| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.164 | So strive upon your pulse. What, pale again? | So striue vpon your pulse; what pale agen? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.59.2 | I am pale, Charmian. | I am pale Charmian. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.15 | That moved pale Cassius to conspire? And what | That mou'd pale Cassius to conspire? And what |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.147 | pale and wonder. | pale and wonder. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.102 | For, by this heaven, now at our sorrows pale, | For by this heauen, now at our sorrowes pale; |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.3 | With thy chaste eye, from thy pale sphere above, | With thy chaste eye, from thy pale spheare aboue |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.48 | Between the pale complexion of true love | Betweene the pale complexion of true Loue, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.100 | But, too unruly deer, he breaks the pale | But, too vnruly Deere, he breakes the pale, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.4 | Looked he or red or pale, or sad or merrily? |
Look'd he or red or pale, or sad or merrily? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.91 | I know it by their pale and deadly looks. | I know it by their pale and deadly lookes, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.106 | Ay me, poor man, how pale and wan he looks. | Aye me poore man, how pale and wan he looks. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.82 | Of pale distemperatures and foes to life? | Of pale distemperatures, and foes to life? |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.210 | And make bold power look pale – they threw their caps | And make bold power looke pale, they threw their caps |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.37 | All hurt behind! Backs red, and faces pale | All hurt behinde, backes red, and faces pale |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.103.2 | Ay; and you'll look pale | I, and you'l looke pale |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.96 | Be pale, I beg but leave to air this jewel: see! | Be pale, I begge but leaue to ayre this Iewell: See, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.221 | The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor | The Flower that's like thy face. Pale-Primrose, nor |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.330 | Give colour to my pale cheek with thy blood, | Giue colour to my pale cheeke with thy blood, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.34 | A distaff to a lance, gilded pale looks; | A Distaffe, to a Lance, guilded pale lookes; |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.53 | How now, Horatio? You tremble and look pale. | How now Horatio? You tremble & look pale: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.233 | Pale or red? | Pale, or red? |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.234.1 | Nay, very pale. | Nay very pale. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.90 | And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire. | And gins to pale his vneffectuall Fire: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.81 | Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, | Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.85 | Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, | Is sicklied o're, with the pale cast of Thought, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.126 | On him, on him! Look you, how pale he glares! | On him, on him: look you how pale he glares, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.328 | You that look pale and tremble at this chance, | You that looke pale, and tremble at this chance, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.140 | Of my wife's brother, then his cheek looked pale, | Of my Wiues Brother, then his cheeke look'd pale, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.8 | His cheek looks pale, and with a rising sigh | His Cheekes looke pale, and with a rising sigh, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.2 | Above yon bulky hill! The day looks pale | Aboue yon busky hill: the day lookes pale |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.103 | liver white and pale, which is the badge of pusillanimity | Liuer white, and pale; which is the Badge of Pusillanimitie, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.203 | Delivering o'er to executors pale | Deliuering ore to Executors pale |
| Henry V | H5 II.chorus.14 | Shake in their fear, and with pale policy | Shake in their feare, and with pale Pollicy |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.17 | On whom, as in despite, the sun looks pale, | On whom, as in despight, the Sunne lookes pale, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.41 | That every wretch, pining and pale before, | That euery Wretch, pining and pale before, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.47 | And in their pale dull mouths the gimmaled bit | And in their pale dull mouthes the Iymold Bitt |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.342 | Of France and England, whose very shores look pale | Of France and England, whose very shoares looke pale, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.7 | Otherwhiles the famished English, like pale ghosts, | Otherwhiles, the famisht English, like pale Ghosts, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.47 | I pluck this pale and maiden blossom here, | I pluck this pale and Maiden Blossome here, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.63 | For pale they look with fear, as witnessing | For pale they looke with feare, as witnessing |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.107 | And, by my soul, this pale and angry rose, | And by my Soule, this pale and angry Rose, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.27 | And pale destruction meets thee in the face. | And pale destruction meets thee in the face: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.38 | Shall see thee withered, bloody, pale, and dead. | Shall see thee withered, bloody, pale, and dead. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.45 | How are we parked and bounded in a pale – | How are we park'd and bounded in a pale? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.27 | How now? Why lookest thou so pale? Why tremblest thou? | How now? why look'st thou pale? why tremblest thou? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.63 | Look pale as primrose with blood-drinking sighs, | Looke pale as Prim-rose with blood-drinking sighes, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.162 | Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale, and bloodless, | Of ashy semblance, meager, pale, and bloodlesse, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.78 | These cheeks are pale for watching for your good. | These cheekes are pale for watching for your good |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.103 | And will you pale your head in Henry's glory, | And will you pale your head in Henries Glory, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.28 | But severed in a pale clear-shining sky. | But seuer'd in a pale cleare-shining Skye. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.100 | The other his pale cheeks, methinks, presenteth. | The other his pale Cheekes (me thinkes) presenteth: |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.97 | How long her face is drawn? How pale she looks? | How long her face is drawne? How pale she lookes, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.184 | Calphurnia's cheek is pale, and Cicero | Calphurnia's Cheeke is pale, and Cicero |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.59 | Or else you use not. You look pale, and gaze, | or else you vse not. / You looke pale, and gaze, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.6 | Lo, when she blushed, even then did he look pale, | Loe when shee blusht, euen then did he looke pale, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.9 | Anon, with reverent fear when she grew pale, | Anone with reuerent feare, when she grewpale, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.18 | If she looked pale, 'twas silly woman's fear, | If she lookt pale, twas silly womans feare, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.20 | If he looked pale, it was with guilty fear, | Ifhe lookt pale, it was with guiltie feare, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.144 | Compar'st thou her to the pale queen of night, | Comparest thou her to the pale queene of night, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.137 | My heart misgives. – Say, mirror of pale death, | My hart misgiues, say mirror of pale death, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.38 | Bloodless and pale, one gazing on another. | Bloudlesse and pale, one gazing on another. |
| King John | KJ II.i.23 | Together with that pale, that white-faced shore, | Together with that pale, that white-fac'd shore, |
| King John | KJ III.i.195 | Lookest thou pale, France? Do not let go thy hand. | Look'st thou pale France? do not let go thy hand. |
| King John | KJ IV.i.28 | Are you sick, Hubert? You look pale today. | Are you sicke Hubert? you looke pale today, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.21 | I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan | I am the Symet to this pale faint Swan, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.97 | And fears by pale white shown. | And feares by pale white showne: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.127 | You may look pale, but I should blush, I know, | You may looke pale, but I should blush I know, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.392 | Help! Hold his brows! He'll swoon. Why look you pale? | Helpe hold his browes, hee'l sound: why looke you pale? |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.37 | And wakes it now to look so green and pale | And wakes it now to looke so greene, and pale, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.52 | Pale Hecat's offerings; and withered Murder, | Pale Heccats Offrings: and wither'd Murther, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.50 | Which keeps me pale. Light thickens | Which keepes me pale. Light thickens, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.59 | so pale. I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he cannot | so pale: I tell you yet againe Banquo's buried; he cannot |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.150 | O pretty Isabella, I am pale at mine heart to see | Oh prettie Isabella, I am pale at mine heart, to see |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.103 | Nor none of thee, thou pale and common drudge | Nor none of thee thou pale and common drudge |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.15 | The pale companion is not for our pomp. | The pale companion is not for our pompe, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.128 | How now, my love? Why is your cheek so pale? | How now my loue? Why is your cheek so pale? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.4 | Over park, over pale, | Ouer parke, ouer pale, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.104 | Pale in her anger, washes all the air, | Pale in her anger, washes all the aire; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.96 | All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer | All fancy sicke she is, and pale of cheere, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.95 | Where I have seen them shiver and look pale, | Where I haue seene them shiuer and looke pale, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.330 | With hands as pale as milk; | With hands as pale as Milke, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.228 | I shall see thee, ere I die, look pale with love. | I shall see thee ere I die, looke pale with loue. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.129 | As I am an honest man, he looks pale. | As I am an honest man he lookes pale, |
| Othello | Oth V.i.104 | (to Bianca) What, look you pale? O, bear him out o'th' air. | What? looke you pale? Oh beare him o'th'Ayre. |
| Othello | Oth V.i.105 | Stay you, good gentlemen. Look you pale, mistress? | Stay you good Gentlemen. Looke you pale, Mistris? |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.271 | Pale as thy smock! When we shall meet at compt | Pale as thy Smocke: when we shall meete at compt, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.37 | Tell thee with speechless tongues and semblance pale | Tell thee with speachlesse tongues, and semblance pale, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.76 | If this be true which makes me pale to read it? | If this be true, which makes me pale to read it? |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.69 | Pale, trembling coward, there I throw my gage, | Pale trembling Coward, there I throw my gage, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.189 | Or with pale beggar-fear impeach my height | Or with pale beggar-feare impeach my hight |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.34 | Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. | Is pale cold cowardice in noble brests: |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.118 | Make pale our cheek, chasing the royal blood | Make pale our cheeke, chafing the Royall blood |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.75 | Comfort, my liege. Why looks your grace so pale? | Comfort my Liege, why lookes your Grace so pale? |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.79 | Have I not reason to look pale and dead? | Haue I not reason to looke pale, and dead? |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.40 | Why should we, in the compass of a pale, | Why should we, in the compasse of a Pale, |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.57 | Yea, lookest thou pale? Let me see the writing. | Yea, look'st thou pale? Let me see the Writing. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.6 | Pale ashes of the house of Lancaster, | Pale Ashes of the House of Lancaster; |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.173 | Your eyes do menace me. Why look you pale? | Your eyes do menace me: why looke you pale? |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.85 | Look I so pale, Lord Dorset, as the rest? | Looke I so pale Lord Dorset, as the rest? |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.138 | Looked pale when they did hear of Clarence' death? | Look'd pale, when they did heare of Clarence death. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.26 | Stared each on other, and looked deadly pale. | Star'd each on other, and look'd deadly pale: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.5 | Who is already sick and pale with grief | Who is already sicke and pale with griefe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.4 | Ah, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline, | Why that same pale hard-harted wench, that Rosaline |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.201 | say so, she looks as pale as any clout in the versal world. | say so, shee lookes as pale as any clout in the versall world. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.17 | Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead. | Vnwieldie, slow, heauy, and pale as lead. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.55 | Pale, pale as ashes, all bedaubed in blood, | Pale, pale as ashes, all bedawb'd in blood, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.20 | 'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow. | 'Tis but the pale reflexe of Cinthias brow. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.57 | Either my eyesight fails, or thou lookest pale. | Either my eye-sight failes, or thou look'st pale. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.28 | Your looks are pale and wild and do import | Your lookes are pale and wild, and do import |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.96 | And death's pale flag is not advanced there. | And Deaths pale flag is not aduanced there. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.144 | Romeo! O, pale! Who else? What, Paris too? | Romeo, oh pale: who else? what Paris too? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.142 | How now, my friend, why dost thou look so pale? | How now my friend, why dost thou looke so pale? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.143 | For fear, I promise you, if I look pale. | For feare I promise you, if I looke pale. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.350 | I have a hundred milch-kine to the pail, | I haue a hundred milch-kine to the pale, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.126 | Look not pale, Bianca – thy father will not | Looke not pale Bianca, thy father will not |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.440 | And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. | And her pale fire, she snatches from the Sunne. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.4 | Advanced above pale envy's threat'ning reach. | Aduanc'd about pale enuies threatning reach: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.90 | Why doth your highness look so pale and wan? | Why doth your Highnes looke so pale and wan? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.91 | Have I not reason, think you, to look pale? | Haue I not reason thinke you to looke pale. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.231 | So pale did shine the moon on Pyramus | So pale did shine the Moone on Piramus, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.256 | Struck pale and bloodless, and thy brother, I, | Strucke pale and bloodlesse, and thy brother I, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.152 | O, take this warm kiss on thy pale cold lips, | Oh take this warme kisse on thy pale cold lips, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.134 | Of pale and bloodless emulation, | Of pale, and bloodlesse Emulation. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.50 | Make livers pale and lustihood deject. | Makes Liuers pale, and lustyhood deiect. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.246 | Which, like a bourn, a pale, a shore, confines | Which like a bourne, a pale, a shore confines |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.81 | Look how thou diest! Look, how thy eye turns pale! | Looke how thou diest; looke how thy eye turnes pale: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.287 | looks pale as if a bear were at his heels. | lookes pale, as if a Beare were at his heeles. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.228 | As if but now they waxed pale for woe. | As if but now they waxed pale for woe: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.97 | For me – by this pale queen of night I swear – | For me (by this pale queene of night I sweare) |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.53 | Which then looked pale at parting – when our count | (which then lookt pale at parting) when our count |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.4 | For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. | For the red blood raigns in ye winters pale. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.16 | The pale moon shines by night: | the pale Moone shines by night: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.122 | Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, | Or Cytherea's breath) pale Prime-roses, |