| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.201 | I did, my lord, but loath am to produce | I did my Lord, but loath am to produce |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.107 | I am loath to tell you what I would you knew. | I am loath to tell you what, I would you knew. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.122 | would be loath to foil him, as I must for my own honour | would bee loth to foyle him, as I must for my owne honour |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.397 | would now like him, now loathe him; then entertain | would now like him, now loath him: then entertaine |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.136 | Hopeless to find, yet loath to leave unsought | Hopelesse to finde, yet loth to leaue vnsought |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.86.1 | I am loath to beat thee. | I am loath to beate thee. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.145.13 | poisoner woos the Queen with gifts. She seems harsh | Poysoner Wooes the Queene with Gifts, she seemes loath and vnwilling |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.127 | 'Tis not due yet – I would be loath to pay him | 'Tis not due yet: I would bee loath to pay him |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.149 | Well, I am loath to gall a new- | Well, I am loth to gall a new- |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.153 | i'faith, I am loath to pawn my plate, so God save me, | I loath to pawne my Plate, in good earnest |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.25 | Since you are tongue-tied and so loath to speak, | Since you are tongue-ty'd, and so loth to speake, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.114 | Is Edward your true king? For I were loath | Is Edward your true King? for I were loth |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.48 | Why then, though loath, yet must I be content; | Why then, though loth, yet must I be content: |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.239 | again; but to my thinking, he was very loath to lay his | againe: but to my thinking, he was very loath to lay his |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.74 | And, like a soldier, would be loath to lose | and like a souldier would be loath to loose |
| King John | KJ V.v.1 | The sun of heaven, methought, was loath to set, | The Sun of heauen (me thought) was loth to set; |
| King Lear | KL I.i.270 | And, like a sister, am most loath to call | And like a Sister am most loth to call |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.157 | But I believe, although I seem so loath, | But I beleeue although I seeme so loth, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.vi.1 | To speak so indirectly I am loath. | To speake so indirectly I am loath, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.16 | Look to my house. I am right loath to go. | Looke to my house, I am right loath to goe, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.173 | I do not misdoubt my wife, but I would be loath | I doe not misdoubt my wife: but I would bee loath |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.15 | honey bag break not, I would be loath to have you overflown | hony bag breake not, I would be loth to haue yon ouer-flowne |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.78 | O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now! | Oh, how mine eyes doth loath this visage now! |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.172 | But like in sickness did I loathe this food. | But like a sickenesse did I loath this food, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.265 | Must be to loathe her. O, curse of marriage! | Must be to loath her. Oh Curse of Marriage! |
| Pericles | Per II.v.13 | Loath to bid farewell, we take our leaves. | Loth to bid farewell, we take our leaues. |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.168 | For I am loath to break our country's laws. | For I am loth to breake our Countries Lawes: |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.10 | As loath to lose him, not your father's death; | As loath to lose him, not your Fathers death: |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.86 | As loath to bear me to the slaughter-house. | As loth to beare me to the slaughter-house. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.208 | Loath to depose the child, your brother's son; | Loth to depose the Child, your Brothers Sonne, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.125 | would be loath to fall into my dreams again. I will therefore | would be loth to fall into my dreames againe: I wil therefore |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.46 | picture. Alas the day, how loath you are to offend | picture. Alasse the day, how loath you are to offend |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.165 | never saw her. I would be loath to cast away my speech; | neuer saw her. I would bee loath to cast away my speech: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.23 | words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason | wordes are growne so false, I am loath to proue reason |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.39 | And that, my lord, I shall be loath to do: | And that (my Lord) I shall be loath to doe: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.125 | I am very loath to be your idol, sir; | I am very loath to be your Idoll Sir; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.200 | If she have any honour, would be loath | If shee have any honour, would be loth |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.569 | Where you'll be loath to be. Besides, you know | Where you'le be loth to be: besides you know, |