| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.33 | But one to dance with. By heaven, I'll steal away! | But one to dance with: by heauen, Ile steale away. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.74 | Quicken a rock, and make you dance canary | Quicken a rocke, and make you dance Canari |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.102 | Shall we dance now the Egyptian bacchanals | shall we daunce now the Egyptian Backenals, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.99 | Make our eyes flow with joy, hearts dance with comforts, | Make our eies flow with ioy, harts dance with comforts, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.50.1 | Make the sun dance. Hark you! | Make the Sunne dance. Hearke you. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.125 | Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, | Haue you a Ruffian that will sweare? drinke? dance? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 epilogue.19 | but light payment, to dance out of your debt. But a | but light payment, to Dance out of your debt: But a |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.133 | dance for your sake, Kate, why, you undid me. For the | Dance for your sake, Kate, why you vndid me: for the |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.129 | And sooner dance upon a bloody pole | And sooner dance vpon a bloody pole, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.91 | Stamp, rave, and fret, that I may sing and dance. | Stampe, raue, and fret, that I may sing and dance. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.77 | Music. Dance | Musicke, Dance. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.83.6 | congie unto her, then dance; and, at certain changes, | Conge vnto her, then Dance: and at certaine Changes, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.ii.30 | To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures, | To dance attendance on their Lordships pleasures, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.63 | 'em in Limbo Patrum, and there they are like to dance | 'em in Limbo Patrum, and there they are like to dance |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.146 | I'll make one in a dance, or so; or I will play on | Ile make one in a dance, or so: or I will play on |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.147 | the tabor to the Worthies, and let them dance the | the taber to the Worthies, & let them dance the |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.122 | Their purpose is to parley, court, and dance, | Their purpose is to parlee, to court, and dance, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.145 | But shall we dance if they desire to't? | But shall we dance, if they desire vs too't? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.212 | Not yet? No dance! Thus change I like the moon. | Not yet no dance: thus change I like the Moone. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.213 | Will you not dance? How come you thus estranged? | Will you not dance? How come you thus estranged? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.219 | We'll not be nice. Take hands. We will not dance. | Wee'll not be nice, take hands, we will not dance. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.228 | If you deny to dance, let's hold more chat. | If you denie to dance, let's hold more chat. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.400 | And I will wish thee never more to dance, | And I will wish thee neuer more to dance, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.131 | Music. The Witches dance; and vanish | Musicke. The Witches Dance, and vanish |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.82 | him; I'll make him dance. – Will you go, gentles? | him, Ile make him dance. Will you go, Gentles? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.75 | Our dance of custom round about the oak | Our Dance of Custome, round about the Oke |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.86 | To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, | To dance our ringlets to the whistling Winde, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.140 | If you will patiently dance in our round | If you will patiently dance in our Round, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.86 | They dance | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.88 | Dance in Duke Theseus' house triumphantly, | Dance in Duke Theseus house triumphantly, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.344 | epilogue, or to hear a Bergomask dance between two of | Epilogue, or to heare a Bergomask dance, betweene two of |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.352 | A dance. Exeunt Bottom and his fellows | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.386 | Sing, and dance it trippingly. | sing and dance it trippinglie. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.391 | Song and dance | The Song. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.ii.12 | this night in a dance; and if he found her accordant, he | this night in a dance, and if hee found her accordant, hee |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.63 | tell him there is measure in everything and so dance | tell him there is measure in euery thing, & so dance |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.98 | dance is done! Answer, clerk. | daunce is done: answer Clarke. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.136 | Music for the dance | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.140 | Exeunt all dancing, except Don John, Borachio, and Claudio | Exeunt. Musicke for the dance. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.40 | burden. Do you sing it, and I'll dance it. | burden,) do you sing it and Ile dance it. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.116 | dance ere we are married, that we may lighten our own | dance ere we are married, that we may lighten our own |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.126 | Dance, and then exeunt | Dance. |
| Othello | Oth II.ii.4 | himself into triumph: some to dance, some to make | himselfe into Triumph. Some to daunce, some to make |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.95 | Will well become a soldiers' dance. | Will well become a Souldiers daunce: |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.99.1 | They dance | They daunce. |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.106 | They dance | They daunce. |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.182 | Proclaim that I can sing, weave, sew, and dance, | proclaime that I can sing, weaue, sow, & dance, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.291 | Than a delightful measure or a dance; | |
| Richard II | R2 II.iv.12 | Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap – | Rich men looke sad, and Ruffians dance and leape, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.6 | Madam, we'll dance. | Madame, wee'le Dance. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.55 | Welcome, my lord. I dance attendance here; | Welcome, my Lord, I dance attendance here, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.13 | Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance. | Nay gentle Romeo, we must haue you dance. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.20 | Will now deny to dance? She that makes dainty, | Will now deny to dance? She that makes dainty, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.27.1 | Music plays, and they dance | Musicke plaies: and the dance. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.132 | What's he that follows here, that would not dance? | What's he that follows here that would not dance? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.48 | you dance. Zounds, consort! | you daunce. Come consort. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.67 | As wealth is burden of my wooing dance – | (As wealth is burthen of my woing dance) |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.33 | I must dance barefoot on her wedding-day, | I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.19.3 | banquet; and dance about it with gentle actions of salutations; | Banket; and dance about it with gentle actions of salutations, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.84.2 | shapes again, and dance with mocks and mows, carrying | shapes againe, and daunce (with mockes and mowes) and |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.139.2 | with the Nymphs in a graceful dance, towards the end | with the Nimphes, in a gracefull dance, towards the end |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.130 | They dance? They are madwomen. | They daunce? They are madwomen, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.140 | I should fear those that dance before me now | I should feare, those that dance before me now, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.143.3 | Amazon, and all dance, men with women, a lofty | Amazon, and all Dance, men with women, a loftie |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.55 | But shall we make the welkin dance indeed? Shall we | But shall we make the Welkin dance indeed? Shall wee |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.81 | Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands. | Forsake vnsounded deepes, to dance on Sands. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.45 | And she must see the Duke, and she must dance too. | and she must see the Duke, and she must daunce too. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.75 | If we can get her dance, we are made again; | if wee can get her daunce, wee are made againe: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.82 | Your teeth will bleed extremely. Shall we dance, ho? | Your teeth will bleede extreamely, shall we dance ho? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.107 | That 'fore thy dignity will dance a morris. | That fore thy dignitie will dance a Morris. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.132 | Cum multis aliis that make a dance; | Cum multis aliijs that make a dance, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.137.1 | Schoolmaster knocks; enter the dancers. Music is | Musicke Dance. Knocke for Schoole. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.137.2 | played; they dance | Enter The Dance. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.148.2 | 'Twas an excellent dance, | Twas an excellent dance, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.75 | And all we'll dance an antic 'fore the Duke, | And all wee'l daunce an Antique fore the Duke, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.85 | Stale gravity to dance; the polled bachelor, | Stale gravitie to daunce, the pould Bachelour |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.45.1 | You never saw him dance? | You never saw him dance? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.49 | He'll dance the morris twenty mile an hour, | Hee'l dance the Morris twenty mile an houre, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.58 | Would sing her song and dance her turn; now here, | Would sing her song, and dance her turne: now heere |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.140 | To sing them too; when you do dance, I wish you | To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.153 | To put you to't. But come, our dance, I pray. | To put you to't. But come, our dance I pray, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.168.1 | Music. A dance of Shepherds and Shepherdesses | Heere a Daunce of Shepheards and Shephearddesses. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.184 | door, you would never dance again after a tabor and | doore, you would neuer dance againe after a Tabor and |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.325 | Saltiers, and they have a dance which the wenches say | Saltiers, and they haue a Dance, which the Wenches say |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.340.1 | He lets in the herdsmen, who perform their satyrs' | Heere a Dance of twelue Satyres. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.340.2 | dance and depart | |