| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.39 | Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit | Which is as drie as the remainder bisket |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.106 | And high top bald with dry antiquity, | And high top, bald with drie antiquitie: |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.115 | A lioness, with udders all drawn dry, | A Lyonnesse, with vdders all drawne drie, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.63 | dry | drie. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.68 | purchase me another dry basting. | purchase me another drie basting. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.250 | To kindle their dry stubble; and their blaze | To kindle their dry Stubble: and their Blaze |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.4 | The sweat and industry would dry and die, | The sweat of industry would dry, and dye |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.ii.20 | it is but squeezing you and, sponge, you shall be dry | it is but squeezing you, and Spundge you shall be dry |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.156 | O heat, dry up my brains! Tears seven times salt | Oh heate drie vp my Braines, teares seuen times salt, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.156 | When in your motion you are hot and dry – | when in your motion you are hot and dry, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.30 | When I was dry with rage and extreme toil, | When I was dry with Rage, and extreame Toyle, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.126 | Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree, | Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.182 | the characters of age? Have you not a moist eye, a dry | the Charracters of age? Haue you not a moist eye? a dry |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.7 | now take my leave of these six dry, round, old, withered | now take my leaue of these sixe drie, round, old-wither'd |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.56 | i' good truth, as rheumatic as two dry toasts; you cannot | (in good troth) as Rheumatike as two drie Tostes, you cannot |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.12 | many a time, when I have been dry and bravely marching, | many a time when I haue beene dry, & brauely marching, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.83 | I give thee this to dry thy cheeks withal. | I giue thee this to drie thy Cheekes withall. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.174 | And that will quickly dry thy melting tears. | And that will quickly drie thy melting Teares. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.61 | The ruthless Queen gave him to dry his cheeks | The ruthlesse Queene gaue him, to dry his Cheekes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.139 | Saying he'll lade it dry to have his way; | Saying, hee'le lade it dry, to haue his way: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.55 | Now stops thy spring; my sea shall suck them dry, | Now stops thy Spring, my Sea shall suck them dry, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iii.12 | The very beams will dry those vapours up, | Thy very Beames will dry those Vapours vp, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.431 | Let's dry our eyes, and thus far hear me, Cromwell, | Let's dry our eyes: And thus farre heare me Cromwel, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.151 | Seems barren, sere, unfertile, fruitless, dry; | Seemes barrayne, sere, vnfertill, fructles dry, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.169 | Until their empty veins be dry and sere. | Vntill their emptie vaines be drie and sere |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.276 | Dry up in her the organs of increase, | Drie vp in her the Organs of increase, |
| King Lear | KL III.i.14 | Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs | |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.10 | O nuncle, court holy water in a dry house is better | O Nunkle, Court holy-water in a dry house, is better |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.74 | and market-towns. Poor Tom, thy horn is dry. | And Market Townes: poore Tom thy horne is dry, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.373 | This jest is dry to me. My gentle sweet, | This iest is drie to me. Gentle sweete, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.18 | I will drain him dry as hay; | Ile dreyne him drie as Hay: |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.126 | The Duke comes home tomorrow – nay, dry your eyes – | The Duke comes home to morrow: nay drie your eyes, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.204 | And swearing till my very roof was dry | And swearing till my very rough was dry |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.ii.3 | which is in the manner of his nurse, or his dry nurse, | which is in the manner of his Nurse; or his dry-Nurse; |
| 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 |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.105 | were the very man. Here's his dry hand up and down; | were the very man: here's his dry hand vp & down, |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.145 | Is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry. | Is numbring sands, and drinking Oceans drie, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.202 | Uncle, give me your hands. Nay, dry your eyes. | Vnckle giue me your Hand: nay, drie your Eyes, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.176 | And then, to dry them, gav'st the Duke a clout | And then to dry them, gau'st the Duke a Clowt, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.2 | The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry, | The day to cheere, and nights danke dew to dry, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.78 | shall use me hereafter, dry-beat the rest of the eight. | shall vse me hereafter dry beate the rest of the eight. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.131 | When theirs are dry, for Romeo's banishment. | When theirs are drie for Romeo's banishment. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.59 | Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu! | Drie sorrow drinkes our blood. Adue, adue. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.79 | Dry up your tears, and stick your rosemary | Drie vp your teares, and sticke your Rosemarie |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.143 | And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty | And while it is so, none so dry or thirstie |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.64 | a dry death. | a dry death. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.112 | So dry he was for sway – wi'th' King of Naples | (so drie he was for Sway) with King of Naples |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.260 | With dry convulsions, shorten up their sinews | With dry Convultions, shorten vp their sinewes |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.194 | Dry up thy marrows, vines and plough-torn leas, | Dry vp thy Marrowes, Vines, and Plough-torne Leas, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.14 | Let my tears stanch the earth's dry appetite; | Let my teares stanch the earths drie appetite. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.125 | How they are stained like meadows yet not dry | How they are stain'd in meadowes, yet not dry |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.138.2 | good Titus, dry thine eyes. | good Titus drie thine eyes. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.329 | 'Tis dry enough – will, with great speed of judgement, | 'Tis dry enough, wil with great speede of iudgement, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.73 | bleed to death upon. Now the dry serpigo on the | bleede to death vpon: Now the dry Suppeago on the |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.221 | with praises, pour in, pour in; his ambition is dry. | with praises, poure in, poure in: his ambition is dry. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iv.10 | rascals – that stale old mouse-eaten dry cheese, Nestor, | rascals; that stole old Mouse-eaten dry cheese, Nestor: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.70 | It's dry, sir. | It's dry sir. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.72 | I can keep my hand dry. But what's your jest? | I can keepe my hand dry. But what's your iest? |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.73 | A dry jest, sir. | A dry iest Sir. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.36 | Go to, y' are a dry fool. I'll no more of you. Besides, | Go too, y'are a dry foole: Ile no more of you: besides |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.39 | will amend. For give the dry fool drink, then is the fool | wil amend: for giue the dry foole drink, then is the foole |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.40 | not dry. Bid the dishonest man mend himself: if he | not dry: bid the dishonest man mend himself, if he |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.50 | were dry, I am able to fill it with my tears. If the wind | were drie, I am able to fill it with my teares: if the winde |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.75 | Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears | Write till your inke be dry: and with your teares |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.121 | Knows neither wet nor dry. If that you were | Knowes neither wet, nor dry, if that you were |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.110 | Perchance shall dry your pities: but I have | Perchance shall dry your pitties: but I haue |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.48 | Not dry. | Not dry. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.51 | So many summers dry. Scarce any joy | So many Summers dry: scarce any Ioy |