| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.80 | Than those I shed for him. What was he like? | Then those I shed for him. What was he like? |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.106 | understood, he weeps like a wench that had shed her | vnderstood, hee weepes like a wench that had shed her |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.57 | By th' blood we have shed together, by th' vows | By th' Blood we haue shed together, / By th' Vowes |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.76 | As for my country I have shed my blood, | As for my Country, I haue shed my blood, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.73 | Shed for my thankless country, are requited | Shed for my thanklesse Country, are requitted: |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.117 | And bear the palm for having bravely shed | And beare the Palme, for hauing brauely shed |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.132 | And shed my dear blood, drop by drop in the dust, | And shed my deere blood drop by drop i'th dust, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.90 | For there will be a world of water shed | For there will be a World of Water shed, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.19 | And, interchanging blows, I quickly shed | And interchanging blowes, I quickly shed |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.19 | And for thy sake have I shed many a tear. | And for thy sake haue I shed many a teare: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.116 | My sword should shed hot blood, mine eyes no tears. | My sword should shed hot blood, mine eyes no teares. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.227 | Thou shalt be waking while I shed thy blood, | Thou shalt be waking, while I shed thy blood, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.52 | Must not be shed by such a jaded groom. | Must not be shed by such a iaded Groome: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.161 | Upon my soul, the hearers will shed tears; | Vpon my Soule, the hearers will shed Teares: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.162 | Yea even my foes will shed fast-falling tears, | Yea, euen my Foes will shed fast-falling Teares, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.106 | Shed seas of tears and ne'er be satisfied! | Shed seas of Teares, and ne're be satisfi'd? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.53 | They that stabbed Caesar shed no blood at all, | They that stabb'd Casar, shed no blood at all: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.64 | O, may such purple tears be alway shed | O may such purple teares be alway shed |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.428 | Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear | Cromwel, I did not thinke to shed a teare |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.258 | Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! | Woe to the hand that shed this costly Blood. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.170 | If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. | If you haue teares, prepare to shed them now. |
| King John | KJ II.i.49 | That hot rash haste so indirectly shed. | That hot rash haste so indirectly shedde. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.310.2 | having shed their disguises | |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.74 | Blood hath been shed ere now, i'the olden time, | Blood hath bene shed ere now, i'th' olden time |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.306 | But in the cutting it if thou dost shed | But in the cutting it, if thou dost shed |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.322 | Shed thou no blood, nor cut thou less nor more | Shed thou no bloud, nor cut thou lesse nor more |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.70 | The passion of loud laughter never shed. | the passion of loud laughter / Neuer shed. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.148 | She'd come again, and with a greedy ear | She'l'd come againe, and with a greedie eare |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.3 | It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood, | It is the Cause. Yet Ile not shed her blood, |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.88 | How many worthy princes' bloods were shed | How many worthie Princes blouds were shed, |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.27 | If she'd do the deeds of darkness, thou | If shee'd doe the deedes of darknes thou |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.57 | Farewell, my blood – which if today thou shed, | Farewell, my blood, which if to day thou shead, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.5 | And say, what store of parting tears were shed? | And say, what store of parting tears were shed? |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.155 | These eyes, which never shed remorseful tear – | These eyes, which neuer shed remorsefull teare, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.193 | By Christ's dear blood shed for our grievous sins, | |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.321 | The liquid drops of tears that you have shed | The liquid drops of Teares that you haue shed, |
| Richard III | R3 V.v.24 | The brother blindly shed the brother's blood, | The Brother blindely shed the Brothers blood; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.149 | For blood of ours shed blood of Montague. | For bloud of ours, shed bloud of Mountague. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.71 | O God! Did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood? | O God! Did Rom'os hand shed Tybalts blood |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.118 | Bid him shed tears, as being overjoyed | Bid him shed teares, as being ouer-ioyed |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.63 | And till the tears that she hath shed for thee | And til the teares that she hath shed for thee, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.21 | looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. If | lookes like a foule bumbard that would shed his licquor: if |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.108 | Victorious Titus, rue the tears I shed, | Victorious Titus, rue the teares I shed, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.165 | Shed on this earth for thy return to Rome. | Shed on the earth for thy returne to Rome. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.392 | No man shed tears for noble Mutius; | No man shed teares for Noble Mutius, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.289 | I beg this boon, with tears not lightly shed, | I beg this boone, with teares, not lightly shed, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.4 | For all my blood in Rome's great quarrel shed, | For all my blood in Romes great quarrell shed, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.265 | Why? I have not another tear to shed. | Why I haue not another teare to shed: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.151 | To shed obsequious tears upon this trunk. | To shed obsequious teares vpon this Trunke: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.166 | How many thousand times hath these poor lips, | Shed yet some small drops from thy tender Spring, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.9 | cur shed one tear. He is a stone, a very pebble-stone, | Curre shedde one teare: he is a stone, a very pibble stone, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iii.3 | There's some great matter she'd employ me in. | Ther's some great matter she'ld employ me in. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.95 | And that blood we desire to shed is mutual, | And that blood we desire to shed is mutuall, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.191 | Would have shed water out of fire ere done't; | Would haue shed water out of fire, ere don't; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.237 | The chapel where they lie, and tears shed there | The Chappell where they lye, and teares shed there |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.141 | ever we shed. | euer we shed. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.142 | We may live, son, to shed many more. | We may liue (Sonne) to shed many more. |