| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.38 | overlooking. I have those hopes of her good, that her | ouer looking. I haue those hopes of her good, that her |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.34.1 | With looking on his life. | With looking on his life. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.20 | Looking for Antony. But all the charms of love, | Looking for Anthony: but all the charmes of Loue, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.53 | By looking back what I have left behind | By looking backe what I haue left behinde |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.21 | And looking on it, with lack-lustre eye, | And looking on it, with lacke-lustre eye, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.161 | He had so, looking as it were – | He had so, looking as it were, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.12 | (Looking into the cave) | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.37 | Looking before and after, gave us not | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.83 | Whilst I by looking on the praise of him | Whil'st I by looking on the praise of him, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.306 | looking on. | looking on. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.50.1 | (looking at the outside of the letter) | |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.215 | Looking the way her harmless young one went, | Looking the way her harmelesse young one went, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.43 | To shepherds looking on their silly sheep | To Shepheards, looking on their silly Sheepe, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.75 | Among my maids, full little – God knows – looking | Among my Maids, full little (God knowes) looking |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.42 | (looking at the Queen) | |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.219 | Swayed from the point by looking down on Caesar. | Sway'd from the point, by looking downe on Casar. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.401 | Will lose their eyesight looking in the sun. | Will loose their eie-sight looking in the Sunne: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.88 | Who looking wistly on me make me blush, | Who looking wistely on me, make me blush: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.227 | To feel only looking on fairest of fair. | To feele onely looking on fairest of faire: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.241 | Might shake off fifty, looking in her eye. | Might shake off fiftie, looking in her eye: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.293 | And abstinence engenders maladies. | And abstinence ingenders maladies. / And where that you haue vow'd to studie (Lords) / In that each of you haue forsworne his Booke. / Can you still dreame and pore, and thereon looke. / For when would you my Lord, or you, or you, / Haue found the ground of studies excellence, / Without the beauty of a womans face; / From womens eyes this doctrine I deriue, / They are the Ground, the Bookes, the Achadems, / From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire. / Why, vniuersall plodding poysons vp / The nimble spirits in the arteries, / As motion and long during action tyres / The sinnowy vigour of the trauailer. / Now for not looking on a womans face, / You haue in that forsworne the vse of eyes: / And studie too, the causer of your vow. / For where is any Author in the world, / Teaches such beauty as a womans eye: / Learning is but an adiunct to our selfe, / And where we are, our Learning likewise is. / Then when our selues we see in Ladies eyes, / With our selues. / Doe we not likewise see our learning there? |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.206 | Which once thou swor'st was worth the looking on. | Which once thou sworst, was worth the looking on: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.82 | Page at the door, sweating and blowing and looking | Page at the doore, sweating, and blowing, and looking |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.83 | Who, looking for adventures in the world, | Who looking for aduentures in the world, |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.21 | Looking awry upon your lord's departure, | Looking awry vpon your Lords departure, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.50 | And lived with looking on his images; | And liu'd with looking on his Images: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.98 | I'll look to like, if looking liking move. | Ile looke to like, if looking liking moue. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.147 | But see, while idly I stood looking on, | But see, while idely I stood looking on, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.156 | As on a pillory, looking through the lute, | As on a Pillorie, looking through the Lute, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.28 | here looking out at the window. | here looking out at the window. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.314.1 | Wherefore this ghastly looking? | Wherefore this ghastly looking? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.17 | (looking at the jewel) | |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.124 | Looking all downwards to behold our cheeks, | Looking all downewards to behold our cheekes |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.153 | To harder bosoms! Looking on the lines | To harder bosomes? Looking on the Lynes |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.785 | against a brick wall, the sun looking with a southward | against a Brick-wall, (the Sunne looking with a South-ward |