| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.92 | To see him every hour, to sit and draw | To see him euerie houre to sit and draw |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.244.1 | By such a day, an hour. | By such a day, an houre. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iv.44 | To make the coming hour o'erflow with joy | To make the comming houre oreflow with ioy, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.58 | Remain there but an hour, nor speak to me. | Remaine there but an houre, nor speake to mee: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.2 | I have delivered it an hour since. There is | I haue deliu'red it an houre since, there is |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.29 | his hour | his houre. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.159 | hour, I will tell true. Let me see: Spurio, a hundred and | houre, I will tell true. Let me see, Spurio a hundred & |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.5 | hour, and your son here at home, more advanced by the | houre, and your sonne heere at home, more aduanc'd by the |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.282.1 | Thou diest within this hour. | Thou diest within this houre. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.34 | Thy biddings have been done; and every hour, | Thy biddings haue beene done, & euerie houre |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.29 | Mark Antony is every hour in Rome | Marke Anthony is euery houre in Rome |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.152 | Further this act of grace, and from this hour | Further this act of Grace: and from this houre, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.21 | Ere the ninth hour, I drunk him to his bed; | Ere the ninth houre, I drunke him to his bed: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ix.1 | If we be not relieved within this hour, | If we be not releeu'd within this houre, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ix.4.1 | By th' second hour i'th' morn. | By'th'second houre i'th'Morne. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ix.31 | To th' court of guard; he is of note. Our hour | to'th'Court of Guard: he is of note: / Our houre |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.24 | 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, | 'Tis but an houre agoe, since it was nine, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.25 | And after one hour more 'twill be eleven, | And after one houre more, 'twill be eleuen, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.26 | And so from hour to hour we ripe, and ripe, | And so from houre to houre, we ripe, and ripe, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.27 | And then from hour to hour we rot, and rot, | And then from houre to houre, we rot, and rot, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.33 | An hour by his dial. O noble fool! | An houre by his diall. Oh noble foole, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.295 | sighing every minute and groaning every hour would | sighing euerie minute, and groaning euerie houre wold |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.37 | My fair Rosalind, I come within an hour of my | My faire Rosalind, I come within an houre of my |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.172 | o'clock is your hour? | o'clocke is your howre. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.177 | behind your hour, I will think you the most pathetical | behinde your houre, I will thinke you the most patheticall |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.82 | But at this hour the house doth keep itself, | But at this howre, the house doth keepe it selfe, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.101 | Within an hour; and pacing through the forest, | Within an houre, and pacing through the Forrest, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iii.27 | This carol they began that hour, | This Carroll they began that houre, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.12 | That will I, should I die the hour after. | That will I, should I die the houre after. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.54 | That very hour, and in the selfsame inn, | That very howre, and in the selfe-same Inne, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.11 | Within this hour it will be dinner-time. | Within this houre it will be dinner time, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.69 | Reserve them till a merrier hour than this. | Reserue them till a merrier houre then this: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.14 | Even now, even here, not half an hour since. | Euen now, euen here, not halfe an howre since. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.122 | I'll meet you at that place some hour hence. | Ile meet you at that place some houre hence. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.52 | The hour steals on. I pray you, sir, dispatch. | The houre steales on, I pray you sir dispatch. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.65 | You know I gave it you half an hour since. | You know I gaue it you halfe an houre since. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.55 | O yes, if any hour meet a sergeant 'a turns back for very fear. |
Oh yes, if any houre meete a Serieant, a turnes backe for
verie feare. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.61 | Hath he not reason to turn back an hour in a day? |
Hath he not reason to turne backe an houre in a day? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.38 | an hour since that the bark Expedition put forth tonight, | that the Barke Expedition put forth to night, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.29 | hour of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at | houre of my Natiuitie to this instant, and haue nothing at |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.289 | Within this hour I was his bondman, sir, | Within this houre I was his bondman sir, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.402 | Of you, my sons, and till this present hour | Of you my sonnes, and till this present houre |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.8 | kings' entreaties a mother should not sell him an hour | Kings entreaties, a Mother should not sel him an houre |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.60 | half an hour together. 'Has such a confirmed | halfe an houre together: ha's such a confirm'd |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.15 | Above an hour, my lord. | Aboue an houre, my Lord. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.17 | How couldst thou in a mile confound an hour, | How could'st thou in a mile confound an houre, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.21.1 | Half an hour since brought my report. | Halfe an houre since brought my report. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.62.1 | We prove this very hour. | We proue this very houre. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.168 | Then were they chosen. In a better hour | Then were they chosen: in a better houre, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.60 | I am so dishonoured that the very hour | I am so dishonour'd, that the very houre |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iv.16 | Unseparable, shall within this hour, | Vnseparable, shall within this houre, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.154 | Which to this hour bewail the injury, | Which to this houre bewaile the Iniury, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.i.60 | Were stolen; and to this hour no guess in knowledge | Were stolne, and to this houre, no ghesse in knowledge |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.31 | At the sixth hour of morn, at noon, at midnight, | At the sixt houre of Morne, at Noone, at Midnight, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.2.1 | What hour is it? | What houre is it? |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.166 | This yellow Iachimo, in an hour, was't not? | This yellow Iachimo in an houre, was't not? |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.69.1 | 'Twixt hour, and hour? | Twixt houre, and houre? |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.i.16 | is growing upon thy shoulders – shall within this hour | is growing vppon thy shoulders) shall within this houre |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.30.1 | 'Tis the ninth hour o'th' morn. | 'Tis the ninth houre o'th'Morne. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.154 | That struck the hour: it was in Rome, accursed | That strooke the houre: it was in Rome, accurst |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.6 | You come most carefully upon your hour. | You come most carefully vpon your houre. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.65 | Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, | Thus twice before, and iust at this dead houre, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.62 | Take thy fair hour, Laertes. Time be thine; | Take thy faire houre Laertes, time be thine, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.3.1 | What hour now? | What hower now? |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.2.3 | My hour is almost come, | My hower is almost come, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.61 | Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole | Vpon my secure hower thy Vncle stole |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.294 | An hour of quiet shortly shall we see. | An houre of quiet shortly shall we see; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.56 | A sad and bloody hour – | A sad and bloody houre: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.99 | He did confound the best part of an hour | He did confound the best part of an houre |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.68 | He is, my lord, an hour ago. | He is my Lord, an houre agone. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.17 | I am so good a proficient in one quarter of an hour that I | I am so good a proficient in one quarter of an houre, that I |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.106 | answers ‘ Some fourteen,’ an hour after, ‘ a trifle, a | answeres, some fourteene, an houre after: a trifle, a |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.214 | The hour before the heavenly-harnessed team | The houre before the Heauenly Harneis'd Teeme |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.94 | As thou art to this hour was Richard then | As thou art to this houre, was Richard then, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.17 | not above once in a quarter – of an hour. Paid money | not aboue once in a quarter of an houre, payd Money |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.48 | On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? | On the nice hazard of one doubtfull houre, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.84 | Still ending at the arrival of an hour. | Still ending at the arriuall of an houre, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.67 | Nor shall it, Harry, for the hour is come | Nor shall it Harry, for the houre is come |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.147 | and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. If I may | and fought a long houre by Shrewsburie clocke. If I may |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.v.8 | Had been alive this hour | Had beene aliue this houre, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.151 | The ragged'st hour that time and spite dare bring | The ragged'st houre, that Time and Spight dare bring |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.5 | Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep, | Are at this howre asleepe? O Sleepe, O gentle Sleepe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.27 | To the wet sea-son in an hour so rude, | To the wet Sea-Boy, in an houre so rude: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.57 | Stretches itself beyond the hour of death. | Stretches it selfe beyond the howre of death. |
| 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 IV.v.109 | To stab at half an hour of my life. | To stab at halfe an howre of my Life. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.110 | What, canst thou not forbear me half an hour? | What? canst thou not forbeare me halfe an howre? |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.92 | Craved audience, and the hour, I think, is come | Crau'd audience; and the howre I thinke is come, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.301 | Therefore, my lords, omit no happy hour | Therefore, my Lords, omit no happy howre, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.163 | Than I do at this hour joy o'er myself, | Then I do at this houre ioy ore my selfe, |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.89 | Chrish save me, la, in an hour. O, tish ill done, 'tish ill | Chrish saue me law, in an houre. O tish ill done, tish ill |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.16 | And the third hour of drowsy morning name. | And the third howre of drowsie Morning nam'd, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.50 | Fly o'er them all, impatient for their hour. | Flye o're them all, impatient for their howre. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vi.4 | Lives he, good uncle? Thrice within this hour | Liues he good Vnckle: thrice within this houre |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.98 | Monmouth caps, which, your majesty know to this hour | Monmouth caps, which your Maiesty know to this houre |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.8 | Faintly besiege us one hour in a month. | Faintly besiege vs one houre in a moneth. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.13 | Talbot, farewell; thy hour is not yet come. | Talbot farwell, thy houre is not yet come, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.36 | Finish the process of his sandy hour, | Finish the processe of his sandy houre, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.42 | That sundered friends greet in the hour of death. | That sundred friends greete in the houre of death. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.31 | If the first hour I shrink and run away. | If the first howre I shrinke and run away: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.176 | 'Tis like, my lord, you will not keep your hour. | 'Tis like, my Lord, you will not keepe your houre. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.6 | Ten is the hour that was appointed me | Tenne is the houre that was appointed me, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.204 | And yet, good Humphrey, is the hour to come | And yet, good Humfrey, is the houre to come, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.63 | You are come to Sandal in a happy hour; | You are come to Sandall in a happie houre. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.189 | And when thou failest – as God forbid the hour! – | And when thou failst (as God forbid the houre) |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.26 | How many make the hour full complete, | How many makes the Houre full compleate, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.147 | Now therefore let us hence, and lose no hour | Now therefore let vs hence, and lose no howre, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.v.10 | That if about this hour he make this way | That if about this houre he make this way, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.43 | Shall rue the hour that ever thou wast born. | Shall rue the houre that euer thou was't borne. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.121 | His hour of speech a minute – he, my lady, | His houre of speech, a minute: He, (my Lady) |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.162 | John de la Car, my chaplain, a choice hour | Iohn de la Car, my Chaplaine, a choyce howre |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.46 | And have an hour of hearing, and, by'r lady, | And haue an houre of hearing, and by'r Lady |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.72.1 | An hour of revels with 'em. | An houre of Reuels with 'em. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.132 | Pray for me! I must now forsake ye; the last hour | Pray for me, I must now forsake ye; the last houre |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.71 | Is this an hour for temporal affairs, ha? | Is this an howre for temporall affaires? Ha? |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.78 | I would your grace would give us but an hour | I would your Grace would giue vs but an houre |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.27 | As I saw it inclined. When was the hour | As I saw it inclin'd? When was the houre |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.25.1 | Once every hour. | Once euery houre. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.108 | To his own portion! And what expense by th' hour | To his owne portion? And what expence by'th'houre |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.66 | To rest awhile, some half an hour or so, | To rest a while, some halfe an houre, or so, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.26 | About the hour of eight, which he himself | About the houre of eight, which he himselfe |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.5 | To waste these times. Good hour of night, Sir Thomas! | To waste these times. Good houre of night Sir Thomas: |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.6 | And has done half an hour, to know your pleasures. | And ha's done halfe an houre to know your pleasures. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.88 | I have been up this hour, awake all night. | I haue beene vp this howre, awake all Night: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.213 | By the eighth hour; is that the uttermost? | By the eight houre, is that the vttermost? |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.251 | Which sometime hath his hour with every man. | Which sometime hath his houre with euery man. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.iv.23.2 | About the ninth hour, lady. | About the ninth houre Lady. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.153 | If I myself, there is no hour so fit | If I my selfe, there is no houre so fit |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.154 | As Caesar's death's hour; nor no instrument | As Casars deaths houre; nor no Instrument |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.20.1 | I know my hour is come. | I know my houre is come. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.42 | That have but laboured to attain this hour. | That haue but labour'd, to attaine this houre. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.115 | Since leathern Adam till this youngest hour. | Since Letherne Adam, till this youngest howre. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.106 | To thy fair hand, and, for thy hour of life, | To thy faire hand, and for thy houre of lyfe, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.161 | Let come the hour when he that rules it will! | Let come the houre when he that rules it will, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.12 | A tongue-tied fear hath made a midnight hour, | A tongue-tied feare hath made a midnight houre, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.242 | Where, in a happy hour, I trust, we shall | Where in a happie houre I trust we shall |
| King John | KJ I.i.165 | Now blessed be the hour, by night or day, | Now blessed be the houre by night or day |
| King John | KJ III.i.323 | France, thou shalt rue this hour within this hour. | France, yu shalt rue this houre within this houre. |
| King John | KJ III.iv.133 | The misplaced John should entertain an hour, | The mis-plac'd-Iohn should entertaine an houre, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.46 | And like the watchful minutes to the hour, | And like the watchfull minutes, to the houre, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.104 | 'Tis not an hour since I left him well. | 'Tis not an houre since I left him well: |
| King John | KJ V.ii.26 | Were born to see so sad an hour as this; | Was borne to see so sad an houre as this, |
| King John | KJ V.v.17 | King John did fly an hour or two before | King Iohn did flie an houre or two before |
| King John | KJ V.vii.83 | Who half an hour since came from the Dauphin, | Who halfe an houre since came from the Dolphin, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.43 | We have this hour a constant will to publish | We haue this houre a constant will to publish |
| King Lear | KL I.iii.4 | By day and night he wrongs me; every hour | By day and night, he wrongs me, euery howre |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.91 | If thou shouldst dally half an hour, his life, | If thou should'st dally halfe an houre, his life |
| 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.231 | the sixth hour; when beasts most graze, birds best peck, | thesixt houre, When beasts most grase, birds best pecke, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.37 | You may do it in an hour, sir. | You may doe it in an houre sir. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.90 | I thought to close mine eyes some half an hour, | I thought to close mine eyes some halfe an houre: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.368 | In Russian habit. Here they stayed an hour | In Russia habit: Heere they stayed an houre, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.369 | And talked apace; and in that hour, my lord, | And talk'd apace: and in that houre (my Lord) |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.782 | Now, at the latest minute of the hour, | Now at the latest minute of the houre, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.147 | Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. | Time, and the Houre, runs through the roughest Day. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.22 | Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve, | Yet when we can entreat an houre to serue, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.44.1 | I have almost slipped the hour. | I haue almost slipt the houre. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.88 | Had I but died an hour before this chance | Had I but dy'd an houre before this chance, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.27.1 | For a dark hour or twain. | For a darke houre, or twaine. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.127 | Your spirits shine through you. Within this hour, at most, | Your Spirits shine through you. / Within this houre, at most, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.137 | Of that dark hour. Resolve yourselves apart; | Of that darke houre: resolue your selues apart, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.132 | Where are they? Gone! Let this pernicious hour | Where are they? Gone? / Let this pernitious houre, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.30 | in this a quarter of an hour. | in this a quarter of an houre. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.25 | That struts and frets his hour upon the stage | That struts and frets his houre vpon the Stage, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.16.1 | She's very near her hour. | Shee's very neere her howre. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.159.2 | At what hour tomorrow | At what hower to morrow, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.161 | Alack, how may I do it, having the hour limited, | Alacke, how may I do it? Hauing the houre limited, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.76 | Dispatch it presently; the hour draws on | Dispatch it presently, the houre drawes on |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iv.7 | And why should we proclaim it in an hour before | And why should wee proclaime it in an howre before |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.351 | your sheep-biting face, and be hanged an hour. Will't | your sheepe-biting face, and be hang'd an houre: Will't |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.455.1 | At an unusual hour? | At an vnusuall howre? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.3 | All in an hour. | all in an houre. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.26 | At Gratiano's lodging some hour hence. | at Gratianos lodging / Some houre hence. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.2.2 | His hour is almost past. | His houre is almost past. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.3 | And it is marvel he outdwells his hour, | And it is meruaile he out-dwels his houre, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.19 | To the last hour of act, and then 'tis thought | To the last houre of act, and then 'tis thought |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.153 | That you would wear it till your hour of death, | That you would weare it til the houre of death, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.37 | As my mother was the first hour I was born. | As my mother was the first houre I was borne. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.276 | hour is fixed, the match is made. Would any man have | howre is fixt, the match is made: would any man haue |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.294 | jealousy! Eleven o'clock the hour. I will prevent this, | iealousie: eleuen o'clocke the howre, I will preuent this, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.4 | 'Tis past the hour, sir, that Sir Hugh promised | 'Tis past the howre (Sir) that Sir Hugh promis'd |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.42 | the period of my ambition. O this blessed hour! | the period of my ambition: O this blessed houre. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.61 | house the hour she appointed me. | house the houre she appointed me. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.120 | and nine is the hour, Master Brook. | and nine is the houre (Master Broome.) |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.4 | Within a quarter of an hour. | Within a quarter of an houre. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.57 | And ask him why, that hour of fairy revel, | And aske him why that houre of Fairy Reuell, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.iii.23 | The hour draws on. To the Oak, to the | The houre drawes-on: to the Oake, to the |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.1 | Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour | NOw faire Hippolita, our nuptiall houre |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.57 | A merrier hour was never wasted there. | A merrier houre was neuer wasted there. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.8 | While she was in her dull and sleeping hour, | While she was in her dull and sleeping hower, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.ii.25 | hour! | houre! |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.37 | To ease the anguish of a torturing hour? | To ease the anguish of a torturing houre? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.4 | him but I am heart-burned an hour after. | him, but I am heart-burn'd an howre after. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.308 | born in a merry hour. | born in a merry howre. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.30 | Go, then; find me a meet hour to draw Don | Goe then, finde me a meete howre, to draw on |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.84 | I talked with no man at that hour, my lord. | I talkt with no man at that howre my Lord. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.88 | Did see her, hear her, at that hour last night | Did see her, heare her, at that howre last night, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.279 | You have stayed me in a happy hour; I was | You haue stayed me in a happy howre, I was |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.163 | tongue: there's two tongues.’ Thus did she, an hour | tongue, there's two tongues: thus did shee an howre |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.74 | Question – why, an hour in clamour and a | Question, why an hower in clamour and a |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.13 | The Prince and Claudio promised by this hour | The Prince and Claudio promis'd by this howre |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.150 | Took once a pliant hour, and found good means | Tooke once a pliant houre, and found good meanes |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.295 | Come, Desdemona, I have but an hour | Come Desdemona, I haue but an houre |
| Othello | Oth II.ii.9 | full liberty of feasting from this present hour of five | full libertie of Feasting from this presenr houre of fiue, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.13 | Not this hour, Lieutenant; 'tis not yet ten o'th' clock. | Not this houre Lieutenant: 'tis not yet ten o'th'clocke. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.283 | Let me but bind it hard, within this hour | Let me but binde it hard, within this houre |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.4 | An hour or more, not meaning any harm? | An houre, or more, not meaning any harme? |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.83.1 | But half an hour! | But halfe an houre. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.99 | O insupportable! O heavy hour! | Oh insupportable! Oh heauy houre! |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.3 | Be my so used a guest as not an hour | By me so vsde a guest, as not an houre |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.45 | Walk half an hour, Leonine, at the least. | walke halfe an houre Leonine, at the least, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.261 | To men in joy; but grief makes one hour ten. | To men in ioy, but greefe makes one houre ten. |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.84 | Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made. | Now comes the sicke houre that his surfet made, |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.97 | An hour before I came the Duchess died. | An houre before I came, the Dutchesse di'de. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.42 | Now by my soul, I would it were this hour. | Now by my Soule, I would it were this houre. |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.55 | Now, sir, the sound that tells what hour it is | Now sir, the sound that tels what houre it is, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.124 | So I might live one hour in your sweet bosom. | So I might liue one houre in your sweet bosome. |
| Richard III | R3 III.iii.23 | Make haste. The hour of death is expiate. | Make haste, the houre of death is expiate. |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.104 | Meet me within this hour at Baynard's Castle. | Meet me within this houre at Baynards Castle. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.28 | Let me but meet you, ladies, one hour hence, | Let me but meet you Ladies one howre hence, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.82 | For never yet one hour in his bed | For neuer yet one howre in his Bed |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.174 | What comfortable hour canst thou name | What comfortable houre canst thou name, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.176 | Faith, none, but Humphrey Hour, that called your grace | Faith none, but Humfrey Hower, / That call'd your Grace |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.504 | And every hour more competitors | And euery houre more Competitors |
| Richard III | R3 V.i.8 | Do through the clouds behold this present hour, | Do through the clowds behold this present houre, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.31 | And by the second hour in the morning | And by the second houre in the Morning, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.161 | That never slept a quiet hour with thee, | That neuer slept a quiet houre with thee, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.280 | He should have braved the east an hour ago. | He should haue brau'd the East an houre ago, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.118 | Madam, an hour before the worshipped sun | Madam, an houre before the worshipt Sun |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.12 | Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour. | Faith I can tell her age vnto an houre. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.168.2 | By the hour of nine. | By the houre of nine. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.184 | Within this hour my man shall be with thee | Within this houre my man shall be with thee, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.2 | In half an hour she promised to return. | In halfe an houre she promised to returne, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.31 | man should buy the fee-simple of my life for an hour | man should buy the Fee-simple of my life, for an houre |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.112 | With Tybalt's slander – Tybalt, that an hour | With Tibalts slaunder, Tybalt that an houre |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.195 | Else, when he is found, that hour is his last. | Else when he is found, that houre is his last. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.67 | An hour but married, Tybalt murdered, | An houre but married, Tybalt murdered, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iv.7 | I would have been abed an hour ago. | I would haue bin a bed an houre ago. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.44 | I must hear from thee every day in the hour, | I must heare from thee euery day in the houre, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.177 | Day, night; hour, tide, time; work, play; | Day, night, houre, ride, time, worke, play, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.44 | Most miserable hour that e'er time saw | Most miserable houre, that ere time saw |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.130.2 | Full half an hour. | Full halfe an houre. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.145 | And steeped in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour | And steept in blood? Ah what an vn knd houre |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.253 | At the prefixed hour of her waking | At the prefixed houre of her waking, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.268 | Be sacrificed, some hour before his time, | be sacrific'd, some houre before the time, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.7 | And when in music we have spent an hour, | And when in Musicke we haue spent an houre, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.25 | ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it | readie in your Cabine for the mischance of the houre, if it |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.139.1 | That hour destroy us? | That howre destroy vs? |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.354 | Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour | Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each houre |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.295.1 | We say befits the hour. | We say befits the houre. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.91.1 | Till half an hour hence. | Till halfe an houre hence. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.25.1 | At this hour reigning there. | At this houre reigning there. |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.263 | Let them be hunted soundly. At this hour | Let them be hunted soundly: At this houre |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.4 | On the sixth hour, at which time, my lord, | On the sixt hower, at which time, my Lord |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.i.63 | To expel sickness, but prolong his hour! | To expell sicknesse, but prolong his hower. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.7 | Welcome, good brother. What do you think the hour? | Welcome good Brother. / What do you thinke the houre? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.70 | some other hour, I should derive much from't. For, | some other houre, I should deriue much from't. For |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.251 | Brought hither in a most unlucky hour | Brought hither in a most vnluckie houre, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.256 | 'Tis not an hour since I left them there. | 'Tis not an houre since I left him there. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.190 | And that you'll say ere half an hour pass. | And that you'l say ere halfe an houre passe. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.264 | Why dost thou laugh? It fits not with this hour. | Why dost thou laugh? it fits not with this houre. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.158 | Oft have you heard me wish for such an hour, | Oft haue you heard me wish for such an houre, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.30 | Thou grumblest and railest every hour on | Thou grumblest & railest euery houre on |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.121 | That Hector, by the fifth hour of the sun, | That Hector by the fift houre of the Sunne, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.64 | Ere the first sacrifice, within this hour, | Ere the first sacrifice, within this houre, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iii.1 | It is great morning, and the hour prefixed | Itis great morning, and the houre prefixt |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.77 | Keep Hector company an hour or two. | Keepe Hector company an houre, or two. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.106.2 | What, shall I come? The hour? | What shall I come? the houre. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.185 | I have been seeking you this hour, my lord. | I haue beene seeking you this houre my Lord: |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.17 | myself and a sister, both born in an hour – if the | my selfe, and a sister, both borne in an houre: if the |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.19 | you, sir, altered that, for some hour before you took me | you sir, alter'd that, for some houre before you tooke me |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.39 | Being once displayed, doth fall that very hour. | Being once displaid, doth fall that verie howre. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iii.49.1 | An hour. | For an houre. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.90.1 | Not half an hour before. | Not halfe an houre before. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.195 | O, he's drunk, Sir Toby, an hour agone. His eyes | O he's drunke sir Toby an houre agone: his eyes |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.355 | Taint the condition of this present hour, | Taint the condition of this present houre, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.ii.9 | And when that hour o'erslips me in the day | And when that howre ore-slips me in the day, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.ii.11 | The next ensuing hour some foul mischance | The next ensuing howre, some foule mischance |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.1 | Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping; | Nay, 'twill bee this howre ere I haue done weeping: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iii.1 | This is the hour that Madam Silvia | This is the houre that Madam Siluia |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.i.2 | And now it is about the very hour | And now it is about the very houre |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.183 | But one night with her, every hour in't will | But one night with her, every howre in't will |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.220.1 | Keep the feast full, bate not an hour on't. | Keepe the feast full, bate not an howre on't. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.60.1 | Laid up my hour to come. | Laide up my houre to come. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.264 | To be one hour at liberty, and grasp | To be one howre at liberty, and graspe |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.v.35 | I'll ever dwell. Within this hour the hubbub | Ile ever dwell; within this houre the whoobub |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.1 | About this hour my cousin gave his faith | About this houre my Cosen gave his faith |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.123 | Or I will make th' advantage of this hour | Or I will make th' advantage of this howre |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.300.1 | I am friends again, till that hour. | I am friends againe, till that howre. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.304 | Sleep till the hour prefixed, and hold your course. | Sleepe till the howre prefixt, and hold your course. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.125 | And undone in an hour. All the young maids | And undon in an howre. All the young Maydes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.43 | From this hour is complexion. Lie there, Arcite; | From this howre is Complexion: Lye there Arcite, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.11 | Lay by your anger for an hour, and dove-like | Lay by your anger for an houre, and dove-like |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.10.1 | What hour my fit would take me. | What houre my fit would take me. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.40 | And has done this long hour, to visit you. | And has done this long houre, to visite you. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.49 | He'll dance the morris twenty mile an hour, | Hee'l dance the Morris twenty mile an houre, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.92 | Farewell; I have told my last hour. I was false, | Farewell: I have told my last houre; I was false, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.128 | And smile with Palamon; for whom an hour, | And smile with Palamon; for whom an houre, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.129 | But one hour since, I was as dearly sorry | But one houre since, I was as dearely sorry, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.465 | To take the urgent hour. Come, sir, away. | To take the vrgent houre. Come Sir, away. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.135 | Within this hour bring me word 'tis done, | Within this houre bring me word 'tis done, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.194 | An hour since: Cleomenes and Dion, | An houre since: Cleomines and Dion, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.i.8 | To o'erthrow law, and in one self-born hour | To orethrow Law, and in one selfe-borne howre |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.458 | If I might die within this hour, I have lived | If I might dye within this houre, I haue liu'd |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.754 | shall know within this hour, if I may come to th' speech | shall know within this houre, if I may come to th' speech |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.116 | Jewel of children, seen this hour, he had paired | (Iewell of Children) seene this houre, he had payr'd |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.24 | wonder is broken out within this hour that ballad-makers | wonder is broken out within this houre, that Ballad-makers |