: The Duke's vniust, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.122 | having done me wrong doth cause me, as my father, | hauing done me wrong, doth cause me as my Father |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.6 | Thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause, | Thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.154 | him with the cause in controversy between the Jew and | him with the cause in Controuersie, betweene the Iew and |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.170 | I am informed thoroughly of the cause. | I am enformed throughly of the cause. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.175 | You give your wife too unkind a cause of grief. | You giue your wife too vnkinde a cause of greefe, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.135 | and we will afterwards 'ork upon the cause with as great | and we wil afterwards orke vpon the cause, with as great |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.97 | him cause – and that, I hope, is an unmeasurable | him cause, and that (I hope) is an vnmeasurable |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.94 | honest man to your husband, to give him such cause of | honest man to your husband, to giue him such cause of |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.96 | What cause of suspicion? | What cause of suspition? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.97 | What cause of suspicion? Out upon | What cause of suspition? Out vpon |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.142 | without cause, why then make sport at me; then let me | without cause, / Why then make sport at me, then let me |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.123 | cause, mistress, do I? | cause (Mistris) do I? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.73 | An actor too, perhaps, if I see cause. | An Actor too perhaps, if I see cause. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.46 | For thou, I fear, hast given me cause to curse. | For thou (I feare) hast giuen me cause to curse, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.117 | Will cause Demetrius to awake. | Will cause Demetrius to awake. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.13 | I am. I must be sad when I have cause, and smile at no | I am: I must bee sad when I haue cause, and smile at no |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.166 | hath the victory. I am sorry for her, as I have just cause, | hath the victory, I am sorry for her, as I haue iust cause, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.56 | If it should give your age such cause of fear: | If it should giue your age such cause of feare, |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.95 | Mine's not an idle cause; the Duke himself, | Mine's not an idle Cause. The Duke himselfe, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.88 | And therefore little shall I grace my cause | And therefore little shall I grace my cause, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.361 | the Moor. My cause is hearted: thine hath no less | the Moore. My cause is hearted; thine hath no lesse |
| Othello | Oth II.i.107.2 | You have little cause to say so. | You haue little cause to say so. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.265 | he may, for even out of that will I cause these of Cyprus | he may: for euen out of that will I cause these of Cyprus |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.4 | As if the case were his. | As if the cause were his. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.28 | Than give thy cause away. | Then giue thy cause away. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.252 | As worthy cause I have to fear I am, | (As worthy cause I haue to feare I am) |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.408 | But sith I am entered in this cause so far – | But sith I am entred in this cause so farre |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.154 | Alas the day, I never gave him cause. | Alas the day, I neuer gaue him cause. |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.156 | They are not ever jealous for the cause, | They are not euer iealious for the cause, |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.178 | To the felt absence now I feel a cause. | To the felt-Absence: now I feele a Cause: |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.1 | It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul: | It is the Cause, it is the Cause (my Soule) |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.3 | It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood, | It is the Cause. Yet Ile not shed her blood, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.296 | Dear General, I never gave you cause. | Deere Generall, I neuer gaue you cause. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.I.42 | I give my cause, who best can justify. | I giue my cause, who best can iustifie. |
| Pericles | Per I.iii.19 | Royal Antiochus, on what cause I know not, | Royall Antiochus on what cause I knowe not, |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.32 | Or dead, give's cause to mourn his funeral | Or dead, giue's cause to mourne his funerall, |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.41 | Try honour's cause; forbear your suffrages. | Try honours cause; forbeare your suffrages: |
| Pericles | Per II.v.62 | I came unto your court for honour's cause, | I came vnto your Court for Honours cause, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.18 | That is the cause we trouble you so early; | That is the cause we trouble you so early, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.88 | Cause it to sound, beseech you. | cause it to sound beseech you: |
| Pericles | Per V.i.59 | Let me entreat to know at large the cause | let mee intreate to knowe at large the cause |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.26 | As well appeareth by the cause you come, | As well appeareth by the cause you come, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.50 | Can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain. | Can arbitrate this cause betwixt vs twaine: |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.8 | The cause of his arrival here in arms. | The cause of his arriuall heere in Armes, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.10 | To swear him in the justice of his cause. | To sweare him in the iustice of his cause. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.30 | Depose him in the justice of his cause. | Depose him in the iustice of his cause. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.55 | Cousin of Hereford, as thy cause is right, | Cosin of Herford, as thy cause is iust, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.78 | God in thy good cause make thee prosperous! | Heauen in thy good cause make thee prosp'rous |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.305 | Had I thy youth and cause I would not stay. | Had I thy youth, and cause, I would not stay. |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.6 | I cannot do it. Yet I know no cause | I cannot do it: yet I know no cause |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.9.2 | 'Tis well that thou hast cause; | 'Tis well that thou hast cause: |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.37 | That thou wert cause of noble Gloucester's death. | That thou wer't cause of Noble Glousters death. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.300 | Me cause to wail, but teachest me the way | Me cause to wayle, but teachest me the way |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.301 | How to lament the cause. I'll beg one boon, | How to lament the cause. Ile begge one Boone, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.41 | Stay thy revengeful hand, thou hast no cause to fear. | Stay thy reuengefull hand, thou hast no cause to feare. |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.46.1 | Upon what cause? | Vpon what cause? |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.128 | That were the cause of my imprisonment. | That were the cause of my imprisonment. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.120 | Thou wast the cause and most accursed effect. | Thou was't the cause, and most accurst effect. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.121 | Your beauty was the cause of that effect – | Your beauty was the cause of that effect: |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.211 | To him that hath more cause to be a mourner, | To him that hath most cause to be a Mourner, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.314 | God pardon them that are the cause thereof! | God pardon them, that are the cause thereof. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.59 | Clarence and Edward. O, what cause have I, | Clarence, and Edward. O, what cause haue I, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.101 | Sister, have comfort. All of us have cause | Sister haue comfort, all of vs haue cause |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.68.1 | You have no cause. | You haue no cause. |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.84 | And they indeed had no cause to mistrust; | And they indeed had no cause to mistrust: |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.1 | Now, noble peers, the cause why we are met | Now Noble Peeres, the cause why we are met, |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.65 | With all your just proceedings in this cause. | With all your iust proceedings in this case. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.139 | In this just cause come I to move your grace. | In this iust Cause come I to moue your Grace. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.34 | Ah, who hath any cause to mourn but we? | Ah who hath any cause to mourne but wee? |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.197 | Though far more cause, yet much less spirit to curse | Though far more cause, yet much lesse spirit to curse |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.492 | You have no cause to hold my friendship doubtful. | You haue no cause to hold my friendship doubtfull, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.241 | God and our good cause fight upon our side; | God, and our good cause, fight vpon our side, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.142 | Unless good counsel may the cause remove. | Vnlesse good counsell may the cause remoue. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.143 | My noble uncle, do you know the cause? | My Noble Vncle doe you know the cause? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.25 | first and second cause. Ah, the immortal passado! the | first and second cause: ah the immortall Passado, the |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.67 | What unaccustomed cause procures her hither? | What vnaccustom'd cause procures her hither? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iv.10 | All night for lesser cause, and ne'er been sick. | All night for lesse cause, and nere beene sicke. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.29 | this be not a lawful cause for me to leave his service, | this be not a lawfull cause for me to leaue his seruice, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.86 | walk like a stranger. May I be so bold to know the cause | walke like a stranger, / May I be so bold, to know the cause |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.10 | To know the cause why music was ordained! | To know the cause why musicke was ordain'd: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.84 | Faith, mistress, then I have no cause to stay. | Faith Mistresse then I haue no cause to stay. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.85 | But I have cause to pry into this pedant, | But I haue cause to pry into this pedant, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.82 | To come to Padua. Know you not the cause? | To come to Padua, know you not the cause? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.26 | Made me acquainted with a weighty cause | Made me acquainted with a waighty cause |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.122 | Lord, let me never have a cause to sigh | Lord let me neuer haue a cause to sigh, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.1 | Beseech you, sir, be merry. You have cause – | Beseech you Sir, be merry; you haue cause, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.129.1 | Who hath cause to wet the grief on't. | Who hath cause to wet the greefe on't. |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.179.1 | I have cursed them without cause. | I haue curs'd them without cause. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.114 | It is a cause worthy my spleen and fury, | It is a cause worthy my Spleene and Furie, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.103.2 | Ay, Timon, and have cause. | I Timon, and haue cause. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.ii.12 | His fellowship i'th' cause against your city, | His Fellowship i'th'cause against your City, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.15 | Ere thou hadst power or we had cause of fear, | Ere thou had'st power, or we had cause of feare, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.2 | Defend the justice of my cause with arms. | Defend the iustice of my Cause with Armes. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.32 | This cause of Rome, and chastised with arms | This Cause of Rome, and chasticed with Armes |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.58 | Commit my cause in balance to be weighed. | Commit my Cause in ballance to be weigh'd. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.62 | Commit myself, my person, and the cause. | Commit my Selfe, my Person, and the Cause: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.116 | For valiant doings in their country's cause? | For Valiant doings in their Countries cause? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.380 | That died in honour and Lavinia's cause. | That died in Honour and Lauinia's cause. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.393 | He lives in fame, that died in virtue's cause. | He liues in Fame, that di'd in vertues cause. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.50 | The cause were known to them it most concerns, | The cause were knowne to them it most concernes. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.9 | An 'twere my cause, I should go hang myself. | And t'were my cause, I should goe hang myselfe. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.62 | Arm, my lords! Rome never had more cause: | Arme my Lords, Rome neuer had more cause, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.109 | And what not done that thou hast cause to rue | And what not done, that thou hast cause to rue, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.63 | 'Cause they take vengeance of such kind of men. | Cause they take vengeance of such kind of men. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.50 | And have a thousand times more cause than he | And haue a thousand times more cause then he. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.124 | Now judge what cause had Titus to revenge | Now iudge what course had Titus to reuenge |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.11.2 | What was his cause of anger? | What was his cause of anger? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.26 | stain of it. He is melancholy without cause, and merry | staine of it. He is melancholy without cause, and merry |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.55 | True, he was so. I know the cause too. He'll | True he was so; I know the cause too, heele |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.118 | Nor fear of bad success in a bad cause, | Nor feare of bad successe in a bad cause, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.165 | And on the cause and question now in hand | And on the cause and question now in hand, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.193 | For 'tis a cause that hath no mean dependence | For 'tis a cause that hath no meane dependance, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.89 | cause – a word, my lord. | cause? A word my Lord. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.268.1 | The Grecians' cause. | The Grecians cause. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.146 | That cause sets up with and against itself! | That cause sets vp, with, and against thy selfe |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.ii.31 | Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we, | Alas, O frailtie is the cause, not wee, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.146 | my revenge find notable cause to work. | my reuenge finde notable cause to worke. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.151 | For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause. | For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause: |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.185 | You drew your sword upon me without cause, | you drew your sword vpon me without cause, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.353.1 | Of thine own cause. | Of thine owne cause. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.144 | I think she doth, and that's her cause of sorrow. | I thinke she doth: and that's her cause of sorrow. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.200.1 | Our cause cries for your knee. | Our Cause cries for your knee. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.278.1 | The cause I know not yet. | The cause I know not yet. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.119 | Makes ‘ Morris,’ and the cause that we came hither, | Makes Morris, and the cause that we came hether. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.69.1 | I'll give you cause, sweet cousin. | Ile give you cause sweet Cosen. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.92 | For all my hopes. My cause and honour guard me! | For all my hopes: My Cause and honour guard me. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.120 | I know your cunning, and I know your cause; | I know your cunning, and I know your cause, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.260 | Our swords and cause along; else never trifle, | Our Swords, aud cause along: else never trifle, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.98 | To make this cause his own. In's face appears | To make this cause his owne: In's face appeares |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.144 | But not the cause, my lord. They would show | But not the cause my Lord; They would show |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.73 | You whose free nobleness do make my cause | You, whose free noblenesse doe make my cause |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK epilogue.12 | We have no such cause. If the tale we have told – | We have no such cause. If the tale we have told |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.77 | From him that has most cause to grieve it should be, | (From him that ha's most cause to grieue it should be) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.119 | There is no cause. When you shall know your mistress | There is no cause: When you shall know your Mistris |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.3 | The cause were not in being – part o'th' cause, | The cause were not in being: part o'th cause, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.36 | Nourish the cause of his awaking. I | Nourish the cause of his awaking. I |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.ii.49 | cause of my son's resort thither. Prithee be my present | cause of my sonnes resort thether. 'Prethe be my present |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.16.2 | Now Jove afford you cause! | Now Ioue affoord you cause: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.61.1 | She had just cause. | She had iust such cause. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.54 | Let him that was the cause of this have power | Let him, that was the cause of this, haue powre |