| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.4 | content I wish might be found in the calendar of my | content, I wish might be found in the Kalender of my |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.79 | The General is content to spare thee yet, | The Generall is content to spare thee yet, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.76 | With very much content, my lord, and I wish | With verie much content my Lord, and I wish |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.334 | That you express content; which we will pay | That you expresse Content: which we will pay, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.83 | O'er your content these strong necessities; | O're your content, these strong necessities, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.iii.27 | Content. 'Tis strange. | Content: 'Tis strange. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.68 | It shall content me best. Be gentle to her. | It shall content me best: Be gentle to her, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.135 | After my flight. Now go we in content | After my flight: now goe in we content |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.68 | We'll light upon some settled low content. | Weele light vpon some setled low content. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.15 | must be content. | must be content. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.24 | means, and content is without three good friends; that | meanes, and content, is without three good frends. That |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.71 | glad of other men's good, content with my harm; and | glad of other mens good content with my harme: and |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.3 | yet? Doth my simple feature content you? | yet? / Doth my simple feature content you? |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.111 | (To Silvius) I will content you, if what pleases you | I wil content you, if what pleases you |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.32 | Sir, I commend you to your own content. | Sir, I commend you to your owne content. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.33 | He that commends me to mine own content | He that commends me to mine owne content, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.30 | Very well, and could be content to give | Very well, and could bee content to giue |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.36 | men can be content to say it was for his country, he did | men can be content to say it was for his Countrey, he did |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.56 | syllables. And though I must be content to bear with | syllables. And though I must be content to beare with |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.126 | His deeds with doing them, and is content | his deeds / With doing them, and is content |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.46 | Content, content. | Content, content. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.130.2 | Pray, be content. | Pray be content: |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.45 | Allow their officers, and are content | Allow their Officers, and are content |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.47.2 | I am content. | I am Content. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.48 | Lo, citizens, he says he is content. | Lo Citizens, he sayes he is Content. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.26.2 | O, content thee. | O content thee. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.31 | Of my lord's health, of his content: yet not | Of my Lords health, of his content: yet not |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.34 | For it doth physic love: of his content, | For it doth physicke Loue, of his content, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.102 | The more delayed, delighted. Be content, | The more delay'd, delighted. Be content, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.24 | With all my heart, and it doth much content me | With all my heart, and it doth much content me |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.210 | Be you content to lend your patience to us, | Be you content to lend your patience to vs, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.212.1 | To give it due content. | To giue it due content. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.71 | dreamest not of, the which for sport sake are content to | dream'st not of, the which (for sport sake) are content to |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.120.1 | Will this content you, Kate? | Will this content you Kate? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.274 | Content, and the argument shall be thy | Content, and the argument shall be, thy |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.371 | Shall I? Content! This chair shall be my state, | Shall I? content: This Chayre shall bee my State, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.14.3 | Content. | Content. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.23 | For mine own part I could be well content | For mine owne part, I could be well content |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.97 | I am content that he shall take the odds | I am content that he shall take the oddes |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iv.52 | promis, il est content à vous donner la liberté, le | promets, il est content a vous donnes le libertele |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.247 | Den it sall also content me. | Den it sall also content me. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.320 | I am content, so the maiden cities you talk | I am content, so the Maiden Cities you talke |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.147 | Content; I'll to the surgeon's. | Content, Ile to the Surgeons. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.70 | How say you, my lord; are you not content? | How say you (my Lord) are you not content? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.71 | Content, my liege? Yes; but that I am prevented, | Content, my Liege? Yes: But yt I am preuented, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.26 | I shall be well content with any choice | I shall be well content with any choyce |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.126 | How say you, madam? Are ye so content? | How say you Madam, are ye so content? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.127 | An if my father please, I am content. | And if my Father please, I am content. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.165 | (Aside) And yet methinks I could be well content | And yet me thinkes I could be well content |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.19 | She is content to be at your command – | She is content to be at your command: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.35 | Such is the fulness of my heart's content. | Such is the Fulnesse of my hearts content. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.65 | In England work your grace's full content. | In England worke your Graces full content. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.319 | I am content. Provide me soldiers, lords, | I am content: Prouide me Souldiers, Lords, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.26 | I thank thee, Meg; these words content me much. | I thanke thee Nell, these wordes content mee much. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.149 | for French crowns, I am content he shall | for French Crownes) I am content he shall |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ix.2 | And could command no more content than I? | And could command no more content then I? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.85 | It must and shall be so; content thyself. | It must and shall be so, content thy selfe. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.174 | I am content; Richard Plantagenet, | I am content: Richard Plantagenet |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.64 | Nor to be seen; my crown is called content; | Nor to be seene: my Crowne, is call'd Content, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.66 | Well, if you be a king crowned with content, | Well, if you be a King crown'd with Content, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.67 | Your crown content and you must be contented | Your Crowne Content, and you, must be contented |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.183 | And cry ‘ Content!’ to that which grieves my heart, | And cry, Content, to that which grieues my Heart, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.48 | Why then, though loath, yet must I be content; | Why then, though loth, yet must I be content: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vii.24 | As being well content with that alone. | As being well content with that alone. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.3 | To fair content, and you. None here, he hopes, | To faire content, and you: None heere he hopes |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.20 | And range with humble livers in content, | And range with humble liuers in Content, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.22.2 | Our content | Our content |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.132 | Almost forgot my prayers to content him, | Almost forgot my Prayres to content him? |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.142 | Be you content. Good Cinna, take this paper, | Be you content. Good Cinna, take this Paper, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.ii.41.2 | Cassius, be content. | Cassius, be content, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.8 | Wherefore they do it. They could be content | Wherefore they do it: They could be content |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.133 | I bind my discontent to my content, | I bynd my discontent to my content, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.13 | Content thee, man; they are far enough from hence, | Content thee man, they are farre enough from hence, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.46 | Audley, content. I will not have a man, | Audley content, I will not haue a man, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.162 | Content thee, Philippe; 'tis not tears will serve | Content thee Phillip, tis not teares will serue, |
| King John | KJ II.i.547 | Brother of England, how may we content | Brother of England, how may we content |
| King John | KJ III.i.42 | I do beseech you, madam, be content. | I do beseech you Madam be content. |
| King John | KJ III.i.43 | If thou that biddest me be content wert grim, | If thou that bidst me be content, wert grim |
| King John | KJ III.i.48 | I would not care, I then would be content, | I would not care, I then would be content, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.277 | Be to content your lord, who hath received you | Be to content your Lord, who hath receiu'd you |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.310 | Pray you, content – What, Oswald, ho! | Pray you content. What Oswald, hoa? |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.230 | Must be content to think you old, and so – | Must be content to thinke you old, and so, |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.76 | Must make content with his fortunes fit, | Must make content with his Fortunes fit, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.515 | Where zeal strives to content, and the contents | Where Zeale striues to content, and the contents |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.17.1 | In measureless content. | in measurelesse content. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.5 | Where our desire is got without content. | Where our desire is got without content: |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.79.2 | Be you content, fair maid, | Be you content, (faire Maid) |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.105 | Your brother dies tomorrow. Be content. | Your Brother dies to morrow; be content. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.189 | Angelo. How will you do to content this substitute, | Angelo: how will you doe to content this Substitute, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.260 | The image of it gives me content already, and I | The image of it giues me content already, and I |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.15 | mind, but yet I will be content to be a lawful hangman. | minde, but yet I will bee content to be a lawfull hangman: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.149 | Content, in faith. I'll seal to such a bond | Content infaith, Ile seale to such a bond, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.134 | Be content and seek no new. | Be content, and seeke no new. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.42 | I wish your ladyship all heart's content. | I wish your Ladiship all hearts content. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.379 | I am content, so he will let me have | I am content: so he will let me haue |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.391.1 | I am content. | I am content. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.232 | I hope upon familiarity will grow more content. But if | I hope vpon familiarity will grow more content: but if |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.68 | Good master, be content. | Good Master be content. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.5 | Not a penny. I have been content, sir, you | Not a penny: I haue beene content (Sir,) you |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.114 | to your content. Here is a letter will say somewhat. | to your content: here is a Letter will say somewhat: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.116 | Yet Hermia still loves you. Then be content. | Yet Hermia still loues you; then be content. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.117 | Content with Hermia? No, I do repent | Content with Hermia? No, I do repent |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.113 | We do not come as minding to content you, | We do not come, as minding to content you, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.132 | And through Wall's chink, poor souls, they are content | And through walls chink (poor soules) they are content |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.87 | Content yourself. God knows I loved my niece; | Content your self, God knows I lou'd my neece, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.92 | Hold you content. What, man! I know them, yea, | Hold you content, what man? I know them, yea |
| Othello | Oth I.i.41.2 | O, sir, content you: | O Sir content you. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.224 | must therefore be content to slubber the gloss of your | must therefore be content to slubber the glosse of your |
| Othello | Oth II.i.177 | It gives me wonder great as my content | It giues me wonder great, as my content |
| Othello | Oth II.i.185 | My soul hath her content so absolute | My Soule hath her content so absolute, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.190 | I cannot speak enough of this content; | I cannot speake enough of this content, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.289 | And nothing can, or shall, content my soul | And nothing can, or shall content my Soule |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.367 | Content thyself awhile. By th' mass, 'tis morning: | Content thy selfe, a-while. In troth 'tis Morning; |
| Othello | Oth III.i.1 | Masters, play here – I will content your pains – | Masters, play heere, I wil content your paines, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.170 | Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; | Poore, and Content, is rich, and rich enough, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.345 | Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content! | Farewell the Tranquill minde; farewell Content; |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.447.2 | Yet be content. | Yet be content. |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.116 | So shall I clothe me in a forced content, | So shall I cloath me in a forc'd content, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.164 | I pray you, be content: 'tis but his humour; | I pray you be content: 'tis but his humour: |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.35 | Were all too little to content and please, | Were all too little to content and please, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.38 | A more content in course of true delight | a more content in course of true delight |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.46 | I do commend to your content. | I doe commend to your content, |
| Pericles | Per epilogue.V.iii.15 | The gods for murder seemed to consent | The gods for murder seemde so content, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.188 | Not to be pardoned, am content withal. | not to be pardon'd, am content with all: |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.82 | Good mother, be content. It is no more | Good Mother be content, it is no more |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.23 | Thoughts tending to content flatter themselves | Thoughts tending to Content, flatter themselues, |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.104 | God hold it, to your honour's good content! | God hold it, to your Honors good content. |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.110 | Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you. | Come the next Sabboth, and I will content you. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.319 | Repaired with double riches of content. | Repayr'd with double Riches of Content. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.85 | And see how one another lends content. | And see how one another lends content: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.65 | Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone. | Content thee gentle Coz, let him alone, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.18 | I am content, so thou wilt have it so. | I am content, so thou wilt haue it so. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.80 | Sister, content you in my discontent. | Sister content you, in my discontent. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.90 | Gentlemen, content ye. I am resolved. | Gentlemen content ye: I am resolud: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.195 | Basta, content thee, for I have it full. | Basta, content thee: for I haue it full. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.213 | I am content to be Lucentio, | I am content to bee Lucentio, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.334 | Content you, gentlemen, I will compound this strife. | Content you gentlemen, I wil cõpound this strife |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.200.1 | I am content. | I am content. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.200.2 | Are you content to stay? | Are you content to stay? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.201 | I am content you shall entreat me stay – | I am content you shall entreat me stay, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.214 | O Kate, content thee, prithee be not angry. | O Kate content thee, prethee be not angry. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.31 | I am content, in a good father's care, | I am content in a good fathers care |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.123 | Fear not, Baptista; we will content you, go to. | Feare not Baptista, we will content you, goe to: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.70.1 | Content. What's the wager? | Content, what's the wager? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.74.2 | Content. | Content. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.274.2 | And how does your content | And how do's your content |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.144.1 | And rest myself content. | And rest my selfe content. |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.170 | At least bring forth a wonder to content ye | At least bring forth a wonder, to content ye |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.248 | Worse than the worst, content. | Worse then the worst, Content. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.125 | Peace and content be here! Lord Timon, Timon, | Peace and content be heere. Lord Timon, Timon, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.213 | Content thee, prince; I will restore to thee | Content thee Prince, I will restore to thee |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.68 | And if one arm's embracement will content thee, | And if one armes imbracement will content thee, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.2 | That I repair to Rome, I am content. | That I repair to Rome, I am content. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.294 | Then, though my heart's content firm love doth bear, | That though my hearts Contents firme loue doth beare, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.141 | Pray you, content you. | Pray you content you. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.349 | Upon thee in the letter. Prithee, be content. | Vpon thee in the Letter: prethee be content, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.61 | Are you content to be our general – | Are you content to be our Generall? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.154 | I am sure, a more content; and all those pleasures | I am sure a more content, and all those pleasures |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.59 | Content; the sports once ended, we'll perform. | Content; the sports once ended, wee'l performe. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.81.2 | Be content; | Be content, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.107 | My horse, I chide him not; content and anger | My horse, I chide him not; content, and anger |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.274 | Content to take the other to your husband? | Content to take th' other to your husband? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.279 | I give consent; are you content too, princes? | I give consent, are you content too Princes? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.299.1 | Will this content ye? | Will this content yee? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.301.1 | Are you content, sister? | Are you content Sister? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.73.2 | I am content, | I am content |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.16 | Of more content? O'er us the victors have | Of more content? ore us the victors have |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK epilogue.13 | For 'tis no other – any way content ye, | (For tis no other) any way content ye) |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.30 | Content to you. If this play do not keep | Content to you. If this play doe not keepe, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.i.40 | Would they else be content to die? | Would they else be content to die? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.159 | Upon this ground; and more it would content me | Vpon this ground: and more it would content me |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.11 | Have we passed through, not without much content | Haue we pass'd through, not without much content |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.92 | I am content to look on; what to speak | I am content to looke on: what to speake, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.93 | I am content to hear; for 'tis as easy | I am content to heare: for 'tis as easie |