| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iv.45.1 | And pleasure drown the brim. | And pleasure drowne the brim. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.51 | Or to drown my clothes and say I was stripped. | Or to drowne my cloathes, and say I was stript. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.67 | drown our gain in tears! The great dignity that his | drowne our gaine in teares, the great dignitie that his |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ii.45 | And drown consideration. | And drowne consideration. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.46 | To drown me in thy sister's flood of tears. | To drowne me in thy sister floud of teares: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.559 | That I have? He would drown the stage with tears | That I haue? He would drowne the Stage with teares, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.10 | For here lies the point: if I drown myself wittingly, it | for heere lies the point; If I drowne my selfe wittingly, it |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.17 | and drown himself, it is, will he nill he, he goes, mark | and drowne himsele; it is will he nill he, he goes; marke |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.18 | you that. But if the water come to him and drown him, | you that? But if the water come to him & drowne him; |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.28 | drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christian. | drowne or hang themselues, more then their euen Christian. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.94 | The pretty vaulting sea refused to drown me, | The pretty vaulting Sea refus'd to drowne me, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.186 | I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; | Ile drowne more Saylers then the Mermaid shall, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.23 | Lest with my sighs or tears I blast or drown | Least with my sighes or teares, I blast or drowne |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.130 | To hang thee on; or wouldst thou drown thyself, | To hang thee on. Or wouldst thou drowne thy selfe, |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.3 | Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks! | Till you haue drench'd our Steeples, drown the Cockes. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.25 | That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur | That teares shall drowne the winde. I haue no Spurre |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.30 | To dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds. | To dew the Soueraigne Flower, and drowne the Weeds: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iii.13 | These foolish drops do something drown my manly | these foolish drops doe somewhat drowne my manly |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.302 | I will incontinently drown myself. | I will incontinently drowne my selfe. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.311 | how to love himself. Ere I would say I would drown | how to loue himselfe. Ere I would say, I would drowne |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.332 | the will. Come, be a man. Drown thyself? Drown cats | the will. Come, be a man: drowne thy selfe? Drown Cats, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.195 | And drown me with their sweetness. O, come hither, | and drowne me with their sweetnesse: Oh come hither, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.107 | Which makes the silver rivers drown their shores | Which make the Siluer Riuers drowne their Shores, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.21 | O Lord! Methought what pain it was to drown! | O Lord, me thought what paine it was to drowne, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.273 | I'll drown you in the malmsey-butt within. | Ile drowne you in the Malmesey-But within. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.61 | To overgo thy woes and drown thy cries! | To ouer-go thy woes, and drowne thy cries. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.70 | May send forth plenteous tears to drown the world. | May send forth plenteous teares to drowne the World. |
| 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.154 | Thus will I drown your exclamations. | Thus will I drowne your exclamations. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.252 | Thou drown the sad remembrance of those wrongs | Thou drowne the sad remembrance of those wrongs, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.39 | drown? Have you a mind to sink? | drowne, haue you a minde to sinke? |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.12 | in sack. For my part, the sea cannot drown me. I swam, | in sacke: for my part the Sea cannot drowne mee, I swam |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.60 | And even with suchlike valour men hang and drown | And euen with such like valour, men hang, and drowne |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.230 | The dropsy drown this fool! What do you mean | The dropsie drowne this foole, what doe you meane |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.57 | I'll drown my book. | Ile drowne my booke. |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.218 | This fellow could not drown. Now, blasphemy, | This fellow could not drowne: Now blasphemy, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.28 | And drown themselves in riot. Itches, blains, | And drowne themselues in Riot. Itches, Blaines, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.100 | Hang them or stab them, drown them in a draught, | Hang them, or stab them, drowne them in a draught, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.54 | One hour's storm will drown the fragrant meads; | One houres storme will drowne the fragrant meades, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.20 | Drown the lamenting fool in sea-salt tears. | Drowne the lamenting foole, in Sea salt teares. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.89 | But floods of tears will drown my oratory | But floods of teares will drowne my Oratorie, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.28 | drown her remembrance again with more. | drowne her remembrance againe with more. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.11 | Where we should turn or drown; if labour through, | Where we should turne or drowne; if labour through, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.ii.30 | Lest I should drown, or stab, or hang myself. | Least I should drowne, or stab, or hang my selfe. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.34 | drown themselves, thither they go – Jupiter bless us! – | Drowne themselves, thither they goe, Iupiter blesse / Vs, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.112 | Worse than tears drown. Beseech you all, my lords, | Worse then Teares drowne: 'beseech you all (my Lords) |