| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.47 | praise in. The remembrance of her father never | praise in. The remembrance of her father neuer |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.45 | In their poor praise he humbled. Such a man | In their poore praise he humbled: Such a man |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.58 | In argument of praise or to the worth | In argument of praise, or to the worth |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.9 | nature had praise for creating. If she had partaken of my | Nature had praise for creating. If she had pertaken of my |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.54 | I praise God for you. | I praise God for you. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.58.2 | You praise yourself | You praise your selfe, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.43 | The praise of it by telling, you must know, | The praise of it by telling. You must know |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.88 | I will praise any man that will praise me; | I will praise any man that will praise me, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.13 | Would you praise Caesar, say ‘ Caesar ’ – go no further. | Would you praise Casar, say Caesar go no further. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.284 | To praise my noble act. I hear him mock | To praise my Noble Act. I heare him mock |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.269 | But that the people praise her for her virtues | But that the people praise her for her vertues, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.9 | Your praise is come too swiftly home before you. | Your praise is come too swiftly home before you. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.34 | Wearing thy hearer in thy mistress' praise, | Wearing thy hearer in thy Mistris praise, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.15 | First he did praise my beauty, then my speech. |
First, he did praise my beautie, then my speech. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.v.16.2 | Sir, praise me not. | Sir, praise me not: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.15 | When she does praise me grieves me. I have done | When she do's prayse me, grieues me: / I haue done |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.88 | Whom with all praise I point at, saw him fight | Whom with all prayse I point at, saw him fight, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.109 | To have my praise for this, perform a part | To haue my praise for this, performe a part |
| 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 |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.v.2 | Call all your tribes together, praise the gods, | Call all your Tribes together, praise the Gods, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.54 | where each of us fell in praise of our country mistresses; | where each of vs fell in praise of our Country-Mistresses. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.92 | Let it be granted you have seen all this – and praise | Let it be granted you haue seene all this (and praise |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.169.1 | And praise myself for charity. | And praise my selfe for charity. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.50 | That he deserved the praise o'th' world, | That he deseru'd the praise o'th'World, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.161 | Hearing us praise our loves of Italy | Hearing vs praise our Loues of Italy |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.182 | Made scruple of his praise, and wagered with him | Made scruple of his praise, and wager'd with him |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.29 | heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it | heard others praise, and that highly (not to speake it |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.130 | We'll put on those shall praise your excellence | Wee'l put on those shall praise your excellence, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.7 | And praised be rashness for it – let us know | (And praise be rashnesse for it) let vs know, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.83 | Whilst I by looking on the praise of him | Whil'st I by looking on the praise of him, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.344 | Why, what a rascal art thou then, to praise | Why, what a Rascall art thou then, to prayse |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.189 | offend none but the virtuous. I laud them, I praise them. | offend none but the Vertuous. I laud them, I praise them. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.112 | This praise doth nourish agues. Let them come! | This prayse doth nourish Agues: let them come. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.87 | In praise of Henry Percy. By my hopes, | In praise of Henry Percie: By my Hopes, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.58 | Making you ever better than his praise | Making you euer better then his praise, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.59 | By still dispraising praise valued with you, | By still dispraising praise, valew'd with you: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.98 | Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heaven! | Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heauen, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.80 | Thou hast a sigh to blow away this praise, | Thou hast a Sigh, to blow away this Praise, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.18 | And praise God for the merry year, | and praise heauen for the merrie yeere: |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.163 | And make her chronicle as rich with praise | And make their Chronicle as rich with prayse, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.22 | Ay, I praise God, and I have merited some love | I, I prayse God, and I haue merited some loue |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.32 | deserved praise on my palfrey. It is a theme as fluent as | deserued prayse on my Palfray: it is a Theame as fluent as |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.38 | wonder at him. I once writ a sonnet in his praise, and | wonder at him, I once writ a Sonnet in his prayse, and |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.44 | Me well, which is the prescript praise and | Me well, which is the prescript prayse and |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.31 | Let him cry, ‘ Praise and glory on his head!’ | Let him cry, Prayse and Glory on his head: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.114 | To boast of this, or take the praise from God | To boast of this, or take that prayse from God, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.vi.20 | Shall in procession sing her endless praise. | Shall in procession sing her endlesse prayse. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.33 | This is the latest glory of thy praise | This is the latest Glorie of thy praise, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.173 | Farewell, my lord. Good wishes, praise, and prayers | Farewell my Lord, good wishes, praise, & praiers, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.190 | Solicit Henry with her wondrous praise. | Solicite Henry with her wonderous praise. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.11 | Is but a preface of her worthy praise. | Is but a preface of her worthy praise: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.68 | Is worthy praise; but, shall I speak my conscience, | Is worthy prayse: but shall I speake my conscience, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ix.14 | To entertain my vows of thanks and praise! | To entertaine my vowes of thankes and praise. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.22 | Nor should thy prowess want praise and esteem, | Nor should thy prowesse want praise & esteeme, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.44 | To sin's rebuke and my Creator's praise. | To sinnes rebuke, and my Creators prayse. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.31 | Still him in praise; and being present both, | Still him in praise, and being present both, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.68 | To see what this child does, and praise my Maker. | To see what this Child does, and praise my Maker. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.75 | I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. | I come to bury Casar, not to praise him: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.86 | And every ornament that thou wouldst praise, | And euery ornament that thou wouldest praise, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.87 | Fly it a pitch above the soar of praise. | Fly it a pitch aboue the soare of praise, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.91 | Of that thou art to praise, thy praise's worth. | Of that thou art to praise their praises worth, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.98 | What, think'st thou I did bid thee praise a horse? | What thinekst thou I did bid thee praise a horse. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.130 | I have not to a period brought her praise. | I haue not to a period brought her praise. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.131 | Her praise is as my love, both infinite, | Her praise is as my loue, both infinit, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.136 | Hers more to praise than tell the sea by drops, | Hers more to praise then tell the sea by drops, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.20 | How are we bound to praise thy wondrous works, | How are we bound to praise thy wondrous works, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.53 | Why, then his epitaph is lasting praise. | Why then his Ephitaph, is lasting prayse. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.22 | A charitable deed, no doubt, and worthy praise! | A charitable deed no doubt, and worthy praise: |
| King John | KJ III.iv.15 | Well could I bear that England had this praise, | Well could I beare that England had this praise, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.215 | The argument of your praise, balm of your age, | The argument of your praise, balme of your age, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.253 | Stands in some rank of praise. (To Gonerill) I'll go with thee. | Stands in some ranke of praise, Ile go with thee, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.24 | Speak you this in my praise, master? | Speake you this in my praise Master? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.25 | In thy condign praise. | In thy condigne praise. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.26 | I will praise an eel with the same praise. | I will praise an Eele with the same praise. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.14 | Needs not the painted flourish of your praise. | Needs not the painted flourish of your praise: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.19 | In spending your wit in the praise of mine. | In spending your wit in the praise of mine. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.79 | With such bedecking ornaments of praise? | With such bedecking ornaments of praise. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.14 | What, what? First praise me, and again say no? | What, what? First praise me, & then again say no. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.17 | Where fair is not, praise cannot mend the brow. | Where faire is not, praise cannot mend the brow. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.23 | A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise. | A giuing hand, though foule, shall haue faire praise. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.29 | That more for praise than purpose meant to kill. | That more for praise, then purpose meant to kill. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.32 | When, for fame's sake, for praise, an outward part, | When for Fames sake, for praise an outward part, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.34 | As I for praise alone now seek to spill | As I for praise alone now seeke to spill |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.37 | Only for praise' sake, when they strive to be | Onely for praise sake, when they striue to be |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.39 | Only for praise, and praise we may afford | Onely for praise, and praise we may afford, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.73 | Sir, I praise the Lord for you, and so may | Sir, I praise the Lord for you, and so may |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.114 | Which is to me some praise, that I thy parts admire. | Which is to me some praise, that I thy parts admire; |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.118 | That sings heaven's praise with such an earthly tongue! | That sings heauens praise, with such an earthly tongue. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.182 | Will praise a hand, a foot, a face, an eye, | will praise a hand, a foot, a face, an eye: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.238 | To things of sale a seller's praise belongs: | To things of sale, a sellers praise belongs: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.239 | She passes praise; then praise too short doth blot. | She passes prayse, then prayse too short doth blot. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.2 | I praise God for you, sir. Your reasons at | I praise God for you sir, your reasons at |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.40 | Much in the letters, nothing in the praise. | Much in the letters, nothing in the praise. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.366 | In courtesy gives undeserving praise. | In curtesie giues vndeseruing praise. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.875 | learned men have compiled in praise of the owl and the | Learned men haue compiled, in praise of the Owle and the |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.115 | worthy of thy praise. | worthy of thy praise. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.127 | The substance of my praise doth wrong this shadow | The substance of my praise doth wrong this shadow |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.145 | Whether those pearls of praise be his or no, | Whether those peales of praise be his or no. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.82 | Nay, let me praise you while I have a stomach. | Nay, let me praise you while I haue a stomacke? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.108 | To their right praise and true perfection! | To their right praise, and true perfection: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.136 | tell you that by the way, I praise heaven for it. | tell you that by the way, I praise heauen for it. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.54 | praised women's modesty; and gave such orderly and | praise womens modesty: and gaue such orderly and |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.58 | not such a sickly creature, I give heaven praise. | not such a sickely creature, I giue Heauen praise. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.223 | To follow me and praise my eyes and face? | To follow me, and praise my eies and face? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.250 | Thy threats have no more strength than her weak prayers. | Thy threats haue no more strength then her weak praise. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.162 | high praise, too brown for a fair praise, and too little for | hie praise, too browne for a faire praise, and too little for |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.163 | a great praise; only this commendation I can afford her, | a great praise, onely this commendation I can affoord her, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.350 | that I know. Thus far can I praise him: he is of a | that I know: thus farre can I praise him, hee is of a |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.19 | To praise him more than ever man did merit. | To praise him more then euer man did merit, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.15 | that they praise so. | that they praise so. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.302 | reverend youth, and I praise God for you. | reuerend youth, and I praise God for you. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.4 | Will you then write me a sonnet in praise of | Will you then write me a Sonnet in praise of |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.68 | one wise man among twenty that will praise himself. | one wise man among twentie that will praise himselfe. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.79 | myself will bear witness, is praiseworthy. And now tell | my selfe will beare witnesse is praise worthie, and now tell |
| Othello | Oth II.i.115.1 | You shall not write my praise. | You shall not write my praise. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.116 | What wouldst thou write of me, if thou shouldst praise me? | What would'st write of me, if thou should'st praise me? |
| Othello | Oth II.i.123 | Come, how wouldst thou praise me? | Come, how would'st thou praise me? |
| Othello | Oth II.i.137 | laugh i'th' alehouse. What miserable praise hast thou for | laugh i'th'Alehouse. What miserable praise hast thou for |
| Othello | Oth II.i.142 | best. But what praise couldst thou bestow on a deserving | best. But what praise could'st thou bestow on a deseruing |
| Othello | Oth V.i.66 | As you shall prove us, praise us. | As you shall proue vs, praise vs. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.4 | Emboldened with the glory of her praise | emboldned / With the glory of her prayse, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.13 | Of earned praise, Marina's life | Of earned praise, Marinas life |
| Pericles | Per IV.iii.45 | A general praise to her, and care in us | a generrall prayse to her, and care in vs |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.115 | That we may praise Thee in the victory. | That we may praise thee in thy victory: |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.40.2 | Praise in departing. | Praise in departing. |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.10 | For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise, | For thou shalt finde she will out-strip all praise |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.169.1 | Hath suffered under praise. | Hath suffered vnder praise. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.216 | can justly praise but what he does affect. I weigh my | can iustly praise, but what he does affect. I weighe my |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.174 | Ah, when the means are gone that buy this praise, | Ah, when the meanes are gone, that buy this praise, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.175 | The breath is gone whereof this praise is made. | The breath is gone, whereof this praise is made: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.214 | Blow off thy cap. Praise his most vicious strain | Blow off thy Cap: praise his most vicious straine, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.171 | And fame's eternal date for virtue's praise. | And Fames eternall date for vertues praise. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.116 | Citing my worthless praise. O, pardon me, | Cyting my worthlesse praise: Oh pardon me, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.117 | For when no friends are by, men praise themselves. | For when no Friends are by, men praise themselues, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.46 | I would not, as they term it, praise her, but I | Kinswoman, I would not (as they tearme it) praise it, but I |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.105 | flaming a praise for a good complexion. I had as lief | flaming a praise for a good complexion, I had as lieue |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.285 | Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be. | Then in the glasse of Pandar's praise may be; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.241 | The worthiness of praise distains his worth | The worthinesse of praise distaines his worth: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.242 | If that he praised himself bring the praise forth; | If that he prais'd himselfe, bring the praise forth. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.244 | That breath fame blows; that praise, sole pure, transcends. | That breath Fame blowes, that praise sole pure transcẽds. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.267 | That seeks his praise more than he fears his peril, | That seekes his praise, more then he feares his perill, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.146 | So to be valiant is no praise at all. | So to be valiant, is no praise at all. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.156 | devours the deed in the praise. | deuoures the deede in the praise. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.234 | Or covetous of praise – | Or couetous of praise. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.238 | Praise him that got thee, she that gave thee suck. | Praise him that got thee, she that gaue thee sucke: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.245 | To sinewy Ajax. I will not praise thy wisdom, | To sinnowie Aiax: I will not praise thy wisdome, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.7 | needs praise him. | needes praise him. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.88 | Are there such? Such are not we. Praise us as | Are there such? such are not we: Praise vs as |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.91 | have a praise in present. We will not name desert | haue a praise in present: wee will not name desert |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.176 | That all, with one consent, praise new-born gauds, | That all with one consent praise new borne gaudes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.77 | Dispraise the thing that you desire to buy; | Dis praise the thing that you desire to buy: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.93 | Do deeds worth praise, and tell you them at night. | Doe deedes of praise, and tell you them at night. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.183 | speech in your praise, and then show you the heart of | speech in your praise, and then shew you the heart of |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.186 | praise. | praise. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.238 | Were you sent hither to praise me? | Were you sent hither to praise me? |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.32 | For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, | For boy, howeuer we do praise our selues, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.160 | my yellow stockings of late, she did praise my leg being | my yellow stockings of late, shee did praise my legge being |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.16 | Marry, sir, they praise me – and make an ass of me. | Marry sir, they praise me, and make an asse of me, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.194 | Is it mine eye, or Valentine's praise, | It is mine, or Valentines praise? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.102 | Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; | Flatter, and praise, commend, extoll their graces: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.335 | Item: She will often praise her liquor. | Item, she will often praise her liquor. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.99 | To praise his faith, which I would have dispraised. | To praise his faith, which I would haue disprais'd. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.12 | To a deep cry of dogs; I dare not praise | To a deepe crie of Dogges; I dare not praise |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.120 | To him a sow of lead. If I could praise | To him a sow of lead: if I could praise |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.i.15 | may, though they cannot praise us, as little | may, though they cannot prayse vs, as little |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.91 | I prithee tell me. Cram's with praise, and make's | I prethee tell me: cram's with prayse, and make's |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.69 | Praise her but for this her without-door form – | Prayse her but for this her without-dore-Forme, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.i.3.1 | The common praise it bears. | The common prayse it beares. |