| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.i.18 | That surfeit on their ease will day by day | That surfet on their ease, will day by day |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.49 | Leaving his wealth and ease, | Leauing his wealth and ease, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.23 | worse at ease he is, and that he that wants money, | worse at ease he is: and that hee that wants money, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.120.1 | To ease his breast with panting. | To ease his Brest with panting. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.364.1 | I can with ease produce. | I can with ease produce. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.132 | That may to thee do ease and grace to me, | That may to thee do ease, and grace to me; |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.33 | That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf, | That rots it selfe in ease, on Lethe Wharfe, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.135 | Will not peruse the foils, so that with ease, | Will not peruse the Foiles? So that with ease, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.105 | Nay, good my lord. For mine ease, in good faith. | Nay, in good faith, for mine ease in good faith: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.125 | And tell him so, for I will ease my heart, | And tell him so: for I will ease my heart, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.79 | ease our legs. | ease our Legges. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.102 | Got with much ease. Now merrily to horse. | Got with much ease. Now merrily to Horse: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.79 | younker of me? Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn | Younker of me? Shall I not take mine ease in mine Inne, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.107 | And vaulted with such ease into his seat | And vaulted with such ease into his Seat, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iv.25 | Well, of sufferance comes ease. | Wel of sufferance, comes ease. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.229 | But his own wringing! What infinite heart's ease | but his owne wringing. / What infinite hearts-ease |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.142 | For living idly here in pomp and ease, | For liuing idly here, in pompe and ease, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.44 | And in that ease I'll tell thee my disease. | And in that ease, Ile tell thee my Disease. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.126 | To ease your country of distressful war | To ease your Countrie of distressefull Warre, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.21 | Sorrow would solace, and mine age would ease. | Sorrow would sollace, and mine Age would ease. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.198 | But here's a vengeful sword, rusted with ease, | But here's a vengefull Sword, rusted with ease, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iii.29 | It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart. | It could not slake mine ire, nor ease my heart. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.151 | Henry now lives in Scotland at his ease, | Henry now liues in Scotland, at his ease; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.52 | While he enjoys the honour and his ease. | While he enioyes the Honor, and his ease. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.72 | By heaven, I will not do thee so much ease. | By heauen, I will not do thee so much ease. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.4 | So: now, methinks, I feel a little ease. | So now (me thinkes) I feele a little ease. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.131 | The due o'th' verdict with it. At what ease | The dew o'th'Verdict with it; at what ease |
| Henry VIII | H8 epilogue.2 | All that are here. Some come to take their ease, | All that are heere: Some come to take their ease, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.207 | Such men as he be never at heart's ease | Such men as he, be neuer at hearts ease, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.i.20 | To ease ourselves of divers slanderous loads, | To ease our selues of diuers sland'rous loads, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.64 | Where we will ease us by disburd'ning them. | Where we will ease vs by disburdning them: |
| King John | KJ II.i.513 | I can with ease translate it to my will. | I can with ease translate it to my will: |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.70 | Nor conversant with ease and idleness, | Nor conuersant with Ease, and Idlenesse, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.23 | Prithee go in thyself: seek thine own ease. | Prythee go in thy selfe, seeke thine owne ease, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.184 | persuasion can with ease attempt you, I will go further than | perswasion, can with ease attempt you, I wil go further then |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.37 | To ease the anguish of a torturing hour? | To ease the anguish of a torturing houre? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.46 | You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat | You had musty victuall, and he hath holpe to ease |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.29 | Neglecting an attempt of ease and gain | Neglecting an attempt of ease, and gaine |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.32 | Madam, not now: I am very ill at ease, | Madam, not now: I am very ill at ease, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.II.28 | Where, when men been, there's seldom ease; | Where when men been, there's seldome ease, |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.44 | Where's hourly trouble, for a minute's ease. | Where's howerly trouble, for a minuts ease) |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.10 | Than they whom youth and ease have taught to glose. | Then they whom youth and ease haue taught to glose, |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.28 | And in this thought they find a kind of ease, | And in this Thought, they finde a kind of ease, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.131 | Help nothing else, yet do they ease the heart. | Helpe nothing els, yet do they ease the hart. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.34 | new form that they cannot sit at ease on the old bench? | new form, that they cannot sit at ease on the old bench. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.100 | Musicians, O musicians, ‘ Heart's ease,’ ‘ Heart's | Musitions, oh Musitions, / Hearts ease, hearts |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.101 | ease ’! O, an you will have me live, play ‘ Heart's ease.’ | ease, / O, and you will haue me liue, play hearts ease. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.102 | Why ‘ Heart's ease ’? | Why hearts ease; |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.178 | My hand is ready, may it do him ease. | My hand is readie, may it do him ease. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.30 | With much more ease; for my good will is to it, | With much more ease: for my good will is to it, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.196 | And tell them that to ease them of their griefs, | And tell them, that to ease them of their greefes, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.11 | Shall sit and pant in your great chairs of ease, | Shall sit and pant in your great Chaires of ease, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.35 | That I might rail at him to ease my mind! | That I might raile at him to ease my mind. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.57 | O, could our mourning ease thy misery. | Oh could our mourning ease thy misery. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.121 | Or make some sign how I may do thee ease. | Or make some signes how I may do thee ease: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.232 | To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues. | To ease their stomackes with their bitter tongues, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.243 | To weep with them that weep doth ease some deal, | To weepe with them that weepe, doth ease some deale, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.31 | To ease the gnawing vulture of thy mind | To ease the gnawing Vulture of the mind, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.119 | And on them shalt thou ease thy angry heart. | And on them shalt thou ease, thy angry heart: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.266 | That holds his honour higher than his ease, | That holds his Honor higher then his ease, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.18 | ‘ Because thou canst not ease thy smart | because thou canst not ease thy smart |