| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.20 | would have made nature immortal, and death should | would haue made nature immortall, and death should |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.125 | is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve | is not politicke, in the Common-wealth of Nature, to preserue |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.135 | rule of nature. To speak on the part of virginity is to | rule of Nature. To speake on the part of virginitie, is to |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.140 | nature. Virginity breeds mites, much like a cheese, consumes | Nature. Virginitie breedes mites, much like a Cheese, consumes |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.218 | The mightiest space in fortune nature brings | The mightiest space in fortune, Nature brings |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.20 | Frank nature, rather curious than in haste, | Franke Nature rather curious then in hast |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.74 | With several applications; nature and sickness | With seuerall applications: Nature and sicknesse |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.140 | Adoption strives with nature, and choice breeds | Adoption striues with nature, and choise breedes |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.118 | That labouring art can never ransom nature | That labouring Art can neuer ransome nature |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.131 | In these to nature she's immediate heir, | In these, to Nature shee's immediate heire: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.i.17 | But I am sure the younger of our nature | But I am sure the yonger of our nature, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.88 | My son corrupts a well-derived nature | My sonne corrupts a well deriued nature |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.119 | That all the miseries which nature owes | That all the miseries which nature owes |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.3 | something in't that stings his nature, for on the reading | som thing in't that stings his nature: for on the reading |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.50 | the tenderness of her nature became as a prey to her | the tendernesse of her Nature, became as a prey to her |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.150 | But I con him no thanks for't, in the nature he | But I con him no thankes for't in the nature he |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.238 | repent out the remainder of nature. Let me live, sir, in a | repent out the remainder of Nature. Let me liue sir in a |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.9 | nature had praise for creating. If she had partaken of my | Nature had praise for creating. If she had pertaken of my |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.60 | nature. | Nature. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.23 | The nature of his great offence is dead, | The nature of his great offence is dead, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.72 | Or, ere they meet, in me, O nature, cesse! | Or, ere they meete in me, O Nature cesse. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.207 | Whose nature sickens but to speak a truth. | Whose nature sickens: but to speake a truth, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.96 | The nature of bad news infects the teller. | The Nature of bad newes infects the Teller. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.16 | It cannot be thus long; the sides of nature | It cannot be thus long, the sides of Nature |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.206 | The fancy outwork nature. On each side her | The fancie out-worke Nature. On each side her, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.223.1 | And made a gap in nature. | And made a gap in Nature. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.29 | That nature must compel us to lament | That Nature must compell vs to lament |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.97 | It's past the size of dreaming. Nature wants stuff | It's past the size of dreaming: Nature wants stuffe |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.293 | If thou and nature can so gently part, | If thou, and Nature can so gently part, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.16 | something that nature gave me his countenance seems | something that nature gaue mee, his countenance seemes |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.41 | the lineaments of Nature. | the lineaments of Nature. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.42 | No; when Nature hath made a fair creature, may | No; when Nature hath made a faire creature, may |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.43 | she not by Fortune fall into the fire? Though Nature | she not by Fortune fall into the fire? though nature |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.46 | Indeed, there is Fortune too hard for Nature, | Indeed there is fortune too hard for nature, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.50 | into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is | into strange capers; but as all is mortall in nature, so is |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.51 | all nature in love mortal in folly. | all nature in loue, mortall in folly. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.i.16 | And let my officers of such a nature | And let my officers of such a nature |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.28 | by nature nor art may complain of good breeding, or | by Nature, nor Art, may complaine of good breeding, or |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.137 | Therefore Heaven Nature charged | Therefore heauen Nature charg'd, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.140 | Nature presently distilled | nature presently distill'd |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.130 | And nature, stronger than his just occasion, | And Nature stronger then his iust occasion, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.35 | Was wrought by nature, not by vile offence, | Was wrought by nature, not by vile offence, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.78 | recover his hair that grows bald by nature. | recouer his haire that growes bald by nature. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.111 | no time to recover hair lost by nature. | no time to recouer haire lost by Nature. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.39 | What he cannot help in his nature, you | What he cannot helpe in his Nature, you |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.257.2 | Such a nature, | Such a Nature, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.6 | Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. | Nature teaches Beasts to know their Friends. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.186 | Than what he stood for, so his gracious nature | Then what he stood for: so his gracious nature |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.194 | Or else it would have galled his surly nature, | Or else it would haue gall'd his surly nature, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.257 | If, as his nature is, he fall in rage | If, as his nature is, he fall in rage |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.136 | The nature of our seats, and make the rabble | The Nature of our Seats, and make the Rabble |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.254 | His nature is too noble for the world. | His nature is too noble for the World: |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.308 | Lest his infection, being of catching nature, | Least his infection being of catching nature, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.15 | False to my nature? Rather say I play | False to my Nature? Rather say, I play |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.62 | I would dissemble with my nature where | I would dissemble with my Nature, where |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.92 | Made by some other deity than Nature, | Made by some other Deity then Nature, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vii.10 | When first I did embrace him. Yet his nature | When first I did embrace him. Yet his Nature |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vii.35 | By sovereignty of nature. First he was | By Soueraignty of Nature. First, he was |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vii.41 | Which he was lord of; or whether nature, | Which he was Lord of: or whether Nature, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.25 | All bond and privilege of nature, break! | All bond and priuiledge of Nature breake; |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.33 | Great Nature cries ‘ Deny not.’ Let the Volsces | Great Nature cries, Deny not. Let the Volces |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.25 | He bowed his nature, never known before | He bow'd his Nature, neuer knowne before, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.40 | slight and trivial a nature. | slight and triuiall a nature. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.36 | A drug of such damned nature. Those she has | A drugge of such damn'd Nature. Those she ha's, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.32 | What! Are men mad? Hath nature given them eyes | What are men mad? Hath Nature giuen them eyes |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.125 | Which rottenness can lend Nature! Such boiled stuff | Which rottennesse can lend Nature. Such boyl'd stuffe |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.84 | Was as another Nature, dumb; outwent her, | Was as another Nature dumbe, out-went her, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.79 | How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature! | How hard it is to hide the sparkes of Nature? |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.84 | The roofs of palaces, and Nature prompts them | The Roofes of Palaces, and Nature prompts them |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.43 | To weep 'twixt clock and clock? If sleep charge Nature, | To weepe 'twixt clock and clock? If sleep charge Nature, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vi.20 | Ere clean it o'erthrow Nature, makes it valiant. | Ere cleane it o're-throw Nature, makes it valiant. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.25 | O worthiness of nature! Breed of greatness! | O worthinesse of Nature, breed of Greatnesse! |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.27 | Nature hath meal, and bran; contempt, and grace. | "Nature hath Meale, and Bran; Contempt, and Grace. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.170 | Thou divine Nature; thou thyself thou blazon'st | Thou diuine Nature; thou thy selfe thou blazon'st |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.357 | For nature doth abhor to make his bed | For Nature doth abhorre to make his bed |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.364 | That – otherwise than noble Nature did – | That (otherwise then noble Nature did) |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.48 | Great nature, like his ancestry, | Great Nature like his Ancestrie, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.151 | I had rather thou shouldst live, while Nature will, | I had rather thou should'st liue, while Nature will, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.165 | Postures, beyond brief Nature. For condition, | Postures, beyond breefe Nature. For Condition, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.257 | All offices of nature should again | All Offices of Nature, should againe |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.5 | Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature | Yet so farre hath Discretion fought with Nature, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.73 | Passing through nature to eternity. | Passing through Nature, to Eternity. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.87 | 'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, | 'Tis sweet and commendable / In your Nature Hamlet, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.102 | A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, | A fault against the Dead, a fault to Nature, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.136 | That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature | That growes to Seed: Things rank, and grosse in Nature |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.7 | A violet in the youth of primy nature, | A Violet in the youth of Primy Nature; |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.11 | For nature crescent does not grow alone | For nature cressant does not grow alone, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.24 | That – for some vicious mole of nature in them, | |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.26 | Since nature cannot choose his origin – | |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.54 | Making night hideous, and we fools of nature | Making Night hidious? And we fooles of Nature, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.12 | Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature | Till the foule crimes done in my dayes of Nature |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.81 | If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not. | If thou hast nature in thee beare it not; |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.19 | you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. For anything so | you ore-stop not the modestie of Nature; for any thing so |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.22 | the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her own feature, | the Mirrour vp to Nature; to shew Vertue her owne Feature, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.400 | O heart, lose not thy nature. Let not ever | Oh Heart, loose not thy Nature; let not euer |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.32 | Since nature makes them partial, should o'erhear | Since Nature makes them partiall, should o're-heare |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.62 | In his true nature, and we ourselves compelled, | In his true Nature, and we our selues compell'd |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.169 | For use almost can change the stamp of nature, | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.17 | (aside) To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is, | To my sicke soule (as sinnes true Nature is) |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.163 | Nature is fine in love, and where 'tis fine, | Nature is fine in Loue, and where 'tis fine, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.7 | So criminal and so capital in nature, | So crimefull, and so Capitall in Nature, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.187 | It is our trick. Nature her custom holds, | It is our tricke, Nature her custome holds, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.60 | 'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes | 'Tis dangerous, when the baser nature comes |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.69 | To let this canker of our nature come | To let this Canker of our nature come |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.177 | nature will. | nature will. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.224 | What I have done | What I haue done / That might your nature honour, and exception |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.225 | That might your nature, honour, and exception | |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.238.2 | I am satisfied in nature, | I am satisfied in Nature, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.11 | All of one nature, of one substance bred, | All of one Nature, of one Substance bred, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.24 | Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth | Diseased Nature oftentimes breakes forth |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.42 | The nature of your griefs, and whereupon | The nature of your Griefes, and whereupon |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.61 | Foretells the nature of a tragic volume. | Fore-tels the Nature of a Tragicke Volume: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.24 | And speaking thick, which nature made his blemish, | And speaking thicke (which Nature made his blemish) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.77 | Figuring the nature of the times deceased, | Figuring the nature of the Times deceas'd: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.320 | reason in the law of nature but I may snap at him. Let | reason, in the Law of Nature, but I may snap at him. Let |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.89 | A peace is of the nature of a conquest, | A Peace is of the nature of a Conquest: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.122 | Unfathered heirs and loathly births of nature. | Vnfather'd Heires, and loathly Births of Nature: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.40 | Which nature, love, and filial tenderness | Which Nature, Loue, and filiall tendernesse, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.67 | How quickly nature falls into revolt | How quickly Nature falls into reuolt, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.4.2 | He's walked the way of nature, | Hee's walk'd the way of Nature, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.188 | Creatures that by a rule in nature teach | Creatures that by a rule in Nature teach |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.60 | Mangle the work of nature, and deface | Mangle the Worke of Nature, and deface |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.80 | By law of nature and of nations, 'longs | By Law of Nature, and of Nations, longs |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.8 | Disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage; | Disguise faire Nature with hard-fauour'd Rage: |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.39 | began thus: ‘ Wonder of nature – ’. | began thus, Wonder of Nature. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.18 | Froward by nature, enemy to peace, | Froward by nature, Enemie to Peace, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.59 | Or nature makes me suddenly relent. | Or Nature makes me suddenly relent. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.258 | By nature proved an enemy to the flock, | By nature prou'd an Enemie to the Flock, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.iii.22 | Being opposites of such repairing nature. | Being opposites of such repayring Nature. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.155 | She did corrupt frail nature with some bribe | Shee did corrupt frayle Nature with some Bribe, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.105 | When nature brought him to the door of death? | When Nature brought him to the doore of Death? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.72 | His head by nature framed to wear a crown, | His Head by nature fram'd to weare a Crowne, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.79 | More than the nature of a brother's love! | More then the nature of a Brothers Loue. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.108 | A minister in his power. You know his nature, | A Minister in his Power. You know his Nature, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.53 | The nature of it? In what kind, let's know, | The nature of it, in what kinde let's know, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.112 | To nature none more bound; his training such | To Nature none more bound; his trayning such, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.188 | Commanded nature that my lady's womb, | Commanded Nature, that my Ladies wombe |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.62 | My lord of York, out of his noble nature, | My Lord of Yorke, out of his Noble nature, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.146 | I bear i'th' state; and nature does require | I beare i'th'State: and Nature does require |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.418 | I know his noble nature – not to let | (I know his Noble Nature) not to let |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.135 | She is young, and of a noble modest nature; | She is yong, and of a Noble modest Nature, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.3 | Not for delights, times to repair our nature | Not for delights: Times to repayre our Nature |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.15 | In them a wilder nature than the business | In them a wilder Nature, then the businesse |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.129 | Thou hast a cruel nature and a bloody. | Thou hast a cruell Nature and a bloody. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.13 | How that might change his nature, there's the question. | How that might change his nature, there's the question? |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.69 | The nature of an insurrection. | The nature of an Insurrection. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.193 | But yet my nature could not bear it so. | But yet my Nature could not beare it so. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.225 | And nature must obey necessity, | And Nature must obey Necessitie, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.74 | So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up | So mixt in him, that Nature might stand vp, |
| King John | KJ II.i.170 | Which heaven shall take in nature of a fee – | Which heauen shall take in nature of a fee: |
| King John | KJ III.i.52 | Nature and fortune joined to make thee great. | Nature and Fortune ioyn'd to make thee great. |
| King John | KJ III.iv.154 | No scope of nature, no distempered day, | No scope of Nature, no distemper'd day, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.221 | A fellow by the hand of nature marked, | A fellow by the hand of Nature mark'd, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.256 | And you have slandered nature in my form, | And you haue slander'd Nature in my forme, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.53 | Where nature doth with merit challenge. Gonerill, | Where Nature doth with merit challenge. Gonerill, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.171 | Which nor our nature nor our place can bear, | Which, nor our nature, nor our place can beare; |
| King Lear | KL I.i.212 | Than on a wretch whom Nature is ashamed | Then on a wretch whom Nature is asham'd |
| King Lear | KL I.i.235 | Is it but this, a tardiness in nature | Is it but this? A tardinesse in nature, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.1 | Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law | Thou Nature art my Goddesse, to thy Law |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.11 | Who in the lusty stealth of nature take | Who in the lustie stealth of Nature, take |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.104 | portend no good to us. Though the wisdom of nature | portend no good to vs: though the wisedome of Nature |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.105 | can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself | can reason it thus, and thus, yet Nature finds it selfe |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.111 | from bias of nature: there's father against child. We | from byas of Nature, there's Father against Childe. We |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.176 | Whose nature is so far from doing harms | Whose nature is so farre from doing harmes, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.265 | Which, like an engine, wrenched my frame of nature | Which like an Engine, wrencht my frame of Nature |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.272 | Hear, Nature, hear! Dear goddess, hear! | Heare Nature, heare deere Goddesse, heare: |
| King Lear | KL I.v.31 | I will forget my nature. So kind a father! – Be my | I will forget my Nature, so kind a Father? Be my |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.51 | cowardly rascal, nature disclaims in thee: a tailor made | cowardly Rascall, nature disclaimes in thee: a Taylor made |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.96 | Quite from his nature. He cannot flatter, he! | Quite from his Nature. He cannot flatter he, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.103 | When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind | When Nature being opprest, commands the mind |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.142 | Nature in you stands on the very verge | Nature in you stands on the very Verge |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.166 | Thy tender-hefted nature shall not give | Thy tender-hefted Nature shall not giue |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.173 | The offices of nature, bond of childhood, | The Offices of Nature, bond of Childhood, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.261 | Allow not nature more than nature needs – | Allow not Nature, more then Nature needs: |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.264 | Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, | Why Nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.48 | Remember to have heard. Man's nature cannot carry | Remember to haue heard. Mans Nature cannot carry |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.3.1 | For nature to endure. | For Nature to endure. |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.67 | Death, traitor! Nothing could have subdued nature | Death Traitor, nothing could haue subdu'd Nature |
| King Lear | KL III.v.2 | How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature | How my Lord, I may be censured, that Nature |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.76 | about her heart. Is there any cause in nature that makes | about her heart. Is there any cause in Nature that make |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.95.2 | Oppressed nature sleeps. | |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.85 | Edmund, enkindle all the sparks of nature | Edmund, enkindle all the sparkes of Nature |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.32 | That nature which contemns its origin | |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.12 | Our foster-nurse of nature is repose, | Our foster Nurse of Nature, is repose, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.39 | My snuff and loathed part of nature should | My snuffe, and loathed part of Nature should |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.135 | O ruined piece of nature! This great world | O ruin'd peece of Nature, this great world |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.206 | Who redeems nature from the general curse | Who redeemes Nature from the generall curse |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.15 | Cure this great breach in his abused nature! | Cure this great breach in his abused Nature, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.242 | Despite of mine own nature. Quickly send – | Despight of mine owne Nature. Quickly send, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.10 | As Nature was in making graces dear | As Nature was in making Graces deare, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.377 | Is of that nature that to your huge store | Is of that nature, that to your huge stoore, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.11 | The multiplying villainies of nature | The multiplying Villanies of Nature |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.136 | Against the use of nature? Present fears | Against the vse of Nature? Present Feares |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.14 | What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature; | What thou art promis'd: yet doe I feare thy Nature, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.43 | That no compunctious visitings of nature | That no compunctious visitings of Nature |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.8 | Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature | restraine in me the cursed thoughts / That Nature |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.50 | Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse | Nature seemes dead, and wicked Dreames abuse |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.7 | That death and nature do contend about them | That Death and Nature doe contend about them, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.110 | And his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature | And his gash'd Stabs, look'd like a Breach in Nature, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iv.16 | Turned wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out, | Turn'd wilde in nature, broke their stalls, flong out, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iv.27.2 | 'Gainst nature still! | 'Gainst Nature still, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.49 | Stick deep; and in his royalty of nature | sticke deepe, / And in his Royaltie of Nature |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.86 | Your patience so predominant in your nature | your patience so predominant, / In your nature, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.97 | According to the gift which bounteous nature | According to the gift, which bounteous Nature |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.27.1 | The least a death to nature. | The least a Death to Nature. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.29 | Hath nature that in time will venom breed, | Hath Nature that in time will Venom breed, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.98 | Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath | Shall liue the Lease of Nature, pay his breath |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.19 | A good and virtuous nature may recoil | A good and vertuous Nature may recoyle |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.67 | In nature is a tyranny. It hath been | In Nature is a Tyranny: It hath beene |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.125 | For strangers to my nature. I am yet | For strangers to my Nature. I am yet |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.9 | A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once | A great perturbation in Nature, to receyue at once |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.9 | And let them work. The nature of our people, | And let them worke: The nature of our People, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.36 | But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends | But to fine issues: nor nature neuer lends |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.79 | A power I have, but of what strength and nature | A powre I haue, but of what strength and nature, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.42 | And yet my nature never in the sight | And yet, my nature neuer in the sight |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.184 | With all her double vigour, art and nature, | With all her double vigor, Art, and Nature |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iii.7 | The nature of their crimes, that I may minister | The nature of their crimes, that I may minister |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.43 | To pardon him that hath from nature stol'n | To pardon him, that hath from nature stolne |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.73.2 | But in what nature? | But in what nature? |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.134 | Can lay on nature is a paradise | Can lay on nature, is a Paradise |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.138 | Nature dispenses with the deed so far | Nature dispenses with the deede so farre, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.51 | Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time: | Nature hath fram'd strange fellowes in her time: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.90 | Which therein works a miracle in nature, | Which therein workes a miracle in nature, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.174 | Of a strange nature is the suit you follow, | Of a strange nature is the sute you follow, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.82 | But music for the time doth change his nature. | But musicke for time doth change his nature, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.61 | thy foe, were – not Nature – thy friend. Come, | thy foe, were not Nature thy friend: Come, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.110 | Transparent Helena, nature shows art | Transparent Helena, nature her shewes art, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.283 | O wherefore, nature, didst thou lions frame, | O wherefore Nature, did'st thou Lions frame? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.49 | But Nature never framed a woman's heart | But Nature neuer fram'd a womans heart, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.63 | If black, why, Nature, drawing of an antic, | If blacke, why Nature drawing of an anticke, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.16 | by nature. | by Nature. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.56 | Is of so floodgate and o'erbearing nature | Is of so flood-gate, and ore-bearing Nature, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.62 | For nature so preposterously to err, | For Nature, so prepostrously to erre, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.96 | Blushed at herself: and she, in spite of nature, | Blush'd at her selfe, and she, in spight of Nature, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.101 | Against all rules of nature, and must be driven | Against all rules of Nature, and must be driuen |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.393 | The Moor is of a free and open nature, | The Moore is of a free, and open Nature, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.227 | abhor the Moor. Very nature will instruct her in it and | abhorre the Moore, very Nature wil instruct her in it, and |
| Othello | Oth II.i.280 | Is of a constant, loving, noble nature, | Is of a constant, louing, Noble Nature, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.128 | Perhaps he sees it not, or his good nature | Perhaps he sees it not, or his good nature |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.197 | I would not have your free and noble nature, | I would not haue your free, and Noble Nature, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.225 | And yet, how nature erring from itself – | And yet how Nature erring from it selfe. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.229 | Whereto we see in all things nature tends, | Whereto we see in all things, Nature tends: |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.39 | and then to confess! I tremble at it. Nature would not | and then to confesse: I tremble at it. Nature would not |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.267 | Call all-in-all sufficient? Is this the nature | Call all in all sufficient? Is this the Nature |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.11 | Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, | Thou cunning'st Patterne of excelling Nature, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.332 | Till that the nature of your fault be known | Till that the Nature of your fault be knowne |
| Pericles | Per I.i.10 | Nature this dowry gave; to glad her presence, | Nature this dowry gaue; to glad her presence, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.4 | And I, as fits my nature, do obey you. | And I (as fits my nature) do obey you. |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.6 | Sits here like beauty's child, whom Nature gat | Sits heere like Beauties child, whom Nature gat, |
| Pericles | Per III.i.34 | To herald thee from the womb. Poor inch of nature! | To harould thee from the wombe: |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.8 | There's nothing can be ministered to nature | There's nothing can be ministred to Nature, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.24 | Nature should be so conversant with pain, | Nature should be so conuersant with Paine, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.37 | That nature works, and of her cures; which doth give me | that Nature works, and of her cures; which doth giue me |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.80 | Death may usurp on nature many hours, | Death may vsurpe on Nature many howers, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.92 | Nature awakes. A warmth breathes out of her. | Nature awakes a warmth breath out of her; |
| Pericles | Per III.iii.23 | But if to that my nature need a spur, | but if to that, / My nature neede a spurre, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.133 | When nature framed this piece, she meant thee a good | When Nature framde this peece, shee meant thee a good |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.43 | This fortress built by nature for herself | This Fortresse built by Nature for her selfe, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.19 | Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, | Cheated of Feature by dissembling Nature, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.143 | The selfsame name, but one of better nature. | The selfesame name, but one of better Nature. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.243 | Framed in the prodigality of nature, | Fram'd in the prodigallity of Nature: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.229 | The slave of nature and the son of hell! | The slaue of Nature, and the Sonne of Hell: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.18 | The most replenished sweet work of nature | The most replenished sweet worke of Nature, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.353 | As long as heaven and nature lengthens it. | As long as Heauen and Nature lengthens it. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.i.25 | Of some strange nature, letting it there stand | Of some strange nature, letting it stand |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.88 | art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature. For | art thou what thou art, by Art as well as by Nature, for |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.80 | O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell | O Nature! what had'st thou to doe in hell, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.82 | For though fond nature bids us all lament, | For though some Nature bids all vs lament, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.113 | pray. Though the nature of our quarrel yet never | pray: Though the nature of our quarrell yet neuer |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.93 | Awaked an evil nature; and my trust, | Awak'd an euill nature, and my trust |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.497 | My father's of a better nature, sir, | My Fathers of a better nature (Sir) |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.162 | All things in common nature should produce | All things in common Nature should produce |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.165 | Would I not have; but nature should bring forth | Would I not haue: but Nature should bring forth |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.188 | A devil, a born devil, on whose nature | A Deuill, a borne-Deuill, on whose nature |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.76 | Expelled remorse and nature, whom, with Sebastian – | Expelld remorse, and nature, whom, with Sebastian |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.243 | And there is in this business more than nature | And there is in this businesse, more then nature |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.38 | It tutors nature. Artificial strife | It Tutors Nature, Artificiall strife |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.58 | Upon his good and gracious nature hanging, | Vpon his good and gracious Nature hanging, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.162 | For since dishonour traffics with man's nature, | For since Dishonor Traffickes with mans Nature, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.213 | Something hath been amiss – a noble nature | Something hath beene amisse; a Noble Nature |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.223 | And nature, as it grows again toward earth, | And Nature, as it growes againe toward earth, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.i.61 | And when he's sick to death, let not that part of nature | And when he's sicke to death, let not that part of Nature |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iii.35 | Of such a nature is his politic love. | of such a nature is his politike loue. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.6 | The greater scorns the lesser. Not nature, | The greater scornes the lesser. Not Nature |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.8 | But by contempt of nature. | But by contempt of Nature. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.45.1 | Do thy right nature. | Do thy right Nature. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.177 | That nature, being sick of man's unkindness, | That Nature being sicke of mans vnkindnesse |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.203 | This is in thee a nature but infected, | This is in thee a Nature but infected, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.232 | Answer mere nature – bid them flatter thee. | Answer meere Nature: bid them flatter thee. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.269 | Thy nature did commence in sufferance, time | Thy Nature, did commence in sufferance, Time |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.422 | The bounteous housewife Nature on each bush | The bounteous Huswife Nature, on each bush, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.495 | It almost turns my dangerous nature mild. | It almost turnes my dangerous Nature wilde. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.223 | Coupled to nature. | coupled to Nature. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.33 | Which nature loathes – take thou the destined tenth, | Which Nature loathes, take thou the destin'd tenth, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.77 | From niggard nature fall, yet rich conceit | From niggard Nature fall; yet Rich Conceit |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.120 | Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods? | Wilt thou draw neere the nature of the Gods? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.373 | Brother, for in that name doth nature plead – | Brother, for in that name doth nature plea'd. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.374 | Father, and in that name doth nature speak – | Father, and in that name doth nature speake. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.119 | For no name fits thy nature but thy own. | For no name fits thy nature but thy owne. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.57 | By nature made for murders and for rapes. | By nature made for murthers and for rapes. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.58 | O, why should nature build so foul a den, | O why should nature build so foule a den, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.29 | Had nature lent thee but thy mother's look, | Had nature lent thee, but thy Mothers looke, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.149 | For nature puts me to a heavy task. | For Nature puts me to a heauy taske: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.167 | When they were living, warmed themselves on thine! | Because kinde Nature doth require it so: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.22 | whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour | whom nature hath so crowded humors, that his valour |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.140 | The nature of the sickness found, Ulysses, | The Nature of the sicknesse found (Ulysses) |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.174 | Of any true decision. Nature craves | Of any true decision. Nature craues |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.178 | Of nature be corrupted through affection, | Of Nature be corrupted through affection, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.186 | Of nature and of nations speak aloud | Of Nature, and of Nation, speake alowd |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.239 | Famed be thy tutor, and thy parts of nature | Fame be thy Tutor, and thy parts of nature |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.10 | Made tame and most familiar to my nature; | Made tame, and most familiar to my nature: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.127 | Nature, what things there are | Nature, what things there are. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.175 | One touch of nature makes the whole world kin, | One touch of nature makes the whole world kin: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.72 | Good, good, my lord; the secrets of nature | Good, good, my Lord, the secrets of nature |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.76 | Their loving well composed with gifts of nature, | Their louing well compos'd, with guift of nature, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.5 | Thou crusty botch of nature, what's the news? | Thou crusty batch of Nature, what's the newes? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.31 | waterflies, diminutives of nature! | water-flies, diminutiues of Nature. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.151 | Of this strange nature, that a thing inseparate | Of this strange nature, that a thing inseperate, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.ii.25 | A noble Duke, in nature as in name. | A noble Duke in nature, as in name. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.ii.49 | And though that nature with a beauteous wall | And though that nature, with a beauteous wall |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.25 | word without book, and hath all the good gifts of nature. | word without booke, & hath all the good gifts of nature. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.95 | nature. | nature. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.250 | And in dimension and the shape of nature | And in dimension, and the shape of nature, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.85 | That nature pranks her in, attracts my soul. | That nature prankes her in, attracts my soule. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iii.31 | Th' offence is not of such a bloody nature, | Th offence is not of such a bloody nature, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.217 | what nature the wrongs are thou hast done him, I know | what nature the wrongs are thou hast done him, I knowe |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.358 | In nature, there's no blemish but the mind; | In Nature, there's no blemish but the minde: |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.224 | Nor can there be that deity in my nature | Nor can there be that Deity in my nature |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.257 | But nature to her bias drew in that. | But Nature to her bias drew in that. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.58 | And love you 'gainst the nature of love – force ye. | And loue you 'gainst the nature of Loue: force ye. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.83 | First Nature styled it in, shrunk thee into | First nature stilde it in, shrunke thee into |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.202 | With that celerity and nature which | With that Celerity, and nature which |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.3 | The crimes of nature, let us leave the city | The Crimes of nature; Let us leave the Citty |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.43 | Hath set a mark which nature could not reach to | Hath set a marke which nature could not reach too |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.94 | To youth and nature. This is all our world; | To youth and nature; This is all our world; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.298 | So near the gods in nature, they should fear her; | So neere the Gods in nature, they should feare her. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.12 | That Nature ne'er exceeded, nor ne'er shall. | That nature nev'r exceeded, nor nev'r shall: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.ii.31 | O state of nature, fail together in me, | O state of Nature, faile together in me, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.7 | What a sweet face has Arcite! If wise Nature | What a sweet face has Arcite? if wise nature |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.123 | Great and fine art in Nature. He's white-haired, | Great, and fine art in nature, he's white hair'd, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.13 | Which sometime show well pencilled. Nature now | Which sometime show well pencild. Nature now |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.151 | How sometimes Nature will betray its folly, | How sometimes Nature will betray it's folly? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.ii.60 | By law and process of great Nature thence | By Law and processe of great Nature, thence |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.103 | And thou, good goddess Nature, which hast made it | And thou good Goddesse Nature, which hast made it |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.238 | Shall be my recreation. So long as nature | Shall be my recreation. So long as Nature |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.88.1 | With great creating Nature. | With great creating-Nature. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.89 | Yet Nature is made better by no mean | Yet Nature is made better by no meane, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.90 | But Nature makes that mean; so over that art | But Nature makes that Meane: so ouer that Art, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.91 | Which you say adds to Nature is an art | (Which you say addes to Nature) is an Art |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.92 | That Nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry | That Nature makes: you see (sweet Maid) we marry |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.96 | Which does mend Nature – change it, rather – but | Which do's mend Nature: change it rather, but |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.97.1 | The art itself is Nature. | The Art it selfe, is Nature. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.475 | Let Nature crush the sides o'th' earth together | Let Nature crush the sides o'th earth together, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.741 | Yet Nature might have made me as these are: | Yet Nature might haue made me as these are, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.37 | nature shows above her breeding, and many other | Nature shewes aboue her Breeding, and many other |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.97 | would beguile Nature of her custom, so perfectly he is | would beguile Nature of her Custome, so perfectly he is |