| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.44 | man is his clothes. Trust him not in matter of heavy | man is his cloathes: Trust him not in matter of heauie |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.32 | O madam, yonder is heavy news within, between | O Madam, yonder is heauie newes within betweene |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iii.4 | A charge too heavy for my strength; but yet | A charge too heauy for my strength, but yet |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.31 | Let every word weigh heavy of her worth | Let euerie word waigh heauie of her worrh, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.41 | My heart is heavy and mine age is weak; | My heart is heauie, and mine age is weake, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.100 | In heavy satisfaction, and would never | In heauie satisfaction, and would neuer |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.38 | Their ships are yare; yours, heavy. No disgrace | Their shippes are yare, yours heauy: no disgrace |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.134.2 | Most heavy day! | Most heauy day. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.32 | Here's sport indeed! How heavy weighs my lord! | Heere's sport indeede: / How heauy weighes my Lord? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.40.2 | A heavy sight! | A heauy sight. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.314 | heavy tedious penury. These Time ambles withal. | heauie tedious penurie. These Time ambles withal. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.45 | This week he hath been heavy, sour, sad, | This weeke he hath beene heauie, sower sad, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.403 | My heavy burden ne'er delivered. | My heauie burthen are deliuered: |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.177 | And I could laugh, I am light and heavy. Welcome. | and I could laugh, / I am light, and heauie; welcome: |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.ii.48.1 | Of what lies heavy to't. | Of what lyes heauy too't. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.63 | Discourse is heavy, fasting: when we have supped | Discourse is heauy, fasting: when we haue supp'd |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.158 | A heavy reckoning for you sir: But the comfort | A heauy reckoning for you Sir: But the comfort |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.414 | But now my heavy conscience sinks my knee, | But now my heauie Conscience sinkes my knee, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.466 | Have laid most heavy hand. | Haue laid most heauy hand. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.399 | Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too | Seneca cannot be too heauy, nor Plautus too |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.54 | O, heavy burden! | Oh heauie burthen! |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.84 | 'Tis heavy with him. And am I then revenged, | 'Tis heauie with him: and am I then reueng'd, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.12.2 | O, heavy deed! | On heauy deed: |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.181 | Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, | Till that her garments, heauy with her drinke, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.258 | This is too heavy. Let me see another. | This is too heauy, / Let me see another. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.37 | A post from Wales, loaden with heavy news, | A Post from Wales, loaden with heauy Newes; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.65 | Some heavy business hath my lord in hand, | Some heauie businesse hath my Lord in hand, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.80 | That lie too heavy on the commonwealth, | That lay too heauie on the Common-wealth; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iii.34 | and as heavy too. God keep lead out of me, I need no | and as heauy too; heauen keepe Lead out of mee, I neede no |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.104 | O, I should have a heavy miss of thee | O, I should haue a heauy misse of thee, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.118 | Turned on themselves, like dull and heavy lead; | Turn'd on themselues, like dull and heauy Lead: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.119 | And as the thing that's heavy in itself | And as the Thing, that's heauy in it selfe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.121 | So did our men, heavy in Hotspur's loss, | So did our Men, heauy in Hotspurres losse, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.168 | From a God to a bull? A heavy descension! | From a God, to a Bull? A heauie declension: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.100 | To lay a heavy and unequal hand | To lay a heauie and vnequall Hand vpon our Honors? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.55 | Thine's too heavy to mount. | Thine's too heauie to mount. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.39 | Is tears and heavy sorrows of the blood, | Is Teares, and heauie Sorrowes of the Blood, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.14 | Here come the heavy issue of dead Harry. | Heere come the heauy Issue of dead Harrie: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.24 | Is all too heavy to admit much talk. | Is all too heauy, to admit much talke. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.25 | Well, peace be with him that hath made us heavy. | Well: Peace be with him, that hath made vs heauy |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.201 | Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, | Their heauy burthens at his narrow gate: |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.53 | Are heavy orisons 'gainst this poor wretch! | Are heauy Orisons 'gainst this poore wretch: |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.135 | intellectual armour, they could never wear such heavy | intellectuall Armour, they could neuer weare such heauie |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.131 | hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs, | hath a heauie Reckoning to make, when all those Legges, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.40 | Sings heavy music to thy timorous soul; | Sings heauy Musicke to thy timorous soule, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.306 | And let thy Suffolk take his heavy leave. | And let thy Suffolke take his heauie leaue. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.379 | Go tell this heavy message to the King. | Go tell this heauy Message to the King. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.65 | Nothing so heavy as these woes of mine. | Nothing so heauy as these woes of mine. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.160 | And if thou tellest the heavy story right, | And if thou tell'st the heauie storie right, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.43 | But what art thou, whose heavy looks foretell | But what art thou, whose heauie Lookes fore-tell |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.63 | O, heavy times, begetting such events! | Oh heauy times! begetting such Euents. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.42 | Whose soul is that which takes her heavy leave? | Whose soule is that which takes hir heauy leaue? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.37 | And, as thou seest, ourselves in heavy plight. | And (as thou seest) our selues in heauie plight. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.385 | Too heavy for a man that hopes for heaven! | Too heauy for a man, that hopes for Heauen. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.95.1 | They are harsh and heavy to me. | They are harsh and heauy to me. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.145 | Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, | Weigh them, it is as heauy: Coniure with 'em, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.275 | Why you are heavy, and what men tonight | Why you are heauy: and what men to night |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.254 | Canst thou hold up thy heavy eyes awhile, | Canst thou hold vp thy heauie eyes a-while, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.304 | And peise their deeds with weight of heavy lead, | And peise their deedes with weight of heauie leade, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.456 | Which then convert to a most heavy curse | Which then conuert to a most heauie curse, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.117 | Now is begun the heavy day at sea. | Now is begun the heauie day at Sea, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.149 | Makes slaves of you, and with a heavy hand | Make slaues of you, and with a heauie hand |
| King John | KJ III.i.205 | Is purchase of a heavy curse from Rome, | Is purchase of a heauy curse from Rome, |
| King John | KJ III.i.296 | So heavy as thou shalt not shake them off, | So heauy, as thou shalt not shake them off |
| King John | KJ III.iii.43 | Had baked thy blood, and made it heavy, thick, | Had bak'd thy bloud, and made it heauy, thicke, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.47 | Still and anon cheered up the heavy time, | Still and anon cheer'd vp the heauy time; |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.58 | The graceless action of a heavy hand – | The gracelesse action of a heauy hand, |
| King John | KJ V.iii.4 | Lies heavy on me. O, my heart is sick! | Lyes heauie on me: oh, my heart is sicke. |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.169 | Take vantage, heavy eyes, not to behold | Take vantage heauie eyes, not to behold |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.52 | Hast heavy substance, bleed'st not, speak'st, art sound. | Hast heauy substance, bleed'st not, speak'st, art sound, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.147 | nor no money in your purse? Your eyes are in a heavy | nor no mony in your purse? Your eyes are in a heauy |
| King Lear | KL V.i.27 | Most just and heavy causes make oppose. | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.116 | Sing, boy. My spirit grows heavy in love. | Sing Boy, my spirit grows heauy in ioue. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.57 | metal heavy, dull, and slow? | mettall heauie, dull, and slow? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.302 | Scarce show a harvest of their heavy toil; | Scarce shew a haruest of their heauy toyle. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.14 | He made her melancholy, sad, and heavy; | He made her melancholy, sad, and heauy, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.715 | Is heavy in my tongue. The King your father – | is heauie in my tongue. The King your father |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.732 | A heavy heart bears not a humble tongue. | A heauie heart beares not a humble tongue. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.109 | But under heavy judgement bears that life | But vnder heauie Iudgement beares that Life, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iv.17 | Was heavy on me. Thou art so far before, | Was heauie on me. Thou art so farre before, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.6 | A heavy summons lies like lead upon me | A heauie Summons lyes like Lead vpon me, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.89 | Whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave, | whose heauie hand / Hath bow'd you to the Graue, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.65 | Under whose heavy sense your brother's life | Vnder whose heauy sence, your brothers life |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.27 | Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, | Thou bearst thy heauie riches but a iournie, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.34 | Upon the heavy middle of the night, | vpon the / Heauy midle of the night, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.325 | As makes it light or heavy in the substance | As makes it light or heauy in the substance, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.130 | For a light wife doth make a heavy husband, | For a light wife doth make a heauie husband, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.1 | Master Fenton, talk not to me. My mind is heavy. | Master Fenton, talke not to mee, my minde is heauy: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.358 | The heavy gait of night. Sweet friends, to bed. | The heauy gate of night. Sweet friends to bed. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.363 | Whilst the heavy ploughman snores | Whilest the heauy ploughman snores, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.69 | Of dumps so dull and heavy; | Of dumps so dull and heauy, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.56 | Indeed, that tells a heavy tale for him; conclude, | Indeed that tels a heauy tale for him: conclude, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.23 | heavy. | heauy. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.33 | otherwise 'tis light, and not heavy; ask my Lady | otherwise 'tis light and not heauy, aske my Lady |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.113 | O Fate! Take not away thy heavy hand. | O Fate! take not away thy heauy hand, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.146 | shall fall heavy on you. Let me hear from you. | shall fall heauie on you, let me heare from you. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.264 | I would bend under any heavy weight | I would bend vnder anie heauie waight, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.255 | And I a heavy interim shall support | And I a heauie interim shall support |
| Othello | Oth II.i.141 | O heavy ignorance! Thou praisest the worst | Oh heauy ignorance: thou praisest the worst |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.41 | Alas, the heavy day! Why do you weep? | Alas the heauy day: why do you weepe? |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.115 | Thrown such despite and heavy terms upon her | Throwne such dispight, and heauy termes vpon her |
| Othello | Oth V.i.42 | Two or three groan. It is a heavy night. | Two or three groane. 'Tis heauy night; |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.99 | O insupportable! O heavy hour! | Oh insupportable! Oh heauy houre! |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.367 | This heavy act with heavy heart relate. | This heauie Act, with heauie heart relate. |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.91 | But to relieve them of their heavy load; | But to relieue them of their heauy loade, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.52 | 'Tis wondrous heavy. Wrench it open straight. | t'is woondrous heauie; / Wrench it open straight: |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.49 | His daughter's woe and heavy well-a-day | His daughters woe and heauie welladay. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.V.22 | Of heavy Pericles, think this his bark; | Of heauy Pericles, thinke this his Barke: |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.50 | Be Mowbray's sins so heavy in his bosom | Be Mowbrayes sinnes so heauy in his bosome, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.154 | A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege, | A heauy sentence, my most Soueraigne Liege, |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.32 | Makes me with heavy nothing faint and shrink. | Makes me with heauy nothing faint and shrinke. |
| Richard II | R2 II.iv.18 | Ah, Richard! With the eyes of heavy mind | Ah Richard, with eyes of heauie mind, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.196 | So may you by my dull and heavy eye | So may you by my dull and heauie Eye: |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.8 | To say ‘ King Richard.’ Alack the heavy day | To say King Richard: alack the heauie day, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.2 | To drive away the heavy thought of care? | To driue away the heauie thought of Care? |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.66 | That lie shall lie so heavy on my sword | That Lye, shall lie so heauy on my Sword, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.203 | I give this heavy weight from off my head, | I giue this heauie Weight from off my Head, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.256 | But 'tis usurped. Alack the heavy day, | But 'tis vsurpt: alack the heauie day, |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.47 | The heavy accent of thy moving tongue, | The heauie accent of thy mouing Tongue, |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.92 | And piece the way out with a heavy heart. | And peece the Way out with a heauie heart. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.230 | Thou slander of thy heavy mother's womb! | Thou slander of thy heauie Mothers Wombe, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.14 | And cited up a thousand heavy times, | And cited vp a thousand heauy times, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.74 | My soul is heavy, and I fain would sleep. | My Soule is heauy, and I faine would sleepe. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.113 | That bear this heavy mutual load of moan, | That beare this heauie mutuall loade of Moane, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.5 | Have made it tedious, wearisome, and heavy. | Haue made it tedious, wearisome, and heauie. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.120 | It is too heavy for your grace to wear. | It is too weightie for your Grace to weare. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.149 | But come, my lord; and with a heavy heart, | But come my Lord: and with a heauie heart, |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.92 | O Margaret, Margaret, now thy heavy curse | Oh Margaret, Margaret, now thy heauie Curse |
| Richard III | R3 V.i.25 | Thus Margaret's curse falls heavy on my neck: | Thus Margarets curse falles heauy on my necke: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.65 | Look that my staves be sound and not too heavy. | Look that my Staues be sound, & not too heauy. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.112 | That they may crush down with a heavy fall | That they may crush downe with a heauy fall, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.119 | Let me sit heavy on thy soul tomorrow! | Let me sit heauy on thy soule to morrow: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.132 | Let me sit heavy in thy soul tomorrow – | Let me sit heauy in thy soule to morrow. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.140 | Let me sit heavy in thy soul tomorrow, | Let me sit heauy in thy soule to morrow, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.137 | Away from light steals home my heavy son | Away from light steales home my heauy Sonne, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.178 | O heavy lightness, serious vanity, | O heauie lightnesse, serious vanity, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.186 | Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, | Griefes of mine owne lie heauie in my breast, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.12 | Being but heavy, I will bear the light. | Being but heauy I will beare the light. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.22 | Under love's heavy burden do I sink. | Vnder loues heauy burthen doe I sinke. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.157 | But love from love, toward school with heavy looks. | But Loue frõ Loue, towards schoole with heauie lookes. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.17 | Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead. | Vnwieldie, slow, heauy, and pale as lead. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.60 | And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier! | And thou and Romeo presse on heauie beere. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.157 | Which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto. | Which heauy sorrow makes them apt vnto. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.18.2 | Look, look! O heavy day! | Looke, looke, oh heauie day. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.45 | Why, this's a heavy chance 'twixt him and you, | Why this a heauie chance twixr him and you, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.205 | And yet as heavy as my weight should be. | And yet as heauie as my waight should be. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.192 | am very heavy? | am very heauy. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.197 | Do not omit the heavy offer of it. | Do not omit the heauy offer of it: |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.201.2 | Thank you. Wondrous heavy. | Thanke you: Wondrous heauy. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.5 | Would be as heavy to me as odious, but | Would be as heauy to me, as odious, but |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.224 | Is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy. | Is fashion'd for the iourney, dull and heauy. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.10 | It pleases time and fortune to lie heavy | It pleases time and Fortune to lye heauie |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.275 | You, heavy people, circle me about, | You heauie people, circle me about, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.25 | O Publius, is not this a heavy case, | O Publius is not this a heauie case |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.24 | Witness the tiring day and heavy night, | Witnesse the tyring day, and heauie night, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.58 | And day by day I'll do this heavy task, | And day by day Ile do this heauy taske, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.149 | For nature puts me to a heavy task. | For Nature puts me to a heauy taske: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.189 | But makes it much more heavy. Hector's opinion | But makes it much more heauie. Hectors opinion |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.15 | ‘ – O heart, heavy heart, | O heart, heauie heart, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.95 | What Trojan is that same that looks so heavy? | What Troian is that same that lookes so heauy? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.84 | It is too heavy for so light a tune. | It is too heauy for so light a tune. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.85 | Heavy? Belike it hath some burden then? | Heauy? belike it hath some burden then? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.62 | For she is lumpish, heavy, melancholy, | For she is lumpish, heauy, mellancholly, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.v.4 | Balms and gums and heavy cheers, | Balmes, and Gummes, and heavy cheeres, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.56.2 | Is't not too heavy? | Is't not too heavie? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.27 | He's swarth and meagre, of an eye as heavy | Hee's swarth, and meagre, of an eye as heavy |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.108 | Heavy matters, heavy matters! But look thee | Heauy matters, heauy matters: but looke thee |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.769 | heavy and vengeance bitter; but those that are germane | heauie, and Vengeance bitter; but those that are Iermaine |