| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.213 | casement I need not open, for I look through thee. Give | casement I neede not open, for I look through thee. Giue |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iv.49.1 | May make it probable need. | May make it probable neede. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.67 | And my appointments have in them a need | And my appointments haue in them a neede |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.24 | the twigs that threatens them. I hope I need not to | the twigges that threatens them. I hope I neede not to |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.28 | You shall not need to fear me. | You shall not neede to feare me. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.269 | need not to ask you if gold will corrupt him to revolt. | neede not to aske you, if Gold will corrupt him to reuolt. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.88 | You need but plead your honourable privilege. | You neede but pleade your honourable priuiledge. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.10 | Nay, you need not to stop your nose, sir. I | Nay you neede not to stop your nose sir: I |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.105 | Were to remember that the present need | Were to remember: that the present neede, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.10 | Which has no need of you. Be gone. | Which has no neede of you. Be gone, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.25 | On all that need. Let me report to him | On all that neede. Let me report to him |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.170.2 | So had you need; | So had you neede, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.15 | Be secret-false – what need she be acquainted? | Be secret false: what need she be acquainted? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.391 | It shall not need. Thy father hath his life. | It shall not neede, thy father hath his life. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.42 | If I must not, I need not be barren of | If I must not, I neede not be barren of |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.200 | When he did need your loves, and do you think | When he did need your Loues: and doe you thinke, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.76 | We need not put new matter to his charge. | We neede not put new matter to his charge: |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.239 | need one another. The wars for my money. I hope to see | neede one another: / The Warres for my money. I hope to see |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.1 | We hear not of him, neither need we fear him. | We heare not of him, neither need we fear him, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.61 | Attend the queen and us; we shall have need | Attend the Queene, and vs, we shall haue neede |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.66.1 | You need it not. | You neede it not. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.33 | What shall I need to draw my sword? The paper | What shall I need to draw my Sword, the Paper |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vi.13 | Is sorer than to lie for need: and falsehood | Is sorer, then to lye for Neede: and Falshood |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.45 | The life o'th' need: having found the back-door open | The life o'th'need: hauing found the backe doore open |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.180 | So grace and mercy at your most need help you. | So grace and mercy at your most neede helpe you: / Sweare. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.3 | The need we have to use you did provoke | The neede we haue to vse you, did prouoke |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.538 | need study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, | need study a speech of some dosen or sixteene lines, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.180 | You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said. | You neede not tell vs, what Lord Hamlet saide, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.19 | You have good leave to leave us. When we need | You haue good leaue to leaue vs. When we need |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.84 | Not shall we need his help these fourteen days. | Nor shall wee neede his helpe these foureteene dayes: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.3 | For we shall presently have need of you. | For wee shall presently haue neede of you. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.15 | need to be. Virtuous enough. Swore little. Diced | need to be; vertuous enough, swore little, dic'd |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iv.21 | Why, my good lord, you need not fear, | Why, my good Lord, you need not feare, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.128 | before his day. What need I be so forward with him that | before his day. What neede I bee so forward with him, that |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iii.34 | and as heavy too. God keep lead out of me, I need no | and as heauy too; heauen keepe Lead out of mee, I neede no |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.9 | Lead me, my lord? I do not need your help, | Lead me my Lord? I do not need your helpe; |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.20 | Can play upon it. But what need I thus | Can play vpon it. But what neede I thus |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.215 | Never so few, and never yet more need. | Neuer so few, nor neuer yet more need. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.74 | lack subjects? Do not the rebels need soldiers? Though | lack subiects? Do not the Rebels want Soldiers? Though |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.78.1 | Need not be dreaded. | Need not be dreaded. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.146 | ill-sorted. Therefore captains had need look to't. | Therefore Captaines had neede looke to it. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.113 | one to do her husbandry and her drudgery. You need | one to doe her Husbandry, and her Drudgery; you need |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.95 | There is no need of any such redress, | There is no neede of any such redresse: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.112 | That need to be revived and breathed in me? | That need to be reuiu'd, and breath'd in me? |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.20 | not think of God – I hoped there was no need to | not thinke of God; I hop'd there was no neede to |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.111 | I need not to be ashamed of your majesty, praised be | I need not to be ashamed of your Maiesty, praised be |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.157 | So you had need, for Orleans is besieged; | So you had need, for Orleance is besieg'd, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.ii.17 | Now he is gone, my lord, you need not fear. | Now he is gone my Lord, you neede not feare. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.105 | And then I need not crave his courtesy. | And then I need not craue his curtesie. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.100 | They say ‘ A crafty knave does need no broker;’ | They say, A craftie Knaue do's need no Broker, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.153 | Alas, sir, we did it for pure need. | Alas Sir, we did it for pure need. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.3 | They have the more need to sleep now then. | They haue the more neede to sleepe now then. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.7 | So he had need, for 'tis threadbare. Well, I | So he had need, for 'tis thred-bare. Well, I |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.56 | He need not fear the sword, for his coat is of | He neede not feare the sword, for his Coate is of |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.65 | She shall not need; we'll meet her in the field. | Shee shall not neede, wee'le meete her in the field. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.67 | Ay, with five hundred, father, for a need. | I, with fiue hundred, Father, for a neede. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.165 | And in thy need such comfort come to thee | And in thy need, such comfort come to thee, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.46 | Lest in our need he might infect another | Least in our need he might infect another, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.49 | Let him depart before we need his help. | Let him depart, before we neede his helpe. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.70 | I need not add more fuel to your fire, | I need not adde more fuell to your fire, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.43 | We had need pray, | We had need pray, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.2.2 | What's the need? | What's the need? |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.128 | What need you note it? Pray you keep your way; | What need you note it? pray you keep your way, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.43 | line, they need no other penance. That fire-drake did I | Line, they need no other pennance: that Fire-Drake did I |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.161 | Him and his worth and our great need of him | Him, and his worth, and our great need of him, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.123 | What need we any spur but our own cause | What neede we any spurre, but our owne cause |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.136 | Did need an oath; when every drop of blood | Did neede an Oath. When euery drop of blood |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.279 | I should not need, if you were gentle Brutus. | I should not neede, if you were gentle Brutus. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.47 | to need my death. | to need my death. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.87 | Or, coldly negligent, did need a spur, | Or coldly negligent did need a spurre, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.34 | Is lawless, and I need not to obey. | Is lawlesse, and I need not to obey. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.55 | Do so, Villiers – and Charles, when he hath need, | Do so Villeirs, and Charles when he hath neede, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.11 | What need we fight and sweat and keep a coil | What need we fight, and sweate, and keepe a coile, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.15 | Who now, of you or I, have need to pray? | Who now of you or I haue need to praie, |
| King John | KJ I.i.179 | For France, for France, for it is more than need. | For France, for France, for it is more then need. |
| King John | KJ III.i.211.1 | But from her need. | But from her need. |
| King John | KJ III.i.211.2 | O, if thou grant my need, | Oh, if thou grant my need, |
| King John | KJ III.i.213 | That need must needs infer this principle, | That need, must needs inferre this principle, |
| King John | KJ III.i.214 | That faith would live again by death of need. | That faith would liue againe by death of need: |
| King John | KJ III.i.215 | O then, tread down my need, and faith mounts up; | O then tread downe my need, and faith mounts vp, |
| King John | KJ III.i.216 | Keep my need up, and faith is trodden down. | Keepe my need vp, and faith is trodden downe. |
| King John | KJ III.i.320 | Thou shalt not need. England, I will fall from thee. | Thou shalt not need. England, I will fall frõ thee. |
| King John | KJ IV.i.75 | Alas, what need you be so boisterous-rough? | Alas, what neede you be so boistrous rough? |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.178 | Go after him; for he perhaps shall need | Go after him: for he perhaps shall neede |
| King John | KJ V.ii.175 | Whom he hath used rather for sport than need – | Whom he hath vs'd rather for sport, then neede) |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.35 | hath not such need to hide itself. Let's see! Come! If it | hath not such neede to hide it selfe. Let's see: come, if it |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.36 | be nothing I shall not need spectacles. | bee nothing, I shall not neede Spectacles. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.187 | Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need | Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need |
| King Lear | KL II.i.114 | Natures of such deep trust we shall much need; | Nature's of such deepe trust, we shall much need: |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.233 | Is it not well? What should you need of more? | Is it not well? What should you need of more? |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.256 | What need you five-and-twenty, ten, or five | What need you fiue and twenty? Ten? Or fiue? |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.258.2 | What need one? | What need one? |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.259 | O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars | O reason not the need: our basest Beggers |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.265 | Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But for true need, – | Which scarcely keepes thee warme, but for true need: |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.266 | You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need! | You Heauens, giue me that patience, patience I need, |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.77.1 | I shall no leading need. | I shall no leading neede. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.287.2 | 'Tis more than need. | O 'tis more then neede. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.21 | We need more light to find your meaning out. | We need more light to finde your meaning out. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.32 | I had most need of blessing, and ‘ Amen ’ | I had most need of Blessing, and Amen |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.81 | Then live Macduff; what need I fear of thee? | Then liue Macduffe: what need I feare of thee? |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.36 | fie! A soldier and afeard? What need we fear who | fie, a Souldier, and affear'd? what need we feare? who |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.110 | Took off her life – this, and what needful else | Tooke off her life. This, and what need full else |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.63 | Nor need you, on mine honour, have to do | Nor neede you (on mine honor) haue to doe |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.107 | clients. Though you change your place, you need not | Clients: though you change your place, you neede not |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.224 | the knaves, you need not to fear the bawds. | the knaues, you need not to feare the bawds. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.45 | You are too cold. If you should need a pin, | You are too cold: if you should need a pin, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.135 | must, upon a warranted need, give him a better proclamation. | must vppon a warranted neede, giue him a better proclamation. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.94 | You need not fear, lady, the having any of these | You neede not feare Lady the hauing any of these |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.111 | Well then, it now appears you need my help. | Well then, it now appeares you neede my helpe: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.28 | Nay, you need not fear us, Lorenzo. Launcelot | Nay, you need not feare vs Lorenzo, Launcelet |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.85 | ne'er put my finger in the fire, and need not. | nere put my finger in the fire, and neede not. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.123 | mind, and the boy never need to understand anything; | minde, and the Boy neuer neede to vnderstand any thing; |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.170 | I am half afraid he will have need of | I am halfe affraid he will haue neede of |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.187 | What need you tell me that? I think so, when I | What neede you tell me that? I think so, when I |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.348 | there needs none to be blamed. Marry, if he that writ it | there need none to be blamed. Marry, if hee that writ it |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.295 | What need the bridge much broader than the flood? | What need ye bridge much broder then the flood? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.21 | let that appear when there is no need of such vanity. You | let that appeare when there is no need of such vanity, you |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.111 | have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price | haue neede of poore ones, poore ones may make what price |
| Pericles | Per I.iii.10 | You shall not need, my fellow peers of Tyre, | You shall not neede my fellow-Peers of Tyre, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.77 | What need we fear? | What need wee leaue |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.II.16 | Are brought your eyes; what need speak I? | Are brought your eyes, what need speake I. |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.47 | He had need mean better than his outward show | He had need meane better, then his outward shew |
| 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 V.i.257.1 | As our intents will need? | as our intents will neede. |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.81 | I shall not need transport my words by you. | I shall not need transport my words by you, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.176 | Taste grief, need friends. Subjected thus, | Taste Griefe, need Friends: subiected thus, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.17 | For what I have I need not to repeat, | For what I haue, I need not to repeat; |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.308 | Being so great, I have no need to beg. | Being so great, I haue no neede to begge. |
| Richard II | R2 V.vi.38 | They love not poison that do poison need; | They loue not poyson, that do poyson neede, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.75 | God grant we never may have need of you! | God grant we neuer may haue neede of you. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.76 | Meantime, God grants that I have need of you. | Meane time, God grants that I haue need of you. |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.36 | When I have most need to employ a friend, | When I haue most need to imploy a Friend, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.148 | An if they live, I hope I need not fear. | And if they liue, I hope I need not feare. |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.113 | Your friends at Pomfret, they do need the priest; | Your friends at Pomfret, they doe need the Priest, |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.87 | O, now I need the priest that spake to me! | O now I need the Priest, that spake to me: |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.84 | Nay, for a need, thus far come near my person: | Nay, for a need, thus farre come neere my Person: |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.164 | But, God be thanked, there is no need of me, | But God be thank'd, there is no need of me, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.165 | And much I need to help you, were there need. | And much I need to helpe you, were there need: |
| Richard III | R3 V.ii.21 | Which in his dearest need will fly from him. | Which in his deerest neede will flye from him. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.34 | Shake, quoth the dovehouse! 'Twas no need, I trow, | Shake quoth the Doue-house, 'twas no neede I trow |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.7 | upon the table and says ‘ God send me no need of thee!’, | vpon the Table, and sayes, God send me no need of thee: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.9 | drawer, when indeed there is no need. | Drawer, when indeed there is no need. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.175.1 | For here we need it not. | For here we need it not. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.3 | For I have need of many orisons | For I haue need of many Orysons, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.6 | What, are you busy, ho? Need you my help? | What are you busie ho? need you my help? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.13 | Go thee to bed, and rest. For thou hast need. | Get thee to bed and rest, for thou hast need. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.50 | ‘ An if a man did need a poison now | An if a man did need a poyson now, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.53 | O, this same thought did but forerun my need, | O this same thought did but fore-run my need, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.70 | Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes. | Need and opression starueth in thy eyes, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.61 | I'faith, sir, you shall never need to fear. | I'faith sir, you shall neuer neede to feare, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.207 | So had you need. | So had you neede: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.2 | I fly, Biondello. But they may chance to need | I flie Biondello; but they may chance to neede |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.21 | need none so long as I live. | neede none so long as I liue. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.164 | Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine | Sword, Pike, Knife, Gun, or neede of any Engine |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.44 | Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we were boys, | Faith Sir, you neede not feare: when wee were Boyes |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.105 | My friend when he must need me. I do know him | My Friend when he must neede me. I do know him |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.68 | Or my friends if I should need 'em. | Or my friends if I should need 'em. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.93 | I, what need we have any friends if we should ne'er | I,) what need we haue any Friends; if we should nere |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.94 | have need of 'em? They were the most needless | haue need of 'em? They were the most needlesse |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.40 | I need not tell him that; he knows. You are | I need not tell him that, he knowes you are |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.74 | each man enough, that one need not lend to another; for | each man enough, that one neede not lend to another. For |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.15 | Your lordships, that, whenever you have need, | Your Lordships, wheneuer you haue need, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.88 | He shall not need it, if he have his own. | He shall not neede it if he haue his owne. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.38 | Come, come, what need you blush? Shame's | Come, come, what neede you blush? / Shames |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.21 | nothing, for we may live to have need of such a verse. | nothing, for we may liue to haue neede of such a Verse: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.12 | Well said, adversity! And what need these | Well said aduersity, and what need these |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.175 | Let's to bed, knight. Thou hadst need send for | Let's to bed knight: Thou hadst neede send for |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.125 | Your need to sustain. | your neede to sustaine. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.144 | What need she, when she hath made you write to | What need she, / When shee hath made you write to |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.83 | For Valentine, I need not cite him to it. | For Valentine, I need not cite him to it, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.84 | To take a note of what I stand in need of | To take a note of what I stand in need of, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.301 | What need a man care for a stock with a wench, | What neede a man care for a stock with a wench, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.304 | A special virtue; for then she need not be | A speciall vertue: for then shee neede not be |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.61 | Partly that I have need of such a youth | Partly that I haue neede of such a youth, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.44 | Be masters of our manners. What need I | Be Masters of our manners: what neede I |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.61 | Need not a plantain; that which rips my bosom | Neede not a plantin; That which rips my bosome |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.155 | We need no grave to bury honesty: | We neede no graue to burie honesty, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.161.2 | Why, what need we | Why what neede we |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.168 | We need no more of your advice. The matter, | We neede no more of your aduice: the matter, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.189 | Though I am satisfied, and need no more | Though I am satisfide, and neede no more |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.ii.58.2 | You need not fear it, sir. | You neede not feare it (sir) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.ii.11 | rest of thy services by leaving me now. The need I have | rest of thy seruices, by leauing me now: the neede I haue |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.53 | Alack, poor soul! Thou hast need of more rags | Alacke poore soule, thou hast need of more rags |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.412 | Let him, my son: he shall not need to grieve | Let him (my sonne) he shall not need to greeue |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.497 | And most opportune to our need I have | And most opportune to her neede, I haue |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.503.1 | Or stronger for your need. | Or stronger for your neede. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.92.1 | By need and accident. What train? | By need, and accident. What Trayne? |