| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.247 | Means and attendants, and my loving greetings | Meanes and attendants, and my louing greetings |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.11 | means to come. | meanes to come. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.329 | There's place and means for every man alive. | There's place and meanes for euery man aliue. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.i.26 | Though time seem so adverse and means unfit. | Though time seeme so aduerse, and meanes vnfit: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.i.35.1 | Our means will make us means. | Our meanes will make vs meanes. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.19 | He means in flesh. | He meanes in flesh. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ii.13.2 | What means this? | What meanes this? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.iv.27 | That means to be of note, begins betimes. | That meanes to be of note, begins betimes. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.106 | Know you what Caesar means to do with me? | Know you what Casar meanes to do with me? |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.131 | underhand means laboured to dissuade him from it; | vnder-hand meanes laboured to disswade him from it; |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.142 | by some indirect means or other: for, I assure thee – | by some indirect meanes or other: for I assure thee, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.235 | That could give more but that her hand lacks means. | That could giue more, but that her hand lacks meanes. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.22 | Hath heard your praises, and this night he means | Hath heard your praises, and this night he meanes, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.25 | He will have other means to cut you off. | He will haue other meanes to cut you off; |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.51 | The means of weakness and debility; | The meanes of weaknesse and debilitie, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.73 | Till that the weary very means do ebb? | Till that the wearie verie meanes do ebbe. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.24 | means, and content is without three good friends; that | meanes, and content, is without three good frends. That |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.299 | By no means, sir: Time travels in divers | By no meanes sir; Time trauels in diuers |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.41 | Why, what means this? Why do you look on me? | Why what meanes this? why do you looke on me? |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.44 | I think she means to tangle my eyes too! | I thinke she meanes to tangle my eies too: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.76 | And this it was – for other means was none – | And this it was: (for other meanes was none) |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.21 | What means this jest, I pray you, master, tell me? | What meanes this iest, I pray you Master tell me? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.51 | He gains by death that hath such means to die. | He gaines by death, that hath such meanes to die: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.103 | Till I have used the approved means I have, | Till I haue vs'd the approoued meanes I haue, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.223 | I am glad on't. Then we shall ha' means to vent | I am glad on't, then we shall ha meanes to vent |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.56 | Like one that means his proper harm – in manacles, | (Like one that meanes his proper harme) in Manacles, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.95 | Envied against the people, seeking means | Enui'd against the people; seeking meanes |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vii.7 | Unless by using means I lame the foot | Vnlesse by vsing meanes I lame the foote |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.3.2 | What means do you make to him? | What meanes do you make to him? |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.153.2 | O, for such means, | Oh for such meanes, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.179 | And, doubling that, most holy. Your means abroad: | And doubling that, most holy. Your meanes abroad: |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.115 | man: thou shouldst neither want my means for thy | man: thou should'st neither want my meanes for thy |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.64 | Means he not us? I partly know him, 'tis | Meanes he not vs? I partly know him, 'tis |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.403 | Some falls are means the happier to arise. | Some Falles are meanes the happier to arise. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.83 | But end it by some means for Innogen. | But end it by some meanes for Imogen. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.61 | Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. | Be thou familiar; but by no meanes vulgar: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.62.2 | No, by no means. | No, by no meanes. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.8 | And how, and who, what means, and where they keep, | And how, and who; what meanes; and where they keepe: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.127 | As they fell out by time, by means, and place, | As they fell out by Time, by Meanes, and Place, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.212 | and suddenly contrive the means of meeting between | And sodainely contriue the meanes of meeting / Betweene |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.332 | means of the late innovation. | meanes of the late Innouation? |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.348 | it is most like, if their means are not better – their | it is like most if their meanes are not better) their |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.6 | But from what cause 'a will by no means speak. | But from what cause he will by no meanes speake. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.106 | What means your lordship? | What meanes your Lordship? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.145 | What means this, my lord? | What meanes this, my Lord? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.146 | Marry, this is miching mallecho. It means | Marry this is Miching Malicho, that meanes |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.155 | it means. | it meanes. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.182 | Not this, by no means, that I bid you do: | Not this by no meanes that I bid you do: |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.45 | Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.47 | ask you what it means, say you this: | aske you what it meanes, say you this: |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.140 | And for my means, I'll husband them so well | And for my meanes, Ile husband them so well, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.213 | His means of death, his obscure funeral – | His meanes of death, his obscure buriall; |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.14 | overlooked this, give these fellows some means to the King. | ouerlook'd this, giue these Fellowes some meanes to the King: |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.61 | As checking at his voyage, and that he means | As checking at his Voyage, and that he meanes |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.148 | Weigh what convenience both of time and means | Weigh what conuenience both of time and meanes |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.118 | Send me your prisoners with the speediest means – | Send me your Prisoners with the speediest meanes, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.163 | Being the agents, or base second means, | Being the Agents, or base second meanes, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.447 | I would your grace would take me with you. Whom means | I would your Grace would take me with you: whom meanes |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iv.37 | Dismiss his power he means to visit us, | Dismisse his power, he meanes to visit vs: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.67 | Whereby we stand opposed by such means | Whereby we stand opposed by such meanes |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.42 | Who never promiseth but he means to pay. | Who neuer promiseth, but he meanes to pay. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.141 | Your means are very slender, and | Your Meanes is very slender, and |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.143 | I would it were otherwise; I would my means | I would it were otherwise: I would my Meanes |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.1 | Thus have you heard our cause and known our means, | Thus haue you heard our causes, & kno our Means: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.7 | How in our means we should advance ourselves | How (in our Meanes) we should aduance our selues |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.118 | He sure means brevity in breath, short-winded. | Sure he meanes breuity in breath: short-winded. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.29 | With all appliances and means to boot, | With all appliances, and meanes to boote, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.64 | When means and lavish manners meet together, | When Meanes and lauish Manners meete together; |
| 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 I.i.68 | And therefore we must needs admit the means | And therefore we must needes admit the meanes, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.125 | They know your grace hath cause and means and might – | They know your Grace hath cause, and means, and might; |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.8 | With men of courage and with means defendant; | With men of courage, and with meanes defendant: |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.33 | the means whereof 'a faces it out, but fights not. For | the meanes whereof, a faces it out, but fights not: for |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.35 | the means whereof 'a breaks words, and keeps whole | the meanes whereof, a breakes Words, and keepes whole |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.66 | How now, what means this, Herald? Know'st thou not | How now, what meanes this Herald? Knowst thou not, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.63 | By this means shall we sound what skill she hath. | By this meanes shall we sound what skill she hath. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.29 | How now, ambitious Humphrey, what means this? | How now ambitious Vmpheir, what meanes this? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.25 | Or by what means got'st thou to be released? | Or by what meanes got's thou to be releas'd? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.27 | What means he now? Go ask him whither he goes. | What meanes he now? Goe aske him, whither he goes? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.1 | Great lords and gentlemen, what means this silence? | Great Lords and Gentlemen, / What meanes this silence? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.72 | For Talbot means no goodness by his looks. | For Talbot meanes no goodnesse by his Lookes. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.50 | What means his grace that he hath changed his style? | What meanes his Grace, that he hath chaung'd his Stile? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.55 | We English warriors wot not what it means. | We English Warriours wot not what it meanes. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.8 | Well, my good lord, and as the only means | Well (my good Lord) and as the only meanes |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.ii.13 | And means to give you battle presently. | And meanes to giue you battell presently. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.147 | Insulting Charles, hast thou by secret means | Insulting Charles, hast thou by secret meanes |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.102 | Nephew, what means this passionate discourse, | Nephew, what meanes this passionate discourse? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.57 | What means this noise? | What meanes this noyse? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.173 | And so, my Lord Protector, by this means | And so my Lord Protector, by this meanes |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.52 | By wicked means to frame our sovereign's fall. | By wicked meanes to frame our Soueraignes fall. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.63 | By means whereof the towns each day revolted. | By meanes whereof, the Townes each day reuolted. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.79 | Who cannot steal a shape that means deceit? | Who cannot steale a shape, that meanes deceit? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.106 | By means whereof his highness hath lost France. | By meanes whereof, his Highnesse hath lost France. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.124 | By Suffolk and the Cardinal Beaufort's means. | By Suffolke, and the Cardinall Beaufords meanes: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.284 | Mischance unto my state by Suffolk's means. | Mischance vnto my State by Suffolkes meanes. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.4 | I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress | I tell thee, Iacke Cade the Cloathier, meanes to dresse |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.51 | Even in the chair of state! Belike he means, | Euen in the Chayre of State: belike he meanes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.73 | Shall be the war that Henry means to use. | Shall be the Warre that Henry meanes to vse. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.27 | I think he means to beg a child of her. | I thinke he meanes to begge a Child of her. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.141 | And so I chide the means that keeps me from it; | And so I chide the meanes that keepes me from it, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.39 | While we bethink a means to break it off. | While we bethinke a meanes to breake it off. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.v.9 | I have advertised him by secret means | I haue aduertis'd him by secret meanes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vii.14 | By fair or foul means we must enter in, | By faire or foule meanes we must enter in, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vii.26 | He'll soon find means to make the body follow. | Hee'le soone finde meanes to make the Body follow. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vii.52 | By what safe means the crown may be recovered. | By what safe meanes the Crowne may be recouer'd. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.81 | Father of Warwick, know you what this means? | Father of Warwick, know you what this meanes? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.45 | What! Doth she swoon? Use means for her recovery. | What? doth shee swowne? vse meanes for her recouerie. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.35 | And lack of other means, in desperate manner | And lack of other meanes, in desperate manner |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.327 | By what means got I leave to your own conscience – | (By what meanes got, I leaue to your owne conscience) |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.153 | And able means, we had not parted thus. | And able meanes, we had not parted thus. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.ii.3 | To make great haste. All fast? What means this? Ho! | To make great hast. All fast? What meanes this? Hoa? |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.49 | By means whereof this breast of mine hath buried | By meanes whereof, this Brest of mine hath buried |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.79 | What means this shouting? I do fear the people | What meanes this Showting? / I do feare, the People |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.75 | That by no means I may discover them | That by no meanes I may discouer them, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.143.2 | No, by no means. | No, by no meanes. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.158 | A shrewd contriver; and you know his means, | A shrew'd Contriuer. And you know, his meanes |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.259 | He would embrace the means to come by it. | He would embrace the meanes to come by it. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.i.44 | Our best friends made, our means stretched; | Our best Friends made, our meanes stretcht, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.71 | For I can raise no money by vile means; | For I can raise no money by vile meanes: |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.198 | So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers, | So shall he waste his meanes, weary his Souldiers, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.416 | Hath he no means to stain my honest blood, | Hath he no meanes to stayne my honest blood, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.44 | He means to bid us battle presently. | He meanes to byd vs battaile presently, |
| King John | KJ I.i.243 | What means this scorn, thou most untoward knave? | What meanes this scorne, thou most vntoward knaue? |
| King John | KJ III.i.21 | What means that hand upon that breast of thine? | What meanes that hand vpon that breast of thine? |
| King John | KJ III.iii.22 | And with advantage means to pay thy love; | And with aduantage meanes to pay thy loue: |
| King John | KJ III.iv.119 | No, no. When Fortune means to men most good | No, no: when Fortune meanes to men most good, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.219 | How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds | How oft the sight of meanes to do ill deeds, |
| King John | KJ V.iv.15 | He means to recompense the pains you take | He meanes to recompence the paines you take, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.102 | as I shall find means, and acquaint you withal. | as I shall find meanes, and acquaint you withall. |
| King Lear | KL II.i.41 | Fled this way, sir, when by no means he could – | Fled this way Sir, when by no meanes he could. |
| King Lear | KL II.i.42.2 | ‘ By no means ’ what? | By no meanes, what? |
| King Lear | KL II.i.83 | Loyal and natural boy, I'll work the means | (Loyall and naturall Boy) Ile worke the meanes |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.182.2 | What means your grace? | What meanes your Grace? |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.294 | My lord, entreat him by no means to stay. | My Lord, entreate him by no meanes to stay. |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.30 | What means your graces? Good my friends, consider | What meanes your Graces? / Good my Friends consider |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.20 | Our means secure us, and our mere defects | Our meanes secure vs, and our meere defects |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.40 | What we are come about, and by no means | |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.11 | There is means, madam. | There is meanes Madam: |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.20.1 | That wants the means to lead it. | That wants the meanes to leade it. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.35.1 | Or thrive by other means. | Or thriue by other meanes. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.221.1 | What means this bloody knife? | What meanes this bloody Knife? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.85 | He rather means to lodge you in the field, | He rather meanes to lodge you in the field, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.35 | The poor deer's blood, that my heart means no ill. | The poore Deeres blood, that my heart meanes no ill. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iv.29 | Thine own life's means! – Then 'tis most like | Thine owne liues meanes: Then 'tis most like, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.134 | By the worst means the worst. For mine own good | By the worst meanes, the worst, for mine owne good, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.146.1 | What's the disease he means? | What's the Disease he meanes? |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.163.1 | The means that makes us strangers! | The meanes that makes vs Strangers. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.72 | Remove from her the means of all annoyance | Remoue from her the meanes of all annoyance, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.79 | By the woman's means? | By the womans meanes? |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.80 | Ay, sir, by Mistress Overdone's means; but as | I sir, by Mistris Ouer-dons meanes: but as |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.24 | Let her have needful, but not lavish, means. | Let her haue needfull, but not lauish meanes, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.48 | As to put metal in restrained means | As to put mettle in restrained meanes |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.15 | Are nursed by baseness. Thou'rt by no means valiant, | Are nurst by basenesse: Thou'rt by no meanes valiant, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.19 | That is thy means to live. Do thou but think | That is thy meanes to liue. Do thou but thinke |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.125 | Than my faint means would grant continuance. | Then my faint meanes would grant continuance: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.138 | My purse, my person, my extremest means | My purse, my person, my extreamest meanes |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.173 | O my Antonio, had I but the means | O my Anthonio, had I but the meanes |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.17 | sufficient. Yet his means are in supposition. He hath | sufficient, yet his meanes are in supposition: he hath |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.i.19 | His wife who wins me by that means I told you, | His wife, who wins me by that meanes I told you, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.57 | same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and | same meanes, warmed and cooled by the same Winter and |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.263 | To feed my means. Here is a letter, lady; | To feede my meanes. Heere is a Letter Ladie, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.9 | And that no lawful means can carry me | And that no lawful meanes can carrie me |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.81 | Make no more offers, use no farther means, | Make no more offers, vse no farther meanes, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.374 | When you do take the means whereby I live. | When you doe take the meanes whereby I liue. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.282 | Ay, but the clerk that never means to do it, | I, but the Clark that neuer meanes to doe it, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.176 | though I had never so good means as desire to make | though I had neuer so good means as desire, to make |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.197 | mind or in my means – meed, I am sure, I have received | minde, or in my meanes, meede I am sure I haue receiued |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.203 | Yes, by all means, if it be but to scrape | Yes, by all meanes: if it be but to scrape |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.35 | Her father means she shall be all in white, | Her Father meanes she shall be all in white; |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.46 | Which means she to deceive, father or mother? | Which meanes she to deceiue? Father, or Mother. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.ii.12 | well. Heaven prosper our sport! No man means evil but | wel: Heauen prosper our sport. No man means euill but |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.120 | Which by no means we may extenuate – | (Which by no meanes we may extenuate) |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.315 | And thus she means, videlicet: | And thus she meanes, videlicit. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.33 | My cousin means Signor Benedick of Padua. | My cousin meanes Signior Benedick of Padua |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.323 | O, by no means; she mocks all her wooers out | O, by no meanes, she mocks all her wooers out |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.79 | Means your lordship to be | Meanes your Lordship to be |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.52 | What means the fool, trow? | What meanes the foole trow? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.193 | Nor fortune made such havoc of my means, | Nor Fortune made such hauocke of my meanes, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.197 | Ability in means and choice of friends | Ability in meanes, and choise of friends, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.150 | Took once a pliant hour, and found good means | Tooke once a pliant houre, and found good meanes |
| Othello | Oth II.i.268 | have a shorter journey to your desires by the means I | haue a shorter iourney to your desires, by the meanes I |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.247 | You shall by that perceive him and his means; | You shall by that perceiue him, and his meanes: |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.474 | To furnish me with some swift means of death | To furnish me with some swift meanes of death |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.107 | That by your virtuous means I may again | That by your vertuous meanes, I may againe |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.111 | Do it with gentle means and easy tasks: | Do it with gentle meanes, and easie taskes. |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.186 | out of my means. The jewels you have had from me to | out of my meanes. The Iewels you haue had from me to |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.75 | Who makes the fairest show means most deceit. | Who makes the fairest showe, meanes most deceipt. |
| Pericles | Per II.v.6 | Which yet from her by no means can I get. | Which from her, by no meanes can I get. |
| Pericles | Per II.v.8 | Faith, by no means. She hath so strictly | Fayth, by no meanes, she hath so strictly |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.15 | What means the nun? She dies! Help, gentlemen! | What meanes the mum? shee die's, helpe Gentlemen. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.40 | Ere further leisure yield them further means | Ere further leysure, yeeld them further meanes |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.39 | Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. | Consuming meanes soone preyes vpon it selfe. |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.29 | The means that heavens yield must be embraced | |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.32 | The proffered means of succour and redress. | |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.33 | He means, my lord, that we are too remiss, | He meanes, my Lord, that we are too remisse, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.24 | What means our cousin, that he stares and looks so wildly? | What meanes our Cosin, that hee stares / And lookes so wildely? |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.105 | How now! What means death in this rude assault? | How now? what meanes Death in this rude assalt? |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.42 | Brother, good day. What means this armed guard | Brother, good day: What meanes this armed guard |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.77 | Our brother is imprisoned by your means, | Our Brother is imprison'd by your meanes, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.144 | cities for a dangerous thing, and every man that means | Citties for a dangerous thing, and euery man that means |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.38 | What means this scene of rude impatience? | What meanes this Scene of rude impatience? |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.37 | Whose humble means match not his haughty spirit. | Whose humble meanes match not his haughtie spirit: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.75 | Let me have open means to come to them, | Let me haue open meanes to come to them, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.40 | Sweet Blunt, make some good means to speak with him | Sweet Blunt, make some good meanes to speak with him |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.249 | One that made means to come by what he hath, | One that made meanes to come by what he hath, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.250 | And slaughtered those that were the means to help him; | And slaughter'd those that were the meanes to help him: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.332 | For want of means, poor rats, had hanged themselves. | For want of meanes (poore Rats) had hang'd themselues. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.145 | Have you importuned him by any means? | Haue you importun'd him by any meanes? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.chorus.11 | And she as much in love, her means much less | And she as much in Loue, her meanes much lesse, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.chorus.13 | But passion lends them power, time means, to meet, | But passion lends them Power, time, meanes to meete, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.i.42 | To seek him here that means not to be found. | to seeke him here / That meanes not to be found. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.177 | Some means to come to shrift this afternoon, | some meanes to come to shrift this afternoone, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.103 | Find thou the means, and I'll find such a man. | Find thou the meanes, and Ile find such a man. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.35 | Let's see for means. O mischief, thou art swift | Lets see for meanes: O mischiefe thou art swift, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.293 | That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love. | That Heauen finds meanes to kill your ioyes with Loue; |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.73 | Belike some noble gentleman that means, | Belike some Noble Gentleman that meanes |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.86 | I think 'twas Soto that your honour means. | I thinke 'twas Soto that your honor meanes. |
| 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 III.ii.11 | Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure. | Who woo'd in haste, and meanes to wed at leysure: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.17 | Yet never means to wed where he hath wooed. | Yet neuer meanes to wed where he hath woo'd: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.22 | Upon my life, Petruchio means but well, | Vpon my life Petruchio meanes but well, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.104 | Why, true, he means to make a puppet of thee. | Why true, he meanes to make a puppet of thee. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.105 | She says your worship means to make a puppet of her. | She saies your Worship meanes to make a puppet of her. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.34 | Lay hands on the villain. I believe a' means to | Lay hands on the villaine, I beleeue a meanes to |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.53 | True, save means to live. | True, saue meanes to liue. |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.89 | The means that dusky Dis my daughter got, | The meanes, that duskie Dis, my daughter got, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.146 | To make the dear loss, have I means much weaker | To make the deere losse, haue I meanes much weaker |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.100 | His means most short, his creditors most strait. | His meanes most short, his Creditors most straite: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.7.2 | O, by no means, | O by no meanes, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.112 | What means that trump? | What meanes that Trumpe? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.132.1 | As I had leave of means. | As I had leaue of meanes. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.172 | What heart, head, sword, force, means, but is Lord Timon's? | What heart, head, sword, force, meanes, but is L. Timons: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.174 | Ah, when the means are gone that buy this praise, | Ah, when the meanes are gone, that buy this praise, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.314 | means? | meanes? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.315 | Who, without those means thou talkest of, didst | Who without those meanes thou talk'st of, didst |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.318 | I understand thee: thou hadst some means to | I vnderstand thee: thou had'st some meanes to |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.225 | And strain what other means is left unto us | And straine what other meanes is left vnto vs |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.20 | By humble message and by promised means. | By humble Message, and by promist meanes: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.212 | That noble-minded Titus means to thee. | That Noble minded Titus meanes to thee. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.157 | I know not what it means; away with her! | I know not what it meanes, away with her. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.8 | What means my niece Lavinia by these signs? | What meanes my Neece Lauinia by these signes? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.30 | How now, Lavinia? Marcus, what means this? | How now Lauinia, Marcus what meanes this? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.38 | I think she means that there were more than one | I thinke she meanes that ther was more then one |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.55 | Have by my means been butchered wrongfully. | Haue by my meanes beene butcher'd wrongfully? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.183 | You know your mother means to feast with me, | You know your Mother meanes to feast with me, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.10 | I fear the Emperor means no good to us. | If ere the Emperour meanes no good to vs. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.259 | What Troy means fairly shall be spoke aloud. | What Troy meanes fairely, shall be spoke alowd. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.288 | That means not, hath not, or is not in love. | That meanes not, hath not, or is not in loue: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.289 | If then one is, or hath, or means to be, | If then one is, or hath, or meanes to be, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.25 | The thing he means to kill more excellently. | The thing he meanes to kill, more excellently. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.1 | What a plague means my niece to take the death | What a plague meanes my Neece to take the death |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.ii.17 | I left no ring with her; what means this lady? | I left no Ring with her: what meanes this Lady? |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.119 | means for this uncivil rule. She shall know of it, by this | meanes for this vnciuill rule; she shall know of it by this |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.56 | Never trust me then – and by all means stir on | Neuer trust me then: and by all meanes stirre on |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.67 | means to be saved by believing rightly, can ever believe | meanes to be saued by beleeuing rightly, can euer beleeue |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.16 | How now, what means this passion at his name? | How now? what meanes this passion at his name? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.115 | What means your ladyship? Do you not like it? | What meanes your Ladiship? Doe you not like it? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.78 | And here he means to spend his time awhile. | And heere he meanes to spend his time a while, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.180 | The ladder made of cords, and all the means | The Ladder made of Cords, and all the means |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.138 | To make such means for her as thou hast done, | To make such meanes for her, as thou hast done, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.51 | By any means, our thing of learning says so; | By any meanes our thing of learning sees so: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.56 | And, sweet companions, let's rehearse by any means | and / Sweete Companions lets rehearse by any meanes, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.134 | Ay, ay, by any means, dear dominie. | I, I by any meanes, deere Domine. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.58.1 | By any means. | By any meanes. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.20 | And by whose means he escaped, which was your daughter's, | and by whose meanes he escapt, which was your Daughters, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.65 | Quickly, by any means; I long to see 'em. – | quickly, / By any meanes, I long to see 'em. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.71 | Than any jot obeys; seeks all foul means | Then any jot obaies; seekes all foule meanes |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.i.6 | means to pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly | meanes to pay Bohemia the Visitation, which hee iustly |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.146.2 | What means Sicilia? | What meanes Sicilia? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.42 | most of them means and bases – but one Puritan | most of them Meanes and Bases; but one Puritan |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.599 | the buyer; by which means I saw whose purse was best | the buyer: by which meanes, I saw whose Purse was best |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.615 | Nay, but my letters, by this means being there | Nay, but my Letters by this meanes being there |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.828 | means to do the Prince my master good; which who | means to doe the Prince my Master good; which, who |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.165 | Ay, by any means prove a tall fellow. If I do not | I, by any meanes proue a tall Fellow: if I do not |