| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.164 | muster-file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts | muster file, rotten and sound, vppon my life amounts |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.62 | Trust not to rotten planks. Do you misdoubt | Trust not to rotten plankes: Do you misdoubt |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.63 | But, poor old man, thou prunest a rotten tree | But poore old man, thou prun'st a rotten tree, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.115 | i'th' country: for you'll be rotten ere you be half ripe, | i'th country: for you'l be rotten ere you bee halfe ripe, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.x.23 | Their rotten privilege and custom 'gainst | Their rotten Priuiledge, and Custome 'gainst |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.31 | parts melted away with rotten dews, the fourth would | parts melted away with rotten Dewes, the fourth would |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.178 | Hence, rotten thing! or I shall shake thy bones | Hence rotten thing, or I shall shake thy bones |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.121 | As reek o'th' rotten fens, whose loves I prize | As reeke a'th' rotten Fennes: whose Loues I prize, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.96 | A twist of rotten silk, never admitting | A twist of rotten Silke, neuer admitting |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.90 | Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. | Something is rotten in the State of Denmarke. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.162 | Faith, if 'a be not rotten before 'a die, as | Ifaith, if he be not rotten before he die (as |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.107 | Never did base and rotten policy | Neuer did base and rotten Policy |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.159 | A rotten case abides no handling. | A rotten Case abides no handling. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.60 | And rotten times that you shall look upon | And rotten Times, that you shall looke vpon, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.128 | Rotten opinion, who hath writ me down | Rotten Opinion, who hath writ me downe |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.141 | rotten apples! You may as well say that's a valiant flea | rotten Apples: you may as well say, that's a valiant Flea, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iii.28 | And hung their rotten coffins up in chains, | And hung their rotten Coffins vp in Chaynes, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.148 | For, whether ripe or rotten, drop we shall, | For whether ripe or rotten, drop we shall, |
| King John | KJ II.i.456 | That shakes the rotten carcass of old death | That shakes the rotten carkasse of old death |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.283 | He'll strike, and quickly too. He's dead and rotten. | He'le strike and quickly too, he's dead and rotten. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.658 | The sweet war-man is dead and rotten. Sweet | The sweet War-man is dead and rotten, / Sweet |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.170 | They would else have married me to the rotten medlar. | They would else haue married me to the rotten Medler. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.98 | A goodly apple rotten at the heart. | A goodly apple rotten at the heart. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.100 | to be detected with a jealous rotten bell-wether; | to be detected with a iealious rotten Bell-weather: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.30 | Give not this rotten orange to your friend; | Giue not this rotten Orenge to your friend, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.9 | rotten. | rotten. |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.64 | With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds. | With Inky blottes, and rotten Parchment bonds. |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.1.2 | in rotten armour, marvellous ill-favoured | in rotten Armour, maruellous ill-fauoured. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.2 | And drop into the rotten mouth of death. | And drop into the rotten mouth of death: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.47 | Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open, | Thus I enforce thy rotten Iawes to open, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.133 | rotten apples. But come, since this bar in law makes us | rotten apples: but come, since this bar in law makes vs |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.146 | A rotten carcass of a butt, not rigged, | A rotten carkasse of a Butt, not rigg'd, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.50 | As if it had lungs, and rotten ones. | As if it had Lungs, and rotten ones. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.2 | Rotten humidity. Below thy sister's orb | Rotten humidity: below thy Sisters Orbe |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.17 | Why, his masculine whore. Now, the rotten | Why his masculine Whore. Now the rotten |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.180 | Of rotten kings or blubbered queens, what care | Of rotten Kings or blubberd Queenes, what care |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.244 | Because they may be rotten? O Duke Theseus, | Because they may be rotten? O Duke Theseus |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.89 | The root of his opinion, which is rotten | The Root of his Opinion, which is rotten, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.79 | talk on when thou art dead and rotten, come hither. | talke on, when thou art dead and rotten, come hither: |