| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.57 | Madam, I desire your holy wishes. | Maddam I desire your holie wishes. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.225 | thy bondage. I have a desire to hold my acquaintance | thy bondage, I haue a desire to holde my acquaintance |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.157.1 | Yet you desire to marry. | Yet you desire to marry. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.55 | Last night you did desire it. (To the Messenger) Speak not to us. | Last night you did desire it. Speake not to vs. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.123 | There's a great spirit gone! Thus did I desire it. | There's a great Spirit gone, thus did I desire it: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xii.21 | Of audience nor desire shall fail, so she | Of Audience, nor Desire shall faile, so shee |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ii.40 | For I spake to you for your comfort, did desire you | For I spake to you for your comfort, did desire you |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.246 | that should desire you to touch him, for his biting is | that should desire you to touch him, for his byting is |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.274 | I shall desire more love and knowledge of you. | I shall desire more loue and knowledge of you. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.15 | I do not desire you to please me, I do desire you | I do not desire you to please me, / I do desire you |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.251 | I do desire we may be better strangers. | I do desire we may be better strangers. |
| 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 IV.i.112 | Why then, can one desire too much of a good | Why then, can one desire too much of a good |
| As You Like It | AYL V.i.32 | when he had a desire to eat a grape, would open | when he had a desire to eate a Grape, would open |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iii.3 | I do desire it with all my heart; and I hope it | I do desire it with all my heart: and I hope it |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iii.4 | is no dishonest desire to desire to be a woman of the | is no dishonest desire, to desire to be a woman of ye |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.53 | God 'ild you, sir, I desire you of the like. I | God'ild you sir, I desire you of the like: I |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.231.1 | And the desire of the nobles. | And the desire of the Nobles. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.40 | Most reverend and grave elders, to desire | Most reuerend and graue Elders, to desire |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.54 | You must not speak of that. You must desire them | you must not speak of that, / You must desire them |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.65 | Ay, but not mine own desire. | I, but mine owne desire. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.66 | How not your own desire? | How not your owne desire? |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.67 | No, sir, 'twas never my desire yet to trouble | No Sir, 'twas neuer my desire yet to trouble |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.333 | (to the Senators) Let me desire your company. He must come, | Let me desire your company: he must come, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.84 | Wherein I seem unnatural. Desire not | Wherein I seeme vnnaturall: Desire not t'allay |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.72 | As thou'lt desire: and then myself, I chiefly, | As thou'lt desire: and then my selfe, I cheefely, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.7 | Is the desire that's glorious. Blessed be those, | Is the desires that's glorious. Blessed be those |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.45 | Should make desire vomit emptiness, | Should make desire vomit emptinesse, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.48 | That satiate yet unsatisfied desire, that tub | That satiate yet vnsatisfi'd desire, that Tub |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.53 | Desire my man's abode where I did leave him: | Desire my Man's abode, where I did leaue him: |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.100.1 | When I desire it too. | When I desire it too. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.175 | Present yourself, desire his service: tell him | Present your selfe, desire his seruice: tell him |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.7.2 | So, sir: I desire of you | So Sir: I desire of you |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.21 | On their abatement: that's not my desire. | On their abatement; that's not my desire. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.202 | on my conscience, there are verier knaves desire to | on my Conscience, there are verier Knaues desire to |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.114 | It is most retrograde to our desire; | It is most retrograde to our desire: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.35 | Out of the shot and danger of desire. | Out of the shot and danger of Desire. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.59 | As if it some impartment did desire | As if it some impartment did desire |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.129 | You, as your business and desire shall point you, | You, as your busines and desires shall point you: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.130 | For every man hath business and desire, | For euery man ha's businesse and desire, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.139 | For your desire to know what is between us, | For your desire to know what is betweene vs, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.142 | If you desire to know the certainty | If you desire to know the certaintie |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.14 | Groped I to find out them, had my desire, | Grop'd I to finde out them; had my desire, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.94 | dish of prawns, whereby thou didst desire to eat some, | dish of Prawnes: whereby yu didst desire to eat some: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.97 | desire me to be no more so familiarity with such poor | desire me to be no more familiar with such poore |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.125 | I will not be your suitor. I say to you I do desire | I will not be your sutor. I say to you, I desire |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.6 | it not show vilely in me to desire small beer? | it not shew vildely in me, to desire small Beere? |
| 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 II.iv.255 | Is it not strange that desire should so many years | Is it not strange, that Desire should so many yeeres |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.220 | mine own part, have a desire to stay with my friends; | mine owne part, haue a desire to stay with my friends: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.25 | with desire to see him, thinking of nothing else, putting | with desire to see him, thinking of nothing else, putting |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.40 | You would desire the King were made a prelate. | You would desire the King were made a Prelate: |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.128 | It is against my will, for I desire | It is against my will: for I desire |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.35 | Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters; | Desire the Locks of your shrill-shriking Daughters: |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.54 | desire the Duke to use his good pleasure, and put him to | desire the Duke to vse his good pleasure, and put him to |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.27 | Desire them all to my pavilion. | Desire them all to my Pauillion. |
| 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.183 | But I do not desire he should answer for me, and yet I | I doe not desire hee should answer for me, and yet I |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.22 | look you, as you shall desire in a summer's day. Here is | looke you, as you shall desire in a Summers day. Heere is |
| Henry V | H5 V.chorus.17 | Where that his lords desire him to have borne | Where, that his Lords desire him, to haue borne |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.25 | digestions, doo's not agree with it, I would desire you to | disgestions doo's not agree with it, I would desire you to |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.32 | will is. I will desire you to live in the meantime, and | will is: I will desire you to liue in the meane time, and |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.108 | Impatiently I burn with thy desire; | Impatiently I burne with thy desire, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.15 | Swift-winged with desire to get a grave, | Swift-winged with desire to get a Graue, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.11 | It warmed thy father's heart with proud desire | It warm'd thy Fathers heart with prowd desire |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iii.8 | I desire no more. | I desire no more. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.267 | Whose haughty spirit, winged with desire, | Whose haughtie spirit, winged with desire, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.128 | And yet, between my soul's desire and me – | And yet, betweene my Soules desire, and me, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.133 | Mine ear hath tempted judgement to desire. | Mine eare hath tempted iudgement to desire. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.13 | Sir, I desire you do me right and justice, | Sir, I desire you do me Right and Iustice, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.28 | I ever contradicted your desire, | I euer contradicted your Desire? |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.62 | That longer you desire the court, as well | That longer you desire the Court, as well |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.89 | How now, my lord? You desire to know | How now my Lord? / You do desire to know |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.67 | That when I am in heaven I shall desire | That when I am in Heauen, I shall desire |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.71.1 | Who doth desire to see you. | Who doth desire to see you. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.4 | Trebonius doth desire you to o'erread, | Trebonius doth desire you to ore-read |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.252 | I do desire no more. | I do desire no more. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.109 | Fervent desire that sits against my heart | Feruent desire that sits against my heart, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.135 | Contemplative desire, desire to be | Contemplatiue desire, desire to be, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.8 | As good as we desire: the Emperor | As good as we desire: the Emperor |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.76 | Modelled in his, corrects my strayed desire, | Modeld in his, corrects my straid desire, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.145 | So is your desire. If the law | So is your desire, if the law |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.i.37 | That, if thou canst not compass my desire, | That if thou canst not compasse my desire, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.70 | To contradict our royal Queen's desire? | To contradict our royall Queenes desire? |
| King John | KJ I.i.176 | Go, Faulconbridge. Now hast thou thy desire; | Goe, Faulconbridge, now hast thou thy desire, |
| King Lear | KL IV.v.35 | I pray desire her call her wisdom to her. | I pray desire her call her wisedome to her. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.254.1 | As badness would desire. | As badnesse would desire. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.81 | Desire him to go in; trouble him no more | desire him to go in, / Trouble him no more |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.105 | At Christmas I no more desire a rose | At Christmas I no more desire a Rose, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.60 | of it, I would take desire prisoner, and ransom him to | of it, I would take Desire prisoner, and ransome him to |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.185 | Perchance light in the light. I desire her name. | Perchance light in the light: I desire her name. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.186 | She hath but one for herself – to desire that were a shame. | Shee hath but one for her selfe, / To desire that were a shame. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.221 | To the court of his eye, peeping thorough desire. | To the court of his eye, peeping thorough desire. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.98 | desire more? | desire more? |
| 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? |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.3 | knowledge. When I burned in desire to question them further, | knowledge. When I burnt in desire to question them further, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.41 | As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that | As thou art in desire? Would'st thou haue that |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.28 | the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore | the desire, but it takes away the performance. Therefore |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.5 | Where our desire is got without content. | Where our desire is got without content: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.63 | The cistern of my lust; and my desire | The Cesterne of my Lust, and my Desire |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.80 | Desire his jewels and this other's house, | Desire his Iewels, and this others House, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.97 | Whose voices I desire aloud with mine. – | Whose voyces I desire alowd with mine. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.76 | I shall desire you, sir, to give me leave | I shall desire you, Sir, to giue me leaue |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.3 | Can pierce a complete bosom. Why I desire thee | Can pierce a compleat bosome: why, I desire thee |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.30 | And most desire should meet the blow of justice, | And most desire should meet the blow of Iustice; |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.46 | You could not with more tame a tongue desire it. | You could not with more tame a tongue desire it: |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.171 | Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary | Shall we desire to raze the Sanctuary |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.174 | Dost thou desire her foully for those things | Dost thou desire her fowly, for those things |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.178 | That I desire to hear her speak again, | That I desire to heare her speake againe? |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.147 | are he may – let me desire you to make your answer | are he may) let mee desire you to make your answer |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.229 | let me desire to know how you find Claudio prepared. | let me desire to know, how you finde Claudio prepar'd? |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.51.2 | I do desire the like. | I doe desire the like. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.53 | I do desire to learn, sir, and I hope, if you have | I do desire to learne sir: and I hope, if you haue |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.171 | Shave the head, and tie the beard, and say it was the desire | Shaue the head, and tie the beard, and say it was the desire |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.39 | Truly, sir, I would desire you to clap into | Truly Sir, I would desire you to clap into |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.95 | To enter publicly. Him I'll desire | To enter publikely: him Ile desire |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.138 | Say, by this token, I desire his company | Say, by this token, I desire his companie |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.56 | Do you desire? (To Antonio) Rest you fair, good signor! | Doe you desire? Rest you faire good signior, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.107 | letters delivered, put the liveries to making, and desire | Letters deliuered, put the Liueries to making, and desire |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.118 | Jew, and have a desire, as my father shall specify ... | Iew, and haue a desire as my Father shall specifie. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.67 | I am glad on't. I desire no more delight | I am glad on't, I desire no more delight |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.5 | Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire; | Who chooseth me, shall gaine what men desire. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.37 | Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire. | Who chooseth me shall gaine what many men desire: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.24 | Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire. | Who chooseth me, shall gaine what many men desire: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.25 | What many men desire; that ‘ many ’ may be meant | What many men desire, that many may be meant |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.31 | I will not choose what many men desire, | I will not choose what many men desire, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.32 | And there will we abide. I do desire you | And there we will abide. I doe desire you |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.399 | I humbly do desire your grace of pardon. | I humbly doe desire your Grace of pardon, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.34 | fear of Got in a riot. The Council, look you, shall desire | feare of Got in a Riot: The Councell (looke you) shall desire |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.47 | will desire. And seven hundred pounds of moneys, and | will desire, and seuen hundred pounds of Moneyes, and |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.51 | motion if we leave our pribbles and prabbles, and desire | motion, if we leaue our pribbles and prabbles, and desire |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.ii.8 | Page. And the letter is to desire and require her to | Page; and the Letter is to desire, and require her to |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.77 | Ay, forsooth, to desire her to – | I forsooth: to desire her to --- |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.81 | To desire this honest gentlewoman, your maid, | To desire this honest Gentlewoman (your Maid) |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.9 | you desire better sympathy? Let it suffice thee, Mistress | you desire better simpathie? Let it suffice thee (Mistris |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.110 | But Mistress Page would desire you to send her your | But Mistris Page would desire you to send her your |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.158 | Good Master Brook, I desire more acquaintance | Good Master Broome, I desire more acquaintance |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.176 | though I had never so good means as desire to make | though I had neuer so good means as desire, to make |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.8 | I most fehemently desire you you will also look | I most fehemently desire you, you will also looke |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.78 | to other men's humours. I desire you in friendship, | to other mens humors: I desire you in friendship, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.109 | desire you that we may be friends, and let us knog our | desire you that we may be friends: and let vs knog our |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iii.1 | Sir, the Germans desire to have three of your | Sir, the Germane desires to haue three of your |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.90 | Corrupt, corrupt, and tainted in desire! | Corrupt, corrupt, and tainted in desire. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.96 | Kindled with unchaste desire, | kindled with vnchaste desire, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.169 | tonight at my house, where I will desire thee to laugh at | to night at my house, wher I will desire thee to laugh at |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.127 | With duty and desire we follow you. | With dutie and desire we follow you. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.93 | desire you to con them by tomorrow night, and meet me | desire you, to con them by too morrow night: and meet me |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.143 | Out of this wood do not desire to go! | Out of this wood, do not desire to goe, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.177 | I shall desire you of more acquaintance, good | I shall desire you of more acquaintance, good |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.183 | Master Peaseblossom, I shall desire you of more acquaintance, | master Pease-blossome, I shal desire of you more acquaintance |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.190 | ere now. I desire your more acquaintance, good Master | ere now. I desire you more acquaintance, good Master |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.278 | And never did desire to see thee more. | And neuer did desire to see thee more. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.32 | good dry oats. Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle | good dry Oates. Me-thinkes I haue a great desire to a bottle |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.163 | Would you desire lime and hair to speak better? | Would you desire Lime and Haire to speake better? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.250 | None, but to desire your good company. | None, but to desire your good company. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.1 | Good Ursula, wake my cousin Beatrice, and desire | Good Vrsula wake my cosin Beatrice, and desire |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.54 | heart's desire! | harts desire. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.v.11 | God help, I would desire they were; but, in faith, honest | God helpe I would desire they were, but infaith honest |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.255 | I will not desire that. | I will not desire that. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.231 | briefly, I desire nothing but the reward of a villain. | briefelie, I desire nothing but the reward of a villaine. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.31 | In which, good Friar, I shall desire your help. | In which (good Frier) I shall desire your helpe. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.39 | What, man! 'Tis a night of revels; the gallants desire | What man? 'Tis a night of Reuels, the Gallants desire |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.319.1 | Which wrought to his desire. | Which wrought to his desire. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.21 | That have inflamed desire in my breast | That haue enflamde desire in my breast, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.36 | Drawn by report, adventurous by desire, | Drawne by report, aduentrous by desire, |
| Pericles | Per I.iii.36 | We have no reason to desire it, | Wee haue no reason to desire it, |
| Pericles | Per I.iii.38 | Yet, ere you shall depart, this we desire, | yet ere you shall depart, this wee desire |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.II.21 | And to fulfil his prince' desire, | And to fulfill his prince desire, |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.73 | And furthermore tell him we desire to know of him | And furthermore tell him, we desire to know of him |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.40 | His queen with child makes her desire – | His Queene with child, makes her desire, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.2 | Welcomed and settled to his own desire. | Welcomd and setled to his owne desire: |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.43 | But yet I have no desire to it. | but yet I haue no desire too it. |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.48 | I desire to find him so, that I may worthily note | I desire to finde him so, that I may worthilie note |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.115 | Courageously and with a free desire | Couragiously, and with a free desire |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.37 | Have thy desire. | Haue thy desire. |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.59 | By any in this presence, I desire | To any in this presence, I desire |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.62 | I hate it, and desire all good men's love. | I hate it, and desire all good mens loue, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.7 | Th' unsatiate greediness of his desire | Th'vnsatiate greedinesse of his desire, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.235 | How far I am from the desire thereof. | How farre I am from the desire of this. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.34 | And be inheritor of thy desire. | And be inheritor of thy desire. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.32 | Desire the Earl to see me in my tent. | Desire the Earle to see me in my Tent: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.chorus.1 | Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, | Now old desire doth in his death bed lie, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.124 | If you be he, sir, I desire some confidence with | If you be he sir, / I desire some confidence with |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.1 | Tranio, since for the great desire I had | Tranio, since for the great desire I had |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.118 | But how did you desire it should be made? | But how did you desire it should be made? |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.78 | What I desire to give, and much less take | What I desire to giue; and much lesse take |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.59 | I not desire to know. Follow thy drum. | I not desire to know. Follow thy Drumme, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.249 | Thou shouldst desire to die, being miserable. | Thou should'st desire to dye, being miserable. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.54.1 | Have sealed thy full desire. | Haue seal'd thy full desire. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.79 | If foul desire had not conducted you? | If foule desire had not conducted you? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.131 | But when ye have the honey ye desire, | But when ye haue the hony we desire, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.291 | Love got so sweet as when desire did sue; | Loue got so sweet, as when desire did sue: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.14 | I do desire it. | I doe desire it. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.80 | infinite, and the execution confined; that the desire is | infinite, and the execution confin'd; that the desire is |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.46 | Which his own will shall have desire to drink. | Which his owne will shall haue desire to drinke; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.235 | I'll send the fool to Ajax, and desire him | Ile send the foole to Aiax, and desire him |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.273 | To him, Patroclus. Tell him I humbly desire | To him Patroclus; tell him, I humbly desire |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.77 | Dispraise the thing that you desire to buy; | Dis praise the thing that you desire to buy: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.48.2 | I do desire it. | I doe desire it. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.150 | As seld I have the chance, I would desire | As seld I haue the chance; I would desire |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.157 | Desire them home. – Give me thy hand, my cousin; | Desire them home. Giue me thy hand, my Cousin: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.49 | Good Mistress Accost, I desire better | Good Mistris accost, I desire better |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.293 | Desire him not to flatter with his lord, | Desire him not to flatter with his Lord, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.34 | that is, kill him whom you have recovered – desire it not. | that is kill him, whom you haue recouer'd, desire it not. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.64 | If you desire the spleen, and will laugh yourselves | If you desire the spleene, and will laughe your selues |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iii.4 | I could not stay behind you. My desire, | I could not stay behinde you: my desire |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iii.46 | You have desire to purchase; and your store, | You haue desire to purchase: and your store |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.236 | I will return again into the house and desire some | I will returne againe into the house, and desire some |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.242 | him his desire. Back you shall not to the house, unless | him his desire. Backe you shall not to the house, vnlesse |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.4 | Do not desire to see this letter. | Do not desire to see this Letter. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.5 | This is to give a dog, and in recompense desire | This is to giue a dogge, and in recompence desire |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.44 | my desire of having is the sin of covetousness. But as | my desire of hauing is the sinne of couetousnesse: but as |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.52 | That art a votary to fond desire? | That art a votary to fond desire? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iii.25 | I do desire thy worthy company, | I doe desire thy worthy company, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iii.32 | I do desire thee, even from a heart | I doe desire thee, euen from a heart |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.59.2 | I'll force thee yield to my desire. | Ile force thee yeeld to my desire. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.42 | Desire of liberty, a fever, madness, | Desire of liberty, a feavour, madnes, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.127 | We are young and yet desire the ways of honour, | We are young and yet desire the waies of honour, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.213.3 | And desire her? | And desire her? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.95 | And that blood we desire to shed is mutual, | And that blood we desire to shed is mutuall, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.217 | If you desire their lives, invent a way | If you desire their lives, invent a way |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.86 | good thing. Desire to eat with her, carve her, drink to | good thing, desire / To eate with her, crave her, drinke to |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.110 | That we should things desire which do cost us | That we should things desire, which doe cost us |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.111 | The loss of our desire! That naught could buy | The losse of our desire; That nought could buy |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.i.39 | he was born desire yet their life to see him a man. | he was borne, desire yet their life, to see him a Man. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.i.42 | should desire to live. | should desire to liue. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.i.43 | If the King had no son, they would desire | If the King had no Sonne, they would desire |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.ii.6 | desire to lay my bones there. Besides, the penitent King, | desire to lay my bones there. Besides, the penitent King |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.103 | Desire to breed by me. Here's flowers for you: | Desire to breed by me. Here's flowres for you: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.459.1 | To die when I desire. | To die when I desire. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.136 | Though bearing misery, I desire my life | (Though bearing Miserie) I desire my life |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.129 | Lest they desire upon this push to trouble | Least they desire (vpon this push) to trouble |