| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.215 | Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. | Our slow designes, when we our selues are dull. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iii.16 | I think so, Charmian. Dull of tongue, and dwarfish. | I thinke so Charmian: dull of tongue, & dwarfish |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.61 | In this dull world, which in thy absence is | In this dull world, which in thy absence is |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.55 | Of dull Octavia. Shall they hoist me up | Of dull Octauia. Shall they hoyst me vp, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.50 | but Nature's, who perceiveth our natural wits too dull | but Natures, who perceiueth our naturall wits too dull |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.29 | comes of a very dull kindred. | comes of a very dull kindred. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.111 | Peace, you dull fool, I found them on a tree. | Peace you dull foole, I found them on a tree. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.20 | When I am dull with care and melancholy, | When I am dull with care and melancholly, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.91 | Are my discourses dull? barren my wit? | Are my discourses dull? Barren my wit, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.79 | But moody and dull melancholy, | But moodie and dull melancholly, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.317 | My dull deaf ears a little use to hear. | My dull deafe eares a little vse to heare: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.6 | And, gladly quaked, hear more; where the dull tribunes, | And gladly quak'd, heare more: where the dull Tribunes, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.40.2 | Like a dull actor now | Like a dull Actor now, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.37 | Will stupefy and dull the sense awhile; | Will stupifie and dull the Sense a-while, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.31 | O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her, | O sleepe, thou Ape of death, lye dull vpon her, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.41.1 | Too dull for your good wearing? | Too dull for your good wearing? |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.64 | But do not dull thy palm with entertainment | But doe not dull thy palme, with entertainment |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.564 | A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak | A dull and muddy-metled Rascall, peake |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.236 | My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile | My spirits grow dull, and faine I would beguile |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.33 | And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.31 | That we are made of stuff so flat and dull | That we are made of stuffe, so flat, and dull, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.57 | your dull ass will not mend his pace with beating. And | your dull Asse will not mend his pace with beating; and |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.79 | Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest. | fits a dull fighter, and a keene Guest. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.23 | Their courage with hard labour tame and dull, | Their courage with hard labour tame and dull, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.71 | So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, | So dull, so dead in looke, so woe-be-gone, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.118 | Turned on themselves, like dull and heavy lead; | Turn'd on themselues, like dull and heauy Lead: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.15 | O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile | O thou dull God, why lyest thou with the vilde, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.22 | And our dull workings. O, who shall believe | And our dull workings. O, who shall beleeue, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.97 | and dull and crudy vapours which environ it, makes it | and dull, and cruddie Vapours, which enuiron it: makes it |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.2 | Unless some dull and favourable hand | Vnlesse some dull and fauourable hand |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.16 | For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom, | For Peace it selfe should not so dull a Kingdome, |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.16 | Is not their climate foggy, raw, and dull, | Is not their Clymate foggy, raw, and dull? |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.20 | Perseus: he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of | Perseus: hee is pure Ayre and Fire; and the dull Elements |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.11 | Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents | Piercing the Nights dull Eare: and from the Tents, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.47 | And in their pale dull mouths the gimmaled bit | And in their pale dull mouthes the Iymold Bitt |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.15 | Able to ravish any dull conceit; | Able to rauish any dull conceit. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.433 | And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention | And sleepe in dull cold Marble, where no mention |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.57 | You are dull, Casca, and those sparks of life | You are dull, Caska: / And those sparkes of Life, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.108 | And for my dull knees bow my feeling heart | And for my dul knees bow my feeling heart, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.23 | Myself, whose spirit is steel to their dull lead, | My selfe whose spirit is steele to their dull lead, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.109 | Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man, | Vexing the dull eare of a drowsie man; |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.13 | Than doth within a dull, stale, tired bed | Then doth within a dull stale tyred bed |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.280.1 | This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent? | This is a dull sight, are you not Kent? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.179.1 | Enter Dull with a letter, | Enter a Constable with Costard with a Letter. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.258 | Anthony Dull, a man of good repute, carriage, bearing, | Anthony Dull, a man of good repute, carriage, bearing, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.260 | Me, an't shall please you. I am Anthony Dull. | Me, an't shall please you? I am Anthony Dull. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.121.1 | Enter Dull, Costard, | Enter Clowne, Constable, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.139 | Exeunt Dull and Jaquenetta | Exeunt. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.57 | metal heavy, dull, and slow? | mettall heauie, dull, and slow? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.1.1 | Enter Holofernes, Nathaniel, and Dull | Enter Dull, Holofernes, the Pedant and Nathaniel. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.36 | Dictynna, goodman Dull. Dictynna, goodman | Dictisima goodman Dull, dictisima goodman |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.37 | Dull. | Dull. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.161 | concludes it. (To Dull) Sir, I do invite you too; you shall | concludes it. Sir I do inuite you too, you shall |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.1 | Enter Holofernes, Nathaniel, and Dull | Enter the Pedant, Curate and Dull. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.142 | Via, goodman Dull! Thou hast spoken no | Via good-man Dull, thou hast spoken no |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.149 | Most dull, honest Dull! To our sport, | Most Dull, honest Dull, to our sport |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.149 | Give me your favour. My dull brain was wrought | Giue me your fauour: / My dull Braine was wrought |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iv.19 | And dull to all proceedings. A deflowered maid, | And dull to all proceedings. A deflowred maid, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.8 | This third, dull lead, with warning all as blunt, | This third, dull lead, with warning all as blunt, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.162 | She is not bred so dull but she can learn; | Shee is not bred so dull but she can learne; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.14 | I'll not be made a soft and dull-eyed fool, | Ile not be made a soft and dull ey'd foole, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.86 | The motions of his spirit are dull as night, | The motions of his spirit are dull as night, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.8 | While she was in her dull and sleeping hour, | While she was in her dull and sleeping hower, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.123 | Why, he is the Prince's jester, a very dull fool; | Why he is the Princes ieaster, a very dull foole, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.69 | Of dumps so dull and heavy; | Of dumps so dull and heauy, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.124 | At this odd-even and dull watch o'the night, | At this odde Euen and dull watch o'th'night |
| Othello | Oth II.i.221 | made dull with the act of sport, there should be, again | made dull with the Act of Sport, there should be a game |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.377 | Dull not device by coldness and delay. | Dull not Deuice, by coldnesse, and delay. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.223 | O thou dull Moor, that handkerchief thou speak'st of | Oh thou dull Moore, / That Handkerchiefe thou speak'st of |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.2 | The sad companion, dull-eyed melancholy, | The sad companion dull eyde melancholie, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.162 | That e'er dull sleep did mock sad fools withal. | That ere duld sleepe did mocke sad fooles withall, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.168 | And dull unfeeling barren ignorance | And dull, vnfeeling, barren ignorance, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.196 | So may you by my dull and heavy eye | So may you by my dull and heauie Eye: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.195 | Why then, give way, dull clouds, to my quick curses! | Why then giue way dull Clouds to my quick Curses. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.92 | With dull unwillingness to repay a debt | With dull vnwillingnesse to repay a debt, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.17 | Cousin, thou wast not wont to be so dull. | Cousin, thou wast not wont to be so dull. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.52 | Is leaden servitor to dull delay; | Is leaden seruitor to dull delay. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.124 | My words are dull. O, quicken them with thine! | My words are dull, O quicken them with thine. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.227 | No doubt the murderous knife was dull and blunt | No doubt the murd'rous Knife was dull and blunt, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.445 | When thou com'st thither – (To Catesby) Dull unmindful villain, | When thou com'st thither: Dull vnmindfull Villaine, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.21 | I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe. | I cannot bound a pitch aboue dull woe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.i.2 | Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out. | Turne backe dull earth, and find thy Center out. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.285 | Dull thing, I say so! He, that Caliban | Dull thing, I say so: he, that Caliban |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.298.1 | And worship this dull fool! | And worship this dull foole? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.224 | Is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy. | Is fashion'd for the iourney, dull and heauy. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.128 | The woods are ruthless, dreadful, deaf, and dull. | The Woods are ruthlesse, dreadfull, deafe, and dull: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.195 | My sight is very dull, whate'er it bodes. | My sight is very dull what ere it bodes. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.262 | Who in this dull and long-continued truce | Who in this dull and long-continew'd Truce |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.381 | If the dull brainless Ajax come safe off, | If the dull brainlesse Aiax come safe off, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.210 | The dull and factious nobles of the Greeks | The dull and factious nobles of the Greekes, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vi.41 | By some sly trick blunt Thurio's dull proceeding. | By some slie tricke, blunt Thurio's dull proceeding. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.51 | Upon the dull earth dwelling. | Vpon the dull earth dwelling. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.26 | Is but his foil; to him, a mere dull shadow. | Is but his foyle, to him, a meere dull shadow, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.31 | A little dull time from us, we perceive | A little dull time from us, we perceave |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.64 | Her eye, and tell me for what dull part in't | Her eye, and tell me for what dull part in't |