| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.221 | That weigh their pains in sense, and do suppose | That weigh their paines in sence, and do suppose |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.106 | stranger sense. Her matter was, she loved your son. | stranger sence, her matter was, shee loued your Sonne; |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.167 | Your salt tears' head. Now to all sense 'tis gross: | Your salt teares head, now to all sence 'tis grosse: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.124 | A senseless help, when help past sense we deem. | A sencelesse helpe, when helpe past sence we deeme. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.178 | In common sense, sense saves another way. | In common sence, sence saues another way: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.47 | And with this healthful hand, whose banished sense | And with this healthfull hand whose banisht sence |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.39 | Is dearest to me I have no skill in sense | Is deerest to me, I haue no skill in sence |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.3 | As mad in folly, lacked the sense to know | As mad in folly, lack'd the sence to know |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.217 | A strange invisible perfume hits the sense | A strange inuisible perfume hits the sense |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.105 | Till that the conquering wine hath steeped our sense | Till that the conquering Wine hath steep't our sense, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ii.39 | You take me in too dolorous a sense, | You take me in too dolorous a sense, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.22 | Indued with intellectual sense and souls, | Indued with intellectuall sence and soules, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.46 | Establish him in his true sense again, | Establish him in his true sence againe, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.114 | His ready sense, then straight his doubled spirit | His readie sence: then straight his doubled spirit |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.49 | While sense can keep it on: And sweetest, fairest, | While sense can keepe it on: And sweetest, fairest, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.37 | Will stupefy and dull the sense awhile; | Will stupifie and dull the Sense a-while, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.11 | The crickets sing, and man's o'erlaboured sense | The Crickets sing, and mans ore-labor'd sense |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.32 | And be her sense but as a monument, | And be her Sense but as a Monument, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.59 | To th' smothering of the sense – how far it is | To'th'smothering of the Sense) how farre it is |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.149 | As sense cannot untie. Be what it is, | As sense cannot vntye. Be what it is, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.432 | Is so from sense in hardness, that I can | Is so from sense in hardnesse, that I can |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.99 | As any the most vulgar thing to sense, | As any the most vulgar thing to sence, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.39 | That it be proof and bulwark against sense. | That it is proofe and bulwarke against Sense. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.72 | Would step from this to this? Sense sure you have, | Would step from this, to this? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.73 | Else could you not have motion. But sure that sense | |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.75 | Nor sense to ecstasy was ne'er so thralled | |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.81 | Or but a sickly part of one true sense | |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.162 | That monster custom, who all sense doth eat, | |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.193 | No, in despite of sense and secrecy, | No in despight of Sense and Secrecie, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.61 | As my great power thereof may give thee sense, | As my great power thereof may giue thee sense, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.7 | That carry but half sense. Her speech is nothing. | That carry but halfe sense: Her speech is nothing, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.157 | Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye! | Burne out the Sence and Vertue of mine eye. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.70 | hath the daintier sense. | hath the daintier sense. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.244 | Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense | Whose wicked deed, thy most Ingenious sence |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.33 | The time misordered doth, in common sense, | The Time (mis-order'd) doth in common sence |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.158 | I spake unto this crown as having sense, | I spake vnto the Crowne (as hauing sense) |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.228 | Of every fool, whose sense no more can feel | of euery foole, whose sence / No more can feele, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.284 | The sense of reckoning, if th' opposed numbers | The sence of reckning of th'opposed numbers: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.186 | He'll wrest the sense and hold us here all day. | Hee'le wrest the sence, and hold vs here all day. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.60 | Ay, but I fear me in another sense. | I, but I feare me in another sence. |
| King John | KJ IV.i.93 | Any annoyance in that precious sense. | Any annoyance in that precious sense: |
| 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.iv.298 | Pierce every sense about thee! – Old fond eyes, | Pierce euerie sense about thee. Old fond eyes, |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.9 | In the restoring his bereaved sense? | In the restoring his bereaued Sense; |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.81 | The safer sense will ne'er accommodate | The safer sense will ne're accommodate |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.278 | The King is mad; how stiff is my vile sense, | The King is mad: / How stiffe is my vilde sense |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.57 | Things hid and barred, you mean, from common sense? | Things hid & bard (you meane) frõ cõmon sense. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.64 | When mistresses from common sense are hid; | When Mistresses from common sense are hid. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.226 | All senses to that sense did make their repair, | All sences to that sence did make their repaire, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.1 | Warble, child: make passionate my sense of | Warble childe, make passionate my sense of |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.259 | Above the sense of sense, so sensible | Aboue the sense of sence so sensible: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.661 | device. Sweet royalty, bestow on me the sense of | deuice; / Sweet Royaltie bestow on me the sence of |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.25 | Ay, but their sense are shut. | I, but their sense are shut. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.59 | That palter with us in a double sense, | That palter with vs in a double sence, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.59 | The wanton stings and motions of the sense, | The wanton stings, and motions of the sence; |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.65 | Under whose heavy sense your brother's life | Vnder whose heauy sence, your brothers life |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.208 | you, so that, in the beastliest sense, you are Pompey the | you, so that in the beastliest sence, you are Pompey the |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.142 | Such sense that my sense breeds with it. Fare you well. | That my Sence breeds with it; fare you well. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.169 | That modesty may more betray our sense | That Modesty may more betray our Sence |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.74 | Your sense pursues not mine. Either you are ignorant, | Your sence pursues not mine: either you are ignorant, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.81 | The sense of death is most in apprehension, | The sence of death is most in apprehension, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iv.27 | Save that his riotous youth with dangerous sense | Saue that his riotous youth with dangerous sense |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.47 | She speaks this in th' infirmity of sense. | She speakes this, in th' infirmity of sence. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.61 | Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense, | Her madnesse hath the oddest frame of sense, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.224 | As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue, | As there is sence in truth, and truth in vertue, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.430 | Against all sense you do importune her. | Against all sence you doe importune her, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.136 | You should in all sense be much bound to him, | You should in all sence be much bound to him, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.118 | Believe it, Page; he speaks sense. | Beleeue it (Page) he speakes sence. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.51 | O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence! | O take the sence sweet, of my innocence, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.27 | Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears thus strong, | Their sense thus weake, lost with their feares thus strong, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.179 | Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense | Wherein it doth impaire the seeing sense, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.81 | Than common sleep of all these five the sense. | Then common sleepe; of all these, fine the sense. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.52 | sense, so forcible is thy wit. But I must tell thee plainly, | sence, so forcible is thy wit, but I must tell thee plainely, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.132 | That from the sense of all civility | That from the sence of all Ciuilitie, |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.64 | For I'll refer me to all things of sense, | For Ile referre me to all things of sense, |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.72 | Judge me the world, if 'tis not gross in sense | Iudge me the world, if 'tis not grosse in sense, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.12.1 | In fearful sense. | In fearefull sense. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.63 | Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense, | (Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense,) |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.69 | After your own sense, yea, though our proper son | After your owne sense: yea, though our proper Son |
| Othello | Oth II.i.71 | As having sense of beauty, do omit | As hauing sence of Beautie, do omit |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.161 | Have you forgot all sense of place and duty? | Haue you forgot all place of sense and dutie? |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.260 | some bodily wound: there is more sense in that | some bodily wound; there is more sence in that |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.335 | What sense had I of her stolen hours of lust? | What sense had I, in her stolne houres of Lust? |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.371 | Are you a man? Have you a soul? Or sense? | Are you a Man? Haue you a Soule? or Sense? |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.143 | Our other healthful members even to that sense | Our other healthfull members, euen to a sense |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.68 | That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born! | That the Sense akes at thee, / Would thou had'st neuer bin borne. |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.153 | Or that mine eyes, mine ears, or any sense | Or that mine Eyes, mine Eares, or any Sence |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.93 | Their wives have sense like them: they see and smell, | Their wiues haue sense like them: They see, and smell, |
| Othello | Oth V.i.11 | I have rubbed this young quat almost to the sense, | I haue rub'd this yong Quat almost to the sense, |
| Othello | Oth V.i.32 | That hast such noble sense of thy friend's wrong, | That hast such Noble sense of thy Friends wrong, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.287 | For, in my sense 'tis happiness to die. | For in my sense, 'tis happinesse to die. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.82 | You are a fair viol, and your sense the strings, | You are a faire Violl, and your sense, the stringes; |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.59.1 | It smells most sweetly in my sense. | it smels most sweetly in my sense. |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.30 | Will to my sense bend no licentious ear, | will to my sense bende no licentious eare, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.13 | Nor with thy sweets comfort his ravenous sense, | Nor with thy Sweetes, comfort his rauenous sence: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.25 | Take it in what sense thou wilt. | Take it in what sence thou wilt. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.26 | They must take it in sense that feel it. | They must take it sence, that feele it. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.58 | Your worship in that sense may call him ‘ man.’ | Your worship in that sense, may call him man. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.212 | Although I think 'twas in another sense – | Although I thinke 'twas in another sence, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.18 | You are very sensible, and yet you miss my sense: | You are verie sencible, and yet you misse my sence: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.140 | And in no sense is meet or amiable. | And in no sence is meete or amiable. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.109 | The stomach of my sense. Would I had never | the stomacke of my sense: would I had neuer |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iii.15 | That might have known my place. I see no sense for't | That might haue knowne my place. I see no sense for't, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.145 | A lack of Timon's aid, hath sense withal | A lacke of Timons ayde, hath since withall |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.59 | The cygnet's down is harsh, and spirit of sense | The Cignets Downe is harsh, and spirit of Sense |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.252 | To set his sense on the attentive bent, | To set his sence on the attentiue bent, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.385 | Our project's life this shape of sense assumes: | Our proiects life this shape of sence assumes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.21 | Dost thou think I have no sense, thou | Doest thou thinke I haue no sence thou |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.12 | More spongy to suck in the sense of fear, | More spungie, to sucke in the sense of Feare, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.18 | That it enchants my sense. What will it be, | That it inchants my sence: what will it be |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.106 | That most pure spirit of sense, behold itself, | |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.4 | And violenteth in a sense as strong | And no lesse in a sense as strong |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.54.1 | A woman of quick sense. | A woman of quicke sence. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.255 | In your denial I would find no sense; | In your deniall, I would finde no sence, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.156 | Very brief, and to exceeding good sense – (aside) | Very breefe, and to exceeding good sence- |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.61 | Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep; | Let fancie still my sense in Lethe steepe, |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.iii.9 | For though my soul disputes well with my sense | For though my soule disputes well with my sence, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.197 | And were there sense in his idolatry, | And were there sence in his Idolatry, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.15 | Blessing their sense. | Blessing their sence. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.37 | It seems to me they have no more sense of | It seemes to me they have no more sence of |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.ii.16 | A sense to know a man unarmed, and can | A sence to know a man unarmd, and can |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.ii.29 | Dissolve, my life; let not my sense unsettle, | Dissolue my life, Let not my sence unsettle |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.66 | She sung much, but no sense; only I heard her | She sung much, but no sence; onely I heard her |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.84 | are grateful to the sense. All this shall become Palamon, | are grateful to the / Sence: all this shall become Palamon, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.127 | And by and by outbreasted, that the sense | And by and by out breasted, that the sence |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.151 | You smell this business with a sense as cold | You smell this businesse with a sence as cold |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.i.10 | Kin to Jove's thunder, so surprised my sense | Kin to Ioues Thunder, so surpriz'd my Sence, |