| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.17 | though many of the rich are damned; but if I may have | though manie of the rich are damn'd, but if I may haue |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.13 | legacy is so rich as honesty. | Legacie is so rich / As honestie. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.26 | In most rich choice, yet, in his idle fire, | In most rich choice: yet in his idle fire, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.192 | Whose high respect and rich validity | Whose high respect and rich validitie |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.50 | Rich in his father's honour, creeps apace | Rich in his Fathers Honor, creepes apace |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.46.1 | Rich pearls upon thee. | Rich Pearles vpon thee. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.309 | With a priest that lacks Latin, and a rich man | With a Priest that lacks Latine, and a rich man |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.22 | nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands. | nothing, is to haue rich eyes and poore hands. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.i.24 | ‘ Thank God:’ a good answer. Art rich? | Thanke God: A good answer: Art rich? |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.58 | mine, sir, to take that that no man else will. Rich honesty | mine sir, to take that that no man else will rich honestie |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.143 | their rich aspect to the hot breath of Spain, who | their rich Aspect to the hot breath of Spaine, who |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.81 | against the rich, and provide more piercing | against the rich, and prouide more piercing |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.206 | Corn for the rich men only. With these shreds | Corne for the Richmen onely: With these shreds |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.58 | Were not so rich a jewel. Thou wast a soldier | Weare not so rich a Iewell. Thou was't a Souldier |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.15 | All of her that is out of door most rich! | All of her, that is out of doore, most rich: |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.33 | To see this vaulted arch, and the rich crop | To see this vaulted Arch, and the rich Crop |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.190 | Of rich and exquisite form, their values great, | Of rich, and exquisite forme, their valewes great, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.17 | sweet air, with admirable rich words to it, and | sweet aire, with admirable rich words to it, and |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.73 | So bravely done, so rich, that it did strive | So brauely done, so rich, that it did striue |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.180 | You have me, rich, and I will never fail | You haue me rich, and I will neuer faile |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vi.12 | When rich ones scarce tell true. To lapse in fulness | When Rich-ones scarse tell true. To lapse in Fulnesse |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.385 | Distinction should be rich in. Where? How lived you? | Distinction should be rich in. Where? how liu'd you? |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.71 | But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; | But not exprest in fancie; rich, not gawdie: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.99 | As made the things more rich. Their perfume lost, | As made the things more rich, then perfume left: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.101 | Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. | Rich gifts wax poore, when giuers proue vnkinde. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.125 | Canterbury with rich offerings and traders riding to | Canterbury with rich Offerings, and Traders riding to |
| 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 1 | 1H4 III.i.101 | To rob me of so rich a bottom here. | To rob me of so rich a Bottome here. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.77 | you rich? Let them coin his nose, let them coin his | you Rich? Let them coyne his Nose, let them coyne his |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.47 | All at one cast? To set so rich a main | All at one Cast? To set so rich a mayne |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.118 | To hear this rich reprisal is so nigh, | To heare this rich reprizall is so nigh, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.90 | And make thee rich for doing me such wrong. | And make thee rich, for doing me such wrong. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.107 | And takes away the stomach – such are the rich | And takes away the Stomack (such are the Rich, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.31 | Like a rich armour worn in heat of day, | Like a rich Armor, worne in heat of day, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.6 | and a rich. | and a rich. |
| 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.v.25 | Sweat drops of gallant youth in our rich fields! – | Sweat drops of gallant Youth in our rich fields: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.52 | And not to seek a queen to make him rich. | And not to seeke a Queene to make him rich, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.94 | I dare not say from the rich Cardinal | I dare not say, from the rich Cardinall, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.iii.12 | And like rich hangings in a homely house, | And like rich hangings in a homely house, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.44 | Than doth a rich embroidered canopy | Then doth a rich Imbroider'd Canopie |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.67 | My liege, it is young Henry Earl of Richmond. | My Liege, it is young Henry, Earle of Rich- |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.40 | He stabs him | Rich. stabs him. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.126 | Rich stuffs, and ornaments of household, which | Rich Stuffes and Ornaments of Houshold, which |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.62 | As well as I am able. The rich stream | As well as I am able. The rich streame |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.67 | In a rich chair of state, opposing freely | In a rich Chaire of State, opposing freely |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.155 | Of half that worth as those your swords, made rich | Of halfe that worth, as those your Swords; made rich |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.137 | Bequeathing it as a rich legacy | Bequeathing it as a rich Legacie |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.47 | Having so rich and fair a cause to stay. – | Hauing so rich and faire a cause to stay. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.249 | In rich exchange I tender to thee mine. | In rich exchaunge I tender to thee myne, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.78 | Who, being rich enough in seeing her, | Who being rich ennough in seeing her, |
| King John | KJ II.i.351 | When the rich blood of kings is set on fire! | When the rich blood of kings is set on fire: |
| King John | KJ II.i.491 | Shall gild her bridal bed and make her rich | Shall gild her bridall bed and make her rich |
| King John | KJ II.i.552 | And Earl of Richmond; and this rich fair town | And Earle of Richmond, and this rich faire Towne |
| King John | KJ II.i.592 | Like a poor beggar raileth on the rich. | Like a poore begger, raileth on the rich. |
| King John | KJ II.i.594 | And say there is no sin but to be rich; | And say there is no sin but to be rich: |
| King John | KJ II.i.595 | And being rich, my virtue then shall be | And being rich, my vertue then shall be, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.10 | To guard a title that was rich before, | To guard a Title, that was rich before; |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.60 | The rich advantage of good exercise. | The rich aduantage of good exercise, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.61 | Into the purse of rich prosperity | Into the purse of rich prosperity |
| King Lear | KL I.i.57 | Beyond what can be valued rich or rare, | Beyond what can be valewed, rich or rare, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.250 | Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor, | Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich being poore, |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.76 | With something rich about me. From that place | With something rich about me: from that place, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.27 | Make rich the ribs but bankrupt quite the wits. | Make rich the ribs, but bankerout the wits. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.1 | Sweet hearts, we shall be rich ere we depart | Sweet hearts we shall be rich ere we depart, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.159 | Beauties no richer than rich taffeta. | Beauties no richer then rich Taffata. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.199 | Our duty is so rich, so infinite, | Our dutie is so rich, so infinite, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.378 | Wise things seem foolish and rich things but poor. | Wise things seeme foolish, and rich things but poore. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.379 | This proves you wise and rich, for in my eye – | This proues you wise and rich: for in my eie |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.727 | In your rich wisdom to excuse or hide | In your rich wisedome to excuse, or hide, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.37.1 | And the rich East to boot. | And the rich East to boot. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.150 | Or stones whose rates are either rich or poor | Or Stones, whose rate are either rich, or poore |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.25 | After the moon. If thou art rich, thou'rt poor, | After the Moone: If thou art rich, thou'rt poore, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.36 | Of palsied eld: and when thou art old and rich, | Of palsied-Eld: and when thou art old, and rich |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.10 | Like signors and rich burghers on the flood, | Like Signiors and rich Burgers on the flood, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.113 | Not a poor boy, sir, but the rich Jew's man | Not a poore boy sir, but the rich Iewes man that |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.136 | To leave a rich Jew's service to become | To leaue a rich Iewes seruice, to become |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.54 | O sinful thought! Never so rich a gem | O sinfull thought, neuer so rich a Iem |
| 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 II.ix.91 | Gifts of rich value. Yet I have not seen | Gifts of rich value; yet I haue not seene |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.3 | hath a ship of rich lading wrecked on the narrow seas, | hath a ship of rich lading wrackt on the narrow Seas; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.155 | More rich, that only to stand high in your account, | More rich, that onely to stand high in your account, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.292 | From the rich Jew, a special deed of gift, | From the rich Iewe, a speciall deed of gift |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.81 | And high and low beguiles the rich and poor. | & high and low beguiles the rich & poore, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.106 | He woos both high and low, both rich and poor, | He wooes both high and low, both rich & poor, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.71 | Like sapphire, pearl, and rich embroidery, | Like Saphire-pearle, and rich embroiderie, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.131 | Following – her womb then rich with my young squire – | Following (her wombe then rich with my yong squire) |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.134 | As from a voyage, rich with merchandise. | As from a voyage, rich with merchandize. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.219 | With the rich worth of your virginity. | With the rich worth of your virginity. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.229 | Deny your love, so rich within his soul, | Denie your loue (so rich within his soule) |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.28 | one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall | one woman shall not come in my grace: rich shee shall |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.110 | any villainy should be so rich; for when rich villains | anie villanie should be so rich? for when rich villains |
| 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.ii.81 | go to; and a rich fellow enough, go to; and a fellow that | goe to, & a rich fellow enough, goe to, and a fellow that |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.189 | And spend your rich opinion for the name | And spend your rich opinion, for the name |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.170 | Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; | Poore, and Content, is rich, and rich enough, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.29 | ones eat up the little ones. I can compare our rich | ones eate vp the little ones: I can compare our rich |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.21 | Rich tire about you, should at these early hours | rich tire about you, should at these early howers, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.101 | To make the world twice rich. Live, | To make the world twise rich, liue, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.28 | She would with rich and constant pen | She would with rich and constant pen, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.V.19 | His banners sable, trimmed with rich expense; | His banners Sable, trim'd with rich expence, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.117 | You make more rich to owe? | you make more rich to owe? |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.24 | Found there rich jewels, recovered her, and placed her | found there rich Iewells, recouered her, and plac'ste her |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.49 | Whereto, when they shall know what men are rich, | Whereto, when they shall know what men are rich, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.63 | Your presence makes us rich, most noble lord. | Your presence makes vs rich, most Noble Lord. |
| Richard II | R2 II.iv.12 | Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap – | Rich men looke sad, and Ruffians dance and leape, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.49 | Derby stands aside | Rich. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.150 | (To Richmond) Quiet untroubled soul, awake, awake! | Hast. to Rich. / Quiet vntroubled soule, / Awake, awake: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.231 | Methought their souls whose bodies Richard murdered | Me thought their Soules, whose bodies Rich. murther'd, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.215 | O, she is rich in beauty; only poor | O she is rich in beautie, onely poore, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.78 | the great rich Capulet; and if you be not of the house of | the great rich Capulet, and if you be not of the house of |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.46 | Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear – | As a rich Iewel in an Athiops eare: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.47 | Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! | Beauty too rich for vse, for earth too deare: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.54 | On the fair daughter of rich Capulet. | On the faire daughter of rich Capulet: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.27 | This neighbour air, and let rich music's tongue | This neighbour ayre, and let rich musickes tongue, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.30 | Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, | Conceit more rich in matter then in words, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.11 | When but love's shadows are so rich in joy! | When but loues shadowes are so rich in ioy. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.73 | The world affords no law to make thee rich. | The world affords no law to make thee rich. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.303 | As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie, | As rich shall Romeo by his Lady ly, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.123 | her father be very rich, any man is so very a fool to be | her father be verie rich, any man is so verie a foole to be |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.61 | And yet I'll promise thee she shall be rich, | And yet Ile promise thee she shall be rich, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.62 | And very rich. But th' art too much my friend, | And verie rich: but th'art too much my friend, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.66 | One rich enough to be Petruchio's wife – | One rich enough to be Petruchio's wife: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.360 | Within rich Pisa walls, as any one | Within rich Pisa walls, as any one |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.168 | For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich, | For 'tis the minde that makes the bodie rich. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.164 | Rich garments, linens, stuffs, and necessaries | Rich garments, linnens, stuffs, and necessaries |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.402 | Into something rich and strange. | Into something rich, & strange: |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.4 | Point to rich ends. This my mean task | Point to rich ends: this my meane Taske |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.8 | I ratify this my rich gift. O Ferdinand, | I ratifie this my rich guift: O Ferdinand, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.60 | Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas | Ceres, most bounteous Lady, thy rich Leas |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.75 | Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain. | Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertaine. |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.82 | Rich scarf to my proud earth. Why hath thy queen | Rich scarph to my proud earth: why hath thy Queene |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.18 | And rich. Here is a water, look ye. | And rich: heere is a Water looke ye. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.64 | Most rich in Timon's nod. | Most rich in Timons nod. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.3 | He is gone happy, and has left me rich. | He is gone happy, and has left me rich: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.12 | To imitate them; faults that are rich are fair. | To imitate them: faults that are rich are faire. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.70 | Rich men sin, and I eat root. | Richmen sin, and I eat root. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.224 | Thou art a soldier, therefore seldom rich. | Thou art a Soldiour, therefore sildome rich, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.25 | And e'en as if your lord should wear rich jewels | And e'ne as if your Lord should weare rich Iewels, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.110 | Rich only in large hurts. All those for this? | Rich onely in large hurts. All those, for this? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.ii.29 | Thus part we rich in sorrow, parting poor. | Thus part we rich in sorrow, parting poore. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.ii.43 | Rich only to be wretched, thy great fortunes | Rich onely to be wretched; thy great Fortunes |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.512 | A usuring kindness, and as rich men deal gifts, | If not a Vsuring kindnesse, and as rich men deale Guifts, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.525 | To requite me by making rich yourself. | To requite me, by making rich your selfe. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.528 | Ha' sent thee treasure. Go, live rich and happy, | Ha's sent thee Treasure. Go, liue rich and happy, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.77 | From niggard nature fall, yet rich conceit | From niggard Nature fall; yet Rich Conceit |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.55 | Gracious Lavinia, Rome's rich ornament, | Gracious Lauinia, Romes rich Ornament, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.198 | If he do, the rich shall have more. | If he do, the rich shall haue, more. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.30 | Lies rich in virtue and unmingled. | Lies rich in Vertue, and vnmingled. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.154 | Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich | Lies in his Ham-string, and doth thinke it rich |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.205 | So rich advantage of a promised glory | So rich aduantage of a promis'd glory, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.91 | Something not worth in me such rich beholding | Something not worth in me such rich beholding, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.42 | Crams his rich thievery up, he knows not how; | Crams his rich theeuerie vp, he knowes not how. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.36 | How will she love, when the rich golden shaft | How will she loue, when the rich golden shaft |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.42 | Love thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers. | Loue-thoughts lye rich, when canopy'd with bowres. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.60 | steward's chain of office) – some rich jewel. Toby | some rich Iewell: Toby |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.12 | What thinkest thou of the rich Mercatio? | What think'st thou of the rich Mercatio? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.167 | And I as rich in having such a jewel | And I as rich in hauing such a Iewell |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.64 | Were rich and honourable; besides, the gentleman | Were rich and honourable: besides, the gentleman |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.7 | Yet standing in rich place, I multiply | (Yet standing in rich place) I multiply |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.248 | That see'st a game played home, the rich stake drawn, | That seest a Game play'd home, the rich Stake drawne, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.114 | me I should be rich by the fairies. This is some changeling. | me I should be rich by the Fairies. This is some Changeling: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.98 | Then make your garden rich in gillyvors, | Then make you Garden rich in Gilly' vors, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.745 | His garments are rich, but he wears them not | His Garments are rich, but he weares them not |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.55.1 | More rich for what they yielded. | More rich, for what they yeelded. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.213 | Your choice is not so rich in worth as beauty, | Your Choice is not so rich in Worth, as Beautie, |