| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.139 | all sanctified limit, as a desperate offendress against | all sanctified limit, as a desperate Offendresse against |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.224 | To cure the desperate languishings whereof | To cure the desperate languishings whereof |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.184 | Skill infinite, or monstrous desperate. | Skill infinite, or monstrous desperate, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.178 | My lord, this is a fond and desperate creature | My Lord, this is a fond and desp'rate creature, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.54 | By any desperate change. My more particular, | By any desperate change: My more particular, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.32 | Of many desperate studies by his uncle, | Of many desperate studies, by his vnckle, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.6 | Upon a desperate bed, and in a time | Vpon a desperate bed, and in a time |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.58 | Grew shameless-desperate, opened – in despite | Grew shamelesse desperate, open'd (in despight |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.87 | He waxes desperate with imagination. | He waxes desperate with imagination. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.104 | And leads the will to desperate undertakings | And leads the will to desperate Vndertakings, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.9 | Deliberate pause. Diseases desperate grown | Deliberate pause, diseases desperate growne, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.10 | By desperate appliance are relieved, | By desperate appliance are releeued, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.26 | A sister driven into desperate terms, | A Sister driuen into desperate tearmes, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.216 | The corse they follow did with desperate hand | The Coarse they follow, did with disperate hand, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.192 | She is desperate here, a peevish self-willed | Shee is desperate heere: / A peeuish selfe-will'd |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.37 | Yon island carrions, desperate of their bones, | Yond Iland Carrions, desperate of their bones, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.25 | Salisbury is a desperate homicide; | Salisbury is a desperate Homicide, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.45 | More venturous or desperate than this. | More venturous, or desperate then this. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.50 | But rather, moody-mad and desperate stags, | But rather moodie mad: And desperate Stagges, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iv.7 | By this unheedful, desperate, wild adventure. | By this vnheedfull, desperate, wilde aduenture: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.54 | Then follow thou thy desperate sire of Crete, | Then follow thou thy desp'rate Syre of Creet, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.42 | So desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives, | So desperate Theeues, all hopelesse of their Liues, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.128 | And haste is needful in this desperate case. | And haste is needfull in this desp'rate case. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.35 | And lack of other means, in desperate manner | And lack of other meanes, in desperate manner |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.86 | Though he be grown so desperate to be honest – | (Though he be growne so desperate to be honest) |
| King John | KJ III.i.32 | As doth the fury of two desperate men | As doth the furie of two desperate men, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.300 | He is attended with a desperate train, | He is attended with a desperate traine, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.159 | Go after her. She's desperate. Govern her. | Go after her, she's desperate, gouerne her. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.114 | you have suffered all this. My suit, then, is desperate? | you haue sufferd all this. My suite then is desperate: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.153 | is sometime afeard she will do a desperate outrage to | is somtime afeard she will doe a desperate out-rage to |
| Othello | Oth II.i.21 | The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks | The desperate Tempest hath so bang'd the Turkes, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.322 | I am desperate of my fortunes if they check me here. | I am desperate of my Fortunes if they check me. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.206 | This sight would make him do a desperate turn, | This sight would make him do a desperate turne: |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.20 | As dissolute as desperate. Yet through both | As dissolute as desp'rate, yet through both, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.99 | Drown desperate sorrow in dead Edward's grave | Drowne desperate sorrow in dead Edwards graue, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.170 | Thy schooldays frightful, desperate, wild, and furious; | Thy School-daies frightfull, desp'rate, wilde, and furious, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.233 | And I, in such a desperate bay of death, | And I in such a desp'rate Bay of death, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.320 | To desperate adventures and assured destruction. | To desperate Aduentures, and assur'd Destruction. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.48 | One desperate grief cures with another's languish. | One desparate greefe, cures with anothers lauguish: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.108.2 | Hold thy desperate hand. | Hold thy desperate hand: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iv.12 | Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender | Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.69 | Which craves as desperate an execution | Which craues as desperate an execution, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.70 | As that is desperate which we would prevent. | As that is desperate which we would preuent. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.54 | As with a club dash out my desperate brains? | As (with a club) dash out my desperate braines. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.36 | To enter in the thoughts of desperate men. | To enter in the thoughts of desperate men: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.59 | Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man. | Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.117 | Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on | Thou desperate Pilot, now at once run on |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.263 | And she, too desperate, would not go with me, | And she (too desperate) would not go with me, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.320 | And venture madly on a desperate mart. | And venture madly on a desperate Mart. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.106 | All three of them are desperate. Their great guilt, | All three of them are desperate: their great guilt |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.103 | called desperate ones, for a madman owes 'em. | call'd desperate ones, for a madman owes 'em. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.465 | Has desperate want made! | has desp'rate want made? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.40 | Are you so desperate grown to threat your friends? | Are you so desperate growne to threat your friends? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.74 | Like a forlorn and desperate castaway, | Like a forlorne and desperate castaway, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.ii.8 | a desperate assurance she will none of him; and one | a desperate assurance, she will none of him. And one |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.ii.37 | My state is desperate for my master's love. | My state is desperate for my maisters loue: |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.61 | Here in the streets, desperate of shame and state, | Heere in the streets, desperate of shame and state, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.5 | That I am desperate of obtaining her. | That I am desperate of obtaining her. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.v.13 | I care not, I am desperate. If the law | I care not, I am desperate, If the law |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.482.2 | This is desperate, sir. | This is desperate (sir.) |