| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.ii.45 | meat. | meate. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.49 | Sir, I will eat no meat, I'll not drink, sir – | Sir, I will eate no meate, Ile not drinke sir, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.62 | Most shallow man! Thou worms' meat, in | Most shallow man: Thou wormes meate in |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.33 | foul slut were to put good meat into an unclean dish. | foule slut, were to put good meate into an vncleane dish. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.i.10 | It is meat and drink to me to see a clown. | It is meat and drinke to me to see a Clowne, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.47 | She is so hot because the meat is cold. | She is so hot because the meate is colde: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.48 | The meat is cold because you come not home. | The meate is colde, because you come not home: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.63 | ‘ Your meat doth burn,’ quoth I; ‘ My gold,’ quoth he. | Your meat doth burne, quoth I: my gold quoth he: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.57 | No, sir. I think the meat wants | No sir, I thinke the meat wants |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.126 | That never meat sweet-savoured in thy taste, | That neuer meat sweet-sauour'd in thy taste, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.24 | Good meat, sir, is common. That every churl affords. | Good meat sir is cõmon that euery churle affords. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.73 | Thou sayst his meat was sauced with thy upbraidings. | Thou saist his meate was sawc'd with thy vpbraidings, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.205 | That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not | That meate was made for mouths. That the gods sent not |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.ii.50 | Anger's my meat. I sup upon myself, | Angers my Meate: I suppe vpon my selfe, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vii.3 | Your soldiers use him as the grace 'fore meat, | Your Soldiers vse him as the Grace 'fore meate, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.11 | There is cold meat i'th' cave, we'll browse on that, | There is cold meat i'th'Caue, we'l brouz on that |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.22 | Gold strewed i'th' floor. Here's money for my meat, | Gold strew'd i'th'Floore. Heere's money for my Meate, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.162 | faint for want of meat, depart reeling with too much | faint for want of meate, depart reeling with too much |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.121 | Away, you mouldy rogue, away! I am meat for your | away you mouldie Rogue, away; I am meat for your |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.28 | What you want in meat, we'll have in drink; but you | What you want in meate, wee'l haue in drinke: but you |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 epilogue.26 | much cloyed with fat meat, our humble author will | much cloid with Fat Meate, our humble Author will |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.37 | eat no meat these five days, yet come thou and thy five | eate no meate these fiue dayes, yet come thou and thy fiue |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.148 | Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, | Vpon what meate doth this our Casar feede, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.52 | 'Tis but for meat that we must kill for them. | Tis but for meate that we must kill for them, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.157 | up the meat, the two crowns of the egg. When thou | vp the meate, the two Crownes of the egge: when thou |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.133 | Let the mark have a prick in't, to mete at if it may be. | Let the mark haue a pricke in't, to meat at, if it may be. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.35 | From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony; | From thence, the sawce to meate is Ceremony, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.34 | Give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights, | Giue to our Tables meate, sleepe to our Nights: |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.15 | us all that, in the thanksgiving before meat, do relish the | vs all, that in the thanks-giuing before meate, do rallish the |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.55 | meat, and we will come in to dinner. | meat, and we will come in to dinner. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.57 | the meat, sir, it shall be covered; for your coming in to | the meat sir, it shall bee couered, for your comming in to |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.267 | hot meat since. Why do your dogs bark so? Be there | hot meate since. Why doe your dogs barke so? be there |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.274 | That's meat and drink to me, now. I have seen | That's meate and drinke to me now: I haue seene |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.95 | meat and drink, make the beds, and do all myself – | meat and drinke, make the beds, and doe all my selfe.) |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.183 | the boy that stole your meat, and you'll beat the post. | the boy that stole your meate, and you'l beat the post. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.231 | but doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in | but doth not the appetite alter? a man loues the meat in |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.81 | despite of his heart, he eats his meat without grudging; | despight of his heart he eates his meat without grudging, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.165 | The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss | The meate it feeds on. That Cuckold liues in blisse, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.169 | The messengers of Venice stay the meat. | The Messengers of Venice staies the meate, |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.32 | Wishing him my meat. – Sure, he's a gallant gentleman. | Wishing him my meat: sure hee's a gallant Gentleman. |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.3 | Get fire and meat for these poor men. | Get Fire and meat for these poore men, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.23 | meat for worms. But I'll go search the market. | meate for wormes, but Ile goe searche the market. |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.76 | And who abstains from meat that is not gaunt? | And who abstaynes from meate, that is not gaunt? |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.95.1 | Enter Keeper to Richard with meat | Enter Keeper with a Dish. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.133 | Is very good meat in Lent. | is very good meat in Lent. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.22 | quarrels as an egg is full of meat; and yet thy head hath | quarrels, as an egge is full of meat, and yet thy head hath |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.107 | They have made worms' meat of me. | They haue made wormes meat of me, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.147 | 'Tis burnt, and so is all the meat. | 'Tis burnt, and so is all the meate: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.155 | The meat was well, if you were so contented. | The meate was well, if you were so contented. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.183 | She eat no meat today, nor none shall eat. | She eate no meate to day, nor none shall eate. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.185 | As with the meat, some undeserved fault | As with the meate, some vndeserued fault |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.9 | Am starved for meat, giddy for lack of sleep, | Am staru'd for meate, giddie for lacke of sleepe: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.19 | I fear it is too choleric a meat. | I feare it is too chollericke a meate. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.32 | That feed'st me with the very name of meat. | That feed'st me with the verie name of meate. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.36.1 | Enter Petruchio and Hortensio with meat | Enter Petruchio, and Hortensio with meate. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.40 | To dress thy meat myself, and bring it thee. | To dresse thy meate my selfe, and bring it thee. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.46 | And so shall mine before you touch the meat. | And so shall mine before you touch the meate. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.265 | Ay, to see meat fill knaves and wine heat fools. | I, to see meate fill Knaues, and Wine heat fooles. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.36 | prithee, let my meat make thee silent. | prythee let my meate make thee silent. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.37 | I scorn thy meat. 'Twould choke me, for I | I scorne thy meate, 'twould choake me: for I |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.40 | see so many dip their meat in one man's blood. And all | see so many dip there meate in one mans blood, and all |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.44 | Good for their meat, and safer for their lives. | Good for there meate, and safer for their liues. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.77 | no meat like 'em. I could wish my best friend at such a | no meat like 'em, I could wish my best friend at such a |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.i.57 | Unto his honour, has my lord's meat in him. | vnto his Honor, / Has my Lords meate in him: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.51 | When your false masters eat of my lord's meat? | When your false Masters eate of my Lords meat? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.68 | alike. Make not a City feast of it, to let the meat cool ere | alike. Make not a Citie Feast of it, to let the meat coole, ere |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.76 | the gods. Make the meat be beloved more than the man that | the Gods. Make the Meate be beloued, more then the Man that |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.297 | Where my stomach finds meat; or, rather, | Where my stomacke findes meate, or rather |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.418 | Your greatest want is, you want much of meat. | Your greatest want is, you want much of meat: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.481 | All I kept were knaves, to serve in meat to villains. | all / I kept were Knaues, to serue in meate to Villaines. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.26.2 | Titus like a cook, placing the dishes, and Lavinia with | Titus like a Cooke, placing the meat on the Table, and Lauinia with |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.242 | bran; porridge after meat! I could live and die i'the | bran; porredge after meat. I could liue and dye i'th' |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.68 | That you might kill your stomach on your meat, | That you might kill your stomacke on your meat, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.165 | victuals, and would fain have meat. O, be not like your | victuals; and would faine haue meate: oh bee not like your |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.1 | Enter Arcite, with meat, wine, and files | Enter Arcite, with Meate, Wine, and Files. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.22.1 | I have so good meat to't. | I have so good meate too't. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.27.3 | 'Tis a lusty meat; | Tis a lusty meate: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.95 | He was kept down with hard meat and ill lodging; | He was kept downe with hard meate, and ill lodging |