| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.87 | In his bright radiance and collateral light | In his bright radience and colaterall light, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.82 | In this my light deliverance, I have spoke | In this my light deliuerance, I haue spoke |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.43 | there can be no kernel in this light nut. The soul of this | there can be no kernell in this light Nut: the soule of this |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.32 | That he does weigh too light. My greatest grief, | That he does waigh too light: my greatest greefe, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.5 | If the quick fire of youth light not your mind | If the quicke fire of youth light not your minde, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.13 | a thousand sallets ere we light on such another herb. | a thousand sallets ere wee light on such another hearbe. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.177 | No more light answers. Let our officers | No more light Answeres: / Let our Officers |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.183 | and made the night light with drinking. | and made the night light with drinking. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.65 | Let all the number of the stars give light | Let all the number of the Starres giue light |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.68 | We'll light upon some settled low content. | Weele light vpon some setled low content. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.67 | For what obscured light the heavens did grant | For what obscured light the heauens did grant, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.91 | And by the benefit of his wished light | And by the benefit of his wished light |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.52 | Let love, being light, be drowned if she sink. | Let Loue, being light, be drowned if she sinke. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.101 | her own light. I warrant her rags and the tallow in | her owne light. I warrant, her ragges and the Tallow in |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.52 | devil's dam; and here she comes in the habit of a light | diuels dam: And here she comes in the habit of a light |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.54 | damn me ’ – that's as much to say ‘ God make me a light | dam me, That's as much to say, God make me a light |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.56 | light. Light is an effect of fire, and fire will burn. Ergo, | light, light is an effect of fire, and fire will burne: ergo, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.57 | light wenches will burn. Come not near her. | light wenches will burne, come not neere her. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.72 | And thereof comes it that his head is light. | And thereof comes it that his head is light. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.30 | All the contagion of the south light on you, | All the contagion of the South, light on you, |
| 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: |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.86 | strange fowl light upon neighbouring ponds. Your | strange Fowle light vpon neighbouring Ponds. Your |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.109 | Base and illustrous as the smoky light | Base and illustrious as the smoakie light |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.45 | moon in his pocket, we will pay him tribute for light: | Moon in his pocket, we will pay him Tribute for light: |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.25 | Though light, take pieces for the figure's sake: | Though light, take Peeces for the figures sake, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.165 | empty: the brain the heavier for being too light; the | empty: the Brain the heauier, for being too light; the |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.166 | purse too light, being drawn of heaviness. O, of this | Purse too light, being drawne of heauinesse. Oh, of this |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.118 | Giving more light than heat, extinct in both | Giuing more light then heate; extinct in both, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.100 | And to the last bended their light on me. | And to the last, bended their light on me. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.261 | light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow. | light a quality, that it is but a shadowes shadow. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.400 | light. For the law of writ and the liberty, these are the | light, for the law of Writ, and the Liberty. These are the |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.458 | That lend a tyrannous and a damned light | That lend a tyrannous, and damned light |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.226 | Nor earth to me give food, nor heaven light, | Nor Earth to giue me food, nor Heauen light, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.278 | Give me some light. Away! | Giue me some Light. Away. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.25 | much too light for the bore of the matter. These good fellows | much too light for the bore of the Matter. These good Fellowes |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.78 | The light and careless livery that it wears | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.28 | Whew! A plague upon you all. Give me my horse you | Whew: a plague light vpon you all. Giue my Horse you |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.60 | from your encounter, then they light on us. | from your encounter, then they light on vs. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.14 | whole plot too light, for the counterpoise of so great an | whole Plot too light, for the counterpoize of so great an |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.36 | wert indeed, but for the light in thy face, the son of | wert indeede, but for the Light in thy Face, the Sunne of |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.61 | Who, I? No, I defy thee! God's light, I was | Who I? I defie thee: I was |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.18 | Where you did give a fair and natural light, | Where you did giue a faire and naturall light, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.46 | cannot he see, though he have his own lanthorn to light | cannot he see, though he haue his owne Lanthorne to light |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.167 | Not so, my lord; your ill angel is light, but I | Not so (my Lord) your ill Angell is light: but I |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.61 | By this light, I am well spoke on; I can hear it | Nay, I am well spoken of, I can heare it |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.19 | In the grey vault of heaven, and by his light | In the gray vault of Heauen: and by his Light |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.128 | I pray you, sir? God's light, with two points on your | I pray you, Sir? what, with two Points on your |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.143 | and dried cakes. A captain! God's light, these villains | and dry'de Cakes. A Captaine? These Villaines |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.290 | by this light – flesh and corrupt blood (laying his hand | by this light Flesh, and corrupt Blood, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.193 | That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff, | That euen our Corne shall seeme as light as Chaffe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.85 | Believe me, I am passing light in spirit. | Beleeue me, I am passing light in spirit. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.34 | Did he suspire, that light and weightless down | Did hee suspire, that light and weightlesse dowlne |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 epilogue.19 | but light payment, to dance out of your debt. But a | but light payment, to Dance out of your debt: But a |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.89 | Hath, for a few light crowns, lightly conspired, | Hath for a few light Crownes, lightly conspir'd |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.185 | Since God so graciously hath brought to light | Since God so graciously hath brought to light |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.21 | God for it! – a most contagious treason come to light, | God for it, a most contagious Treason come to light, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.62 | By this day and this light, the fellow has | By this Day and this Light, the fellow ha's |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.69 | Or with light skirmishes enfeebled. | Or with light Skirmishes enfeebled. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.43 | Out, some light horsemen, and peruse their wings. | Out some light Horsemen, and peruse their Wings. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.39 | A plaguing mischief light on Charles and thee! | A plaguing mischeefe light on Charles, and thee, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.88 | That she will light to listen to the lays, | That she will light to listen to the Layes, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.65 | Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair! | Giues Light in Darknesse, Comfort in Despaire. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.40 | No, dark shall be my light, and night my day; | No: Darke shall be my Light, and Night my Day. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.65 | Which time will bring to light in smooth Duke Humphrey. | Which time will bring to light in smooth Duke Humfrey. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.30 | make shift for one, and so God's curse light upon you | make shift for one, and so Gods Cursse light vppon you |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.31 | Now are they but one lamp, one light, one sun. | Now are they but one Lampe, one Light, one Sunne: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.2 | When dying clouds contend with growing light, | When dying clouds contend, with growing light, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.2 | Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light. | Which whiles it lasted, gaue King Henry light. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.84 | Clarence, beware; thou keepest me from the light. | Clarence beware, thou keept'st me from the Light, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.29.1 | His practices to light? | His practises to light? |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.171 | An hundred marks? By this light, I'll ha' more. | An hundred Markes? By this light, Ile ha more. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.55 | That needs must light on this ingratitude. | That needs must light on this Ingratitude. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.45 | Give so much light that I may read by them. | Giue so much light, that I may reade by them. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.262 | A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; | A Curse shall light vpon the limbes of men; |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.31 | Now, Titinius! Now some light. O, he lights too! | Now Titinius. Now some light: O he lights too. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.76 | His lame unpolished shifts are come to light; | His lame vnpolisht shifts are come to light, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.28 | Their light-borne snaffles, nor their nimble spurs, | Their light borne snaffles, nor their nimble spurre |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.132 | With light to take light from a mortal eye; | With light to take light, from a mortall eye. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.134 | More than the sun steals mine own light from me. | More then the Sunne steales myne owne light from mee: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.145 | Who, being set in dark, seems therefore light? | Who being set in darke seemes therefore light, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.91 | Light lust within themselves, even through themselves. | Light lust within them selues; euen through them selues: |
| King John | KJ I.i.259 | Now, by this light, were I to get again, | Now by this light were I to get againe, |
| King John | KJ III.i.206 | Or the light loss of England for a friend. | Or the light losse of England, for a friend: |
| King John | KJ III.i.295 | The peril of our curses light on thee | The perill of our curses light on thee |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.61 | We had a kind of light what would ensue. | We had a kinde of light, what would ensue: |
| King Lear | KL II.i.31 | Yield! Come before my father! Light, ho, here! | Yeeld, come before my Father, light hoa, here, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.65 | Hang fated o'er men's faults light on thy daughters! | Hang fated o're mens faults, light on thy Daughters. |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.89 | of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in | of heart, light of eare, bloody of hand; Hog in sloth, Foxe in |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.106 | How light and portable my pain seems now, | |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.148 | case, your purse in a light; yet you see how this world | case, your purse in a light, yet you see how this world |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.52 | Where have I been? Where am I? Fair daylight? | Where haue I bin? / Where am I? Faire day light? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.75 | To seek the light of truth, while truth the while | To seeke the light of truth, while truth the while |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.77 | Light seeking light doth light of light beguile; | Light seeeking light, doth light of light beguile: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.78 | So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, | So ere you finde where light in darkenesse lies, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.79 | Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes. | Your light growes darke by losing of your eyes. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.83 | And give him light that it was blinded by. | And giue him light that it was blinded by. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.117 | And that's great marvel, loving a light | And that's great maruell, louing a light |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.184 | A woman sometimes, an you saw her in the light. | A woman somtimes, if you saw her in the light. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.185 | Perchance light in the light. I desire her name. | Perchance light in the light: I desire her name. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.10 | this light, but for her eye I would not love her – yes, | this light, but for her eye, I would not loue her; yes, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.30 | As doth thy face, through tears of mine, give light. | As doth thy face through teares of mine giue light: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.229 | She, an attending star, scarce seen a light. | Shee (an attending Starre) scarce seene a light. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.255 | Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light. | Diuels soonest tempt resembling spirits of light. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.267 | Dark needs no candles now, for dark is light. | Dark needs no Candles now, for dark is light. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.361 | Light wenches may prove plagues to men forsworn; | Light Wenches may proue plagues to men forsworne, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.15 | And so she died. Had she been light, like you, | and so she died: had she beene Light like you, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.18 | And so may you, for a light heart lives long. | And so may you: For a light heart liues long. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.19 | What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word? | What's your darke meaning mouse, of this light word? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.20 | A light condition in a beauty dark. | A light condition in a beauty darke. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.21 | We need more light to find your meaning out. | We need more light to finde your meaning out. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.22 | You'll mar the light by taking it in snuff; | You'll marre the light by taking it in snuffe: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.25 | So do not you, for you are a light wench. | So do not you, for you are a light Wench. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.26 | Indeed I weigh not you, and therefore light. | Indeed I waigh not you, and therefore light. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.376 | By light we lose light. Your capacity | By light we loose light; your capacitie |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.627 | A light for Monsieur Judas! It grows dark; he may stumble. | A light for monsieur Iudas, it growes darke, he may stumble. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iv.52 | Let not light see my black and deep desires. | Let not Light see my black and deepe desires: |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iv.10.1 | When living light should kiss it? | When liuing Light should kisse it? |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.50 | Which keeps me pale. Light thickens | Which keepes me pale. Light thickens, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iii.9.1 | Give us a light there, ho! | Giue vs a Light there, hoa. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iii.15.1 | A light, a light! | A Light, a Light. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iii.19.1 | Who did strike out the light? | Who did strike out the Light? |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.21 | How came she by that light? | How came she by that light? |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.22 | Why, it stood by her. She has light by | Why it stood by her: she ha's light by |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.33 | Not light them for themselves: for if our virtues | Not light them for themselues: For if our vertues |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.168 | them to light. Would he were returned. Marry, this | them to light: would hee were return'd. Marrie this |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.146 | With a light heart. Trust not my holy order | With a light heart; trust not my holie Order |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.223 | As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, | As there comes light from heauen, and words frõ breath, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.278 | That's the way, for women are light at midnight. | That's the way: for women are light at midnight. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.73 | to light; murder cannot be hid long – a man's son may, | to light, murder cannot be hid long, a mans sonne may, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.42 | They in themselves, good sooth, are too too light. | They in themselues goodsooth are too too light. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.38 | If you deny it, let the danger light | If you denie it, let the danger light |
| 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.89 | That light we see is burning in my hall; | That light we see is burning in my hall: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.129 | Let me give light, but let me not be light, | Let me giue light, but let me not be light, |
| 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 II.i.15 | Or any kind of light, | Or any kinde of light, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.ii.2 | see the light of our fairies. Remember, son Slender, my | see the light of our Fairies. Remember son Slender, my |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.ii.11 | The night is dark. Light and spirits will become it | The night is darke, Light and Spirits will become it |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.165 | And light them at the fiery glow-worms' eyes | And light them at the fierie-Glow-wormes eyes, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.133 | Will even weigh, and both as light as tales. | Will euen weigh, and both as light as tales. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.188 | Than all you fiery oes and eyes of light, | Then all yon fierie oes, and eies of light. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.386 | They wilfully themselves exile from light, | They wilfully themselues dxile from light, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.419 | For if but once thou show me thy grey light | For if but once thou shew me thy gray light, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.246 | It appears by his small light of discretion that | It appeares by his smal light of discretion, that |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.296 | Tongue, lose thy light; | Tongue lose thy light, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.381 | Through the house give glimmering light | Through the house giue glimmering light, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.384 | Hop as light as bird from briar, | Hop as light as bird from brier, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.28 | You may light on a husband that hath no beard. | You may light vpon a husband that hath no beard. |
| 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 III.iv.39 | Clap's into ‘ Light o' love ’; that goes without a | Claps into Light a loue, (that goes without a |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.41 | Ye light o' love, with your heels! Then if your | Ye Light aloue with your heeles, then if your |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.109 | Come, let us go. These things, come thus to light, | Come, let vs go: these things come thus to light, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.137 | By this light, he changes more and more; I | By this light, he changes more and more, I |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.223 | light; who in the night overheard me confessing to this | light, who in the night ouerheard me confessing to this |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.92 | hearts. Come, I will have thee; but, by this light, I take | hearts: come I will haue thee, but by this light I take |
| Othello | Oth I.i.145.1 | Light, I say, light! | Light, I say, light. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.176 | Light on the man! Come hither, gentle mistress; | Light on the man. Come hither gentle Mistris, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.265 | For she is with me. No, when light-winged toys | When she is with me. No, when light wing'd Toyes |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.398 | Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light. | Must bring this monstrous Birth, to the worlds light. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.168 | Holds his soul light: he dies upon his motion. | Holds his soule light: He dies vpon his Motion. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.242 | Making it light to Cassio. Cassio, I love thee, | Making it light to Cassio: Cassio, I loue thee, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.319 | And let him find it. Trifles light as air | And let him finde it. Trifles light as ayre, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.102 | Poor Cassio's smiles, gestures, and light behaviour | Poore Cassio's smiles, gestures, and light behauiours |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.271 | Are his wits safe? Is he not light of brain? | Are his wits safe? Is he not light of Braine? |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.149 | Good friend, go to him; for, by this light of heaven, | Good Friend, go to him: for by this light of Heauen, |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.62.2 | No, by this heavenly light. | No, by this Heauenly light. |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.63 | Nor I neither by this heavenly light: I might do't | Nor I neither, by this Heauenly light: / I might doo't |
| Othello | Oth V.i.30 | O, help, ho! Light! A surgeon! | Oh helpe hoa: Light, a Surgeon. |
| Othello | Oth V.i.47 | Enter Iago, with a light | Enter Iago. |
| Othello | Oth V.i.47 | Here's one comes in his shirt, with light and weapons. | Here's one comes in his shirt, with Light, and Weapons. |
| Othello | Oth V.i.73 | Light, gentlemen, I'll bind it with my shirt. | Light Gentlemen, Ile binde it with my shirt. |
| Othello | Oth V.i.88 | Lend me a light. Know we this face or no? | Lend me a Light: know we this face, or no? |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.1.1 | Enter Othello, with a light, Desdemona in her bed | Enter Othello, and Desdemona in her bed. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.7 | Put out the light, and then put out the light: | Put out the Light, and then put out the Light: |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.9 | I can again thy former light restore, | I can againe thy former light restore, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.10 | Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, | Should I repent me. But once put out thy Light, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.13 | That can thy light relume. When I have plucked thy rose, | That can thy Light re-Lume. / When I haue pluck'd thy Rose, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.I.16 | Waste it for you like taper-light. | Waste it for you, like Taper light. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.77 | Fair glass of light, I loved you, and could still, | Faire Glasse of light, I lou'd you, and could still, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.137 | Will shun no course to keep them from the light. | Will shew no course to keepe them from the light: |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.110 | Day serves not light more faithful than I'll be. | day serues not light more faithfull then Ile be. |
| Pericles | Per I.iii.17 | He would depart, I'll give some light unto you. | he would depart? Ile giue some light vnto you, |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.44 | The which hath fire in darkness, none in light; | The which hath Fire in darknesse, none in light: |
| Pericles | Per II.v.17 | Or never more to view nor day nor light. | Or neuer more to view nor day nor light. |
| Pericles | Per III.i.57 | No light, no fire; th' unfriendly elements | No light, no fire, th'vnfriendly elements, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.68 | You are light into my hands, where you are like to | You are light into my hands, where you are like to |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.82 | And when I mount, alive may I not light | And when I mount, aliue may I not light, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.176 | Then thus I turn me from my country's light, | Then thus I turne me from my countries light |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.221 | My oil-dried lamp and time-bewasted light | My oyle-dride Lampe, and time-bewasted light |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.293 | The man that mocks at it and sets it light. | |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.44 | And liberal largess are grown somewhat light, | And liberall Largesse, are growne somewhat light, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.38 | Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, | Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.43 | And darts his light through every guilty hole, | And darts his Lightning through eu'ry guiltie hole, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.86 | And some few vanities that make him light. | And some few Vanities, that make him light: |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.92 | Nimble mischance, that art so light of foot, | Nimble mischance, that art so light of foote, |
| Richard II | R2 V.vi.44 | And never show thy head by day nor light. | And neuer shew thy head by day, nor light. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.22 | Prodigious, and untimely brought to light, | Prodigeous, and vntimely brought to light, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.117 | Ay, gentle cousin, were it light enough. | I, gentle Cousin, were it light enough. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.118 | O, then I see you will part but with light gifts! | O then I see, you will part but with light gifts, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.401 | Day, yield me not thy light, nor, night, thy rest! | Day, yeeld me not thy light; nor Night, thy rest. |
| 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.ii.25 | Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light. | Earth-treading starres, that make darke heauen light, |
| 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.20 | To soar with his light feathers; and so bound | To soare with his light feathers, and to bound: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.35 | A torch for me! Let wantons light of heart | A Torch for me, let wantons light of heart |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.28 | More light, you knaves! and turn the tables up; | More light you knaues, and turne the Tables vp: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.87 | Be quiet, or – More light, more light! – For shame! | Be quiet, or more light, more light for shame, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.2 | But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? | But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.66 | With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls. | With Loues light wings / Did I ore-perch these Walls, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.99 | And therefore thou mayst think my 'haviour light. | And therefore thou maiest thinke my behauiour light, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.105 | And not impute this yielding to light love, | And not impute this yeelding to light Loue, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.155 | A thousand times the worse, to want thy light! | A thousand times the worse to want thy light, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.188 | The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, | The gray ey'd morne smiles on the frowning night. Checkring the Easterne Cloudes with streaks of light: And fleckled darknesse like a drunkard reeles. From forth daies path. and Titans burning wheeles: Now ere the Sun aduance his burning eye. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.189 | Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light, | Checkring the Easterne Clouds with streakes of light, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.1 | Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye | The gray ey'd morne smiles on the frowning night, / Checkring the Easterne Cloudes with streaks of light: / And fleckled darknesse like a drunkard reeles, / From forth daies path, and Titans burning wheeles: / Now ere the Sun aduance his burning eye, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.16 | Here comes the lady. O, so light a foot | Here comes the Lady. Oh so light a foot |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.20 | And yet not fall. So light is vanity. | And yet not fall, so light is vanitie. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.141 | A pack of blessings light upon thy back. | A packe or blessing light vpon thy backe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iv.33 | Farewell, my lord. – Light to my chamber, ho! | Farewell my Lord, light to my Chamber hoa, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.12 | Yond light is not daylight; I know it, I. | Yond light is not daylight, I know it I: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.15 | And light thee on thy way to Mantua. | And light thee on thy way to Mantua. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.35 | O, now be gone! More light and light it grows. | O now be gone, more light and itlight growes. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.36 | More light and light: more dark and dark our woes. | More light & light, more darke & darke our woes. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.46 | Against tomorrow. My heart is wondrous light, | Against to morrow, my heart is wondrous light, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.25 | Give me the light. Upon thy life I charge thee, | Giue me the light; vpon thy life I charge thee, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.86 | This vault a feasting presence full of light. | This Vault a feasting presence full of light. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.125 | What torch is yond that vainly lends his light | What Torch is yond that vainely lends his light |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.283 | Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb, | Anon comes one with light to ope the Tombe, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.110 | can by any means light on a fit man to teach her that | can by any meanes light on a fit man to teach her that |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.127 | good fellows in the world, an a man could light on them, | good fellowes in the world, and a man could light on them, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.203 | For knowing thee to be but young and light – | For knowing thee to be but yong and light. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.204 | Too light for such a swain as you to catch, | Too light for such a swaine as you to catch, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.266 | For by this light whereby I see thy beauty, | For by this light, whereby I see thy beauty, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.335 | To name the bigger light, and how the less, | To name the bigger Light, and how the lesse |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.340 | Of Sycorax – toads, beetles, bats light on you! | Of Sycorax: Toades, Beetles, Batts light on you: |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.452 | I must uneasy make, lest too light winning | I must vneasie make, least too light winning |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.453 | Make the prize light. – One word more! I charge thee | Make the prize light. One word more: I charge thee |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.490 | To whom I am subdued, are but light to me, | To whom I am subdude, are but light to me, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.141 | By this good light, this is a very shallow | By this good light, this is a very shallow |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.147 | By this light, a most perfidious and drunken | By this light, a most perfidious, and drunken |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.14 | and on. By this light, thou shalt be my lieutenant, | and on, by this light thou shalt bee my Lieutenant |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.23.1 | As Hymen's lamps shall light you. | As Hymens Lamps shall light you. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.68 | As the moon does, by wanting light to give. | As the Moone do's, by wanting light to giue: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.354 | plague of company light upon thee! I will fear to catch | plague of Company light vpon thee: / I will feare to catch |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.380 | Lie where the light foam of the sea may beat | Lye where the light Fome of the Sea may beate |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.43 | Find what thou wantest by free and offered light. | Finde what thou want'st, by free and offer'd light. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.124 | He is enfranchised and come to light. | He is infranchised and come to light: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.33 | Come down and welcome me to this world's light, | Come downe and welcome me to this worlds light, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.39 | I have, as when the sun doth light a storm, | I haue (as when the Sunne doth light a-scorne) |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.8 | Before the sun rose he was harnessed light, | Before the Sunne rose, hee was harnest lyte, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.28 | Puffing at all, winnows the light away, | Puffing at all, winnowes the light away; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.263 | Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep. | Light Botes may saile swift, though greater bulkes draw deepe. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.47 | daylight! An 'twere dark, you'd close sooner. (To | day light? and 'twere darke you'ld close sooner: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.64.1 | There, where we see the lights. | there where we see the light. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.5 | More than light airs and recollected terms | More then light ayres, and recollected termes |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iii.45 | Haply your eye shall light upon some toy | Haply your eye shall light vpon some toy |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.106 | Good fool, help me to some light and some | Good foole, helpe me to some light, and some |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.111 | paper, and light; and convey what I will set down to my | paper, and light: and conuey what I will set downe to my |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.118 | brains. I will fetch you light, and paper, and ink. | brains / I will fetch you light, and paper, and inke. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.83 | Best sing it to the tune of ‘ Light o' love.’ | Best sing it to the tune of Light O, Loue. |
| 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 II.iv.208 | And that hath dazzled my reason's light; | And that hath dazel'd my reasons light: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.49 | That I had any light from thee of this. | That I had any light from thee of this. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.129 | It will be light, my lord, that you may bear it | It will be light (my Lord) that you may beare it |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.174 | What light is light, if Silvia be not seen? | What light, is light, if Siluia be not seene? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.143 | Weary of this world's light, have to themselves | Weary of this worlds light, have to themselves |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.320.2 | By this good light, | By this good light |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.104 | May you never more enjoy the light, etc. | May you never more enjoy the light, &c. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.152 | When Cynthia with her borrowed light, etc. | When Cinthia with her borrowed light, &c. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.73 | do: confine her to a place where the light may rather | doe, Confine her to a place, where the light / May rather |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.52 | And gallops to the tune of ‘ Light o' Love.’ | And gallops to the turne of Light a'love, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.21 | There is but envy in that light which shows | There is but envy in that light, which showes |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.82.1 | I am none, by this good light! | I am none, by this good light. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.181 | Do light upon her, she shall bring him that | Do light vpon her, she shall bring him that |