| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.8 | We have lost our labour; they are gone a contrary way. | we haue lost our labour, / They are gone a contrarie way: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iv.17 | Ever a friend whose thoughts more truly labour | Euer a friend, whose thoughts more truly labour |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.93.2 | 'Tis sweating labour | 'Tis sweating Labour, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.97 | It's monstrous labour when I wash my brain | it's monstrous labour when I wash my braine, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.80 | With news the time's with labour and throes forth | With Newes the times with Labour, / And throwes forth |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.37.1 | Does pay thy labour richly. Go. | Does pay thy labour richly: Go. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.47 | Lie down, and stray no farther. Now all labour | Lye downe and stray no farther. Now all labour |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vi.13 | labour. Well said! Thou lookest cheerly, and I'll be with | labor. / Wel said, thou look'st cheerely, / And Ile be with |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.8 | He saves my labour by his own approach. | He saues my labor by his owne approach. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.54 | are; neither do I labour for a greater esteem than may | are: neither do I labor for a greater esteeme then may |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.37 | Against my soul's pure truth why labour you | Against my soules pure truth, why labour you, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.14 | That labour may you save. See where he comes. | That labour may you saue: See where he comes. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.97 | Or lose my labour in assaying it. | Or loose my labour in assaying it. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.99 | Like labour with the rest, where th' other instruments | Like labour with the rest, where th' other Instruments |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.82 | 'Tis not to save labour, nor that I want love. | 'Tis not to saue labour, nor that I want loue. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.47 | As cheap as lies, he sold the blood and labour | As cheape as Lies; he sold the Blood and Labour |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.61 | Thou know'st not what: but take it for thy labour: | Thou know'st not what: But take it for thy labour, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.108 | With labour – then by-peeping in an eye | With labour:) then by peeping in an eye |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.106 | Mine action, and thine own? Our horses' labour? | Mine Action? and thine owne? Our Horses labour? |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.163 | Be crossed with slowness; labour be his meed! | Be crost with slownesse; Labour be his meede. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.83 | Meantime we thank you for your well-took labour. | Meane time we thanke you, for your well-tooke Labour. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.211 | And we shall jointly labour with your soul | And we shall ioyntly labour with your soule |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.105 | for a man to labour in his vocation. | for a man to labour in his Vocation. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.178 | labour. | Labour. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.7 | An if it do, take it for thy labour – and if it | And if it doe, take it for thy labour: and if it |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.23 | Their courage with hard labour tame and dull, | Their courage with hard labour tame and dull, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.56 | And saved the treacherous labour of your son. | And sau'd the Treacherous labour of your Sonne. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.118 | Th' incessant care and labour of his mind | Th' incessant care, and labour of his Minde, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.37 | And labour shall refresh itself with hope | And labour shall refresh it selfe with hope |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.156 | Stand in our way. There's for thy labour, Montjoy. | Stand in our way. There's for thy labour Mountioy. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.270 | With profitable labour to his grave: | With profitable labour to his Graue: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.121 | Will soon be levied. Herald, save thou thy labour; | Will soone be leuyed. / Herauld, saue thou thy labour: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.179 | While these do labour for their own preferment, | While these do labour for their owne preferment, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.180 | Behoves it us to labour for the realm. | Behooues it vs to labor for the Realme. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.239 | The King will labour still to save his life, | The King will labour still to saue his Life, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.137 | My thoughts that labour to persuade my soul | My thoughts, that labour to perswade my soule, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.15 | True; and yet it is said ‘ Labour in thy | True: and yet it is said, Labour in thy |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.20 | With bootless labour swim against the tide | With bootlesse labour swimme against the Tyde, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.32 | Poor Queen and son, your labour is but lost; | Poore Queene, and Sonne, your labour is but lost: |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.25 | The pride upon them, that their very labour | The Pride vpon them, that their very labour |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.4 | That labour, sir. All's now done but the ceremony | That labour Sir. All's now done but the Ceremony |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.18 | Much weightier than this work. The Queen's in labour, | Much waightier then this worke. The Queens in Labor |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.20.1 | She'll with the labour end. | Shee'l with the Labour, end. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.64 | Thy labour rather to be feared than loved, | They labour rather to be feared then loued, |
| King John | KJ III.ii.10 | Will bring this labour to an happy end. | Will bring this labor to an happy end. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.2 | You do climb up it now. Look how we labour. | You do climbe vp it now. Look how we labor. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.267 | supply the place for your labour. | supply the place for your Labour. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iv.29 | I have begun to plant thee, and will labour | I haue begun to plant thee, and will labour |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iv.45 | The rest is labour, which is not used for you. | The Rest is Labor, which is not vs'd for you: |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.47 | The labour we delight in physics pain. | The labour we delight in, Physicks paine: |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.47.2 | Thou losest labour. | Thou loosest labour |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.63 | As fast locked up in sleep as guiltless labour | As fast lock'd vp in sleepe, as guiltlesse labour, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.425.2 | You do but lose your labour. | You doe but loose your labour. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.74 | Cold indeed, and labour lost. | Cold indeede, and labour lost, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.220 | her honest, I lose not my labour. If she be otherwise, | her honest, I loose not my labor: if she be otherwise, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.221 | 'tis labour well bestowed. | 'tis labour well bestowed. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.36 | Skim milk, and sometimes labour in the quern, | Skim milke, and sometimes labour in the querne, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.89 | marriage – surely suit ill spent, and labour ill bestowed! | marriage: surely sute ill spent, and labour ill bestowed. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.270 | Can labour aught in sad invention, | Can labour aught in sad inuention, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.38 | confess and be hanged for his labour. First to be hanged | confesse, and be hang'd for his labour. First, to be hang'd, |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.80 | having the world for your labour, tis a wrong in your | hauing the world for your labour, 'tis a wrong in your |
| Othello | Oth V.i.101 | Save you your labour. He that lies slain here, Cassio, | Saue you your labour. He that lies slaine heere (Cassio) |
| Pericles | Per I.i.67 | I sought a husband, in which labour | I sought a Husband, in which labour, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.52 | Peace be at your labour, honest fishermen! | Peace be at your labour, honest Fisher-men. |
| Pericles | Per II.i.95.1 | How well this honest mirth becomes their labour! | How well this honest mirth becomes their labour? |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.15 | The labour of each knight in his device. | The labour of each Knight, in his deuice. |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.64 | And far surmounts our labour to attain it. | And farre surmounts our labour to attaine it. |
| Richard II | R2 V.vi.41 | The guilt of conscience take thou for thy labour, | The guilt of conscience take thou for thy labour, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.249 | That he would labour my delivery. | That he would labour my deliuery. |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.53 | A blessed labour, my most sovereign lord. | A blessed labour my most Soueraigne Lord: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.45 | In lasting labour of his pilgrimage! | In lasting labour of his Pilgrimage. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.117 | labour and effect one thing specially. | labour and effect one thing specially. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.254 | Yea, leave that labour to great Hercules, | Yea, leaue that labour to great Hercules, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.148 | To painful labour both by sea and land, | To painfull labour, both by sea and land: |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.13 | Do you not hear him? You mar our labour. | Do you not heare him? you marre our labour, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.231 | Who, with a charm joined to their suffered labour, | Who, with a Charme ioynd to their suffred labour |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.1 | There be some sports are painful, and their labour | There be some Sports are painfull; & their labor |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.214 | ears for my labour. | eares for my labour. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.69 | That labour on the bosom of this sphere | That labour on the bosome of this Sphere, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.156 | Vouchsafe my labour, and long live your lordship! | Vouchsafe my Labour, / And long liue your Lordship. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.212 | labour. | labour. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.229 | for thy labour. He that loves to be flattered is worthy | for thy labour. He that loues to be flattered, is worthy |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.71 | I have had my labour for my travail, | I haue had my Labour for my trauell, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.73 | between and between, but small thanks for my labour. | betweene and betweene, but small thankes for my labour. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.241 | Even to my full of view. – A labour saved! | Euen to my full of view. A labour sau'd. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.64 | As full of labour as a wise man's art. | As full of labour as a Wise-mans Art: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.33 | If lost, why then a grievous labour won; | If lost, why then a grieuous labour won; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.98 | mutton, nothing for my labour. | Mutton) nothing for my labour. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.126 | Why, if it please you, take it for your labour. | Why if it please you, take it for your labour; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.11 | Where we should turn or drown; if labour through, | Where we should turne or drowne; if labour through, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.34.2 | With much labour; | With much labour: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.129 | Which speaks him prone to labour, never fainting | Which speakes him prone to labour, never fainting |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.25.2 | I am in labour | I am in labour |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.61 | With labour, and the thing she took to quench it: | With labour, and the thing she tooke to quench it |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.756 | Age, thou hast lost thy labour. | Age, thou hast lost thy labour. |