| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.54 | true gait, eat, speak, and move, under the influence of | true gate; eat, speake, and moue vnder the influence of |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.69.3 | O, will you eat | O will you eat |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.ii.44 | I think, sir, you can eat none of this homely | I thinke sir, you can eate none of this homely |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.97 | To eat with us tonight; the charge and thanking | To eate with vs to night, the charge and thanking |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.322 | But I will eat and drink and sleep as soft | But I will eate, and drinke, and sleepe as soft |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.8 | eat no fish of Fortune's buttering. Prithee, allow the | eate no Fish of Fortunes butt'ring. Prethee alow the |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.52 | Though you are a fool and a knave you shall eat. Go to, | though you are a foole and a knaue, you shall eate, go too, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.67 | It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh, | It is reported thou did'st eate strange flesh, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.231.1 | For what his eyes eat only. | For what his eyes eate onely. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.49 | Sir, I will eat no meat, I'll not drink, sir – | Sir, I will eate no meate, Ile not drinke sir, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.270 | Will it eat me? | Will it eate me? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.272 | the devil himself will not eat a woman. I know that a | the diuell himselfe will not eate a woman: I know, that a |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.35 | Shall I keep your hogs and eat husks with them? | Shall I keepe your hogs, and eat huskes with them? |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.72 | Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, | Rose at an instant, learn'd, plaid, eate together, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vi.11 | something to eat, I will give thee leave to die; but if | something to eate, / I wil giue thee leaue to die: but if |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.88 | Forbear, and eat no more. | Forbeare, and eate no more. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.89 | Why, I have eat none yet. | Why I haue eate none yet. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.69 | Sir, I am a true labourer: I earn that I eat, get | Sir, I am a true Labourer, I earne that I eate: get |
| As You Like It | AYL V.i.32 | when he had a desire to eat a grape, would open | when he had a desire to eate a Grape, would open |
| As You Like It | AYL V.i.34 | that grapes were made to eat and lips to open. You do | that Grapes were made to eate, and lippes to open. You do |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.146 | I will not eat my word, now thou art mine, | I wil not eate my word, now thou art mine, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.64 | If it be, sir, I pray you eat none | If it be sir, I pray you eat none |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.64 | spoon that must eat with the devil. | spoone that must eate with the diuell. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.83 | wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they | Warres eate vs not vppe, they will; and there's all the loue they |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.204 | That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat, | That Hunger-broke stone wals: that dogges must eate |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.x.10 | As often as we eat. By th' elements, | As often as we eate. By th' Elements, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.292 | Should now eat up her own! | Should now eate vp her owne. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.41 | Like warlike as the wolf for what we eat: | Like warlike as the Wolfe, for what we eate: |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.40 | Ere you depart; and thanks to stay and eat it: | Ere you depart; and thankes to stay, and eate it: |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.266 | Care no more to clothe and eat, | Care no more to cloath and eate, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.47 | play; as thus, ‘ Cannot you stay till I eat my porridge?’, | |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.103 | Excellent, i'faith; of the chameleon's dish. I eat | Excellent Ifaith, of the Camelions dish: I eate |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.162 | That monster custom, who all sense doth eat, | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.26 | A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.27 | king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. | |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.272 | Woo't drink up eisel? Eat a crocodile? | Woo't drinke vp Esile, eate a Crocodile? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.401 | micher, and eat blackberries? A question not to be asked. | Micher, and eate Black-berryes? a question not to bee askt. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.444 | cleanly, but to carve a capon and eat it? Wherein cunning, | cleanly, but to carue a Capon, and eat it? wherein Cunning, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.111 | give you leave to powder me and eat me too tomorrow. | giue you leaue to powder me, and eat me too to morow. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.152 | make him eat a piece of my sword. | make him eate a peece of my sword. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.99 | And now thou wouldst eat thy dead vomit up, | And now thou would'st eate thy dead vomit vp, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.94 | dish of prawns, whereby thou didst desire to eat some, | dish of Prawnes: whereby yu didst desire to eat some: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.22 | to eat up thy holland. And God knows whether those | to eate vp thy Holland. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.129 | him eat it. | him eate it. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.130 | That's to make him eat twenty of his | That's to make him eate twenty of his |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.165 | Hast eat thy bearer up.’ Thus, my most royal liege, | Hast eate the Bearer vp. / Thus (my Royall Liege) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.2 | arbour, we will eat a last year's pippin of my own | Arbor we will eate a last yeares Pippin of my owne |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.17 | (sings) Do nothing but eat, and make good cheer, | doe nothing but eate, and make good cheere, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.173 | To tame and havoc more than she can eat. | To tame and hauocke more then she can eate. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.88 | He longs to eat the English. | He longs to eate the English. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.89 | I think he will eat all he kills. | I thinke he will eate all he kills. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.142 | that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. | that dare eate his breakefast on the Lippe of a Lyon. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.146 | great meals of beef, and iron and steel; they will eat | great Meales of Beefe, and Iron and Steele; they will eate |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.150 | stomachs to eat, and none to fight. Now is it time to | stomackes to eate, and none to fight. Now is it time to |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.9 | yesterday, look you, and bid me eat my leek. It was in a | yesterday, looke you, and bid me eate my Leeke: it was in a |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.22 | at my desires, and my requests, and my petitions, to eat, | at my desires, and my requests, and my petitions, to eate, |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.26 | eat it. | eate it. |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.29 | Will you be so good, scauld knave, as eat it? | Will you be so good, scauld Knaue, as eate it? |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.33 | eat your victuals – come, there is sauce for it. (He strikes | eate your Victuals: come, there is sawce for it. |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.36 | you fall to – if you can mock a leek, you can eat a leek. | you fall too, if you can mocke a Leeke, you can eate a Leeke. |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.38 | I say, I will make him eat some part of my leek, | I say, I will make him eate some part of my leeke, |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.44 | By this leek, I will most horribly revenge – I eat | By this Leeke, I will most horribly reuenge I eate |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.45 | and eat, I swear – | and eate I sweare. |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.46 | Eat, I pray you; will you have some more | Eate I pray you, will you haue some more |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.49 | Quiet thy cudgel, thou dost see I eat. | Quiet thy Cudgell, thou dost see I eate. |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.59 | have another leek in my pocket which you shall eat. | haue another Leeke in my pocket, which you shall eate. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.90 | And caterpillars eat my leaves away; | And Caterpillers eate my Leaues away: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.69 | all shall eat and drink on my score; and I will apparel | all shall eate and drinke on my score, and I will apparrell |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.7 | I climbed into this garden, to see if I can eat grass, or pick | I climb'd into this Garden, to see if I can eate Grasse, or picke |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.27 | him; but I'll make thee eat iron like an ostrich, and | him, but Ile make thee eate Iron like an Ostridge, and |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.37 | eat no meat these five days, yet come thou and thy five | eate no meate these fiue dayes, yet come thou and thy fiue |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.39 | pray God I may never eat grass more. | pray God I may neuer eate grasse more. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.33 | In her days every man shall eat in safety | In her dayes, Euery Man shall eate in safety, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.252 | It will not let you eat, nor talk, nor sleep; | It will not let you eate, nor talke, nor sleepe; |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.27 | Nor rusting canker have the time to eat | Nor rust in canker, haue the time to eate, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.320 | Thou wilt eat up again, and leave me helpless. | Thou wilt eate vp againe and leaue me helples. |
| King John | KJ I.i.234 | Sir Robert might have eat his part in me | Sir Robert might haue eat his part in me |
| King John | KJ III.iv.82 | But now will canker-sorrow eat my bud | But now will Canker-sorrow eat my bud, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.16 | judgement, to fight when I cannot choose, and to eat no | iudgement, to fight when I cannot choose, and to eate no |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.156 | Why, after I have cut the egg i'the middle and eat | Why after I haue cut the egge i'th'middle and eate |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.39 | I cannot draw a cart nor eat dried oats; | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.25 | He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk | He hath not eate paper as it were: / He hath not drunke |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.17 | Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep | Ere we will eate our Meale in feare, and sleepe |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.4 | Till famine and the ague eat them up. | Till Famine and the Ague eate them vp: |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.23 | I drink, I eat, array myself, and live. | I drinke, I eate away my selfe, and liue: |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.171 | again, would eat mutton on Fridays. He's not past it | againe) would eate Mutton on Fridaies. He's now past it, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.31 | Yes, to smell pork, to eat of the habitation | Yes, to smell porke, to eate of the habitation |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.34 | with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, | with you, and so following: but I will not eate with you, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.260 | I'faith, I'll eat nothing. I thank you as much as | I'faith, ile eate nothing: I thanke you as much as |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.282 | I'll eat nothing, I thank you, sir. | Ile eate nothing, I thanke you Sir. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.168 | Yet be cheerful, knight. Thou shalt eat a posset | Yet be cheerefull Knight: thou shalt eat a posset |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.30 | Or say, sweet love, what thou desirest to eat. | Or say sweete Loue, what thou desirest to eat. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.ii.37 | for the lion's claws. And, most dear actors, eat no onions | for the Lions clawes. And most deare Actors, eate no Onions, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.41 | indeed, I promised to eat all of his killing. | indeed, I promis'd to eate all of his killing. |
| 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 |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.14 | man's jests; eat when I have stomach, and wait for no | mans iests, eat when I haue stomacke, and wait for no |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.135 | partridge wing saved, for the fool will eat no supper | Partridge wing saued, for the foole will eate no supper |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.192 | Nor age so eat up my invention, | Nor age so eate vp my inuention, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.271 | Do not swear, and eat it. | Doe not sweare by it and eat it. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.273 | make him eat it that says I love not you. | make him eat it that sayes I loue not you. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.274 | Will you not eat your word? | Will you not eat your word? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.302 | I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place. | I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.142 | And of the Cannibals that each other eat, | And of the Canibals that each others eate, |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.101 | They eat us hungerly, and when they are full, | They eate vs hungerly, and when they are full |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.44 | To eat those little darlings whom they loved. | To eat those little darlings whom they lou'de, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.II.18 | Not to eat honey like a drone | Not to eate Hony like a Drone, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.29 | ones eat up the little ones. I can compare our rich | ones eate vp the little ones: I can compare our rich |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.31 | All viands that I eat do seem unsavoury, | All Viands that I eate do seeme vnsauery, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.73 | If I dare eat, or drink, or breathe, or live, | If I dare eate, or drinke, or breathe, or liue, |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.85 | That jade hath eat bread from my royal hand; | That Iade hath eate bread from my Royall hand. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.65 | Or earth gape open wide and eat him quick, | Or Earth gape open wide, and eate him quicke, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.276 | Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. | Striue mightily, but eate and drinke as friends. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.183 | She eat no meat today, nor none shall eat. | She eate no meate to day, nor none shall eate. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.13 | As who should say, if I should sleep or eat, | As who should say. if I should sleepe or eate |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.50 | Eat it up all, Hortensio, if thou lovest me. | Eate it vp all Hortensio, if thou louest mee: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.52 | Kate, eat apace. And now, my honey love, | Kate eate apace; and now my honie Loue, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.11 | For now we sit to chat as well as eat. | For now we sit to chat as well as eate. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.12 | Nothing but sit and sit, and eat and eat! | Nothing but sit and sit, and eate and eate. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.330.2 | I must eat my dinner. | I must eat my dinner: |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.19.4 | and, inviting the King, etc., to eat, they depart | and inuiting the King, &c. to eate, they depart. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.206 | No. I eat not lords. | No: I eate not Lords. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.208 | O, they eat lords; so they come by great | O they eate Lords; / So they come by great |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.70 | Rich men sin, and I eat root. | Richmen sin, and I eat root. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.51 | When your false masters eat of my lord's meat? | When your false Masters eate of my Lords meat? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.101.2 | Keep it, I cannot eat it. | Keepe it, I cannot eate it. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.284.1 | Thus would I eat it. | Thus would I eate it . |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.298 | where I eat it. | where I eate it. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.307 | Eat it. | eate it. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.331 | thee. If thou wert the lamb, the fox would eat thee. If | thee. if thou wert the Lambe, the Foxe would eate thee: if |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.399 | More things like men! Eat, Timon, and abhor them. | Mo things like men, / Eate Timon, and abhorre then. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.427 | You must eat men. Yet thanks I must you con | You must eate men. Yet thankes I must you con, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.72 | Can you eat roots, and drink cold water? No? | Can you eate Roots, and drinke cold water, no? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.1 | So, so, now sit, and look you eat no more | So, so, now sit, and looke you eate no more |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.34 | Come, let's fall to, and, gentle girl, eat this. | Come, lets fall too, and gentle girle eate this, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.29 | 'Twill fill your stomachs. Please you eat of it. | 'Twill fill your stomacks, please you eat of it. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.53 | Will't please you eat? Will't please your highness feed? | Wilt please you eat, / Wilt please your Hignesse feed? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.135 | idle head you would eat chickens i'th' shell. | idle head, you would eate chickens i'th' shell. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.124 | And last eat up himself. Great Agamemnon, | And last, eate vp himselfe. / Great Agamemnon: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.215 | – 'a should not bear it so, 'a should eat swords first; | A should not beare it so, a should eate Swords first: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.76 | to weep seas, live in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers; | to weepe seas, liue in fire, eate rockes, tame Tygers; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.158 | I will go eat with thee, and see your knights. | I will goe eate with thee, and see your Knights. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.12 | Thou'rt a scholar. Let us therefore eat and | Th'art a scholler; let vs therefore eate and |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.60 | clog the foot of a flea, I'll eat the rest of the anatomy. | clog the foote of a flea, Ile eate the rest of th'anatomy. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.38 | their captivity than I of ruling Athens; they eat well, | their / Captivity, then I of ruling Athens: they eate / Well, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.42 | He'll eat a hornbook ere he fail. Go to, | Hee'l eate a hornebooke ere he faile: goe too, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.20.1 | The Duke has more, coz. Eat now. | the Duke has more Cuz: Eate now. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.81 | Friend, you must eat no white bread; if you do, | Friend you must eate no white bread, if you doe |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.156 | And the ladies eat his dowsets. | And the Ladies eate his dowsets: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.76 | come to eat with her and to commune of love. This will | come to eate with her, and to / Commune of Love; this will |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.86 | good thing. Desire to eat with her, carve her, drink to | good thing, desire / To eate with her, crave her, drinke to |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.93 | may bring her to eat, to sleep, and reduce what's now | may bring her to eate, to sleepe, and reduce what's / Now |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.5 | And asked me what I would eat, and when I would kiss her. | and asked me what I / Would eate, and when I would kisse her: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.262 | at a burden, and how she longed to eat adders' heads | at a burthen, and how she long'd to eate Adders heads, |