| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.51.1 | Enter four Lords | Enter 3 or 4 Lords. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.94 | There's four or five, to great Saint Jaques bound, | There's foure or fiue, to great S. Iaques bound, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.24 | From son to son some four or five descents | From sonne to sonne, some foure or fiue discents, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.131 | Who hath for four or five removes come short | Who hath for foure or fiue remoues come short, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.73.1 | Four feasts are toward. | Foure Feasts are toward. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.100 | But I had rather fast from all, four days, | but I had rather fast from all, foure dayes, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ii.10 | Enter three or four servitors | Enter 3 or 4 Seruitors. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.131 | Enter four or five of the Guard of Antony | Enter 4. or 5. of the Guard of Anthony. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.95 | brother the new Duke, and three or four loving lords | brother the new Duke, and three or foure louing Lords |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.71 | From seventeen years till now almost four score | From seauentie yeeres, till now almost fourescore |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.74 | But at four score it is too late a week. | But at fourescore, it is too late a weeke, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.46 | four quarrels, and like to have fought one. | foure quarrels, and like to haue fought one. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.104.1 | Enter three or four and offer to bind him. | Enter three or foure, and offer to binde him: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ii.6 | Had circumvention? 'Tis not four days gone | Had circumuention: 'tis not foure dayes gone |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.20 | Three or four miles about, else had I, sir, | Three or foure miles about, else had I sir |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.78 | But is four Volsces? None of you but is | But is foure Volces? None of you, but is |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.20 | Enter three or four Citizens | Enter three or foure Citizens. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.172 | The four kneel | |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.9 | Enter three or four Conspirators of Aufidius's faction | Enter 3 or 4 Conspirators of Auffidius Faction. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.6 | And if thou canst awake by four o'th' clock, | And if thou canst awake by foure o'th'clock, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.160 | You know sometimes he walks four hours together | You know sometimes / He walkes foure houres together, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.145.11 | with some three or four, comes in again, seem to condole | with some two orthree Mutes comes in againe, seeming to lament |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.267 | Richer than that which four successive kings | Richer then that, which foure successiue Kings |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.389.2 | Let four captains | Let foure Captaines |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.123 | But my lads, my lads, tomorrow morning, by four | But my Lads, my Lads, to morrow morning, by foure |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.1 | Heigh-ho! An it be not four by the day | Heigh-ho, an't be not foure by the day, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.12 | not where. If I travel but four foot by the square further | not where. If I trauell but foure foot by the squire further |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.58 | Sirs, you four shall front them in the narrow | You foure shall front them in the narrow |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.4 | With three or four loggerheads, amongst | With three or foure Logger-heads, amongst |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.153 | What's the matter? There be four of us here | What's the matter? here be foure of vs, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.157 | upon poor four of us. | vpon poore foure of vs. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.162 | four through the hose, my buckler cut through and | foure through the Hose, my Buckler cut through and |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.169 | We four set upon some dozen – | We foure set vpon some dozen. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.190 | ward – here I lay, and thus I bore my point. Four rogues | word: here I lay, and thus I bore my point; foure Rogues |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.192 | What, four? Thou saidst but two even now. | What, foure? thou sayd'st but two, euen now. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.193 | Four, Hal, I told thee four. | Foure Hal, I told thee foure. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.194 | Ay, ay, he said four. | I, I, he said foure. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.195 | These four came all afront, and mainly thrust | These foure came all a-front, and mainely thrust |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.198 | Seven? Why, there were but four even | Seuen? why there were but foure, euen |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.201 | Ay, four, in buckram suits. | I, foure, in Buckrom Sutes. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.248 | We two saw you four set on four, and bound | We two, saw you foure set on foure and bound |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.251 | you four, and, with a word, outfaced you from your | you foure, and with a word, outfac'd you from your |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.18 | that I borrowed – three of four times. Lived well, and in | that I borrowed, three or foure times; liued well, and in |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.100 | Wilt thou believe me, Hal, three or four bonds | Wilt thou beleeue me, Hal? Three or foure Bonds |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.22 | He did, my lord, four days ere I set forth, | He did, my Lord, foure dayes ere I set forth: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.20 | Squele, a Cotsole man – you had not four such swinge-bucklers | Squele a Cot-sal-man, you had not foure such Swindge-bucklers |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.185 | You must have but four here, sir; and so, I pray you, | you must haue but foure heere sir, and so I pray you |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.216 | friend – and here's four Harry ten shillings in French | friend, and heere is foure Harry tenne shillings in French |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.236 | Four of which you please. | Foure of which you please. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.240 | Come, Sir John, which four will you have? | Come, sir Iohn, which foure will you haue? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.56 | If I were sawed into quantities, I should make four | If I were saw'de into Quantities, I should make foure |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.73 | the wearing out of six fashions, which is four terms, or | the wearing out of sixe Fashions (which is foure Tearmes) or |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.93 | To give him hearing. Is it four o'clock? | To giue him hearing: Is it foure a Clock? |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.57 | Until four hundred one-and-twenty years | Vntill foure hundred one and twentie yeeres |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.61 | Four hundred twenty-six; and Charles the Great | Foure hundred twentie six: and Charles the Great |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.215 | Divide your happy England into four; | Diuide your happy England into foure, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.19 | or four times. Now I, to comfort him, bid him 'a should | or foure times: now I, to comfort him, bid him a should |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.61 | four yard under the countermines. By Cheshu, I | foure yard vnder the Countermines: by Cheshu, I |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.12 | horse with any that treads but on four pasterns. Ca, ha! | Horse with any that treades but on foure postures: ch'ha: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.50 | With four or five most vile and ragged foils, | With foure or fiue most vile and ragged foyles, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.84 | Eight thousand and four hundred; of the which, | Eight thousand and foure hundred: of the which, |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.39 | or I will peat his pate four days. Bite, I pray you, it is | or I will peate his pate foure dayes: bite I pray you, it is |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.151 | Four of their lords I'll change for one of ours. | Foure of their Lords Ile change for one of ours. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.133 | Come, let us four to dinner. I dare say | Come, let vs foure to Dinner: I dare say, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.1.1 | Enter Joan la Pucelle disguised, with four soldiers | Enter Pucell disguis'd, with foure Souldiors |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.1.1 | Enter four Petitioners, Peter, the armourer's man, | Enter three or foure Petitioners, the Armorers Man |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.5 | You four, from hence to prison back again; | You foure from hence to Prison, back againe; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.30 | You shall have four, if you'll be ruled by him. | You shall haue foure, if you'le be rul'd by him. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.7.3 | courtiers. Four stand on one side and four on the | foure stand on one side, and foure on the |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.11 | Which had they, what four throned ones could have weighed | Which had they, / What foure Thron'd ones could haue weigh'd |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.37.19 | 8. A canopy borne by four of the Cinque Ports; | 8 A Canopy, borne by foure of the Cinque-Ports, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.48 | The cloth of honour over her are four barons | The Cloath of Honour ouer her, are foure Barons |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.83.8 | which the other four make reverent curtsies. Then the | which the other foure make reuerend Curtsies. Then the |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.19 | As much as one sound cudgel of four foot – | As much as one sound Cudgell of foure foote, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.1.5 | then four noblemen bearing a canopy, under which the | Then foure Noblemen bearing a Canopy, vnder which the |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.269 | infirmity. Three or four wenches, where I stood, cried, | infirmitie. Three or foure Wenches where I stood, cryed, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.54 | An easy march within four hours will bring | An easie march within foure howres will bring, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.179 | Enter four Heralds, bringing in a coat of armour, a helmet, a lance, and a shield | Enter foure Heraldes bringing in a coate armour, a helmet, a lance, and a shield. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.183 | Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about | Foure fixed, and the fift did whirle about |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.184 | The other four in wondrous motion. | The other foure, in wondrous motion. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.61 | Four score and upward, not an hour more nor less, | Fourescore and vpward, / Not an houre more, nor lesse: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.121 | Four days ago. | Foure dayes agoe. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.77 | Of all the four, or the three, or the two, or one of | Of all the foure, or the three, or the two, or one of |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.78 | the four. | the foure. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.81 | Is that one of the four complexions? | Is that one of the foure complexions? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.90 | And stayed the odds by adding four. | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.96 | Staying the odds by adding four. | Staying the oddes by adding foure. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.80 | Dumaine transformed! Four woodcocks in a dish! | Dumaine transform'd, foure Woodcocks in a dish. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.209.2 | True, true, we are four. | True true, we are fowre: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.367 | We four indeed confronted were with four | We foure indeed confronted were with foure |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.534 | And if these four Worthies in their first show thrive, | And if these foure Worthies in their first shew thriue, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.535 | These four will change habits and present the other five. | these foure will change habites, and present the other fiue. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.50 | tomorrow four o'clock. | to morrow, foure a clocke. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.118 | contrary, let Claudio be executed by four of the clock, and, | contrary, let Claudio be executed by foure of the clocke, and |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.157 | four days' respite, for the which you are to do me both a | foure daies respit: for the which, you are to do me both a |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.10 | the mercer, for some four suits of peach-coloured satin, | the Mercer, for some foure suites of Peach-colour'd Satten, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.168 | For the four winds blow in from every coast | For the foure windes blow in from euery coast |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.117 | The four strangers seek for you, madam, to | The foure Strangers seeke you Madam to |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.122 | heart as I can bid the other four farewell, I should be | heart as I can bid the other foure farewell, I should be |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.i.1.2 | tawny Moor all in white, and three or four followers | tawnie Moore all in white, and three or foure followers |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.8 | 'Tis now but four of clock. We have two hours | 'Tis now but foure of clock, we haue two houres |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.26 | on Ash Wednesday was four year in th' afternoon. | on ashwensday was foure yeere in th' afternoone. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.39 | From the four corners of the earth they come | From the foure corners of the earth they come |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.147 | With all my heart. Some three or four of you | With all my heart. Some three or four of you |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.210 | sword, I would have made you four tall fellows skip like | sword, I would haue made you fowre tall fellowes skippe like |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.20 | Vat be you all, one, two, tree, four, come for? | Vat be all you one, two, tree, fowre, come for? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.47 | And three or four more of their growth, we'll dress | And three or foure more of their growth, wee'l dresse |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.121 | And these are not fairies? I was three or four | And these are not Fairies: / I was three or foure times |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.2 | Draws on apace. Four happy days bring in | Drawes on apace: foure happy daies bring in |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.7 | Four days will quickly steep themselves in night; | Foure daies wil quickly steep thẽselues in nights |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.8 | Four nights will quickly dream away the time: | Foure nights wil quickly dreame away the time: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.154 | Enter the four Fairies | and foure Fairies. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.438 | Two of both kinds makes up four. | Two of both kindes makes vp foure. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.61 | four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the | foure of his fiue wits went halting off, and now is the |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iii.1.2 | four with tapers, all wearing mourning | foure with Tapers. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.308 | O villainous! I have looked upon the world for four | Oh villanous: I haue look'd vpon the world for foure |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.17 | By the four opposing coigns | By the fower opposing Crignes, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.83 | Of some Egyptians who after four hours' death | of an Egiptian that had 9. howers lien dead, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.24 | Three or four thousand chequins were as pretty | Three or foure thousande Checkins were as prettie |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.211 | Plucked four away. (To Bolingbroke) Six frozen winters spent, | Pluck'd foure away: Six frozen Winters spent, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.214 | Four lagging winters and four wanton springs | Foure lagging Winters, and foure wanton springs |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.217 | He shortens four years of my son's exile. | He shortens foure yeares of my sonnes exile: |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.5 | Upon the stroke of four. | Vpon the stroke of foure. |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.100 | I go; and towards three or four a clock | I goe, and towards three or foure a Clocke |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.12 | Their lips were four red roses on a stalk, | Their lips were foure red Roses on a stalke, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.236 | Upon the stroke of four. | Vpon the stroke of foure. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.72.2 | Enter three or four Citizens with clubs or partisans | Enter three or foure Citizens with Clubs. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.14 | And yet, to my teen be it spoken, I have but four – | And yet to my teene be it spoken, / I haue but foure, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iv.13.1 | Enter three or four Servingmen with spits and logs and | Enter three or foure with spits, and logs, and |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.359 | I'll leave her houses three or four as good, | Ile leaue her houses three or foure as good |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.95 | Enter four or five Servingmen | Enter foure or fiue seruingmen. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.47 | Four or five women once that tended me? | Fowre, or fiue women once, that tended me? |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.59 | four legs. For it hath been said, ‘ As proper a man as | foure legges: for it hath bin said; as proper a man as |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.60 | ever went on four legs cannot make him give ground;’ | euer went on foure legs, cannot make him giue ground: |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.64 | This is some monster of the isle with four | This is some Monster of the Isle, with foure |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.88 | Four legs and two voices – a most delicate | Foure legges and two voyces; a most delicate |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.182 | Four milk-white horses, trapped in silver. | Foure Milke-white Horses, trapt in Siluer. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.116 | and down in, from four score to thirteen, this spirit | and downe in, from fourescore to thirteen, this spirit |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.218 | Lips, let four words go by, and language end: | Lippes, let foure words go by, and Language end: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.113 | know he has not past three or four hairs on his chin – | know he has not past three or foure haires on his chinne. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.24 | and speaks three or four languages word for | and speaks three or four languages word for |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.101 | niece will not be seen, or if she be, it's four to one she'll | niece wil not be seene, or if she be it's four to one, she'l |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iv.36 | For this affair. Some four or five attend him – | For this affayre: some foure or fiue attend him, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.9 | Does not our lives consist of the four elements? | Does not our liues consist of the foure Elements? |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.20 | kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, | kisses, if your foure negatiues make your two affirmatiues, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.4 | four of his blind brothers and sisters went to it. I have | foure of his blinde brothers and sisters went to it: I haue |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.16 | thrusts me himself into the company of three or four | thrusts me himselfe into the company of three or foure |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.24.1 | Enter four Country-people and one with a garland | Enter 4. Country people, & one with a Garlon |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.74 | Exeunt four Countrymen and garland-bearer | Exeunt 4. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.99 | She left me far behind her. Three or four | Shee left me farre behinde her; three, or foure, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.129 | There must be four; yet I keep close for all this, | There must be fowre; yet I keepe close for all this, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.102 | I'll warrant you, within these three or four days | Ile warrant you within these 3. or 4 daies |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.145 | That four such eyes should be so fixed on one | That fowre such eies should be so fixd on one |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.40 | me four-and-twenty nosegays for the shearers, | me four and twenty Nose-gayes for the shearers |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.46 | two of ginger, but that I may beg; four pound of prunes, | two of Ginger, but that I may begge: Foure pound of Prewyns, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.333 | see these four threes of herdsmen. | see these foure-threes of Heardsmen. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.133 | Ay, and have been so any time these four hours. | I, and haue been so any time these foure houres. |