| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.106 | stranger sense. Her matter was, she loved your son. | stranger sence, her matter was, shee loued your Sonne; |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.145 | To say I am thy mother? What's the matter, | To say I am thy mother? what's the matter, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.266 | What's the matter, sweetheart? | What's the matter sweet-heart? |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.44 | man is his clothes. Trust him not in matter of heavy | man is his cloathes: Trust him not in matter of heauie |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.34 | What is the matter? | What is the matter. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.4 | no matter; for we must not seem to understand | no matter: for we must not seeme to vnderstand |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.102 | No matter. His heels have deserved it in usurping | No matter, his heeles haue deseru'd it, in vsurping |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.74 | son there is no fitter matter. How does your ladyship | sonne, there is no fitter matter. How do's your Ladyship |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.121 | My forepast proofs, howe'er the matter fall, | My fore-past proofes, how ere the matter fall |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.124.1 | We'll sift this matter further. | Wee'l sift this matter further. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.69 | prayer, though thou deny me a matter of more weight; | Prayer, though thou denie me a matter of more waight: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.18.2 | What's the matter? | What's the matter? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.31.2 | I could have given less matter | I could haue giuen lesse matter |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.10 | Serves for the matter that is then born in't. | serues for the matter that is then borne in't. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.25.1 | Nor curstness grow to th' matter. | Nor curstnesse grow to'th'matter. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.57 | As matter whole you have to make it with, | As matter whole you haue to make it with, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.116 | I do not much dislike the matter, but | I do not much dislike the matter, but |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.187 | much more monstrous matter of feast, which worthily | much more monstrous matter of Feast, which worthily |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.54 | Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear, | Powre out the packe of matter to mine eare, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.110 | I faint. O Iras, Charmian! 'Tis no matter. | I faint, oh Iras, Charmian: 'tis no matter. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.56.2 | I think th'art mad. The matter? | I thinke th'art mad: the matter? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iii.45 | But 'tis no matter; thou shalt bring him to me | but 'tis no matter, thou shalt bring him to me |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.40 | In the brave squares of war. Yet now – no matter. | In the braue squares of Warre: yet now: no matter. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.73 | No matter, sir, what I have heard or known. | No matter sir, what I haue heard or knowne: |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.116 | with a matter. I am given, sir, secretly to understand | with a matter: I am giuen sir secretly to vnderstand, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.68 | For then he's full of matter. | For then he's full of matter. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.16.1 | Why, what's the matter? | Why, what's the matter? |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.30 | No matter whither, so you come not here. | No matter whether, so you come not here. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.163 | That's no matter: the feet might bear the verses. | That's no matter: the feet might beare ye verses. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.178 | O Lord, Lord, it is a hard matter for friends to | O Lord, Lord, it is a hard matter for friends to |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.96 | 'Tis no matter; ne'er a fantastical | 'Tis no matter; Ne're a fantastical |
| 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.69 | spit, and for lovers lacking – God warn us! – matter, the | spit, and for louers, lacking (God warne vs) matter, the |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.73 | begins new matter. | begins new matter. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.ii.8 | Sing it. 'Tis no matter how it be in tune, so it | Sing it: 'tis no matter how it bee in tune, so it |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.28 | She has a housewife's hand – but that's no matter. | She has a huswiues hand, but that's no matter: |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iii.40 | no great matter in the ditty, yet the note was very | no great matter in the dittie, yet ye note was very |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.18 | I have promised to make all this matter even. | I haue promis'd to make all this matter euen : |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.182 | There is much matter to be heard and learned. | There is much matter to be heard, and learn'd: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.101 | I will debate this matter at more leisure, | I will debate this matter at more leisure |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.41 | Why, man, what is the matter? |
Why man, what is the matter? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.42 | I do not know the matter, he is 'rested on the case. | I doe not know the matter, hee is rested on the case. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.54 | With bats and clubs? The matter? Speak, I pray you. | with Bats and Clubs? The matter / Speake I pray you. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.162 | Thanks. What's the matter, you dissentious rogues, | Thanks. What's the matter you dissentious rogues |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.182 | Him vile that was your garland. What's the matter | Him vilde, that was your Garland. What's the matter, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.221.2 | Here. What's the matter? | Heere: what's the matter? |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.27 | Why, 'tis no great matter, for a very little | Why 'tis no great matter: for a very little |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.54 | say your worships have delivered the matter well, when | say, your Worshippes haue deliuer'd the matter well, when |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.68 | day of audience. When you are hearing a matter between | day of Audience. When you are hearing a matter betweene |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.251.2 | What's the matter? | What's the matter? |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.36 | But that's no matter, the greater part carries it. I say, if | But that's no matter, the greater part carries it, I say. If |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.83 | matter. | matter. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.28 | The matter? | The matter? |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.54 | Nor by th' matter which your heart prompts you, | nor by'th' matter / Which your heart prompts you, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.58 | What is the matter | What is the matter, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.76 | We need not put new matter to his charge. | We neede not put new matter to his charge: |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.169 | Nay, it's no matter for that. | Nay, it's no matter for that. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.138 | And pay you for your voices. 'Tis no matter. | And pay you for your voyces. 'Tis no matter, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.57 | What's the matter? | What's the matter? |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.i.3.2 | But what's the matter? | But what's the matter? |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.12 | This matter of marrying his king's daughter, wherein | This matter of marrying his Kings Daughter, wherein |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.15 | matter. | matter. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.47.1 | What is the matter, trow? | What is the matter trow? |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.10 | Vanquish my staider senses. What's the matter? | Vanquish my stayder Senses. What's the matter? |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.14.2 | What's the matter, sir? | What's the matter, Sir? |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.192 | Should answer solemn accidents. The matter? | Should answer solemne Accidents. The matter? |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.28.1 | I am amazed with matter. | I am amaz'd with matter. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.169.1 | Come to the matter. | Come to the matter. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.243.1 | New matter still. | New matter still. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.104 | Unmixed with baser matter. Yes, by heaven! | Vnmixt with baser matter; yes, yes, by Heauen: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.74.2 | How now, Ophelia, what's the matter? | How now Ophelia, what's the matter? |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.95.2 | More matter, with less art. | More matter, with lesse Art. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.194 | What is the matter, my lord? | What is the matter, my Lord? |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.196 | I mean the matter that you read, my lord. | I meane the matter you meane, my Lord. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.267 | No such matter. I will not sort you with the rest | No such matter. I will not sort you with the rest |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.440 | there were no sallets in the lines to make the matter | there was no Sallets in the lines, to make the matter |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.441 | savoury, nor no matter in the phrase that might indict | sauouty; nor no matter in the phrase, that might indite |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.479 | And like a neutral to his will and matter | And like a Newtrall to his will and matter, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.23 | To hear and see the matter. | To heare, and see the matter. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.174 | This something-settled matter in his heart, | This something setled matter in his heart: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.332 | no more, but to the matter. My mother, you say – | no more but to the matter. My Mother you say. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.9 | Now, mother, what's the matter? | Now Mother, what's the matter? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.14.2 | What's the matter now? | Whats the matter now? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.144 | And I the matter will reword, which madness | And I the matter will re-word: which madnesse |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.187 | Make you to ravel all this matter out, | Make you to rauell all this matter out, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.1 | There's matter in these sighs. These profound heaves | There's matters in these sighes. / These profound heaues |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.93 | Wherein necessity, of matter beggared, | Where in necessitie of matter Beggard, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.100.1 | What is the matter? | What is the matter? |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.175 | This nothing's more than matter. | This nothings more then matter. |
| 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 V.i.149 | his wits there. Or, if 'a do not, 'tis no great matter | his wits there; or if he do not, it's no great matter |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.286 | I loved you ever. But it is no matter. | I loud' you euer; but it is no matter: |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.291 | We'll put the matter to the present push. | Wee'l put the matter to the present push: |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.103 | Sir, this is the matter – | Sir, this is the matter. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.156 | matter it we could carry a cannon by our sides. I would | matter: If we could carry Cannon by our sides; I would |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.207 | heart. But it is no matter. | heart: but it is no matter. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.188 | I'll read you matter deep and dangerous, | Ile reade you Matter, deepe and dangerous, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.136 | matter? | matter? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.152 | What's the matter? | What's the matter? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.153 | What's the matter? There be four of us here | What's the matter? here be foure of vs, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.266 | Instinct is a great matter; I was now a coward on | Instinct is a great matter. I was a Coward on |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.425 | majestically, both in word and matter, hang me up by the | maiestically, both in word and matter, hang me vp by the |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.473 | What's the matter? | what's the matter? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.103 | A trifle, some eightpenny matter. | A Trifle, some eight-penny matter. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.129 | calls not on me? Well, 'tis no matter, honour pricks | call's not on me? Well, 'tis no matter, Honor prickes |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.15 | And no such matter? Rumour is a pipe | And no such matter? Rumour, is a Pipe |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.248 | matter if I do halt; I have the wars for my colour, and | matter, if I do halt, I haue the warres for my colour, and |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.42 | matter? | matter? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.59 | What is the matter? Keep the | What's the matter? Keepe the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.180 | What's the matter? | What's the matter? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.74 | such a matter to get a pottle-pot's maidenhead? | such a matter to get a Pottle-pots Maiden-head? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.365 | How now, what's the matter? | How now? what's the matter? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.381 | What's the matter? | What's the matter? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.71 | of their company. I will devise matter enough out of | of their Companie. I will deuise matter enough out of |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.13 | borrowed of you. But 'tis no matter; this poor show doth | borrowed of you. But it is no matter, this poore shew doth |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.42 | But though we think it so, it is no matter. | But though we thinke it so, it is no matter: |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.121 | Look you, if you take the matter otherwise | Looke you, if you take the matter otherwise |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.140 | well, it will be a black matter for the King that led them | well, it will be a black matter for the King, that led them |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.19 | How now, how now, what's the matter? | How now, how now, what's the matter? |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.24 | How now, what's the matter? | How now, what's the matter? |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.15 | 'Tis no matter for his swellings nor his turkey-cocks. | 'Tis no matter for his swellings, nor his Turky-cocks. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.330 | having any occasion to write for matter of grant, shall | hauing any occasion to write for matter of Graunt, shall |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.28 | To bring this matter to the wished end. | To bring this matter to the wished end. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.101 | Approacheth, to confer about some matter. | Approacheth, to conferre about some matter. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.149 | And, now the matter grows to compromise, | And now the matter growes to compremize, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.55 | Marriage is a matter of more worth | Marriage is a matter of more worth, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.33 | pursuivant presently. We'll hear more of your matter | Purseuant presently: wee'le heare more of your matter |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.157 | But to the matter that we have in hand: | But to the matter that we haue in hand: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.186 | thought any such matter. God is my witness, I am falsely | thought any such matter: God is my witnesse, I am falsely |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.39 | Make up no factious numbers for the matter; | Make vp no factious numbers for the matter, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.263 | Sleeping or waking, 'tis no matter how, | Sleeping, or Waking, 'tis no matter how, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.28 | Where is our uncle? What's the matter, Suffolk? | Where is our Vnckle? what's the matter, Suffolke? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.258 | Matter of marriage was the charge he gave me, | Matter of Marriage was the charge he gaue me, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.124 | Not I; my thoughts aim at a further matter. | Not I: / My thoughts ayme at a further matter: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.47 | I'll hence to London on a serious matter. | Ile hence to London on a serious matter, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.126 | Matter against me, and his eye reviled | Matter against me, and his eye reuil'd |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.163 | To hear from him a matter of some moment; | To heare from him a matter of some moment: |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.21 | Matter against him that for ever mars | Matter against him, that for euer marres |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.10 | Not yet, Sir Thomas Lovell. What's the matter? | Not yet Sir Thomas Louell: what's the matter? |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.68 | It is no matter; let no images | It is no matter, let no Images |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.188 | Casca will tell us what the matter is. | Caska will tell vs what the matter is. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.110 | For the base matter to illuminate | For the base matter, to illuminate |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.229 | Boy! Lucius! Fast asleep? It is no matter. | Boy: Lucius: Fast asleepe? It is no matter, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.241 | And when I asked you what the matter was, | And when I ask'd you what the matter was, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.110 | If thou consider rightly of the matter, | If thou consider rightly of the matter, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.iii.23 | That matter is answered directly. | That matter is answered directly. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.iii.33 | It is no matter, his name's Cinna; | It is no matter, his name's Cinna, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.117.3 | What's the matter? | What's the matter? |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.127 | How now? What's the matter? | How now? What's the matter? |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.2.1 | What is the matter? | What is the matter? |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.56 | No matter if it be; the count is cast, | No matter if it be, the count is cast, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.167 | And pick strong matter of revolt and wrath | And picke strong matter of reuolt, and wrath |
| King John | KJ III.iv.170 | And, O, what better matter breeds for you | And O, what better matter breeds for you, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.64 | Even in the matter of mine innocence; | Euen in the matter of mine innocence: |
| King John | KJ V.ii.85 | And brought in matter that should feed this fire; | And brought in matter that should feed this fire; |
| King Lear | KL I.i.55 | Sir, I love you more than word can wield the matter, | Sir, I loue you more then word can weild ye matter, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.64 | If the matter were good, my lord, I durst swear | If the matter were good my Lord, I durst swear |
| King Lear | KL I.iii.24 | What grows of it, no matter. Advise your fellows so. | what growes of it no matter, aduise your fellowes so, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.56 | My lord, I know not what the matter is, | My Lord, I know not what the matter is, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.292.2 | What's the matter, sir? | What's the matter, Sir? |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.41 | How now! What's the matter? Part! | How now,what's the matter? Part. |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.44 | Weapons? Arms? What's the matter here? | Weapons? Armes? what's the matter here? |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.46 | He dies that strikes again. What is the matter? | he dies that strikes againe, what is the matter? |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.81 | When priests are more in word than matter, | When Priests are more in word, then matter; |
| King Lear | KL III.iii.8 | between the Dukes; and a worse matter than that. I | betweene the Dukes, and a worsse matter then that: I |
| King Lear | KL III.v.14 | If the matter of this paper be certain, you have | If the matter of this Paper be certain, you haue |
| King Lear | KL IV.v.8 | Faith, he is posted hence on serious matter. | Faith he is poasted hence on serious matter: |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.8 | In better phrase and matter than thou didst. | In better phrase, and matter then thou did'st. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.175 | O matter and impertinency mixed, | O matter, and impertinency mixt, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.244 | 'Chill pick your teeth, zir. Come; no matter vor | Chill picke your teeth Zir: come, no matter vor |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.189 | How low soever the matter, I hope in God for | How low soeuer the matter, I hope in God for |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.198 | The matter is to me, sir, as concerning Jaquenetta. | The matter is to me sir, as concerning Iaquenetta. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.116 | We will talk no more of this matter. | We will talke no more of this matter. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.117 | Till there be more matter in the shin. | Till there be more matter in the shin. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.207 | O vain petitioner, beg a greater matter! | O vaine peticioner, beg a greater matter, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.62 | What's the matter? | What's the matter? |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.45 | the matter? | the matter? |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.92 | Go to, go to; no matter for the dish, sir. | Go too: go too: no matter for the dish sir. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.6.2 | Now, what's the matter, provost? | Now, what's the matter Prouost? |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.33.2 | Well: the matter? | Well: the matter? |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.197 | That shall not be much amiss. Yet, as the matter | That shall not be much amisse: yet, as the matter |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.46 | tune, matter, and method? Is't not drowned i'th' last | Tune, Matter, and Method? Is't not drown'd i'th last |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.102 | article of it, neither in time, matter, or other circumstance. | Article of it, / Neither in time, matter, or other circumstance. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.v.3 | The matter being afoot, keep your instruction, | The matter being a foote, keepe your instruction |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.90 | The phrase is to the matter. | The phrase is to the matter. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.91 | Mended again. The matter. Proceed. | Mended againe: the matter: proceed. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.253 | Whom it concerns to hear this matter forth, | Whom it concernes to heare this matter forth, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.132 | That is the very defect of the matter, sir. | That is the verie defect of the matter sir. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.202 | And so did mine too, as the matter falls; | And so did mine too, as the matter falls: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.4 | I speak my agitation of the matter. Therefore be o' good | I speake my agitation of the matter: therfore be of good |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.65 | Defy the matter. How cheer'st thou, Jessica? | Defie the matter: how cheer'st thou Iessica, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.50 | And yet no matter, why should we go in? | And yet no matter: why should we goe in? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.146 | A quarrel ho, already! What's the matter? | A quarrel hoe alreadie, what's the matter? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.2 | a Star-Chamber matter of it. If he were twenty Sir | a Star-Chamber matter of it, if hee were twenty Sir |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.116 | broke your head. What matter have you against me? | broke your head: what matter haue you against me? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.117 | Marry, sir, I have matter in my head against | Marry sir, I haue matter in my head against |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.122 | Ay, it is no matter. | I, it is no matter. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.124 | Ay, it is no matter. | I, it is no matter. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.129 | three umpires in this matter, as I understand – that is, | three Vmpires in this matter, as I vnderstand; that is, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.167 | matter. I'll ne'er be drunk whilst I live again, but in | matter; Ile nere be drunk whilst I liue againe, but in |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.200 | description the matter to you, if you be capacity of it. | description the matter to you, if you be capacity of it. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.112 | It is no matter-a ver dat. Do not you tell-a me dat | It is no matter 'a ver dat: do not you tell-a-me dat |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.40 | What's the matter, woman? | What's the matter, woman? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.139 | no matter. | no matter. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.88 | What's the matter? How now? | Whats the matter? How now? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.92 | What's the matter, good Mistress Page? | What's the matter, good mistris Page? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.99 | Why, alas, what's the matter? | Why (alas) what's the matter? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.68 | What is the matter, sir? | What is the matter Sir? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.14 | The mirth whereof so larded with my matter | The mirth whereof, so larded with my matter, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.i.9 | How now, Master Brook! Master Brook, the matter will | How now M. Broome? Master Broome, the matter will |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.iii.9 | daughter. But 'tis no matter. Better a little chiding | daughter: But 'tis no matter; better a little chiding, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.135 | that it wants matter to prevent so gross o'erreaching as | that it wants matter to preuent so grosse ore-reaching as |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.178 | such matter; there's her cousin, an she were not possessed | such matter: there's her cosin, and she were not possest |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.258 | I have almost matter enough in me for such an | I haue almost matter enough in me for such an |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.305 | to speak all mirth and no matter. | to speake all mirth, and no matter. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.42 | for in the meantime I will so fashion the matter that | for in the meane time, I will so fashion the matter, that |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.212 | an opinion of another's dotage, and no such matter; | an opinion of anothers dotage, and no such matter, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.21 | Is sick in love with Beatrice. Of this matter | Is sicke in loue with Beatrice: of this matter, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.54 | All matter else seems weak. She cannot love, | All matter else seemes weake: she cannot loue, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.78 | What's the matter? | What's the matter? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.90 | Why, what's the matter? | Why, what's the matter? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.83 | there be any matter of weight chances, call up me. Keep | there be anie matter of weight chances, call vp me, keepe |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.v.10 | matter – an old man, sir, and his wits are not so blunt as, | matter, an old man sir, and his wits are not so blunt, as |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.81 | But that's no matter, let him kill one first. | But that's no matter, let him kill one first: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.100.2 | Come, 'tis no matter; | Come, 'tis no matter, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.241 | our Sexton hath reformed Signor Leonato of the matter. | our Sexton hath reformed Signior Leonato of the matter: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.40 | Good morrow, Benedick. Why, what's the matter, | Good morrow Benedicke, why what's the matter? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.82 | 'Tis no such matter. Then you do not love me? | 'Tis no matter, then you doe not loue me? |
| Othello | Oth I.i.5 | If ever I did dream of such a matter, | If euer I did dream / Of such a matter, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.84 | What is the matter there? | What is the matter there? |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.38.2 | What is the matter, think you? | What is the matter, thinke you? |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.58.2 | Why? What's the matter? | Why? What's the matter? |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.171 | Good Brabantio, take up this mangled matter at the best: | Good Brabantio, take vp this mangled matter at the best: |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.296 | Of love, of worldly matters and direction | Of Loue, of wordly matter, and direction |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.141 | What's the matter, Lieutenant? | What's the matter Lieutenant? |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.158.1 | What is the matter here? | What is the matter heere? |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.170 | From her propriety. What is the matter, masters? | From her propriety. What is the matter, Masters? |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.187 | In mouths of wisest censure. What's the matter | In mouthes of wisest Censure. What's the matter |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.234 | More of this matter can I not report: | More of this matter cannot I report, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.241 | Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter, | Thy honestie, and loue doth mince this matter, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.245.2 | What is the matter, dear? | What is the matter (Deere?) |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.135 | There's matter in't indeed if he be angry. | There's matter in't indeed, if he be angry. |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.49 | What's the matter? | What's the matter? |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.97 | Good madam, what's the matter with my lord? | Good Madam, / What's the matter with my Lord? |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.113.2 | What is the matter, lady? | What is the matter Lady? |
| Othello | Oth V.i.50.2 | What's the matter? | What's the matter? |
| Othello | Oth V.i.74 | What is the matter, ho? Who is't that cried? | What is the matter hoa? Who is't that cry'd? |
| Othello | Oth V.i.111 | 'Las, what's the matter? What's the matter, husband? | Alas, what is the matter? / What is the matter, Husband? |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.47 | I will – so. What's the matter? | I will so: What's the matter? |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.106 | Where art thou? (He unlocks door.) What's the matter with thee now? | Where art thou? What's the matter with thee now? |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.167 | What is the matter? How now, General! | What is the matter? How now Generall? |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.170 | What is the matter? | What is the matter? |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.257.1 | What is the matter? | What is the matter? |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.108 | Get linen. Now this matter must be looked to, | get linnen: / Now this matter must be lookt to |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.129 | How now, what's the matter? | How now, whats the matter? |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.186.1 | Why, uncle, what's the matter? | Why Vncle, / What's the matter? |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.144 | No matter where. Of comfort no man speak. | No matter where; of comfort no man speake: |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.58.2 | No matter, then, who see it. | No matter then who sees it, |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.61 | It is a matter of small consequence | It is a matter of small consequence, |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.73 | What is the matter, my lord? | What's the matter, my Lord? |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.80.1 | What is the matter? | What is the matter? |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.81 | I will not peace. What is the matter, Aumerle? | I will not peace. What is the matter Sonne? |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.28 | What is the matter with our cousin now? | What is the matter with our Cosin now? |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.45 | What is the matter, uncle? Speak, recover breath, | What is the matter (Vnkle) speak, recouer breath, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.51 | But what's the matter, Clarence, may I know? | But what's the matter Clarence, may I know? |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.62 | Brother of Gloucester, you mistake the matter. | Brother of Glouster, you mistake the matter: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.133 | 'Tis no matter; let it go. There's | 'Tis no matter, let it goe: There's |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.161 | What think'st thou? Is it not an easy matter | What think'st thou? is it not an easie matter, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.66 | In deep designs, in matter of great moment, | In deepe designes, in matter of great moment, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.8 | This is the matter – Nurse, give leave awhile. | This is the matter: Nurse giue leaue awhile, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.30 | Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, | Conceit more rich in matter then in words, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.83 | Was ever book containing such vile matter | Was euer booke containing such vile matter |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iv.19 | And never trouble Peter for the matter. | And neuer trouble Peter for the matter. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.18.1 | What is the matter? | What is the matter? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.32.2 | No matter. Get thee gone | Mo matter: Get thee gone, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.248 | good matter, surely. Comes there any more of it? | good matter surely: Comes there any more of it? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.20 | How now, what's the matter? My old friend | How now, what's the matter? My olde friend |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.28 | Nay, 'tis no matter, sir, what he 'leges in Latin. If | Nay 'tis no matter sir, what he leges in Latine. If |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.282 | That thinks with oaths to face the matter out. | That thinkes with oathes to face the matter out. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.115 | Then go with me to make the matter good. | Then go with me, to make the matter good, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.62 | How now, what's the matter? | How now, what's the matter? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.109 | That faced and braved me in this matter so? | That fac'd and braued me in this matter so? |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.90 | What impossible matter will he make easy | What impossible matter wil he make easy |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.234 | A matter from thee; and a birth, indeed, | A matter from thee; and a birth, indeed, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.314.2 | What's the matter? | What's the matter? |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.56 | What's the matter? Have we devils here? Do | What's the matter? Haue we diuels here? Doe |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.41.2 | No matter, since | No matter, since |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.51 | Although my last – no matter, since I feel | Although my last, no matter, since I feele |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.63 | No matter what. He's poor, | No matter what, hee's poore, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.147 | Some that were hanged. No matter. | (Some that were hang'd) no matter: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.33 | Why, 'tis no matter, man. If they did hear, | Why 'tis no matter man, if they did heare |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.92 | tribunal plebs to take up a matter of brawl betwixt my | Tribunall Plebs, to take vp a matter of brawle, betwixt my |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.163 | Many a story hath he told to thee, | Many a matter hath he told to thee, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.85 | I'll meddle nor make no more i'th' matter. | Ile meddle nor make no more i'th' matter. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.90 | No matter. | No matter. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.10 | Nor, princes, is it matter new to us | Nor Princes, is it matter new to vs, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.29 | And what hath mass or matter by itself | And what hath masse, or matter by it selfe, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.71 | That matter needless, of importless burden, | That matter needlesse of importlesse burthen |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.8 | Then there would come some matter from | Then there would come some matter from |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.55 | How now, Thersites, what's the matter, man? | How now Thersites? what's the matter man? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.57 | Ay, what's the matter? | I, what's the matter. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.59 | So I do; what's the matter? | So I do: what's the matter? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.110 | 'Tis no matter; I shall speak as much as thou | 'Tis no matter, I shall speake as much as thou |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.26 | but it is no matter – thyself upon thyself! The | but it is no matter, thy selfe vpon thy selfe. The |
| 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 |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.184 | And never suffers matter of the world | And neuer suffers matter of the world, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.85 | No, no, no such matter, you are wide; come, | No, no; no such matter, you are wide, come |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.42 | Who's there? What's the matter? Will you | Who's there? what's the matter? will you |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.43 | beat down the door? How now! What's the matter? | beate downe the doore? How now, what's the matter? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.58 | How now! What's the matter? | How now, what's the matter? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.60 | My matter is so rash. There is at hand | My matter is so rash: there is at hand, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.77 | How now! What's the matter? Who was here? | How now? what's the matter? who was here? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.80 | lord? Gone? Tell me, sweet uncle, what's the matter? | Lord? gone? tell me sweet Vnckle, what's the matter? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.83 | O the gods! What's the matter? | O the gods! what's the matter? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.88 | beseech you, what's the matter? | beseech you what's the matter? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.73 | It is no matter, now I have't again. | It is no matter now I haue't againe. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.91.1 | It is no matter. | It is no matter. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.107 | Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart; | Words, words, meere words, no matter from the heart; |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.199 | Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver, | Sure you haue some hiddeous matter to deliuer, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.203 | my words are as full of peace as matter. | my words are as full of peace, as matter. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.153 | niece; on a forgotten matter we can hardly make | Neece, on a forgotten matter wee can hardly make |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.5 | No such matter, sir; I do live by the church. For I | No such matter sir, I do liue by the Church: For, I |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.53 | The matter, I hope, is not great, sir, begging but a | The matter I hope is not great sir; begging, but a |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.85 | My matter hath no voice, lady, but to your own | My matter hath no voice Lady, but to your owne |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.41 | brief. It is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and | briefe: it is no matter how wittie, so it bee eloquent, and |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.48 | matter. About it! | matter: about it. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.10 | Why, what's the matter? Does he rave? | Why what's the matter, does he raue? |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.23 | Why, how dost thou, man? What is the matter | Why how doest thou man? / What is the matter |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.141 | More matter for a May morning! | More matter for a May morning. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.155 | that is not the matter I challenge thee for. | that is not the matter I challenge thee for. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.253 | Pray you, sir, do you know of this matter? | Pray you sir, do you know of this matter? |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.279 | matter slip, and I'll give him my horse, grey Capilet. | matter slip, and Ile giue him my horse, gray Capilet. |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.35 | first, yet it's no matter for that. | first, yet it's no matter for that. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.56 | Cried fame and honour on him. What's the matter? | Cride fame and honor on him: What's the matter? |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.172 | What's the matter? | What's the matter? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.126 | Come, come, open the matter in brief; what | Come, come, open the matter in briefe; what |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.128 | Open your purse, that the money and the matter | Open your purse, that the money, and the matter |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.33 | matter? Why weepest thou, man? Away, ass, you'll lose | matter? why weep'st thou man? away asse, you'l loose |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.35 | It is no matter if the tied were lost, for it is the | It is no matter if the tide were lost, for it is the |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.v.19 | Why, then, how stands the matter with them? | Why then, how stands the matter with them? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.66 | No matter who's displeased when you are gone. | No matter who's displeas'd, when you are gone: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.58 | Nay then, no matter; stay with me awhile; | Nay then no matter: stay with me a while, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.322 | It's no matter for that; so she sleep not in her | It's no matter for that; so shee sleepe not in her |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iii.3 | There's some great matter she'd employ me in. | Ther's some great matter she'ld employ me in. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.87 | matter? Look up; speak. | matter? look vp: speak. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.109.1 | Is pressed with deeper matter. | Is prest with deeper matter. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.89 | But what's the matter? | But whats the matter? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.187.1 | Why, what's the matter, man? | Why whats the matter Man? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.ii.3 | No matter; would it were perpetual night, | No matter, would it were perpetuall night, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.4.2 | That's no matter; | That's no matter, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.6 | what broken piece of matter soe'er she's about, the name | what / Broken peece of matter so'ere she's about, the name |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.i.33 | malice or matter to alter it. You have an unspeakable | Malice or Matter, to alter it. You haue an vnspeakable |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.166 | He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter; | He's all my Exercise, my Mirth, my Matter; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.168 | We need no more of your advice. The matter, | We neede no more of your aduice: the matter, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.2 | To bear the matter thus, mere weakness. If | To beare the matter thus: meere weaknesse, if |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.98 | Although the print be little, the whole matter | Although the Print be little, the whole Matter |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.59 | to a great matter. | to a great matter. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.190 | love a ballad but even too well, if it be doleful matter | loue a ballad but euen too well, if it be dolefull matter |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.199 | and break a foul gap into the matter, he makes the | and breake a fowle gap into the Matter, hee makes the |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.679 | Aside, aside! Here is more matter for a hot brain. Every | Aside, aside, here is more matter for a hot braine: Euery |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.835 | to't. To him will I present them: there may be matter | to't: To him will I present them, there may be matter |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.60 | have matter to rehearse, though credit be asleep and not | haue matter to rehearse, though Credit be asleepe, and not |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.103 | matter there in hand, for she hath privately, twice or | matter there in hand, for shee hath priuately, twice or |