| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.73.2 | My precious queen, forbear, | My precious Queene forbeare, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.4 | No, thy words are too precious to be cast away | No, thy words are too precious to be cast away |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.14 | Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; | Weares yet a precious Iewell in his head: |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.57 | no skill, by so much is a horn more precious than to | no skill, by so much is a horne more precious then to |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.123 | And looked upon things precious as they were | And look'd vpon things precious, as they were |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.72 | but I have not seen the most precious diamond that | but I haue not seene the most pretious Diamond that |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.37 | Partition make with spectacles so precious | Partition make with Spectales so pretious |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.121 | The precious note of it; with a base slave, | The precious note of it; with a base Slaue, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.191 | What's in't is precious: if you are sick at sea, | What's in't is precious: If you are sicke at Sea, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.60 | It is a thing most precious. But for her, | It is a thing most precious. But for her, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.82 | Come hither: ah, you precious pander! Villain, | Come hither: Ah you precious Pandar, Villaine, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.83.2 | Thou precious varlet, | Thou precious Varlet, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.326 | The drug he gave me, which he said was precious | The Drugge he gaue me, which hee said was precious |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.9 | Such precious deeds in one that promised nought | Such precious deeds, in one that promist nought |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.242 | A precious thing: I had it from the queen. | A precious thing, I had it from the Queene. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.101 | That from a shelf the precious diadem stole | That from a shelfe, the precious Diadem stole, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.164 | It sends some precious instance of itself | It sends some precious instance of it selfe |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.374 | golden sceptre for a leaden dagger, and thy precious rich | Golden Scepter for a Leaden Dagger, and thy precious rich |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.357 | So idly to profane the precious time | So idly to prophane the precious time, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.162 | Other, less fine in carat, is more precious, | Other, lesse fine in Charract, is more precious, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.vi.24 | Her ashes, in an urn more precious | Her Ashes, in an Vrne more precious |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.119 | And set a precious crown upon thy head, | And set a precious Crowne vpon thy head, |
| King John | KJ III.i.79 | Turning with splendour of his precious eye | Turning with splendor of his precious eye |
| King John | KJ IV.i.93 | Any annoyance in that precious sense. | Any annoyance in that precious sense: |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.40 | Found it too precious-princely for a grave. | Found it too precious Princely, for a graue. |
| King John | KJ V.ii.161 | We hold our time too precious to be spent | We hold our time too precious to be spent |
| King Lear | KL I.i.74 | Which the most precious square of sense possesses, | Which the most precious square of sense professes, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.259 | Can buy this unprized-precious maid of me. | Can buy this vnpriz'd precious Maid of me. |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.71 | And can make vile things precious. Come, your hovel. | And can make vilde things precious. Come, your Houel; |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.188 | Their precious stones new lost; became his guide, | Their precious Stones new lost: became his guide, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.4 | Yourself, held precious in the world's esteem, | Your selfe, held precious in the worlds esteeme, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.309 | It adds a precious seeing to the eye: | It addes a precious seeing to the eye: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.445 | As precious eyesight, and did value me | As precious eye-sight, and did value me |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.27 | Those precious motives, those strong knots of love, | Those precious Motiues, those strong knots of Loue, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.222 | That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on | That were most precious to me: Did heauen looke on, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.100 | In precious guards. Dost thou think, Claudio, | In prenzie gardes; dost thou thinke Claudio, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.viii.20 | And jewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones, | And iewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.79 | now. Two thousand ducats in that, and other precious, | now, two thousand ducats in that, and other precious, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.80 | precious jewels. I would my daughter were dead at my | precious iewels: I would my daughter were dead at my |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.62 | With juice of balm and every precious flower. | With iuyce of Balme; and euery precious flowre, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.227 | Precious, celestial? Wherefore speaks he this | Precious, celestiall? Wherefore speakes he this |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.26 | May counterpoise this rich and precious gift? | May counterpoise this rich and precious gift? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.225 | Shall come apparelled in more precious habit, | Shall come apparel'd in more precious habite: |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.66 | Make it a darling, like your precious eye. | Make it a Darling, like your precious eye: |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.233 | But what serve for the thunder? Precious villain! | But what serues for the Thunder? / Precious Villaine. |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.32 | Tendering the precious safety of my prince, | Tendering the precious safetie of my Prince, |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.19 | Is cracked, and all the precious liquor spilt; | Is crack'd, and all the precious liquor spilt; |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.267 | The precious jewel of thy home return. | The precious Iewell of thy home returne. |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.46 | This precious stone set in the silver sea, | This precious stone, set in the siluer sea, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.90 | And threat the glory of my precious crown. | And threat the Glory of my precious Crowne. |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.125 | The precious image of our dear Redeemer, | The precious Image of our deere Redeemer, |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.79 | Was it so precious to me as 'tis now. | Was it so precious to me, as 'tis now: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.251 | A base foul stone, made precious by the foil | A base foule Stone, made precious by the soyle |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.233 | The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. | The precious treasure of his eye-sight lost: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.88 | This precious book of love, this unbound lover, | This precious Booke of Loue, this vnbound Louer, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.4 | With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers. | With balefull weedes, and precious Iuiced flowers, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.31 | A precious ring, a ring that I must use | A precious Ring: a Ring that I must vse, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.171 | What, is the jay more precious than the lark | What is the Iay more precious then the Larke? |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.25.2 | No, precious creature. | No precious Creature, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.101 | our friends? O, what a precious comfort 'tis to have so | our Friends? Oh what a pretious comfort 'tis, to haue so |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.26 | Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold? | Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious Gold? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.75 | Returns with precious lading to the bay | Returnes with precious lading to the Bay, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.227 | A precious ring that lightens all this hole, | A precious Ring, that lightens all the Hole: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.56 | As well wherein 'tis precious of itself | As well, wherein 'tis precious of it selfe, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.10 | No more my grief, in such a precious loss. | Enter Troylus. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.11 | Enter Troilus | No more my griefe, in such a precious losse. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.28 | Holds honour far more precious-dear than life. | Holds honor farre more precious, deere, then life. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vi.24 | For love is still most precious in itself; | For Loue is still most precious in it selfe, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.8 | Must yield their tribute there. (To Emilia) My precious maid, | Must yeild their tribute there: My precious Maide, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.155 | Were I to lose one, they are equal precious, | Were I to loose one, they are equall precious, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.79 | Your precious self had then not crossed the eyes | Your precious selfe had then not cross'd the eyes |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.452 | Is for a precious creature; as she's rare | Is for a precious Creature: as shee's rare, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.ii.23 | brother; whose loss of his most precious queen and | brother, whose losse of his most precious Queene & |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.221 | My father will grant precious things as trifles. | My Father will graunt precious things, as Trifles. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.222 | Would he do so, I'd beg your precious mistress, | Would he doe so, I'ld beg your precious Mistris, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.131 | You precious winners all; your exultation | You precious winners all: your exultation |