| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.i.15 | Myself in my incertain grounds to fail | My selfe in my incertaine grounds to faile |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.14 | great and trusty business in a main danger fail you. | great and trustie businesse, in a maine daunger, fayle you. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.64 | Adieu till then; then, fail not. You have won | Adieu till then, then faile not: you haue wonne |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.52 | Beat th' approaching Caesar. But if we fail, | Beate th'approaching Casar. But if we faile, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xii.21 | Of audience nor desire shall fail, so she | Of Audience, nor Desire shall faile, so shee |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.24 | And you within it. If he fail of that, | And you within it: if he faile of that |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.116 | I'll not fail, if I live. | Ile not faile, if I liue. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vii.40 | To fail in the disposing of those chances | To faile in the disposing of those chances |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vii.55 | Rights by rights fuller, strengths by strengths do fail. | Rights by rights fouler, strengths by strengths do faile. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.90 | That, if you fail in our request, the blame | That if you faile in our request, the blame |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.65 | From thy great fail. Come, fellow, be thou honest: | From thy great faile: Come Fellow, be thou honest, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.180 | You have me, rich, and I will never fail | You haue me rich, and I will neuer faile |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.149 | May fit us to our shape. If this should fail, | May fit vs to our shape, if this should faile; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.169 | pleasure to fail – and then will they adventure upon | pleasure to faile; and then will they aduenture vppon |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.39 | If truth and upright innocency fail me, | If Troth, and vpright Innocency fayle me, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.101 | That, if requiring fail, he will compel; | That if requiring faile, he will compell. |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.15 | My purpose should not fail with me, | my purpose should not fayle with me; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.82 | Yet livest thou, Salisbury? Though thy speech doth fail, | Yet liu'st thou Salisbury? though thy speech doth fayle, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.31 | That, if it chance the one of us do fail, | That if it chance the one of vs do faile, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.51.1 | Or all my fence shall fail. | Or all my Fence shall fayle. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.33 | And if thou fail us, all our hope is done. | And if thou faile vs, all our hope is done. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.145 | Upon our fail? To this point hast thou heard him | Vpon our faile; to this poynt hast thou heard him, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.74 | I shall not fail t' approve the fair conceit | I shall not faile t'approue the faire conceit |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.198 | By this my issue's fail, and that gave to me | By this my Issues faile, and that gaue to me |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.108.2 | If my sight fail not, | If my sight faile not, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.123 | If they shall fail, I with mine enemies | If they shall faile, I with mine Enemies |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.148 | Fail not to use, and with what vehemency | Faile not to vse, and with what vehemencie |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.214 | Be that the uttermost, and fail not then. | Be that the vttermost, and faile not then. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.137 | Would fail her obligation. If, sir, perchance, | Would faile her Obligation. If Sir perchance |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.3 | And every measure fail me. | And euery measure faile me. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.58.2 | If we should fail? | If we should faile? |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.58.3 | We fail! | We faile? |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.61 | And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep – | And wee'le not fayle: when Duncan is asleepe, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.27.2 | Fail not our feast. | Faile not our Feast. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.246 | fail, he hath sentenced himself. | faile he hath sentenc'd himselfe. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.122 | than we must yet deliver. Thus fail not to do your office, | then we must yet deliuer. Thus faile not to doe your Office, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.72 | I will not fail you. | I will not faile you. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.70 | fail of the knowing me; it is a wise father that knows his | faile of the knowing me: it is a wise Father that knowes his |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.20 | I will not fail her. Speak it privately. | I will not faile her, speake it priuately: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.7 | But if you fail, without more speech, my lord, | But if thou faile, without more speech my Lord, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.11 | Which casket 'twas I chose; next, if I fail | Which casket 'twas I chose; next, if I faile |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.15 | If I do fail in fortune of my choice, | if I doe faile in fortune of my choyse, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.90 | I will not fail her. | I will not faile her. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.98 | such as our play wants. I pray you, fail me not. | such as our play wants. I pray you faile me not. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.93 | A million fail, confounding oath on oath. | A million faile, confounding oath on oath. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.255 | commend me to him and tell him I will not fail | commend me to him, and tell him I will not faile |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.315.1 | We will not fail. | We will not faile. |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.227 | ‘ This fail you not to do, as you will ’ – | This faile you not to do, as you will--- |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.149 | And, if I fail not in my deep intent, | And if I faile not in my deepe intent, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.169 | I will not fail. 'Tis twenty years till then. | I will not faile, 'tis twenty yeares till then, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.243 | If all else fail, myself have power to die. | If all else faile, my selfe haue power to die. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.404 | A child shall get a sire, if I fail not of my cunning. | A childe shall get a sire, if I faile not of my cunning. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.4 | Obedience fail in children. Slaves and fools | Obedience fayle in Children: Slaues and Fooles |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.382 | We'll dress him up in voices; if he fail, | Wee'l dresse him vp in voyces: if he faile, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.40 | Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; | Fall Greekes, faile Fame, Honor or go, or stay, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.45 | Sweet honey and sweet notes together fail. | Sweete hony, and sweete notes together faile. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iii.45 | I will not fail your ladyship. Good morrow, | I will not faile your Ladiship: Good morrow |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.i.4 | She will not fail, for lovers break not hours | She will not faile; for Louers breake not houres, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.95 | As any of us three; weep ere you fail. | As any of us three; weepe ere you faile; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.105.1 | On fail of some condition? | On faile of some condition. |
| 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.ii.31 | O state of nature, fail together in me, | O state of Nature, faile together in me, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.ii.37 | Save what I fail in; but the point is this, | Save what I faile in: But the point is this |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.47 | Nay, an she fail me once – you can tell, Arcas, | Nay and she faile me once, you can tell Arcas |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.51 | And with thy teeth thou hold, will either fail. | And with thy teeth thou hold, will either faile, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.3 | Two swords and two good armours; if he fail, | Two Swords, and two good Armors; if he faile |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.305.1 | We dare not fail thee, Theseus. | We dare not faile thee Theseus. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.169 | Mark and perform it, see'st thou? For the fail | Marke, and performe it: seest thou? for the faile |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.473.2 | It cannot fail but by | It cannot faile, but by |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.27 | What dangers by his highness' fail of issue | What Dangers, by his Highnesse faile of Issue, |