| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.83 | He was disposed to mirth; but on the sudden | He was dispos'd to mirth, but on the sodaine |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.4 | Say I am dancing; if in mirth, report | Say I am dauncing: if in Myrth, report |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.18 | To give a kingdom for a mirth, to sit | To giue a Kingdome for a Mirth, to sit |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.2 | Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am | Deere Cellia; I show more mirth then I am |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.105 | Then is there mirth in heaven, | Then is there mirth in heauen, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.108 | And in despite of mirth mean to be merry. | And in despight of mirth meane to be merrie: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.106 | but disease our better mirth. | but disease our better mirth. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.111 | wish you much mirth. | wish you much mirth. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.58 | Is he disposed to mirth? I hope he is. | Is he dispos'd to mirth? I hope he is. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.161 | parting, as the procuring of mirth: you come in | parting, as the procuring of mirth: you come in |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.12 | With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, | With mirth in Funerall, and with Dirge in Marriage, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.296 | I know not – lost all my mirth, forgone all custom | I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custome |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.38 | When thou perceive his blood inclined to mirth; | When you perceiue his blood enclin'd to mirth: |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.132 | Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger, | Free from grosse passion, or of mirth, or anger, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.287 | Pardon the frankness of my mirth, if I answer | Pardon the franknesse of my mirth, if I answer |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.vi.15 | All France will be replete with mirth and joy | All France will be repleat with mirth and ioy, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.43 | Laughest thou, wretch? Thy mirth shall turn to moan. | Laughest thou Wretch? / Thy mirth shall turne to moane. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.101 | Make yourself mirth with your particular fancy, | Make your selfe mirth with your particular fancy, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.49 | I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter, | Ile vse you for my Mirth, yea for my Laughter |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.113 | To be but mirth and laughter to his Brutus, | To be but Mirth and Laughter to his Brutus, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.59 | Full warm of blood, of mirth, of gossiping. | Full warm of blood, of mirth, of gossipping: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.242 | of thy mirth – | of thy myrth, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.67 | Within the limit of becoming mirth, | Within the limit of becomming mirth, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.109 | breaking out of mirth, as it were, I have acquainted | breaking out of myrth (as it were) I haue acquainted |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.79 | Here comes Boyet, and mirth is in his face. | Heere comes Boyet, and mirth in his face. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.517 | Their form confounded makes most form in mirth, | Their forme confounded, makes most forme in mirth, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.846 | Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. | Mirth cannot moue a soule in agonie. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.11 | Be large in mirth. Anon we'll drink a measure | Be large in mirth, anon wee'l drinke a Measure |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.108 | You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting | You haue displac'd the mirth, / Broke the good meeting, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.13 | My mirth it much displeased, but pleased my woe. | My mirth it much displeas'd, but pleas'd my woe. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.80 | With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, | With mirth and laughter let old wrinckles come, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.189 | Your boldest suit of mirth, for we have friends | Your boldest suite of mirth, for we haue friends |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.26 | of my mirth – heaven forgive me! Why, I'll exhibit a | of my mirth: (heauen forgiue mee:) why Ile / Exhibit a |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.215 | in other places she enlargeth her mirth so far that there | in other places shee enlargeth her mirth so farre, that there |
| 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, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.13 | Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth. | Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.56 | And waxen in their mirth, and neeze, and swear | And waxen in their mirth, and neeze, and sweare, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.28 | Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth. | Heere come the louers, full of ioy and mirth: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.35 | Where is our usual manager of mirth? | Where is our vsuall manager of mirth? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.57 | And his love Thisbe; ‘ very tragical mirth.’ | And his loue Thisby; very tragicall mirth. |
| 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 III.ii.9 | to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth; he hath twice or | to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth, he hath twice or |
| Pericles | Per II.i.95.1 | How well this honest mirth becomes their labour! | How well this honest mirth becomes their labour? |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.7 | Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast. | Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a Feast. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.133 | And frame your mind to mirth and merriment, | And frame your minde to mirth and merriment, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.42 | Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness. | Is like that mirth, Fate turnes to sudden sadnesse. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.173 | Must be the scene of mirth; to cough and spit, | Must be the Scene of myrth, to cough, and spit, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.46 | Present mirth hath present laughter, | Present mirth, hath present laughter: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.30 | Coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth, | Coy looks, with hart-sore sighes: one fading moments mirth, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.162 | With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity. | With Triumphes, Mirth, and rare solemnity. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.34 | freedom out of bondage, making misery their mirth and | freedome out of Bondage, making misery their / Mirth, and |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.43 | Away with this strained mirth; I say again, | Away with this straind mirth; I say againe |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.50 | Becomes him nobly; so does Arcite's mirth, | Becomes him nobly; So do's Arcites mirth, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.51 | But Palamon's sadness is a kind of mirth, | But Palamons sadnes is a kinde of mirth, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.52 | So mingled as if mirth did make him sad, | So mingled, as if mirth did make him sad, |
| 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 IV.iv.42 | The mirth o'th' feast. Or I'll be thine, my fair, | The Mirth o'th' Feast: Or Ile be thine (my Faire) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.54 | And let's be red with mirth. | And let's be red with mirth. |