| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.52 | Hardly serve. | Hardly serue. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.7 | More womanly than he; hardly gave audience, or | More Womanly then he. Hardly gaue audience / Or |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.74 | How hardly I was drawn into this war, | How hardly I was drawne into this Warre, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.172 | that I was an Irish rat, which I can hardly remember. | that I was an Irish Rat, which I can hardly remember. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.7 | That we shall hardly in our ages see | That we shall hardly in our ages see |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.69 | here's water to quench it. I was hardly moved to come | heere's water to quench it. I was hardly moued to come |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.8 | We house i'th' rock, yet use thee not so hardly | We house i'th'Rocke, yet vse thee not so hardly |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.109 | scarcely lie in this box, and must th' inheritor himself | hardly lye in this Boxe; and must the Inheritor himselfe |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.41 | Very hardly, upon such a subject. | Very hardly, vpon such a subiect. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.112 | She is pistol-proof, sir; you shall not hardly | She is Pistoll-proofe (Sir) you shall hardly |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.79 | That can hardly be, Master Shallow. Do not | That can hardly be, M. Shallow, do not |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.179 | wife about her husband's neck, hardly to be shook off. | Wife about her Husbands Necke, hardly to be shooke off; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.160 | And hardly keeps his men from mutiny, | And hardly keepes his men from mutinie, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.40 | That hardly we escaped the pride of France. | That hardly we escap't the Pride of France. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.37 | Have done, for more I hardly can endure. | Haue done, for more I hardly can endure. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.70 | Are hardly attained and hardly understood. | are hardly attain'd, / And hardly vnderstood. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.92 | Knowing how hardly I can brook abuse? | Knowing how hardly I can brooke abuse? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.151 | That hardly can I check my eyes from tears. | That hardly can I check my eyes from Teares. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.105 | Hardly conceive of me – let it be noised | Hardly conceiue of me. Let it be nois'd, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.24 | That, having hardly passed a dangerous gulf, | That hauing hardely past a dangerous gulfe, |
| King John | KJ V.vi.42 | Myself, well mounted, hardly have escaped. | My selfe, well mounted, hardly haue escap'd. |
| King Lear | KL V.i.61 | And hardly shall I carry out my side, | And hardly shall I carry out my side, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.62 | Profit again should hardly draw me here. | Profit againe should hardly draw me heere. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.145 | I can hardly believe that, since you know not what | I can hardly beleeue that, since you know not what |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.33 | That I shall hardly spare a pound of flesh | That I shall hardly spare a pound of flesh |
| Pericles | Per II.i.119 | hardly come out. Ha, bots on't, 'tis come at last, and 'tis | hardly come out. / Ha bots on't, tis come at last; & tis |
| Richard II | R2 II.iv.2 | And hardly kept our countrymen together, | And hardly kept our Countreymen together, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.164 | Wherewith I reigned? I hardly yet have learned | Wherewith I reign'd? I hardly yet haue learn'd |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.58 | Have aught committed that is hardly borne | Haue ought committed that is hardly borne, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.124 | Ay, it stands so that I may hardly tarry so long. But I | I, it stands so that I may hardly tarry so long: / But I |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.170 | That mortal ears might hardly endure the din? | That mortal eares might hardly indure the din. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.152 | And what remains will hardly stop the mouth | And what remaines will hardly stop the mouth |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.63 | And he that's once denied will hardly speed. | And he that's once deny'de, will hardly speede. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.153 | niece; on a forgotten matter we can hardly make | Neece, on a forgotten matter wee can hardly make |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.77 | hardly forbear hurling things at him; I know my lady | hardly forbeare hurling things at him, I know my Ladie |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.58 | Orsino's is returned. I could hardly entreat him back. He | Orsino's is return'd, I could hardly entreate him backe: he |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.132 | Truly, sir, I think you'll hardly win her. | Truely Sir, I thinke you'll hardly win her. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.30 | hardly think you my master. | hardly thinke you my Master. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.103 | Now trust me, madam, it came hardly off; | Now trust me (Madam) it came hardly-off: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.130 | Make hardly one the winner. – Wear the garland | Make hardly one the winner: weare the Girlond |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.111.1 | Hardly one subject. | Hardly one Subiect. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.466 | You do not purpose to him – and as hardly | You do not purpose to him:) and as hardly |