| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.22 | Murder in healing wounds. Then, noble partners, | Murther in healing wounds. Then Noble Partners, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.107 | What, will you murder me? Thou, gaoler, thou, | What will you murther me, thou Iailor thou? |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.11 | Thy fortunes. How? That I should murder her, | Thy Fortunes. How? That I should murther her, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.312 | Murder in heaven! How – ? 'Tis gone. Pisanio, | Murther in heauen? How? 'tis gone. Pisanio, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.i.4 | Must murder wives much better than themselves | Must murther Wiues much better then themselues |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.25 | Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. | Reuenge his foule and most vnnaturall Murther. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.26 | Murder? | Murther? |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.27 | Murder most foul, as in the best it is, | Murther most foule, as in the best it is; |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.535 | friend? Can you play The Murder of Gonzago? | Friend, can you play the murther of Gonzago? |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.591 | For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak | For Murther, though it haue no tongue, will speake |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.38 | A brother's murder. Pray can I not, | A Brothers murther. Pray can I not, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.52 | Can serve my turn? ‘ Forgive me my foul murder?’ | Can serue my turne? Forgiue me my foule Murther: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.54 | Of those effects for which I did the murder, | Of those effects for which I did the Murther. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.22 | What wilt thou do? Thou wilt not murder me? | What wilt thou do? thou wilt not murther me? |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.77 | Cain's jawbone, that did the first murder! This might be | Caines Iaw-bone, that did the first murther: It might be |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.130 | God let me not live but I will murder your ruff | I will murther your Ruffe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.201 | Murder, I warrant now! Alas, alas, put up your naked | Murther I warrant now. Alas, alas, put vp your naked |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.35 | see wilful adultery and murder committed. | see wilful adultery and murther committed. |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.105 | Treason and murder ever kept together, | Treason, and murther, euer kept together, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.110 | Wonder to wait on treason and on murder: | Wonder to waite on treason, and on murther: |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.32 | Of heady murder, spoil, and villainy. | Of heady Murther, Spoyle, and Villany. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.158 | premeditated and contrived murder; some, of beguiling | premeditated and contriued Murther; some, of beguiling |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.34 | Thou that contrived'st to murder our dead lord; | Thou that contriued'st to murther our dead Lord, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.116 | You see what mischief, and what murder too, | You see what Mischiefe, and what Murther too, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.63 | Murder not then the fruit within my womb, | Murther not then the Fruite within my Wombe, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.131 | Murder indeed, that bloody sin, I tortured | Murther indeede, that bloodie sinne, I tortur'd |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.1.2 | the murder of the Duke of Gloucester | the Murther of Duke Humfrey. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.216 | But that the guilt of murder bucklers thee | But that the guilt of Murther bucklers thee, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.95 | By shameful murder of a guiltless king | By shamefull murther of a guiltlesse King, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.71 | You cannot but forbear to murder me. | You cannot but forbeare to murther me: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iii.8 | Ah, Clifford, murder not this innocent child, | Ah Clifford, murther not this innocent Child, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.182 | Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile, | Why I can smile, and murther whiles I smile, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.79 | Thou art not here; murder is thy alms-deed; | Thou art not heere; Murther is thy Almes-deed: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.3 | ‘ Help, ho! They murder Caesar!’ Who's within? | Helpe, ho: They murther Casar. Who's within? |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.223 | This murder had not come into my mind. | This murther had not come into my minde. |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.37 | Murder, as hating what himself hath done, | Murther, as hating what himselfe hath done, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.227 | It is no vicious blot, murder or foulness, | It is no vicious blot, murther, or foulenesse, |
| King Lear | KL II.i.43 | Persuade me to the murder of your lordship; | Perswade me to the murther of your Lordship, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.37 | Help, ho! Murder! Help! | Helpe, ho, murther, helpe. |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.40 | Help, ho! Murder! Murder! | Helpe hoa, murther, murther. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.22 | They could not, would not do't; 'tis worse than murder | They could not, would not do't: 'tis worse then murther, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.138 | My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, | My Thought, whose Murther yet is but fantasticall, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.52 | Pale Hecat's offerings; and withered Murder, | Pale Heccats Offrings: and wither'd Murther, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.22 | There's one did laugh in's sleep, and one cried ‘ Murder!’ | There's one did laugh in's sleepe, / And one cry'd Murther, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.36 | Macbeth does murder sleep – the innocent sleep, | Macbeth does murther Sleepe, the innocent Sleepe, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.64 | Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope | Most sacrilegious Murther hath broke ope |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.71 | Ring the alarum bell! Murder and treason! | Ring the Alarum Bell: Murther, and Treason, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.83.1 | Would murder as it fell. | Would murther as it fell. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.82.1 | Than such a murder is. | Then such a murther is. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.85 | Son dies. Exit Wife crying ‘ Murder ’ | Exit crying Murther. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.41 | with him, away with him! Better shame than murder. | with him, away with him: Better shame, then murther. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.26 | He ‘ Murder!’ cries, and help from Athens calls. | He murther cries, and helpe from Athens cals. |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.169 | How shall I murder him, Iago? | How shall I murther him, Iago. |
| Othello | Oth V.i.27 | I am maimed for ever. Help, ho! Murder, murder! | I am maym'd for euer: / Helpe hoa: Murther, murther. |
| Othello | Oth V.i.37 | What, ho! No watch? No passage? Murder, murder! | What hoa? no Watch? No passage? / Murther, Murther. |
| Othello | Oth V.i.48 | Who's there? Whose noise is this that cries on murder? | Who's there? / Who's noyse is this that cries on murther? |
| Othello | Oth V.i.64 | How silent is this town! Ho, murder, murder! | How silent is this Towne? Hoa, murther, murther. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.65 | A murder, which I thought a sacrifice. | A Murther, which I thought a Sacrifice. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.166 | The Moor hath killed my mistress! Murder! Murder! | The Moore hath kill'd my Mistris. Murther, murther. |
| Pericles | Per V.i.173 | Did seek to murder me; | Did seeke to murther me: |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.32 | Teaching stern murder how to butcher thee. | Teaching sterne murther how to butcher thee: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.197 | As ours by murder, to make him a king! | As ours by Murther, to make him a King. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.176 | To murder me? | To murther me? |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.200 | That thou shalt do no murder. Will you then | That thou shalt do no murther. Will you then |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.205 | For false forswearing and for murder too: | For false Forswearing, and for murther too: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.216 | He sends you not to murder me for this, | He sends you not to murther me for this: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.276 | Of this most grievous murder! | Of this most greeuous murther. |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.2 | Murder thy breath in middle of a word, | Murther thy breath in middle of a word, |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.38 | To murder me and my good Lord of Gloucester? | To murther me, and my good Lord of Gloster. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.61 | Murder her brothers, and then marry her – | Murther her Brothers, and then marry her, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.198 | Murder, stern murder, in the direst degree, | Murther, sterne murther, in the dyr'st degree, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.70 | If they do see thee, they will murder thee. | If they do see thee, they will murther thee. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.61 | To murder, murder our solemnity? | To murther, murther our solemnitie? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.81 | Doing more murder in this loathsome world, | Doing more murther in this loathsome world, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.225 | Doth make against me, of this direful murder. | Doth make against me of this direfull murther: |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.232 | And do the murder first. If he awake, | And doe the murther first: if he awake, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.54 | That died by law for murder of our brother, | That dy'd by law for murther of our Brother, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.37 | Where bloody murder or detested rape | Where bloody Murther or detested Rape, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.83 | Rapine and Murder, you are welcome too. | Rapine and Murther, you are welcome too, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.31 | If you will not murder me for my love, let me | If you will not murther me for my loue, let mee |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.27 | Some part of a good name, and many a murder | Some part of a good name, and many a murther |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.412 | I am appointed him to murder you. | I am appointed him to murther you. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.100 | Haled out to murder. Myself on every post | Hal'd out to murther. My selfe on euery Post |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.62.1 | To murder her I married. | To murther her I marryed. |