| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.iii.42 | You must to Parthia. Your commission's ready; | You must to Parthia, your Commissions ready: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iii.36 | Most fit for business. Go, make thee ready. | Most fit for businesse. Go, make thee ready, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.72 | How he's employed. He shall in time be ready. | How hee's imployd: he shall in time be ready. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.135 | appointed for the wrestling, and they are ready to perform | appointed for the wrastling, and they are ready to performe |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.189 | Ready, sir, but his will hath in it a more | Readie Sir, but his will hath in it a more |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.159 | But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs. | But make you ready your stiffe bats and clubs, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ii.18 | We never yet made doubt but Rome was ready | We neuer yet made doubt but Rome was ready |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.114 | His ready sense, then straight his doubled spirit | His readie sence: then straight his doubled spirit |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.5 | Ready, when time shall prompt them, to make road | Readie when time shall prompt them, to make roade |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.10.2 | I have; 'tis ready. | I haue: 'tis ready. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.23 | Make them be strong, and ready for this hint, | Make them be strong, and ready for this hint |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iii.38 | their adversaries. Have you an army ready, say you? | their Aduersaries. Haue you an Army ready say you? |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.44 | blow out the intended fire your city is ready to flame in | blow out the intended fire, your City is ready to flame in, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.80.1 | Your lady's person, is she ready? | Your Ladies person, is she ready? |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.6 | On thy too ready hearing? Disloyal? No. | On thy too ready hearing? Disloyall? No. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.160 | Ready in gibes, quick-answered, saucy, and | Ready in gybes, quicke-answer'd, sawcie, and |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.30 | Than what you hear of. Come more, for more you're ready: | Then what you heare of. Come more, for more you're ready: |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.152 | Come, sir, are you ready for death? | Come Sir, are you ready for death? |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.153 | Overroasted rather: ready long ago. | Ouer-roasted rather: ready long ago. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.154 | Hanging is the word, sir: if you be ready for | Hanging is the word, Sir, if you bee readie for |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.55 | Well, go make you ready. | Go make you readie. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.115 | there. Be the players ready? | there. Be the Players ready? |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.43 | The bark is ready and the wind at help, | The Barke is readie, and the winde at helpe, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.196 | King's pleasure. If his fitness speaks, mine is ready, | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.83 | My father Glendower is not ready yet, | My Father Glendower is not readie yet, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.168 | Hostess, I forgive thee, go make ready | Hostesse, I forgiue thee: / Go make ready |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.84 | See what a ready tongue suspicion hath! | See what a ready tongue Suspition hath: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.109 | ready as a borrower's cap: ‘ I am the King's poor | ready as a borrowed cap: I am the Kings poore |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.374 | I cannot speak; if my heart be not ready to burst – | I cannot speake: if my heart bee not readie to burst--- |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.43 | If not, we ready are to try our fortunes | If not, wee readie are to trye our fortunes, |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.96 | Which I could with a ready guess declare | Which I could with a ready guesse declare, |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.46 | Returns us that his powers are yet not ready | Returnes vs, that his Powers are yet not ready, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.71 | All things are ready, if our minds be so. | All things are ready, if our minds be so. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.56 | Ready they were to shoot me to the heart. | Ready they were to shoot me to the heart. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.39.3 | ready and half unready | ready, and halfe vnready. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.104 | Ah, thou shalt find us ready for thee still; | Ah, thou shalt finde vs ready for thee still: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.227 | Ready to starve, and dare not touch his own. | Ready to sterue, and dare not touch his owne. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.49 | And ready are the appellant and defendant, | And ready are the Appellant and Defendant, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.2 | and yet am ready to famish! These five days have I | and yet am ready to famish. These fiue daies haue I |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.256 | Our army is ready; come, we'll after them. | Our Army is ready; come, wee'le after them. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.230 | And I am ready to put armour on. | And I am ready to put Armor on. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.105 | And I am ready to put armour on.’ | And I am readie to put Armour on. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.v.19 | Your horse stands ready at the park corner. | Your horse stands ready at the Parke-corner. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.61 | Ready to fight; therefore be resolute. | Readie to fight: therefore be resolute. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.117.1 | Is he in person ready? | Is he in person, ready? |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.98 | Sir Thomas Lovell, is the banquet ready | Sir Thomas Louell, is the Banket ready |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.98 | The Duke is coming. See the barge be ready, | The Duke is comming: See the Barge be ready; |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.4 | best breed in the north. When they were ready to set out for | best breed in the North. When they were ready to set out for |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.173 | To trust us in your business, we are ready | To trust vs in your businesse) we are ready |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.82.2 | Is he ready | Is he ready |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.95.1 | Let some o'th' guard be ready there. | Let some o'th'Guard be ready there. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.31 | Are we all ready? What is now amiss | Are we all ready? What is now amisse, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.81 | Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts, | Be ready Gods with all your Thunder-bolts, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.215 | We, at the height, are ready to decline. | We at the height, are readie to decline. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.88 | Our army lies, ready to give up the ghost. | Our Army lies, ready to giue vp the Ghost. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.59 | Hast thou pen, ink, and paper ready, Lodowick? | Hast thou pen, inke and paper ready Lodowike, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.60 | Ready, my liege. | Ready my liege. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.68 | Talking of grief, to make thee ready groan, | Talking of griefe, to make thee ready grone, |
| King John | KJ II.i.211 | And ready mounted are they to spit forth | And ready mounted are they to spit forth |
| King John | KJ V.ii.169 | And even at hand a drum is ready braced | And euen at hand, a drumme is readie brac'd, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.8 | Let me not stay a jot for dinner! Go, get it ready! | Let me not stay a iot for dinner, go get it ready: |
| King Lear | KL I.v.32 | horses ready? | Horsses ready? |
| King Lear | KL I.v.45 | How now! Are the horses ready? | How now are the Horses ready? |
| King Lear | KL I.v.46 | Ready, my lord. | Ready my Lord. |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.146 | And bring you where both fire and food is ready. | And bring you where both fire, and food is ready. |
| King Lear | KL III.v.18 | ready for our apprehension. | ready for our apprehension. |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.88 | There is a litter ready; lay him in't | There is a Litter ready, lay him in't, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.53 | My reason all the same; and they are ready | My reason all the same, and they are ready |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.201 | For I am almost ready to dissolve, | For I am almost ready to dissolue, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.31 | Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready | Goe bid thy Mistresse, when my drinke is ready, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.11 | Confounds us. – Hark! – I laid their daggers ready; | Confounds vs: hearke: I lay'd their Daggers ready, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.235 | Come, go we to the King; our power is ready; | Come go we to the King, our Power is ready, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.110 | Be ready, Claudio, for your death tomorrow. | Be readie Claudio, for your death to morrow. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.172 | ready. | ready. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.55 | Who hath a story ready for your ear. | Who hath a storie readie for your eare: |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.7 | ready money. Marry, then ginger was not much in request, | readie money: marrie then, Ginger was not much in request, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.36 | Very ready, sir. | Verie readie Sir. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.106 | be ready at the farthest by five of the clock. See these | be readie at the farthest by fiue of the clocke: see these |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.2 | Ready, so please your grace. | Ready, so please your grace? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.15 | He is ready at the door; he comes, my lord. | He is ready at the doore, he comes my Lord. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.253.2 | I have them ready. | I haue them ready. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.334 | I have it ready for thee; here it is. | I haue it ready for thee, heere it is. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.59 | 'Tis ready, sir, here in the porch. | 'Tis ready Sir, here in the Porch. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.80 | ready to wrangle with mine own honesty. I'll entertain | readie to wrangle with mine owne honesty: Ile entertaine |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.274 | is ready to crack with impatience. Who says this is | is ready to cracke with impatience: who saies this is |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.9 | Robert, be ready here hard by in the brew-house. And | Robert) be ready here hard-by in the Brew-house, & |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.17 | Ready! – Name what part I am for, and | Ready; name what part I am for, and |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.154 | Ready! | Ready; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.402 | Here, villain, drawn and ready! Where art thou? | Here villaine, drawne & readie. Where art thou? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.6 | Ready. | Ready. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.9 | Ready. | Ready. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.18 | Ready. | Ready. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.206 | My lord, will you walk? Dinner is ready. | My Lord, will you walke? dinner is ready. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.47 | were ready. By my troth, I am exceeding ill; heigh-ho! | were ready, by my troth I am exceeding ill, hey ho. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.v.51 | I'll wait upon them; I am ready. | Ile wait vpon them, I am ready. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.39 | Call her forth, brother; here's the Friar ready. | Call her forth brother, heres the Frier ready. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.55 | Thus ready for the way of life or death, | Thus ready for the way of life or death, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.43 | Thought naught too curious are ready now | Thought nought too curious, are readie now |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.1 | Are the knights ready to begin the triumph? | Are the Knights ready to begin the Tryumph? |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.4 | Return them we are ready; and our daughter here, | Returne them, We are ready, & our daughter heere, |
| Pericles | Per III.i.71 | hatches, caulked and bitumed ready. | Caulkt and bittumed ready. |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.198 | Be ready as your lives shall answer it | Be readie, (as your liues shall answer it) |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.205 | Be ready to direct these home alarms. | Be readie to direct these home Alarmes. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.36 | Am I, who ready here do stand in arms | Am I: who ready heere do stand in Armes, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.319 | Our coronation. Lords, be ready, all. | Our Coronation: Lords, prepare your selues. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.188 | Ready to catch each other by the throat, | Ready to catch each other by the throat, |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.4 | Is all things ready for the royal time? | Is all things ready for the Royall time? |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.100 | Ready with every nod to tumble down | Readie with euery Nod to tumble downe, |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.10 | And both are ready in their offices, | And both are readie in their Offices, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.75 | Set it down. Is ink and paper ready? | Set it downe. Is Inke and Paper ready? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.11 | Ay, boy, ready. | I Boy readie. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.95 | My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand | My lips to blushing Pilgrims did ready stand, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iv.22 | Will you be ready? Do you like this haste? | Will you be ready? do you like this hast? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.33 | Come, is the bride ready to go to church? | Come, is the Bride ready to go to Church? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.34 | Ready to go, but never to return. | Ready to go, but neuer to returne. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.48 | Procure me music ready when he wakes, | Procure me Musicke readie when he wakes, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.50 | And if he chance to speak, be ready straight | And if he chance to speake, be readie straight |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.57 | Some one be ready with a costly suit, | Some one be readie with a costly suite, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.33 | Each in his office ready at thy beck. | Each in his office readie at thy becke. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.204 | Ay, sir, they be ready – the oats have eaten the | I sir, they be ready, the Oates haue eaten the |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.34 | There's fire ready – and therefore, good Grumio, | There's fire readie, and therefore good Grumio |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.40 | cold. Where's the cook? Is supper ready, the house | cold. Where's the Cooke, is supper ready, the house |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.46 | All ready – and therefore, I pray thee, news. | All readie: and therefore I pray thee newes. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.84 | horse-tail till they kiss their hands. Are they all ready? | horse-taile, till they kisse their hands. Are they all readie? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.102 | companions, is all ready, and all things neat? | companions, is all readie, and all things neate? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.103 | All things is ready. How near is our master? | All things is readie, how neere is our master? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.34 | Me shall you find ready and willing | Me shall you finde readie and willing |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.63 | And bid Bianca make her ready straight. | and bid Bianca make her readie straight: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.99 | priest be ready to come against you come with your | Priest be readie to come against you come with your |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.1 | Softly and swiftly, sir, for the priest is ready. | Softly and swiftly sir, for the Priest is ready. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.178 | My hand is ready, may it do him ease. | My hand is readie, may it do him ease. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.25 | ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it | readie in your Cabine for the mischance of the houre, if it |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.187 | Come away, servant, come! I am ready now. | Come away, Seruant, come; I am ready now, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.143 | Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked | Ready to drop vpon me, that when I wak'd |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.235.1 | Ready for his friends. | Ready for his Friends. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.37 | lord ready to come forth? | Lord readie to come forth? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.297 | They shall be ready at your highness' will | They shall be ready at yout Highnes will, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.204 | And see them ready against their mother comes. | And see them ready, gainst their Mother comes. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.21 | The feast is ready which the careful Titus | The Feast is ready which the carefull Titus, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.228 | And bid the cheek be ready with a blush | And on the cheeke be ready with a blush |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.13 | More ready to cry out ‘ Who knows what follows?’ | More ready to cry out, who knowes what followes |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.28 | She's making her ready; she'll come | Shee's making her ready, sheele come |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.35 | Be answered in his challenge. Ajax is ready. | Be answer'd in his challenge. Aiax is ready. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.68 | They are at hand, and ready to effect it. | They are at hand, and ready to effect it. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.48 | My lord, is the lady ready? | My Lord, is the Lady ready? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.143 | Let us make ready straight. | Let vs make ready straight. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.49.1 | Are you ready, sir? | Are you ready Sir? |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.88 | I'll get 'em all three all ready. | Ile get 'em all three already. |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.iii.13 | That I am ready to distrust mine eyes, | That I am readie to distrust mine eyes, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.131 | Dinner is ready, and your father stays. | dinner is ready: and your father staies. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.1.4 | hearses. The three Queens meet him, and fall on their | [printed in the margin earlier] Hearses ready with Palamon and Arcite: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.1.5 | faces before him | the 3. Queenes. Theseus: and his Lordes ready. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.278.2 | I am ready, keeper. | I am ready keeper. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.49.2 | Sweet, you must be ready, | Sweet, you must be readie, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.449 | Still neighbour mine. My ships are ready, and | Still neighbour mine. My Ships are ready, and |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.48 | by favour. Our king, being ready to leap out of himself | by Fauor. Our King being ready to leape out of himselfe, |