| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.210 | foolish idle boy, but for all that very ruttish. I pray you, | foolish idle boy: but for all that very ruttish. I pray you |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.23 | poor, decayed, ingenious, foolish, rascally knave. I do | poore decayed, ingenious, foolish, rascally knaue. I doe |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iii.31 | For the most part, too, they are foolish that are so. | For the most part too, they are foolish that are so. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.ii.21 | To bring again these foolish runaways. | To bring againe these foolish runawaies. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.49 | You foolish shepherd, wherefore do you follow her, | You foolish Shepheard, wherefore do you follow her |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.95 | and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was ‘Hero | and the foolish Chronoclers of that age, found it was Hero |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iii.45 | hear such a foolish song. God buy you, and God mend | heare such a foolish song. God buy you, and God mend |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.30 | When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, | When the sunne shines, let foolish gnats make sport, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.76 | Arrest me, foolish fellow, if thou darest. | Arrest me foolish fellow if thou dar'st. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.21 | Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind, |
Vicious, vngentle, foolish, blunt, vnkinde, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.2 | Like Romans, neither foolish in our stands | Like Romans, neither foolish in our stands, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.81.2 | Thou foolish thing! – | Thou foolish thing; |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.2 | A foolish suitor to a wedded lady, | A Foolish Suitor to a Wedded-Lady, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.i.47 | issues being foolish do not derogate. | Issues being foolish do not derogate. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.8 | get this foolish Innogen, I should have gold enough. | get this foolish Imogen, I should haue Gold enough: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.98 | And pity 'tis 'tis true – a foolish figure. | And pittie it is true: A foolish figure, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.216 | Who was in life a foolish prating knave. | Who was in life, a foolish prating Knaue. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.ii.24 | foolish ear. | foolish eare. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.79 | His brother-in-law, the foolish Mortimer, | His Brother-in-Law, the foolish Mortimer, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.397 | but chiefly a villainous trick of thine eye, and a foolish hanging | but chiefely, a villanous tricke of thine Eye, and a foolish hanging |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.91 | Make blind itself with foolish tenderness. | Make blinde it selfe with foolish tendernesse. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.7 | brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able | braine of this foolish compounded Clay-man, is not able |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.105 | hath distracted her. But, for these foolish officers, I | hath distracted her: but for these foolish Officers, I |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.188 | What foolish master taught you | What foolish Master taught you |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.96 | ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the foolish | ascends me into the Braine, dryes me there all the foolish, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.69 | For this the foolish overcareful fathers | For this, the foolish ouer-carefull Fathers |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.97 | Before thy hour be ripe? O foolish youth! | Before thy howre be ripe? O foolish Youth! |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.60 | observing him, do bear themselves like foolish justices; | obseruing of him, do beare themselues like foolish Iustices: |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.139 | Foolish curs, that run winking into the mouth | Foolish Curres, that runne winking into the mouth |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.197 | 'tis a foolish saying. | 'tis a foolish saying. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.112 | What is the trust or strength of foolish man? | What is the trust or strength of foolish man? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.225 | Too full of foolish pity; and Gloucester's show | Too full of foolish pittie: and Glosters shew |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.108 | Tut, that's a foolish observation; | Tut, that's a foolish obseruation: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.105 | How foolish do your fears seem now, Calphurnia! | How foolish do your fears seeme now Calphurnia? |
| King John | KJ III.i.46 | Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious, | Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.33 | Read here, young Arthur. (aside) How now, foolish rheum! | Reade heere yong Arthnr. How now foolish rheume? |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.177 | That he suspects none; on whose foolish honesty | That he suspects none: on whose foolish honestie |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.37 | No more; the text is foolish. | |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.60 | I am a very foolish fond old man, | I am a very foolish fond old man, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.84 | forgive. I am old and foolish. | and forgiue, / I am old and foolish. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.67 | foolish extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures, | foolish extrauagant spirit, full of formes, figures, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.374 | Your wit makes wise things foolish. When we greet, | Your wits makes wise things foolish when we greete |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.378 | Wise things seem foolish and rich things but poor. | Wise things seeme foolish, and rich things but poore. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.577 | There, an't shall please you, a foolish mild man; an | There an't shall please you: a foolish milde man, an |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.21 | A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight. | A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.24 | So play the foolish throngs with one that swoons, | So play the foolish throngs with one that swounds, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.239 | Thou foolish friar, and thou pernicious woman, | Thou foolish Frier, and thou pernicious woman |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.112 | foolish eyes looked upon, was the best deserving a fair | foolish eyes look'd vpon, was the best deseruing a faire |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iii.13 | These foolish drops do something drown my manly | these foolish drops doe somewhat drowne my manly |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.181 | Shall we send that foolish carrion | Shall we send that foolishion Carion, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.38 | So did I mine, to build upon a foolish woman's | So did I mine, to build vpon a foolish Womans |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.66 | Thou art as foolish Christian creatures as I would | Thou art as foolish Christian creatures, as I would |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.34 | The foolish Fates. | the foolish Fates. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.127 | – for, indeed, who would set his wit to so foolish a bird? | For indeede, who would set his wit to so foolish a bird? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.319 | A foolish heart that I leave here behind. | A foolish heart, that I leaue here behinde. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.133.2 | How if fair and foolish? | How if Faire, and Foolish? |
| Othello | Oth II.i.134 | She never yet was foolish that was fair, | She neuer yet was foolish that was faire, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.138 | her that's foul and foolish? | her that's Foule, and Foolish. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.139 | There's none so foul and foolish thereunto, | There's none so foule and foolish thereunto, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.301 | To have a foolish wife. | To haue a foolish wife. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.409 | Pricked to't by foolish honesty and love – | (Prick'd too't by foolish Honesty, and Loue) |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.175 | foolish woman your wife: she gave it him, and he hath | foolish woman your wife: she gaue it him, and he hath |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.22 | All's one. Good faith, how foolish are our minds! | All's one: good Father, how foolish are our minds? |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.82 | to do with you. Come, you're a young foolish | to doe with you, come you'r a young foolish |
| Pericles | Per IV.iii.1 | Why, are you foolish? Can it be undone? | Why ere you foolish, can it be vndone? |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.96 | Why, foolish boy, the King is left behind, | Why foolish Boy, the King is left behind, |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.80.2 | Peace, foolish woman. | Peace foolish Woman. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.141 | I am too childish-foolish for this world. | I am too childish foolish for this World. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.103 | So foolish sorrow bids your stones farewell. | So foolish Sorrowes bids your Stones farewell. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.54 | The boy is foolish, and I fear not him. | The Boy is foolish, and I feare not him. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.122 | We have a trifling foolish banquet towards. | We haue a trifling foolish Banquet towards: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.102 | Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring! | Backe foolish teares, backe to your natiue spring, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.113 | Where is the foolish knave I sent before? | Where is the foolish knaue I sent before? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.114 | Here, sir, as foolish as I was before. | Heere sir, as foolish as I was before. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.124 | Fie! what a foolish duty call you this? | Fie what a foolish dutie call you this? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.125 | I would your duty were as foolish too! | I would your dutie were as foolish too: |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.480 | Having seen but him and Caliban. Foolish wench! | (Hauing seene but him and Caliban:) Foolish wench, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.346 | No, foolish tribune, no. No son of mine, | No foolish Tribune, no: No sonne of mine, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.53 | Why, foolish Lucius, dost thou not perceive | Why foolish Lucius, dost thou not perceiue |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.17 | O foolish Cressid, I might have still held off, | O foolish Cressid, I might haue still held off, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.79 | This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl | This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girle, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.102 | so troubles me, and the foolish fortune of this girl; and | so troubles me; and the foolish fortune of this girle, and |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iv.3 | Diomed has got that same scurvy doting foolish young | Diomede, has got that same scuruie, doting, foolish yong |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.14 | my lady talk of it yesterday, and of a foolish knight that | my Lady talke of it yesterday: and of a foolish knight that |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.33 | than a foolish wit.’ God bless thee, lady! | then a foolish wit. God blesse thee Lady. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.77 | with a foolish knight . . . | with a foolish knight. |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.3 | Go to, go to, thou art a foolish fellow. Let me | Go too, go too, thou art a foolish fellow, / Let me |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.17 | I prithee, foolish Greek, depart from me. | I prethee foolish greeke depart from me, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.67 | What foolish boldness brought thee to their mercies | What foolish boldnesse brought thee to their mercies, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.388 | A foolish thing was but a toy, | A foolish thing was but a toy, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.57 | Fie, fie! How wayward is this foolish love, | Fie, fie: how way-ward is this foolish loue; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.172 | My foolish rival, that her father likes | My foolish Riuall that her Father likes |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.63 | For 'tis no trusting to yond foolish lout; | For 'tis no trusting to yond foolish Lowt; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.77 | To marry us, for here they are nice and foolish. | To marry us, for here they are nice, and foolish; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.250 | I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful: | I may be negligent, foolish, and fearefull, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.195 | That could conceive a gross and foolish sire | That could conceiue a grosse and foolish Sire |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.225 | Sir, royal sir, forgive a foolish woman. | Sir, Royall Sir, forgiue a foolish woman: |