| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.76 | Farewell, pretty lady. You must hold the credit of | Farewell prettie Lady, you must hold the credit of |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.91 | Must die for love. 'Twas pretty, though a plague, | Must die for loue. 'Twas prettie, though a plague |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.171 | Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms | Of pretty fond adoptious christendomes |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.200 | I did think thee for two ordinaries to be a pretty | I did thinke thee for two ordinaries: to bee a prettie |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.207 | Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, | Stood pretty Dimpled Boyes, like smiling Cupids, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.243 | Hast thou the pretty worm of Nilus there, | Hast thou the pretty worme of Nylus there, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.45 | kissing of her batler and the cow's dugs that her pretty | kissing of her batler, and the Cowes dugs that her prettie |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.263 | You are full of pretty answers: have you not been | You are ful of prety answers: haue you not bin |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.323 | Where dwell you, pretty youth? | Where dwel you prettie youth? |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.11 | 'Tis pretty, sure, and very probable, | 'Tis pretty sure, and very probable, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.113 | It is a pretty youth – not very pretty – | It is a pretty youth, not very prettie, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.120 | There was a pretty redness in his lip, | There was a pretty rednesse in his lip, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.1 | I prithee, pretty youth, let me be better acquainted | I prethee, pretty youth, let me better acquainted |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.175 | mend me, and by all pretty oaths that are not dangerous, | mend mee, and by all pretty oathes that are not dangerous, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.190 | O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou | O coz, coz, coz: my pretty little coz, that thou |
| As You Like It | AYL V.i.28 | Ay, sir, I have a pretty wit. | I sir, I haue a prettie wit. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iii.18 | In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, | In the spring time, the onely pretty rang time. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iii.23 | These pretty country folks would lie, | These prettie Country folks would lie. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iii.24 | In spring time, the only pretty ring time, | In spring time, &c. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iii.30 | In spring time, the only pretty ring time, | In spring time, &c. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iii.36 | In spring time, the only pretty ring time, | In spring time, &c. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.73 | And piteous plainings of the pretty babes, | And pitteous playnings of the prettie babes |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.110 | Pretty and witty; wild, and yet, too, gentle. | Prettie and wittie; wilde, and yet too gentle; |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.88 | A pretty tale. It may be you have heard it, | A pretty Tale, it may be you haue heard it, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.59 | very pretty boy. O' my troth, I looked upon him o' Wednesday | very pretty boy. A my troth, I look'd vpon him a Wensday |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.26 | Most pretty things to say: ere I could tell him | Most pretty things to say: Ere I could tell him |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.24 | With every thing that pretty is, my lady sweet arise: | With euery thing that pretty is, my Lady sweet arise: |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.102 | Her pretty action did outsell her gift, | Her pretty Action, did out-sell her guift, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.149 | Pretty, and full of view; yea, haply, near | Pretty, and full of view: yea, happily, neere |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.159 | Woman it pretty self – into a waggish courage, | Woman it pretty selfe) into a waggish courage, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.41 | How do you, pretty lady? | How do ye, pretty Lady? |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.56 | Pretty Ophelia! | Pretty Ophelia. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.194 | I understand thy looks, that pretty Welsh | I vnderstand thy Lookes: that pretty Welsh |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.208 | Yea, I thank your pretty sweet wit for it. But | Yes, I thanke your pretty sweet wit for it: but |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.143 | thy walls, a pretty slight drollery, or the story of the | thy walles a pretty slight Drollery, or the Storie of the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.24 | pretty little tiny kickshaws, tell William cook. | pretty little tine Kickshawes, tell William Cooke. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.177 | And pretty traps to catch the petty thieves. | And pretty traps to catch the petty theeues. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vi.28 | The pretty and sweet manner of it forced | The prettie and sweet manner of it forc'd |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.55 | A pretty plot, well chosen to build upon! | A pretty Plot, well chosen to build vpon. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.94 | The pretty vaulting sea refused to drown me, | The pretty vaulting Sea refus'd to drowne me, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.70 | This pretty lad will prove our country's bliss. | This prettie Lad will proue our Countries blisse. |
| King John | KJ III.iv.89 | Must I behold my pretty Arthur more. | Must I behold my pretty Arthur more. |
| King John | KJ III.iv.95 | Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, | Puts on his pretty lookes, repeats his words, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.129 | And, pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure | And, pretty childe, sleepe doubtlesse, and secure, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.96 | How now, my pretty knave! How dost thou? | How now my pretty knaue, how dost thou? |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.187 | Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need | Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need |
| King Lear | KL I.v.34 | seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason. | seuen Starres are no mo then seuen, is a pretty reason. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.18 | Pretty and apt. | Pretty and apt. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.19 | How mean you, sir? I pretty and my saying apt, or | How meane you sir, I pretty, and my saying apt? or |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.20 | I apt and my saying pretty? | I apt, and my saying prettie? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.21 | Thou pretty, because little. | Thou pretty because little. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.22 | Little pretty, because little. Wherefore apt? | Little pretty, because little: wherefore apt? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.92 | Sweet invocation of a child – most pretty and | Sweet inuocation of a childe, most pretty and |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.56 | The meaning, pretty ingenious? Is not lead a | Thy meaning prettie ingenious, is not Lead a |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.57 | The preyful Princess pierced and pricked a pretty pleasing pricket; | The prayfull Princesse pearst and prickt a prettie pleasing Pricket, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.88 | enough for a swine. 'Tis pretty; it is well. | enough for a Swine: 'tis prettie, it is well. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.97 | Their herald is a pretty knavish page | Their Herald is a pretty knauish Page: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.286 | Madam, and pretty mistresses, give ear: | Madam, and prettie mistresses giue eare, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.25 | To what they were before. – My pretty cousin, | To what they were before. My pretty Cosine, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.216 | All my pretty ones? Did you say all? | All my pretty ones? / Did you say All? |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.217 | O hell-kite! All? What, all my pretty chickens | Oh Hell-Kite! All? / What, All my pretty Chickens, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.225 | There is pretty orders beginning, I can tell you. | There is pretty orders beginning I can tell you: |
| 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 |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.163 | pretty tales of the Duke. | pretty tales of the Duke. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.37 | The pretty follies that themselves commit; | The pretty follies that themselues commit, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.21 | Did pretty Jessica, like a little shrew, | Did pretty Iessica (like a little shrow) |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.43 | which is pretty virginity. | which is pretty virginity. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.133 | What news? How does pretty Mistress Anne? | What newes? how do's pretty Mistris Anne? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.134 | In truth, sir, and she is pretty, and | In truth Sir, and shee is pretty, and |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.16 | Where had you this pretty weathercock? | Where had you this pretty weather-cocke? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.56 | My will? 'Od's heartlings, that's a pretty jest | My will? Odd's-hart-lings, that's a prettie iest |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.130 | Which she with pretty and with swimming gait | Which she with pretty and with swimming gate, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.82 | Pretty soul, she durst not lie | Pretty soule, she durst not lye |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.54 | Stood now within the pretty flowerets' eyes | Stood now within the pretty flouriets eyes, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.137 | a pretty jest your daughter told us of. | a pretty iest your daughter told vs of. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.96 | Without offence to utter them. Thus, pretty lady, | Without offence to vtter them: thus pretty Lady |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.79 | householder; and, which is more, as pretty a piece of | houshoulder, and which is more, as pretty a peece of |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.192 | What a pretty thing man is when he goes in | What a prettie thing man is, when he goes in |
| Pericles | Per II.i.35 | A pretty moral! | A prettie morall. |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.44 | A pretty moral, | A pretty morrall |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.24 | Three or four thousand chequins were as pretty | Three or foure thousande Checkins were as prettie |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.30 | if in our youths we could pick up some pretty | if in our youthes we could picke vp some prettie |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.64 | Why lament you, pretty one? | Why lament you prettie one? |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.65 | That I am pretty. | That I am prettie. |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.62 | Now, pretty one, how long have you been | Now prittie one, how long haue you beene |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.84 | more serious wooing. But I protest to thee, pretty one, | more serious wooing, but I protest to thee prettie one, |
| Pericles | Per V.ii.7 | What minstrelsy, and pretty din | What minstrelsie, and prettie din, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.165 | And make some pretty match with shedding tears, | And make some prettie Match, with shedding Teares? |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.93 | We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot, | We say, that Shores Wife hath a pretty Foot, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.177 | Steeped in the faultless blood of pretty Rutland – | Steep'd in the faultlesse blood of prettie Rutland: |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.8 | My pretty cousins, you mistake me both. | My pretty Cosins, you mistake me both, |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.31 | I pray thee, pretty York, who told thee this? | I prythee pretty Yorke, who told thee this? |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.100 | Rough cradle for such little pretty ones! | Rough Cradle for such little prettie ones, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.28 | 'tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh. | 'tis knowne I am a pretty peece of flesh. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.11 | Thou knowest my daughter's of a pretty age. | Thou knowest my daughter's of a prety age. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.32 | Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool, | of my Dugge, and felt it bitter, pretty foole, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.45 | The pretty wretch left crying and said ‘ Ay.’ | the pretty wretch lefte crying, & said I: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.49 | And, pretty fool, it stinted and said ‘ Ay.’ | and pretty foole it stinted, and said I. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.132 | Pretty! What say you, Hugh Rebeck? | Pratest, what say you Hugh Rebicke? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.135 | Pretty too! What say you, James Soundpost? | Pratest to, what say you Iames Sound-Post? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.78 | A pretty peat! It is best | A pretty peate, it is best |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.36 | It is a pretty mocking of the life. | It is a pretty mocking of the life: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.i.15 | And what hast thou there under thy cloak, pretty | and what hast thou there vnder thy Cloake, pretty |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.62 | This petty brabble will undo us all. | This pretty brabble will vndoo vs all: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.42 | And he hath cut those pretty fingers off | And he hath cut those pretty fingers off, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.84 | Is torn from forth that pretty hollow cage, | Is torne from forth that pretty hollow cage, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.64 | That with his pretty buzzing melody | That with his pretty buzing melody, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.164 | And bid thee bear his pretty tales in mind, | Meete, and agreeing with thine Infancie: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.156 | his pretty answer. | his pretty answere. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.64 | pretty abruption? What too curious dreg espies my | pretty abruption: what too curious dreg espies my |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.133 | Pretty, i'faith. | Pretty yfaith. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.207 | your pretty encounters, press it to death: away! – | your prettie encounters, presse it to death: away. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.4 | To bed, to bed. Sleep kill those pretty eyes, | To bed, to bed: sleepe kill those pritty eyes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.80 | O all you gods! – O pretty, pretty pledge! | O all you gods! O prettie, prettie pledge; |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.40 | Trip no further, pretty sweeting; | Trip no further prettie sweeting. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.110 | A pretty period! Well, I guess the sequel; | A pretty period: well: I ghesse the sequell; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.56 | Why, my pretty youth? | Why, my pretty youth? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.72 | But was her pattern; her affections – pretty, | But was her patterne, her affections (pretty |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.183 | This is a pretty colour; will't not do | This is a pretty colour, wilt not doe |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.68 | Wrestling and running. (Aside) 'Tis a pretty fellow. | Wrastling, and Running; Tis a pretty Fellow. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.39 | A pretty brown wench 'tis. There was a time | A pretty broune wench t'is-There was a time |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.69.2 | Pretty soul! | Pretty soule. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.67.2 | Pretty soul, | Pretty soule |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.62.1 | You were pretty lordings then? | You were pretty Lordings then? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.101 | The pretty dimples of his chin and cheek; his smiles; | The pretty dimples of his Chin, and Cheeke; his Smiles: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.47 | Which may, if fortune please, both breed thee, pretty, | Which may if Fortune please, both breed thee (pretty) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.68 | What have we here? Mercy on's, a barne! A very pretty | what haue we heere? Mercy on's, a Barne? A very pretty |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.69 | barne! A boy or a child, I wonder? A pretty one, a very | barne; A boy, or a Childe I wonder? (A pretty one, a verie |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.70 | pretty one. Sure, some scape. Though I am not bookish, | prettie one) sure some Scape; Though I am not bookish, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.284 | This is a merry ballad, but a very pretty one. | This is a merry ballad, but a very pretty one. |