| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.9 | would stir it up where it wanted, rather than lack it | would stirre it vp where it wanted rather then lack it |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.21 | have play for lack of work. Would for the King's sake he | haue play for lacke of worke. Would for the Kings sake hee |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.68 | They that least lend it you shall lack you first. | They that least lend it you, shall lacke you first. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.11 | lack not folly to commit them, and have ability enough | lacke not folly to commit them, & haue abilitie enough |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.199 | And lack not to lose still. Thus, Indian-like, | And lacke not to loose still; thus Indian like |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.20 | They say our French lack language to deny | They say our French, lacke language to deny |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.19 | Rynaldo, you did never lack advice so much | Rynaldo you did neuer lacke aduice so much, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.193 | Did lack a parallel; yet for all that | Did lacke a Paralell: yet for all that |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.222 | Since you lack virtue I will lose a husband – | (Since you lacke vertue, I will loose a husband) |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.52 | Lack blood to think on't, and flush youth revolt. | Lacke blood to thinke on't, and flush youth reuolt, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.61 | I know you could not lack, I am certain on't, | I know you could not lacke, I am certaine on't, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.174.1 | Not lack your company. | not lacke your companie. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.82 | These hands do lack nobility, that they strike | These hands do lacke Nobility, that they strike |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.59 | With ships made cities, condemn myself to lack | With Ships, made Cities; condemne my selfe, to lacke |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vi.16 | for lack of a dinner, if there live anything in this desert. | For lacke of a dinner, / If there liue any thing in this Desert. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.27 | night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit | night, is lacke of the Sunne: That hee that hath learned no wit |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.97 | If a hart do lack a hind, | If a Hart doe lacke a Hinde, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.67 | were gravelled for lack of matter, you might take occasion | were grauel'd, for lacke of matter, you might take occasion |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.165 | Alas, dear love, I cannot lack thee two hours! | Alas, deere loue, I cannot lacke thee two houres. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.16 | She says I am not fair, that I lack manners, | Shee saies I am not faire, that I lacke manners, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.164 | Be of good cheer, youth! You a man? You lack | Be of good cheere youth: you a man? / You lacke |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.200 | For though abundantly they lack discretion, | For though abundantly they lacke discretion |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.172.1 | And mothers that lack sons. | And Mothers that lacke Sonnes. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.80 | I shall lack voice. The deeds of Coriolanus | I shall lacke voyce: the deeds of Coriolanus |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.73 | Who lack not virtue, no, nor power, but that | Who lack not Vertue, no, nor Power, but that |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.29.1 | By lack of stooping – | By lacke of stooping. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.108 | And am so near the lack of charity – | And am so neere the lacke of Charitie |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.22 | Smiled at their lack of skill, but found their courage | Smil'd at their lacke of skill, but found their courage |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.16 | That I should seem to lack humanity | That I should seeme to lacke humanity, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.220 | I'll sweeten thy sad grave: thou shalt not lack | Ile sweeten thy sad graue: thou shalt not lacke |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.374.2 | 'Lack, good youth! | 'Lacke, good youth: |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.59.2 | 'Lack, to what end? | Lacke, to what end? |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.186 | God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together, | God willing shall not lacke: let vs goe in together, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.117 | To lack discretion. Come, go we to the King. | To lacke discretion. Come, go we to the King, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.200 | gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together | Gumme: and that they haue a plentifull locke of Wit, together |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.574 | But I am pigeon-livered and lack gall | But I am Pigeon-Liuer'd, and lacke Gall |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.217 | For who not needs shall never lack a friend, | For who not needs, shall neuer lacke a Frend: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.347 | Sir, I lack advancement. | Sir I lacke Aduancement. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.364 | Not a whit, i'faith, I lack some of thy | Not a whit: I lacke some of thy |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.74 | lack subjects? Do not the rebels need soldiers? Though | lack subiects? Do not the Rebels want Soldiers? Though |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.108 | that are mouldy lack use! Very singular good, in faith, | that are mouldie, lacke vse: very singular good. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.214 | On late offenders, that he now doth lack | On late Offenders, that he now doth lacke |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.68 | Why, there spoke a king. Lack nothing! Be | Why there spoke a King: lack nothing, be |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.70 | That lack of means enforce you not to evils; | That lacke of meanes enforce you not to euill: |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.21 | And sheathed their swords for lack of argument. | And sheath'd their Swords, for lack of argument. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.134 | That they lack; for if their heads had any | That they lack: for if their heads had any |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.21 | And sheathe for lack of sport. Let us but blow on them, | And sheath for lack of sport. Let vs but blow on them, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.35 | And lack of other means, in desperate manner | And lack of other meanes, in desperate manner |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.28 | I am not gamesome: I do lack some part | I am not Gamesom: I do lacke some part |
| King John | KJ IV.i.48 | Saying, ‘ What lack you?’, and ‘ Where lies your grief?’, | Saying, what lacke you? and where lies your greefe? |
| King John | KJ IV.i.118 | Deny their office. Only you do lack | Deny their office: onely you do lacke |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.117 | To't, luxury, pell-mell, for I lack soldiers. | Too't Luxury pell-mell, for I lacke Souldiers. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.53 | I fear these stubborn lines lack power to move. | I feare these stubborn lines lack power to moue. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.249 | That I may swear beauty doth beauty lack | That I may sweare Beauty doth beauty lacke, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.83.1 | Your noble friends do lack you. | Your Noble Friends do lacke you. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.140 | You lack the season of all natures, sleep. | You lacke the season of all Natures, sleepe. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.236 | Our lack is nothing but our leave. Macbeth | Our lacke is nothing but our leaue. Macbeth |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.106 | Come, fear not you; good counsellors lack no | Come: feare not you; good Counsellors lacke no |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.147 | Save that we do the denunciation lack | Saue that we doe the denunciation lacke |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.68 | Have sure more lack of reason. What would you say? | Haue sure more lacke of reason: / What would you say? |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.470 | And lack of tempered judgement afterward. | And lacke of temper'd iudgement afterward. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.37 | To think on this, and shall I lack the thought | To thinke on this, and shall I lacke the thought |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.62 | With that we lack. I'll hold thee any wager, | With that we lacke; Ile hold thee any wager |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.160 | lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend | lacke of years be no impediment to let him lacke a reuerend |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.82 | Tester I'll have in pouch when thou shalt lack, | Tester ile haue in pouch when thou shalt lacke, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.17 | lack no direction. – Be gone, and come when you are | lacke no direction. Be gone, and come when you are |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.53 | Bring you the maid, you shall not lack a priest. | Bring you the Maid, you shall not lacke a Priest. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.100 | For lack of tread are undistinguishable. | For lacke of tread are vndistinguishable. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.223 | Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company, | Nor doth this wood lacke worlds of company, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.42 | husband have stables enough, you'll see he shall lack no | husband haue stables enough, you'll looke he shall lacke no |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.178 | Let all my sins lack mercy! O my father, | Let all my sinnes lacke mercy. O my Father, |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.3 | To do no contrived murder: I lack iniquity | To do no contriu'd Murder: I lacke Iniquitie |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.286 | If virtue no delighted beauty lack, | If Vertue no delighted Beautie lacke, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.315 | When she shall lack it. | When she shall lacke it. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.17 | Let's lack no discipline, make no delay, | Let's lacke no Discipline, make no delay, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.9 | Am starved for meat, giddy for lack of sleep, | Am staru'd for meate, giddie for lacke of sleepe: |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.139 | The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness, | The truth you speake doth lacke some gentlenesse, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.180 | Why dost thou weep? Canst thou the conscience lack | Why dost thou weepe, canst thou the conscience lacke, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.181 | To think I shall lack friends? Secure thy heart. | To thinke I shall lacke friends: secure thy heart, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.222 | 'Tis lack of kindly warmth they are not kind. | 'Tis lacke of kindely warmth, they are not kinde; |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.286 | So I shall mend mine own by th' lack of thine. | So I shall mend mine owne, by'th'lacke of thine |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.145 | A lack of Timon's aid, hath sense withal | A lacke of Timons ayde, hath since withall |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.94 | Then will Ajax lack matter, if he have lost his | Then will Aiax lacke matter, if he haue lost his |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.31 | fools; and I that am sure I lack thee may pass for a wise | fooles: and I that am sure I lacke thee, may passe for a wise |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.95 | So big to hold so much, they lack retention. | So bigge, to hold so much, they lacke retention. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.294 | make me tell them how much I lack of a man. | make me tell them how much I lacke of a man. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.340 | Can lack persuasion? Do not tempt my misery, | Can lacke perswasion. Do not tempt my misery, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.132 | What things you make of us! For what we lack | What things you make of us? For what we lacke |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.157.2 | What? Lack I credit? | What? lacke I credit? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.158 | I had rather you did lack than I, my lord, | I had rather you did lacke then I (my Lord) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.76 | Dost lack any money? I have a little money for | Doest lacke any mony? I haue a little mony for |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.127 | The flower-de-luce being one: O, these I lack | (The Flowre-de-Luce being one.) O, these I lacke, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.229 | What maids lack from head to heel | What Maids lacke from head to heele: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.351 | Your lack of love or bounty, you were straited | Your lacke of loue, or bounty, you were straited |