| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.143 | idle, made of self-love which is the most inhibited sin in | ydle, made of selfe-loue, which is the most inhibited sinne in |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.49 | An idle lord, I swear. | An idle Lord, I sweare. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.26 | In most rich choice, yet, in his idle fire, | In most rich choice: yet in his idle fire, |
| 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 |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.50 | If idle talk will once be necessary – | If idle talke will once be necessary |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.49 | I will weary you then no longer with idle | I will wearie you then no longer with idle |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.187 | Usurping ivy, briar, or idle moss, | Vsurping Iuie, Brier, or idle Mosse, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.218 | And shrive you of a thousand idle pranks. – | And shriue you of a thousand idle prankes: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.97 | I'th' midst o'th' body, idle and unactive, | I'th midd'st a th' body, idle and vnactiue, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.71 | play the idle housewife with me this afternoon. | play the idle Huswife with me this afternoone. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.138 | Or looked upon this love with idle sight? | Or look'd vpon this Loue, with idle sight, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.100 | They are coming to the play. I must be idle. Get | They are comming to the Play: I must be idle. Get |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.12 | Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue. | Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.13 | Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue. | Go, go, you question with an idle tongue. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iii.39 | What, standest thou idle here? Lend me thy sword. | What, stand'st thou idle here? Lend me thy sword, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.122 | marry his sister Nell. Repent at idle times as thou mayst, | marrie his Sister Nell. Repent at idle times as thou mayst, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.189 | Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason, | Yea, euery idle, nice, and wanton Reason, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.29 | Took stand for idle speculation: | Tooke stand for idle speculation: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.47 | To every idle rascal follower. | To euery idle Rascall follower. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.1 | Hence! home, you idle creatures, get you home: | HEnce: home you idle Creatures, get you home: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.117 | And every man hence to his idle bed; | And euery man hence, to his idle bed: |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.68 | That they pass by me as the idle wind, | That they passe by me, as the idle winde, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.198 | I am awaked from this idle dream. – | I am awaked from this idle dreame, |
| King John | KJ III.iii.46 | And strain their cheeks to idle merriment, | And straine their cheekes to idle merriment, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.145 | Possessed with rumours, full of idle dreams, | Possest with rumors, full of idle dreames, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.153 | Thou idle dreamer, wherefore didst thou so? | Thou idle Dreamer, wherefore didst thou so? |
| King John | KJ V.vii.4 | Doth by the idle comments that it makes | Doth by the idle Comments that it makes, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.49 | to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged | to finde an idleand fond bondage, in the oppression of aged |
| King Lear | KL I.iii.17 | Not to be overruled. Idle old man, | |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.5 | Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow | Darnell, and all the idle weedes that grow |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.21 | That on th' unnumbered idle pebble chafes | That on th'vnnumbred idle Pebble chafes |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.296 | These oaths and laws will prove an idle scorn. | These oathes and lawes will proue an idle scorne. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.168 | And critic Timon laugh at idle toys! | And Critticke Tymon laugh at idle toyes. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.854 | Will hear your idle scorns, continue then, | Will heare your idle scornes; continue then, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.9 | And held in idle price to haunt assemblies | And held in idle price, to haunt assemblies |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.11 | Could I, with boot, change for an idle plume | Could I, with boote, change for an idle plume |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.263 | To draw with idle spiders' strings | To draw with ydle Spiders strings |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.63 | Make thee the father of their idle dream, | Make thee the father of their idle dreame, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.12 | Ay; and as idle as she may hang together, for want | I, and as idle as she may hang together for want |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.168 | Never did mockers waste more idle breath. | Neuer did mockers wast more idle breth. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.166 | As the remembrance of an idle gaud | as the remembrance of an idle gaude, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.417 | And this weak and idle theme, | And this weake and idle theame, |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.95 | Mine's not an idle cause; the Duke himself, | Mine's not an idle Cause. The Duke himselfe, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.139 | Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, | Wherein of Antars vast, and Desarts idle, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.261 | than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false | then in Reputation. Reputation is an idle, and most false |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.66 | Which waste of idle hours hath quite thrown down. | Which waste and idle houres, hath quite thrown downe. |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.31 | And hate the idle pleasures of these days. | And hate the idle pleasures of these dayes. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.103 | You said that idle weeds are fast in growth. | You said, that idle Weeds are fast in growth: |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.105.2 | And therefore is he idle? | And therefore is he idle? |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.75 | Not sleeping, to engross his idle body, | Not sleeping, to engrosse his idle Body, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.97 | Which are the children of an idle brain, | Which are the children of an idle braine, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.12 | Heaven cease this idle humour in your honour! | Heauen cease this idle humor in your Honor. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.82 | O, yes, my lord, but very idle words, | Oh yes my Lord, but verie idle words, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.157 | No occupation: all men idle, all, | No occupation, all men idle, all: |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.170 | None, man, all idle – whores | None (man) all idle; Whores |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.152 | Ladies, there is an idle banquet attends you, | Ladies, there is an idle banquet attends you, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.27 | No, gods, I am no idle votarist. | No Gods, I am no idle Votarist, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.18 | Away with slavish weeds and servile thoughts! | Away with slauish weedes, and idle thoughts, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.171 | My hand hath been but idle; let it serve | My hand hath bin but idle, let it serue |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.135 | idle head you would eat chickens i'th' shell. | idle head, you would eate chickens i'th' shell. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.27 | No! Why art thou then exasperate, thou idle | No? why art thou then exasperate, thou idle, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iii.47 | I think, is not for idle markets, sir. | I thinke is not for idle Markets, sir. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.122 | Go, hang yourselves all. You are idle, shallow | Go hang your selues all: you are ydle shallowe |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.157 | Or else for want of idle time, could not again reply; | Or else for want of idle time, could not againe reply, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.62 | And though myself have been an idle truant, | And though my selfe haue beene an idle Trewant, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.179 | Fancies too weak for boys, too green and idle | Fancies too weake for Boyes, too greene and idle |