| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.30 | upon oath, never trust my judgement in anything. | vpon oath, neuer trust my iudgement in anie thing. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.185 | Ask him upon his oath if he does think | Aske him vpon his oath, if hee do's thinke |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.86 | The article of your oath, which you shall never | the Article of your oath, which you shall neuer |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.91 | The article of my oath – | The Article of my oath. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.20 | honour I will, and when I break that oath, let me turn | honor I will, and when I breake that oath, let mee turne |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.60 | Where learned you that oath, fool? | Where learned you that oath foole? |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.27 | ‘ Was ’ is not ‘ is.’ Besides, the oath of lover is no | Was, is not is: besides, the oath of Louer is no |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.144 | Against my crown, my oath, my dignity, | Against my Crowne, my oath, my dignity, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.106 | It is a branch and parcel of mine oath, | It is a branch and parcell of mine oath, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.70 | Bound with an oath to yield to his conditions. | Bound with an Oath to yeeld to his conditions: |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.95 | Breaking his oath and resolution like | Breaking his Oath and Resolution, like |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.102 | To th' oath of loyalty: this object, which | To'th'oath of loyalty. This obiect, which |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.64 | I will confirm with oath, which I doubt not | I will confirme with oath, which I doubt not |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.284 | With unchaste purpose, and with oath to violate | With vnchaste purpose, and with oath to violate |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.152.2 | Propose the oath, my lord. | Propose the Oath my Lord. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.57 | Indeed, la, without an oath, I'll make an end | Indeed la? without an oath Ile make an end |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.248 | A good mouth-filling oath, and leave ‘ In sooth,’ | A good mouth-filling Oath: and leaue in sooth, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.34 | swear by thy face. My oath should be ‘By this fire, that's | sweare by thy Face; my Oath should bee, By this Fire: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.101 | Broke oath on oath, committed wrong on wrong, | Broke Oath on Oath, committed Wrong on Wrong, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.42 | And you did swear that oath at Doncaster, | And you did sweare that Oath at Doncaster, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.58 | Forget your oath to us at Doncaster, | Forgot your Oath to vs at Doncaster, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.75 | it is much that a lie with a slight oath, and a jest with a | it is much that a Lye (with a slight Oath) and a iest (with a |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.63 | An oath of mickle might, and fury shall abate. | An oath of mickle might, and fury shall abate. |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.97 | Sword is an oath, and oaths must have their course. | Sword is an Oath, & Oaths must haue their course |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.93 | the oath. | the Oath. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.129 | fit this soldier keep his oath? | fit this souldier keepe his oath. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.136 | look your grace, that he keep his vow and his oath. If | (looke your Grace) that he keepe his vow and his oath: If |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.363 | My Lord of Burgundy, we'll take your oath, | My Lord of Burgundy wee'le take your Oath |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.3 | Now, Governor of Paris, take your oath: | Now Gouernour of Paris take your oath, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.158 | A dreadful oath, sworn with a solemn tongue! | A dreadfull Oath, sworne with a solemn tongue: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.20 | Against thy oath and true allegiance sworn, | Against thy Oath, and true Allegeance sworne, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.181 | Canst thou dispense with heaven for such an oath? | Canst thou dispense with heauen for such an oath? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.183 | But greater sin to keep a sinful oath. | But greater sinne to keepe a sinfull oath: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.190 | But that he was bound by a solemn oath? | But that he was bound by a solemne Oath? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.196 | Conditionally that here thou take an oath | Conditionally, that heere thou take an Oath, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.201 | This oath I willingly take and will perform. | This Oath I willingly take, and will performe. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.15 | I took an oath that he should quietly reign. | I tooke an Oath, that hee should quietly reigne. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.16 | But for a kingdom any oath may be broken; | But for a Kingdome any Oath may be broken: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.22 | An oath is of no moment, being not took | An Oath is of no moment, being not tooke |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.27 | Your oath, my lord, is vain and frivolous. | Your Oath, my Lord, is vaine and friuolous. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.100 | Is crowned so soon, and broke his solemn oath? | Is crown'd so soone, and broke his solemne Oath? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.105 | Now in his life, against your holy oath? | Now in his Life, against your holy Oath? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.175 | Here's for my oath, here's for my father's death. | Heere's for my Oath, heere's for my Fathers Death. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.118 | Touching King Henry's oath and your succession. | Touching King Henries Oath, and your Succession: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.172 | His oath enrolled in the parliament; | His Oath enrolled in the Parliament. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.174 | To frustrate both his oath and what beside | To frustrate both his Oath, and what beside |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.89 | Since when, his oath is broke; for, as I hear, | Since when, his Oath is broke: for as I heare, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.77 | What! Not an oath? Nay, then the world goes hard | What, not an Oath? Nay then the world go's hard |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.78 | When Clifford cannot spare his friends an oath. | When Clifford cannot spare his Friends an oath: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.72 | But did you never swear, and break an oath? | But did you neuer sweare, and breake an Oath. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.73 | No, never such an oath, nor will not now. | No, neuer such an Oath, nor will not now. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.89 | Perhaps thou wilt object my holy oath; | Perhaps thou wilt obiect my holy Oath: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.90 | To keep that oath were more impiety | To keepe that Oath, were more impietie, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.137 | Lord Aberga'nny, to whom by oath he menaced | Lord Aburgany, to whom by oth he menac'd |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.206 | He did discharge a horrible oath, whose tenor | He did discharge a horrible Oath, whose tenor |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.114 | No, not an oath. If not the face of men, | No, not an Oath: if not the Face of men, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.126 | And will not palter? And what other oath | And will not palter? And what other Oath, |
| 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 V.iii.40 | Thou shouldst attempt it. Come now, keep thine oath; | Thou should'st attempt it. Come now, keepe thine oath, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.126 | But straight, forgetting of his former oath, | But straight forgetting of his former othe, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.260 | Forgetting your allegiance and your oath? | Forgetting your alleageance, and your othe, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.327 | Think'st that thou canst unswear thy oath again? | Thinkst that thou canst answere thy oth againe, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.331 | That breaks the sacred warrant of an oath. | That breake the sacred warrant of an oath, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.332 | What wilt thou say to one that breaks an oath? | What wilt thou say to one that breaks an othe, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.339 | Or break thy oath or cancel all the bonds | Or breake thy oth or cancell all the bondes, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.342 | The lord and master of thy word and oath, | The Lord and master of thy word and othe, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.347 | Thy oath break hers, or let thy sovereign die. | Thy oth breake hers or let thy souereigne dye. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.355 | But neither will I do: I'll keep mine oath, | But neither will I do Ile keepe myne oath, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.360 | I'll say an oath can easily be broken, | Ile say an othe may easily be broken, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.i.8 | Bear it unto him, and withal mine oath | Beare it vnto him, and with all mine othe, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.26 | Ah, but it is mine oath, my gracious lord, | Ah but itis mine othe my gratious Lord, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.29 | Thine oath? Why, that doth bind thee to abide. | Thine othe, why that doth bind thee to abide: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.40 | But in an oath we must be well advised | But in an othe we must be well aduisd, |
| King John | KJ III.i.10 | I have a king's oath to the contrary. | I haue a Kings oath to the contrarie. |
| King John | KJ III.i.264 | And like a civil war settest oath to oath, | And like a ciuill warre setst oath to oath, |
| King John | KJ III.i.282 | And makest an oath the surety for thy truth | And mak'st an oath the suretie for thy truth, |
| King John | KJ III.i.283 | Against an oath! The truth thou art unsure | Against an oath the truth, thou art vnsure |
| King John | KJ III.iii.23 | And, my good friend, thy voluntary oath | And my good friend, thy voluntary oath |
| King John | KJ V.i.23 | Upon your oath of service to the Pope, | Vpon your oath of seruice to the Pope, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.204 | Dowered with our curse and strangered with our oath, | Dow'rd with our curse, and stranger'd with our oath, |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.19 | horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath. | |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.46 | Arraign her first. 'Tis Gonerill! I here take my oath | |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.128 | My oath, and my profession. I protest, | My oath, and my profession. I protest, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.49 | Your oath is passed, to pass away from these. | Your oath is past, to passe away from these. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.65 | Or, having sworn too hard-a-keeping oath, | Or hauing sworne too hard a keeping oath, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.158 | I am the last that will last keep his oath. | I am the last that will last keepe his oth. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.82 | And he and his competitors in oath | And he and his competitors in oath, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.87 | Than seek a dispensation for his oath, | Then seeke a dispensation for his oath: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.97 | Hear me, dear lady. I have sworn an oath – | Heare me deare Lady, I haue sworne an oath. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.105 | 'Tis deadly sin to keep that oath, my lord, | 'Tis deadly sinne to keepe that oath my Lord, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.71 | To lose an oath to win a paradise? | To loose an oath, to win a Paradise? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.142 | And Jove, for your love, would infringe an oath. | And Ioue for your Loue would infringe an oath. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.248 | O, who can give an oath? Where is a book? | O who can giue an oth? Where is a booke? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.348 | The virtue of your eye must break my oath. | The vertue of your eie must breake my oth. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.440 | Your oath once broke, you force not to forswear. | your oath once broke, you force not to forsweare. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.441 | Despise me when I break this oath of mine. | Despise me when I breake this oath of mine. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.451 | I never swore this lady such an oath. | I neuer swore this Ladie such an oth. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.789 | Your oath I will not trust; but go with speed | Your oth I will not trust: but go with speed |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.216 | to her by oath, and the nuptial appointed, between | to her oath, and the nuptiall appointed: between |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.176 | Pardon me, good father, it is against my oath. | Pardon me, good Father, it is against my oath. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.156 | Is true and false, and what he with his oath | Is true, and false: And what he with his oath |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.2 | The Prince of Arragon hath ta'en his oath, | The Prince of Arragon hath tane his oath, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.9 | I am enjoined by oath to observe three things: | I am enioynd by oath to obserue three things; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.77 | Sweet, adieu. I'll keep my oath, | Sweet adue, Ile keepe my oath, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.5 | I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond. | I haue sworne an oath that I will haue my bond: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.225 | An oath, an oath! I have an oath in heaven; | An oath, an oath, I haue an oath in heauen: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.246.1 | And there's an oath of credit. | And there's an oath of credit. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.248 | I never more will break an oath with thee. | I neuer more will breake an oath with thee. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.55 | Two bosoms interchained with an oath – | Two bosomes interchanged with an oath, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.93 | A million fail, confounding oath on oath. | A million faile, confounding oath on oath. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.131 | Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh. | Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.24 | take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me, he | take my oath on it, till he haue made an oyster of me, he |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.229 | And Cassio high in oath, which till tonight | And Cassio high in oath: Which till to night |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.54 | For to deny each article with oath | For to deny each Article with Oath, |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.120 | I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; | Ile take thy word, for faith not aske thine oath, |
| Pericles | Per I.iii.8 | bound by the indenture of his oath to be one. Husht! | bound by the indenture of his oath to bee one. Husht, |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.1 | Thy oath remember. Thou hast sworn to do't. | Thy oath remember, thou hast sworne to doo't, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.2 | Hast thou according to thy oath and band | Hast thou according to thy oath and band |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.14 | Speak truly on thy knighthood and thy oath, | Speake truly on thy knighthood, and thine oath, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.17 | Who hither come engaged by my oath, – | Who hither comes engaged by my oath |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.178 | Return again, and take an oath with thee. | Returne againe, and take an oath with thee, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.182 | To keep the oath that we administer: | To keepe the Oath that we administer: |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.112 | T' one is my sovereign, whom both my oath | Th'one is my Soueraigne, whom both my oath |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.150 | And let him never see joy that breaks that oath. | And let him neu'r see Ioy, that breakes that Oath. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.234 | And cracking the strong warrant of an oath, | And cracking the strong Warrant of an Oath, |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.74 | Let me unkiss the oath 'twixt thee and me; | Let me vn-kisse the Oath 'twixt thee, and me; |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.27 | I am bound by oath, and therefore pardon me. | I am bound by Oath, and therefore pardon me. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.368.2 | By nothing, for this is no oath. | By nothing, for this is no Oath: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.378 | If thou didst fear to break an oath with Him, | If thou didd'st feare to breake an Oath with him, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.381 | If thou hadst feared to break an oath by Him, | If thou had'st fear'd to breake an oath by him, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.302 | She vied so fast, protesting oath on oath, | Shee vi'd so fast, protesting oath on oath, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.32 | And here I take the unfeigned oath, | And heere I take the like vnfained oath, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.36 | For me, that I may surely keep mine oath, | For me, that I may surely keepe mine oath. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.10 | With oath kept waking, and with brawling fed. | With oathes kept waking, and with brawling fed, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.219 | That swear'st grace o'erboard, not an oath on shore? | That swear'st Grace ore-boord, not an oath on shore, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.64 | To trust man on his oath or bond, | To trust man on his Oath or Bond. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.72 | That granted, how canst thou believe an oath? | That graunted, how can'st thou beleeue an oath? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.78 | Therefore I urge thy oath. For that I know | Therefore I vrge thy oath, for that I know |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.80 | And keeps the oath which by that god he swears, | And keepes the oath which by that God he sweares, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.173 | Full of protest, of oath, and big compare, | Full of protest, of oath and big compare; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.178 | Mock not that I affect th' untraded oath; | Mocke not, that I affect th'vntraded Oath, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.39 | An oath that I have sworn. I will not break it. | An Oath that I haue sworne. I will not breake it, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.27 | I prithee, do not hold me to mine oath; | I prethee do not hold me to mine oath, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.176 | for it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a | for t comes to passe oft, that a terrible oath, with a |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.289 | with you for's oath's sake. Marry, he hath better | with you for's oath sake: marrie hee hath better |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.301 | Pray God, he keep his oath! | Pray God he keepe his oath. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.47 | Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn. | Here is her oath for loue, her honors paune; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vi.4 | And e'en that power which gave me first my oath | And ev'n that Powre which gaue me first my oath |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.302 | Upon his oath and life, must he set foot | Vpon his oth and life must he set foote |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.224 | And my oath equally; I have said they die. | And my oth equally: I have said they die, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.227 | That oath was rashly made, and in your anger; | That oth was rashly made, and in your anger, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.230 | Beside, I have another oath 'gainst yours, | Beside, I have another oth, gainst yours |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.257 | Before I take this oath! Forget I love her? | Before I take this oth, forget I love her? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.11 | His rash oath or the sweet compassion | His rash o'th, or the sweet compassion |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.428 | As or by oath remove or counsel shake | As (or by Oath) remoue, or (Counsaile) shake |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.201 | I say she's dead; I'll swear't. If word nor oath | I say she's dead: Ile swear't. If word, nor oath |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.29 | Of my poor babe, according to thy oath, | Of my poore babe, according to thine oath, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.52 | To be by oath enjoined to this. Farewell! | To be by oath enioyn'd to this. Farewell, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.298 | It becomes thy oath full well | It becomes thy oath full well, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.488 | In unknown fathoms, will I break my oath | In vnknowne fadomes, will I breake my oath |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.72 | Then, good my lords, bear witness to his oath. | Then good my Lords, beare witnesse to his Oath. |