| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.48 | That he unknown to me should be in debt. |
Thus he vnknowne to me should be in debt: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.56 | As if time were in debt. How fondly dost thou reason! |
As if time were in debt: how fondly do'st thou reason? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.60 | If 'a be in debt and theft, and a sergeant in the way, |
If I be in debt and theft, and a Serieant in the way, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.116 | The debt he owes will be required of me. | The debt he owes will be requir'd of me. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.119 | And, knowing how the debt grows, I will pay it. | And knowing how the debt growes I will pay it. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iii.11 | His steel was in debt, it went o'th' backside | His Steele was in debt, it went o'th'Backe-side |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.233.1 | Is now due debt. To th' grave! | Is now due debt. To'th'graue. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.203 | To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt. | To pay our selues, what to our selues is debt: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.207 | And pay the debt I never promised, | And pay the debt I neuer promised; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.183 | To answer all the debt he owes to you, | To answer all the Debt he owes vnto you, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.280 | The King will always think him in our debt, | The King will alwayes thinke him in our debt, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.103 | And being no more in debt to years than thou | And being no more in debt to yeeres, then thou, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.118 | debt you owe her, and unpay the villainy you have done | debt you owe her, and vnpay the villany you haue done |
| 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 |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.83 | Fly not; stand still; ambition's debt is paid. | Fly not, stand still: Ambitions debt is paid. |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.88 | No squire in debt nor no poor knight, | No Squire in debt, nor no poore Knight; |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.21 | when he should pronounce ‘debt’ – d, e, b, t, not d, e, | when he shold pronounce debt; d e b t, not det |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.333 | And consciences that will not die in debt | And consciences that wil not die in debt, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.78 | Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt. | Your son my Lord, ha's paid a souldiers debt, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.61 | sent thee thither. For debt, Pompey? Or how? | sent thee thether: for debt Pompey? Or how? |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.239 | the prisoner the very debt of your calling. I have | the prisoner the verie debt of your Calling. I haue |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.307 | To pay the petty debt twenty times over. | To pay the petty debt twenty times ouer. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.36 | To see me pay his debt, and then I care not. | To see me pay his debt, and then I care not. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.276 | And he repents not that he pays your debt, | And he repents not that he payes your debt. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.85 | For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe, | For debt that bankrout slip doth sorrow owe, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.129 | For that my sovereign liege was in my debt | For that my Soueraigne Liege was in my debt, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.92 | With dull unwillingness to repay a debt | With dull vnwillingnesse to repay a debt, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.95 | For it requires the royal debt it lent you. | For it requires the Royall debt it lent you. |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.109 | I am in your debt for your last exercise; | I am in your debt, for your last Exercise: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.21 | Edward for Edward pays a dying debt. | Edward for Edward, payes a dying debt. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.238 | I'll pay that doctrine, or else die in debt. | Ile pay that doctrine, or else die in debt. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.118 | O dear account! My life is my foe's debt. | O deare account! My life is my foes debt. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.153 | Too little payment for so great a debt. | Too little payment for so great a debt. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.99 | Ay, my good lord. Five talents is his debt, | I my good Lord, fiue Talents is his debt, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.107 | Which he shall have. I'll pay the debt, and free him. | Which he shall haue. Ile pay the debt, and free him. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.197 | That what he speaks is all in debt. He owes | That what he speaks is all in debt, he ows |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.42 | With clamorous demands of broken bonds, | With clamorous demands of debt, broken Bonds, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.79 | And be in debt to none – yet, more to move you, | And be in debt to none: yet more to moue you, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.13 | In like manner was I in debt to my importunate | In like manner was I in debt to my importunat |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.176 | What nearer debt in all humanity | What neerer debt in all humanity, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.35 | To pay this debt of love but to a brother – | To pay this debt of loue but to a brother, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.19 | Is but a debt to honour, and my duty. | Is but a debt to honour, and my duty. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.6 | Go hence in debt. And therefore, like a cipher | Goe hence in debt: And therefore, like a Cypher |