| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.118 | Of colour, weight, and heat, poured all together, | Of colour, waight, and heat, pour'd all together, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.59 | Which holds not colour with the time, nor does | Which holds not colour with the time, nor does |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.4 | his colour. Your daughter-in-law had been alive at this | his colour: your daughter-in-law had beene aliue at this |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.50 | Scorned a fair colour or expressed it stolen, | Scorn'd a faire colour, or exprest it stolne, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.32 | Nay, pray you seek no colour for your going, | Nay pray you seeke no colour for your going, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.114 | The colour of her hair. Bring me word quickly. | The colour of her haire. Bring me word quickly, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.46 | What colour is it of? | What colour is it of? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.47 | Of it own colour too. | Of it owne colour too. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iii.32.1 | Her hair, what colour? | Her haire what colour? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.69.1 | Put colour in thy cheek. | Put colour in thy Cheeke. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.95 | Sport? Of what colour? | Sport: of what colour? |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.96 | What colour, madam? How shall I answer you? | What colour Madame? How shall I aunswer you? |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.176 | Change you colour? | change you colour? |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.396 | and women are for the most part cattle of this colour; | and women are for the most part, cattle of this colour: |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.6 | His very hair is of the dissembling colour. | His very haire / Is of the dissembling colour. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.9 | I'faith, his hair is of a good colour. | I'faith his haire is of a good colour. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.10 | An excellent colour: your chestnut was ever the | An excellent colour: / Your Chessenut was euer the |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.11 | only colour. | onely colour: |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.252.1 | With cloth of any colour. | With Cloth of any Colour. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.51 | The sides o'th' world, against all colour here | The sides o'th'World, against all colour heere, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.167 | I'll willingly to him; to gain his colour | Ile willingly to him, to gaine his colour, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.330 | Give colour to my pale cheek with thy blood, | Giue colour to my pale cheeke with thy blood, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.68 | Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off, | Good Hamlet cast thy nightly colour off, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.280 | which your modesties have not craft enough to colour. | which your modesties haue not craft enough to color, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.517 | Look, whe'er he has not turned his colour, | Looke where he ha's not turn'd his colour, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.45 | That show of such an exercise may colour | That shew of such an exercise may colour |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.131 | Will want true colour – tears perchance for blood. | Will want true colour; teares perchance for blood. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.108 | Colour her working with such deadly wounds, | Colour her working with such deadly wounds; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.100 | For of no right, nor colour like to right, | For of no Right, nor colour like to Right. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.75 | With some fine colour that may please the eye | With some fine colour, that may please the eye |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.248 | matter if I do halt; I have the wars for my colour, and | matter, if I do halt, I haue the warres for my colour, and |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.24 | extraordinarily as heart would desire, and your colour, | extraordinarily, as heart would desire; and your Colour |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.89 | you heard was but a colour. | you heard, was but a colour. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.90 | A colour that I fear you will die in, Sir John. | A colour I feare, that you will dye in, Sir Iohn. |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.31 | 'A could never abide carnation, 'twas a colour | A could neuer abide Carnation, 'twas a Colour |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.18 | He's of the colour of the nutmeg. | Hee's of the colour of the Nutmeg. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.37 | Nor doth he dedicate one jot of colour | Nor doth he dedicate one iot of Colour |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.34 | I love no colours; and, without all colour | I loue no Colours: and without all colour |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.92 | Saying the sanguine colour of the leaves | Saying, the sanguine colour of the Leaues |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.108 | Sayst thou me so? What colour is this cloak of? | Say'st thou me so: what Colour is this Cloake of? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.110 | Why, that's well said. What colour is my gown of? | Why that's well said: What Colour is my Gowne of? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.112 | Why then, thou knowest what colour jet is of? | Why then, thou know'st what Colour Iet is of? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.236 | But yet we want a colour for his death. | But yet we want a Colour for his death: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.v.11 | Under the colour of his usual game, | Vnder the colour of his vsuall game, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.178 | For 'twas indeed his colour, but he came | (For twas indeed his colour, but he came |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.98 | And of an earthy colour? Mark her eyes. | And of an earthy cold? Marke her eyes? |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.122 | His coward lips did from their colour fly, | His Coward lippes did from their colour flye, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.29 | Will bear no colour for the thing he is, | Will beare no colour, for the thing he is, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.76 | The colour of the King doth come and go | The colour of the King doth come, and go |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.136 | This is a fellow of the selfsame colour | This is a Fellow of the selfe same colour, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.83 | Green indeed is the colour of lovers; but to have | Greene indeed is the colour of Louers: but to haue |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.84 | a love of that colour, methinks Samson had small reason | a Loue of that colour, methinkes Sampson had small reason |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.64 | My hands are of your colour; but I shame | My Hands are of your colour: but I shame |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.210 | you colour it in being a tapster, are you not? | you colour it in being a Tapster, are you not? |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.71 | Just of his colour. What if we do omit | Iust of his colour. What if we do omit |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.244 | That steals the colour from Bassanio's cheek: | That steales the colour from Bassianos cheeke, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.151 | not what I seek, show no colour for my extremity. Let | not what I seeke, shew no colour for my extremity: Let |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.87 | Of colour like the red rose on triumphant briar, | Of colour like the red rose on triumphant bryer, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.33 | be of what colour it please God. Ha! The Prince and | be of what colour it please God, hah! the Prince and |
| Othello | Oth I.i.74 | As it may lose some colour. | As it may loose some colour. |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.53 | Boult, take you the marks of her, the colour of her | Boult, take you the markes of her, the colour of her |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.87 | But his red colour hath forsook his cheeks. | But his red colour hath forsooke his cheekes. |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.1 | Come, cousin, canst thou quake and change thy colour, | Come Cousin, / Canst thou quake, and change thy colour, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.120 | There was no link to colour Peter's hat, | There was no Linke to colour Peters hat, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.100 | Why, Paris hath colour enough. | Why Paris hath colour inough. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.104 | he having colour enough, and the other higher, is too | he hauing colour enough, and the other higher, is too |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.149 | love; wherein, by the colour of his beard, the shape of | loue, wherein by the colour of his beard, the shape of |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.160 | My purpose is indeed a horse of that colour. | My purpose is indeed a horse of that colour. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.192 | yellow stockings, and 'tis a colour she abhors; and cross-gartered, | yellow stockings, and 'tis a colour she abhorres, and crosse garter'd, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.373 | Still in this fashion, colour, ornament, | Still in this fashion, colour, ornament, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.23 | What, angry, Sir Thurio? Do you change colour? | What, angry, Sir Thurio, do you change colour? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.3 | Under the colour of commending him, | Vnder the colour of commending him, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.39 | Hath a good colour; where every seeming good's | Hath a good cullor; where eve'ry seeming good's |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.183 | This is a pretty colour; will't not do | This is a pretty colour, wilt not doe |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.124 | Not wanton white, but such a manly colour | Not wanton white, but such a manly colour |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.13.1 | What colour are your eyebrows? | What colour are your eye-browes? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.44 | have saffron to colour the warden pies; mace; dates – | haue Saffron to colour the Warden Pies, Mace: Dates, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.552 | What colour for my visitation shall I | What colour for my Visitation, shall I |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.88 | Who was most marble there changed colour; some | Who was most Marble, there changed colour: some |