| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.5 | past endeavours, for then we wound our modesty, and | past endeuours, for then we wound our Modestie, and |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.124 | A senseless help, when help past sense we deem. | A sencelesse helpe, when helpe past sence we deeme. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.158 | My art is not past power, nor you past cure. | My Art is not past power, nor you past cure. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.1 | They say miracles are past, and we have our | They say miracles are past, and we haue our |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.231 | poor doing eternal; for doing I am past, as I will by | poore doing eternall: for doing I am past, as I will by |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.92 | The troop is past. Come, pilgrim, I will bring you | The troope is past: Come pilgrim, I wil bring you, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.36.1 | To what is passed already. | To what is past already. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.63 | May token to the future our past deeds. | May token to the future, our past deeds. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.4.2 | 'Tis past, my liege, | 'Tis past my Liege, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.331 | The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. | The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.98 | Things that are past are done, with me. 'Tis thus: | Things that are past, are done, with me. 'Tis thus, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.146 | She is cunning past man's thought. | She is cunning past mans thought. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.188 | Till his deserts are past, begin to throw | Till his deserts are past, begin to throw |
| 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 |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.82 | Which I have passed upon her; she is banished. | Which I haue past vpon her, she is banish'd. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.1 | How say you now? Is it not past two o'clock? | How say you now, is it not past two a clock? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.189 | And now he's there, past thought of human reason. | And now he's there, past thought of humane reason. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.248 | Scaling his present bearing with his past, | Skaling his present bearing with his past, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.256 | Than stay, past doubt, for greater. | Then stay past doubt, for greater: |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.72.1 | Of what is past. | Of what is past. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.59 | That being passed for consul with full voice, | That being past for Consull with full voyce: |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iii.17 | The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing | The maine blaze of it is past, but a small thing |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.31 | O'ercome with pride, ambitious past all thinking, | O'recome with Pride, Ambitious, past all thinking |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.21 | I have tumbled past the throw, and in his praise | I haue tumbled past the throw: and in his praise |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.67.2 | Past grace? Obedience? | Past Grace? Obedience? |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.68 | Past hope, and in despair, that way past grace. | Past hope, and in dispaire, that way past Grace. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.97 | Either are past remedies; or timely knowing, | Either are past remedies; or timely knowing, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.265 | Thou art past the tyrant's stroke, | Thou art past the Tirants stroake, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.290 | Their pleasures here are past, so is their pain. | Their pleasures here are past, so are their paine. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.8 | So needful for this present. It strikes me, past | So needfull for this present? It strikes me, past |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.170 | past, is, and to come, the discharge: your neck, sir, | past, is, and to come, the discharge: your necke (Sis) |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.212 | That's due to all the villains past, in being, | That's due to all the Villaines past, in being |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.100 | All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past | All sawes of Bookes, all formes, all presures past, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.51 | My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer | My fault is past. But oh, what forme of Prayer |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.151 | Repent what's past. Avoid what is to come; | Repent what's past, auoyd what is to come, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.87 | With the brave beast. So far he topped my thought | With the braue Beast, so farre he past my thought, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.186 | Nay, that's past praying for, I have peppered | Nay, that's past praying for, I haue pepper'd |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.97 | past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, | past your youth) hath yet some smack of age in you: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.108 | Past and to come seems best; things present, worst. | "Past, and to Come, seemes best; things Present, worst. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.34 | 'Tis one o'clock, and past. | 'Tis One a Clock, and past. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.245 | home till you are past service; and for your part, | home, till you are past seruice: and for your part, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.24 | The heat is past; follow no further now. | The heat is past, follow no farther now: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.78 | Turning past evils to advantages. | Turning past-euills to aduantages. |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.3 | Was like, and had indeed against us passed, | Was like, and had indeed against vs past, |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.16 | Of indigent faint souls past corporal toil, | Of indigent faint Soules, past corporall toyle, |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.21 | Either past or not arrived to pith and puissance. | Eyther past, or not arriu'd to pyth and puissance: |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.1 | 'Tis certain he hath passed the River Somme. | 'Tis certaine he hath past the Riuer Some. |
| Henry V | H5 V.chorus.43 | The interim, by remembering you 'tis past. | The interim, by remembring you 'tis past. |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.2 | today? Saint Davy's day is past. | to day? S. Dauies day is past. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.57 | What's past and what's to come she can descry. | What's past, and what's to come, she can descry. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.114 | For grief that they are past recovery; | For greefe that they are past recouerie. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.39 | Passed over to the end they were created, | Past ouer to the end they were created, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.12 | Here comes a man; let's stay till he be past. | Heere comes a man, let's stay till he be past: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.226 | Thou seest what's passed, go fear thy king withal. | Thou seest what's past, go feare thy King withall. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.98 | Till storms be past of civil enmity. | Till stormes be past of Ciuill Enmitie. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.70 | A single voice, and that not passed me but | A single voice, and that not past me, but |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.10 | But, pray, how passed it? | But pray how past it? |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.130 | They vex me past my patience. Pray you, pass on. | They vexe me past my patience, pray you passe on; |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.95 | You must no more call it York Place; that's past, | You must no more call it Yorke-place, that's past: |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.123 | But now I am past all comforts here but prayers. | But now I am past all Comforts heere, but Prayers. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.ii.10 | The King's physician. As he passed along, | The Kings Physitian, as he past along |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.140 | Of any promise that hath passed from him. | Of any promise that hath past from him. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.259 | I should not urge thy duty past thy might; | I should not vrge thy duty past thy might, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.84 | But now 'tis past that no man can recall, | But now tis past that no man can recall, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.24 | That, having hardly passed a dangerous gulf, | That hauing hardely past a dangerous gulfe, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.125 | This said, we passed, not daring to reply. | This said, we past, not daring to reply, |
| King John | KJ I.i.258 | Which was so strongly urged past my defence. | Which was so strongly vrg'd past my defence. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.86 | Indeed we feared his sickness was past cure. | Indeed we fear'd his sicknesse was past cure. |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.51 | All murders past do stand excused in this. | All murthers past, do stand excus'd in this: |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.45 | By this had thought been past. – Alive or dead? | By this had thought bin past. Aliue, or dead? |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.205 | Past speaking of in a king. – Thou hast one daughter | Past speaking ofin a King. Thou hast a Daughter |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.162 | 'Tis past; and so am I. But what art thou | 'Tis past, and so am I: But what art thou |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.191 | Until some half-hour past, when I was armed, | Vntill some halfe houre past when I was arm'd, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.19 | Your oaths are passed; and now subscribe your names, | Your oathes are past, and now subscribe your names: |
| 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.ii.120 | Forbear till this company be passed. | Forbeare till this company be past. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.231 | Did point you to buy them along as you passed. | Did point out to buy them along as you past. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.28 | Great reason, for past cure is still past care. | Great reason: for past care, is still past cure. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.76 | That it was he in the times past which held you | that it was he, in the times past, / Which held you |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.79 | In our last conference; passed in probation with you | in our last conference, / Past in probation with you: |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.106 | remembered, that such a one and such a one were past | remembred) that such a one, and such a one, were past |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.162 | Son, I have overheard what hath passed | Son, I haue ouer-heard what hath past |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.171 | again, would eat mutton on Fridays. He's not past it | againe) would eate Mutton on Fridaies. He's now past it, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.141 | fearless of what's past, present, or to come; insensible | fearelesse of what's past, present, or to come: insensible |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.394 | That life is better life past fearing death | That life is better life past fearing death, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.2.2 | His hour is almost past. | His houre is almost past. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.229 | He did entreat me past all saying nay | He did intreate mee past all saying nay |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.68 | Past all expressing. It is very meet | Past all expressing, it is very meete |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.165 | And so conclusions passed the careers. | and so conclusions past the Car-eires. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.277 | and shrieked at it, that it passed. But women, indeed, | and shrekt at it, that it past: But women indeede, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.4 | 'Tis past the hour, sir, that Sir Hugh promised | 'Tis past the howre (Sir) that Sir Hugh promis'd |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.8 | My riots past, my wild societies; | My Riots past, my wilde Societies, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.58 | hath passed between me and Ford's wife? | hath past betweene me, and Fords wife. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.121 | 'Tis past eight already, sir. | 'Tis past eight already Sir. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.94 | cue is past. It is ‘ never tire.’ | cue is past; it is neuer tyre. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.65 | Out, dog! Out, cur! Thou drivest me past the bounds | Out dog, out cur, thou driu'st me past the bounds |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.138 | Good morrow, friends – Saint Valentine is past! | Good morrow friends: Saint Valentine is past, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.204 | dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man | dreame, past the wit of man, to say, what dreame it was. Man |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.219 | O, she misused me past the endurance of a | O she misusde me past the indurance of a |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.103 | it is past the infinite of thought. | it is past the infinite of thought. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.46 | what hath passed between you and Claudio. | what hath past betweene you and Claudio. |
| Othello | Oth I.i.167 | Past thought! – What said she to you? – Get more tapers. | Past thought:) what said she to you? Get moe Tapers: |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.130 | That I have passed. | That I haue past. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.166 | She loved me for the dangers I had passed, | She lou'd me for the dangers I had past, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.200 | When remedies are past the griefs are ended | When remedies are past, the griefes are ended |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.202 | To mourn a mischief that is past and gone | To mourne a Mischeefe that is past and gon, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.61 | Good faith, a little one; not past a pint, as I am | Good-faith a litle one: not past a pint, as I am |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.253 | Ay, past all surgery. | I, past all Surgery. |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.112 | That nor my service past, nor present sorrow, | That nor my Seruice past, nor present Sorrowes, |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.83 | Bethought me what was past, what might succeed. | Bethought what was past, what might succeed, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.II.6 | Till he hath passed necessity. | Till he hath past necessitie: |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.41 | Makes my past miseries sports; you shall do well | makes my past miseries sports, you shall doe well |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.14 | Writ in remembrance more than things long past. | Writ in remembrance, more then things long past; |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.170 | Things past redress are now with me past care. | Things past redresse, are now with me past care. |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.21 | And thus still doing, thus he passed along. | And thus still doing, thus he past along. |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.50 | Remember, as thou readest, thy promise passed. | Remember as thou read'st, thy promise past: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.2 | O, I have passed a miserable night, | O, I haue past a miserable night, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.45 | I passed, methought, the melancholy flood, | I past (me thought) the Melancholly Flood, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.364 | Harp not on that string, madam; that is past. | Harpe not on that string Madam, that is past. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.390 | Hereafter time, for time past wronged by thee. | Heereafter time, for time past, wrong'd by thee. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.346 | My lord, the enemy is past the marsh. | My Lord, the Enemy is past the Marsh: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.236 | Where I may read who passed that passing fair? | Where I may read who past that passing faire. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.32 | For you and I are past our dancing days. | For you and I are past our dauncing daies: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.42 | they be not to be talked on, yet they are past compare. | they be not to be talkt on, yet they are past compare: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.173 | But that a joy past joy calls out on me, | But that a ioy past ioy, calls out on me, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.45 | Come weep with me. Past hope, past cure, past help! | Come weepe with me, past hope, past care, past helpe. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.47 | It strains me past the compass of my wits. | It streames me past the compasse of my wits: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.69 | Why, I am past my gamut long ago. | Why, I am past my gamouth long agoe. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.53 | past cure of the fives, stark spoiled with the staggers, | past cure of the Fiues, starke spoyl'd with the Staggers, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.173 | Our strength as weak, our weakness past compare, | Our strength as weake, our weakenesse past compare, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.239.2 | Past the mid-season. | Past the mid season. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.257 | Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come, | Whereof, what's past is Prologue; what to come |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.40 | will here shroud till the dregs of the storm be past. | will here shrowd till the dregges of the storme be past. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.52 | The best is past. Brother, my lord the Duke, | The best is past: brother: my Lord, the Duke, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.141.1 | Says it is past her cure. | Saies, it is past her cure. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.i.21 | Out of mine own. His days and times are past, | Out of mine owne, his dayes and times are past, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.35 | six weeks and past. | sixe weekes, and past. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.178 | No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart; | No villanous bounty yet hath past my heart; |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.6 | Lord Timon's happy hours are done and past, and his | Lord Timons happie howres are done and past, and his |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.12 | Hath stepped into the law, which is past depth | Hath stept into the Law: which is past depth |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.434 | And at my suit, sweet, pardon what is past. | And at my sute (sweet) pardon what is past. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.471 | For you, Prince Bassianus, I have passed | For you Prince Bassianus, I haue past |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.31 | Kinsmen, his sorrows are past remedy. | Kinsmen, his sorrowes are past remedie. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.7 | Buzz in the people's ears, there naught hath past | Buz in the peoples eares) there nought hath past, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.125 | These wrongs unspeakable, past patience, | These wrongs, vnspeakeable past patience, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.113 | know he has not past three or four hairs on his chin – | know he has not past three or foure haires on his chinne. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.168 | laughed, that it passed. | laught, that it past. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.269 | blow – unless it swell past hiding, and then it's past | blow, vnlesse it swell past hiding, and then it's past |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.29 | The past-proportion of his infinite, | The past proportion of his infinite, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.142 | I do believe it; for they passed by me | I doe beleeue it: / For they past by me, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.148 | Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devoured | Those scraps are good deedes past, / Which are deuour'd |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.164 | Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours; | Though lesse then yours in past, must ore-top yours: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.177 | Though they are made and moulded of things past, | Though they are made and moulded of things past, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.166 | What's past and what's to come is strewed with husks | What's past, and what's to come, is strew'd with huskes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.100 | Well, well, 'tis done, 'tis done, 'tis past – and yet it is not; | Well, well, 'tis done, 'tis past; and yet it is not: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.94 | Past question, for thou seest it will not curl by | Past question, for thou seest it will not coole my |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.77 | Did I redeem; a wrack past hope he was. | Did I redeeme: a wracke past hope he was: |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.153 | Hath newly passed between this youth and me. | Hath newly past, betweene this youth, and me. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.350 | This practice hath most shrewdly passed upon thee; | This practice hath most shrewdly past vpon thee: |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.366 | That have on both sides passed. | That haue on both sides past. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.65 | And ask remission for my folly past. | And aske remission, for my folly past. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.28 | Though craving seriousness and skill, passed slightly | Though craving seriousnes, and skill, past slightly |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.13 | is past. But have you a full promise of her? When | Is past; But have you a full promise of her? When |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.139.1 | Past all cure. | Past all cure. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.268 | But that's past doubt, you have, or your eye-glass | (But that's past doubt: you haue, or your eye-glasse |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.2.1 | 'Tis past enduring. | 'Tis past enduring. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.80 | So I would you did: then 'twere past all doubt | So I would you did: then 'twere past all dout |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.150 | Past and to come, that you do change this purpose, | Past, and to come) that you doe change this purpose, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.32 | Who least will seem to do so – my past life | (Whom least will seeme to doe so) my past life |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.83 | And I but dreamed it. As you were past all shame – | And I but dream'd it: As you were past all shame, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.84 | Those of your fact are so – so past all truth; | (Those of your Fact are so) so past all truth; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.220 | To th' noble heart. What's gone and what's past help | To th' Noble heart. What's gone, and what's past helpe |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.221 | Should be past grief. Do not receive affliction | Should be past greefe: Do not receiue affliction |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.79 | I have a kinsman not past three-quarters of a mile hence, | I haue a Kinsman not past three quarters of a mile hence, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.124 | Come, boy, I am past more children; but thy | Come Boy, I am past moe Children: but thy |