| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.104 | Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly. | Cold wisedome waighting on superfluous follie. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.11 | lack not folly to commit them, and have ability enough | lacke not folly to commit them, & haue abilitie enough |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.3 | As mad in folly, lacked the sense to know | As mad in folly, lack'd the sence to know |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.57 | Though age from folly could not give me freedom, | Though age from folly could not giue me freedom |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.98 | Therefore be deaf to my unpitied folly, | Therefore be deafe to my vnpittied Folly, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.43 | Our faith mere folly. Yet he that can endure | Our Faith meere folly: yet he that can endure |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.30 | If thou rememberest not the slightest folly | If thou remembrest not the slightest folly, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.51 | all nature in love mortal in folly. | all nature in loue, mortall in folly. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.50 | And they that are most galled with my folly | And they that are most gauled with my folly, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.56 | The wise man's folly is anatomized | The Wise-mans folly is anathomiz'd |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.82 | His folly to the mettle of my speech? | His folly to the mettle of my speech, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.182 | Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly; | Most frendship, is fayning; most Louing, meere folly: |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.192 | Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly; | |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.41 | that youth mounts and folly guides. Who comes here? | that youth mounts, and folly guides: who comes heere? |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.103 | He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the | He vses his folly like a stalking-horse, and vnder the |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.87 | Or be accused of folly. I shall tell you | Or be accus'd of Folly. I shall tell you |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ii.19.2 | Nor did you think it folly | Nor did you thinke it folly, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.184.1 | The faults of fools but folly. | the faults of fooles, but folly. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.26 | Of noisome musty chaff. He said 'twas folly, | Of noysome musty Chaffe. He said, 'twas folly |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.89.1 | Die of this folly. | Dye of this Folly. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.48 | Where folly now possesses? Do thou work: | Where Folly now possesses? Do thou worke: |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.67 | That it was folly in me, thou mayst say, | That it was folly in me, thou mayst say, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.191.1 | But that this folly drowns it. | But that this folly doubts it. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.171 | the purpose must weigh with the folly. Follow | the purpose must weigh with the folly. Follow |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.38 | Covering discretion with a coat of folly; | Couering Discretion with a Coat of Folly; |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.122 | imperial: England shall repent his folly, see his weakness, | imperiall: England shall repent his folly, see his weakenesse, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.32 | O, too much folly is it, well I wot, | Oh, too much folly is it, well I wot, |
| King John | KJ I.i.262 | And so doth yours. Your fault was not your folly. | And so doth yours: your fault, was not your follie, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.149 | When majesty stoops to folly. Reserve thy state, | When Maiesty falls to folly, reserue thy state, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.268 | Beat at this gate that let thy folly in | Beate at this gate that let thy Folly in, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.286 | And must needs taste his folly. | And must needs taste his folly. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.41 | Sweet leaves, shade folly. Who is he comes here? | Sweet leaues shade folly. Who is he comes heere? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.70 | As wit turned fool. Folly, in wisdom hatched, | As Wit turn'd foole, follie in Wisedome hatch'd: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.75 | Folly in fools bears not so strong a note | Follie in Fooles beares not so strong a note, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.118 | To check their folly, passion's solemn tears. | To checke their folly passions solemne teares. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.72.2 | What, quite unmanned in folly? | What? quite vnmann'd in folly. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.77 | Accounted dangerous folly. Why then, alas, | Accounted dangerous folly. Why then (alas) |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.133 | Either this is the envy in you, folly, or mistaking. The | Either this is Enuie in you, Folly, or mistaking: The |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.233 | the excellency of her honour that the folly of my soul | the excellency of her honor, that the folly of my soule |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.31 | out his wife's inclination. He gives her folly motion and | out his wiues inclination: he giues her folly motion and |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.190 | Why, this is your own folly. Did not I tell you how | Why this is your owne folly, / Did not I tell you how |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.200 | His folly, Helena, is no fault of mine. | His folly Helena is none of mine. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.315 | To Athens will I bear my folly back | To Athens will I beare my folly backe, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.228 | of her folly, for I will be horribly in love with her. I may | of her folly; for I wil be horribly in loue with her, I may |
| Othello | Oth II.i.135 | For even her folly helped her to an heir. | For euen her folly helpt her to an heire. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.239 | all those requisites in him that folly and green minds | all those requisites in him, that folly and greene mindes |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.133 | She turned to folly; and she was a whore. | She turn'd to folly: and she was a whore. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.4 | Servant monster? The folly of this island! | Seruant Monster? the folly of this Iland, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.38 | What folly 'tis to hazard life for ill! | What Folly 'tis, to hazard life for Ill. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.23 | is crushed into folly, his folly sauced with discretion. | is crusht into folly, his folly sauced with discretion: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.27 | common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be | common curse of mankinde, follie and ignorance be |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.101 | The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may | The amitie that wisedome knits, not folly may |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.100 | Well, uncle, what folly I commit, I dedicate to | Well Vnckle, what folly I commit, I dedicate to |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.258 | His insolence draws folly from my lips, | His insolence drawes folly from my lips, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.19 | Sweet honey Greek, tempt me no more to folly. | Sweete hony Greek, tempt me no more to folly. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.74 | increasing your folly. Sir Toby will be sworn that I am | increasing your folly: Sir Toby will be sworn that I am |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.31 | No indeed, sir, the Lady Olivia has no folly. She | No indeed sir, the Lady Oliuia has no folly, shee |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.65 | For folly that he wisely shows is fit; | For folly that he wisely shewes, is fit; |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.66 | But wise men, folly-fallen, quite taint their wit. | But wisemens folly falne, quite taint their wit. |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.9 | I prithee, vent thy folly somewhere else; thou | I prethee vent thy folly some-where else, thou |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.11 | Vent my folly! He has heard that word of some | Vent my folly: He has heard that word of some |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.12 | great man, and now applies it to a fool. Vent my folly! | great man, and now applyes it to a foole. Vent my folly: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.34 | However, but a folly bought with wit, | How euer: but a folly bought with wit, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.35 | Or else a wit by folly vanquished. | Or else a wit, by folly vanquished. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.48 | Is turned to folly, blasting in the bud, | Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the Bud, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.15 | Lord, lord, to see what folly reigns in us! | Lord, Lord: to see what folly raignes in vs. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.65 | And ask remission for my folly past. | And aske remission, for my folly past. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.71 | Your own present folly, and her passing deformity; | Your owne present folly, and her passing deformitie: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.17 | Your folly. | Your folly. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.18 | And how quote you my folly? | And how quoat you my folly? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.21 | Well, then, I'll double your folly. | Well then, Ile double your folly. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.155 | And with thy daring folly burn the world? | And with thy daring folly burne the world? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iv.3 | The sun has seen my folly. Palamon! | The Sun has seene my Folly: Palamon; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.107 | Lo, cousin, lo, our folly has undone us! | Loe Cosen, loe, our Folly has undon us. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.151 | How sometimes Nature will betray its folly, | How sometimes Nature will betray it's folly? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.252 | But that his negligence, his folly, fear, | But that his negligence, his folly, feare, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.256 | It was my folly; if industriously | It was my folly: if industriously |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.429 | The fabric of his folly, whose foundation | The Fabrick of his Folly, whose foundation |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.11 | In every mess have folly, and the feeders | In euery Messe, haue folly; and the Feeders |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.134 | All mine own folly – the society, | (All mine owne Folly) the Societie, |