| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.268 | You have a nimble wit; I think 'twas made of | You haue a nimble wit; I thinke 'twas made of |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.110 | Who with her head nimble in threats approached | Who with her head, nimble in threats approach'd |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.98 | As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye, | As nimble Iuglers that deceiue the eie: |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.29.1 | To make your vessel nimble. | To make your vessell nimble. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.64 | For fear of swallowing. But with nimble wing | For feare of swallowing: But with nimble wing |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.98 | apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and | apprehensiue, quicke, forgetiue, full of nimble, fierie, and |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.253 | That can be with a nimble galliard won; | That can be with a nimble Galliard wonne: |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.32 | The offer likes not; and the nimble gunner | The offer likes not: and the nimble Gunner |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.28 | Their light-borne snaffles, nor their nimble spurs, | Their light borne snaffles, nor their nimble spurre |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.91 | By me hath sent a nimble-jointed jennet, | By me hath sent a nimble ioynted iennet, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.197 | Standing on slippers which his nimble haste | Standing on slippers, which his nimble haste |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.160 | You nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames | You nimble Lightnings, dart your blinding flames |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.34 | In the most terrible and nimble stroke | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.293 | And abstinence engenders maladies. | And abstinence ingenders maladies. / And where that you haue vow'd to studie (Lords) / In that each of you haue forsworne his Booke. / Can you still dreame and pore, and thereon looke. / For when would you my Lord, or you, or you, / Haue found the ground of studies excellence, / Without the beauty of a womans face; / From womens eyes this doctrine I deriue, / They are the Ground, the Bookes, the Achadems, / From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire. / Why, vniuersall plodding poysons vp / The nimble spirits in the arteries, / As motion and long during action tyres / The sinnowy vigour of the trauailer. / Now for not looking on a womans face, / You haue in that forsworne the vse of eyes: / And studie too, the causer of your vow. / For where is any Author in the world, / Teaches such beauty as a womans eye: / Learning is but an adiunct to our selfe, / And where we are, our Learning likewise is. / Then when our selues we see in Ladies eyes, / With our selues. / Doe we not likewise see our learning there? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.16 | Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit, | of such a merrie nimble stirring spirit, |
| 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, |
| Pericles | Per III.i.6 | Thy nimble, sulphurous flashes! O, how, Lychorida, | Thy nimble sulphirous flashes: ô How Lychorida! |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.92 | Nimble mischance, that art so light of foot, | Nimble mischance, that art so light of foote, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.15 | With nimble soles. I have a soul of lead | With nimble soles, I haue a soale of Lead |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.7 | Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw love, | Therefore do nimble Pinion'd Doues draw Loue, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.178 | sensible and nimble lungs that they always use to laugh | sensible and nimble Lungs, that they alwayes vse to laugh |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.206 | Nor I. My spirits are nimble. | Nor I, my spirits are nimble: |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.167 | To snare the nimble marmoset. I'll bring thee | to snare the nimble Marmazet: I'le bring thee |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iii.7 | Being nimble-footed, he hath outrun us, | Being nimble footed, he hath out-run vs. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.125 | Next to an auburn; tough and nimble-set, | Next to an aborne, tough, and nimble set, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.667 | an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand is necessary | an open eare, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary |