| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.201 | of the sight of Orlando: I'll go find a shadow and sigh | of the sight of Orlando: Ile goe finde a shadow, and sigh |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.5 | That makes thee stare thus? Wherefore breaks that sigh | That makes thee stare thus? Wherefore breaks that sigh |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.52 | A smiling with a sigh; as if the sigh | A smiling, with a sigh; as if the sighe |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.54 | The smile mocking the sigh, that it would fly | The Smile, mocking the Sigh, that it would flye |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.392 | Such as I can – twice o'er, I'll weep and sigh, | (Such as I can) twice o're, Ile weepe, and sighe, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.94 | He raised a sigh so piteous and profound | He rais'd a sigh, so pittious and profound, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.322 | sigh gratis; the humorous man shall end his part in | sigh gratis, the humorous man shall end his part in |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.23 | Did the king sigh, but with a general groan. | Did the King sighe, but with a generall grone. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.121 | And then this ‘ should ’ is like a spendthrift sigh, | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.8 | His cheek looks pale, and with a rising sigh | His Cheekes looke pale, and with a rising sigh, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.80 | Thou hast a sigh to blow away this praise, | Thou hast a Sigh, to blow away this Praise, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.191.2 | Why should you sigh, my lord? | Why should you sigh, my Lord? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.39 | And many an old man's sigh, and many a widow's, | And many an old mans sighe, and many a Widdowes, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.134 | My cue is villainous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom | my Cue is villanous Melancholly, with a sighe like Tom |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.62 | scorn to sigh: methinks I should outswear Cupid. | scorne to sigh, me thinkes I should out-sweare Cupid. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.12 | with turning up your eyelids, sigh a note and sing a | with turning vp your eie: sigh a note and sing a |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.65 | By thy favour, sweet welkin, I must sigh in thy face. | By thy fauour sweet Welkin, I must sigh in thy face. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.172 | A very beadle to a humorous sigh, | A verie Beadle to a humerous sigh: A Criticke, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.197 | And I to sigh for her, to watch for her, | And I to sigh for her, to watch for her, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.201 | Well, I will love, write, sigh, pray, sue, and groan; | Well, I will loue, write, sigh, pray, shue, grone, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.50 | What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged. | What a sigh is there? The hart is sorely charg'd. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.172 | shoulders that a milkmaid, if she be in love, may sigh it | shoulders, that a milke-maid, if she be in loue, may sigh it |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.181 | Thus with my hat, and sigh and say amen, | Thus with my hat, and sigh and say Amen: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.15 | To shake the head, relent, and sigh, and yield | To shake the head, relent, and sigh, and yeeld |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.188 | print of it, and sigh away Sundays. Look, Don Pedro | print of it, and sigh away sundaies: looke, don Pedro |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.60 | Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, | Sigh no more Ladies, sigh no more, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.64 | Then sigh not so, but let them go, | Then sigh not so, but let them goe, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.72 | Then sigh not so, but let them go, | Then sigh not so, &c. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.24 | What! Sigh for the toothache? | What? sigh for the tooth-ach. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.165 | she concluded with a sigh, thou wast the properest man | she concluded with a sigh, thou wast the proprest man |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iii.17 | Help us to sigh and groan, | helpe vs to sigh and grone. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.422 | Over my thigh, and sighed and kissed, and then | And sigh, and kisse, and then cry cursed Fate, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.263 | My heart will sigh when I miscall it so, | My heart will sigh, when I miscall it so, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.333 | But then I sigh, and, with a piece of Scripture, | But then I sigh, and with a peece of Scripture, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.151 | make thee sigh. | make thee sigh. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.i.8 | Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh. | Appeare thou in the likenesse of a sigh, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.122 | Lord, let me never have a cause to sigh | Lord let me neuer haue a cause to sigh, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.149 | To cry to th' sea that roared to us, to sigh | To cry to th' Sea, that roard to vs; to sigh |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.42 | Thou shalt not sigh, nor hold thy stumps to heaven, | Thou shalt not sighe nor hold thy stumps to heauen, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.37 | As wedged with a sigh, would rive in twain, | As wedged with a sigh, would riue in twaine, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.40 | Buried this sigh in wrinkle of a smile; | Buried this sigh, in wrinkle of a smile: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.79 | Why sigh you so profoundly? Where's my | Why sigh you so profoundly? wher's my |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.20 | to walk alone, like one that had the pestilence; to sigh, | to walke alone like one that had the pestilence: to sigh, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.ii.10 | Wherein I sigh not, Julia, for thy sake, | Wherein I sigh not (Iulia) for thy sake, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.119 | To that I'll speak, to that I'll sigh and weep; | To that ile speake, to that ile sigh and weepe: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.60 | And she I sigh and spoke of were things innocent, | And shee (I sigh and spoke of) were things innocent, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.41 | divided sigh, martyred as 'twere i'th' deliverance, will | devided sigh, martyrd as twer / I'th deliverance, will |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.43 | it so sweet a rebuke that I could wish myself a sigh to | it so sweete a rebuke, / That I could wish my selfe a Sigh to |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.44 | That sigh was breathed for Emily. Base cousin, | That sigh was breathd for Emily; base Cosen, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.94 | Her bow away and sigh. Take to thy grace | Her Bow away, and sigh: take to thy grace |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.125 | And vow that lover never yet made sigh | And vow that lover never yet made sigh |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.117 | As in a looking-glass; and then to sigh, as 'twere | As in a Looking-Glasse; and then to sigh, as 'twere |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.287 | Of laughing with a sigh? – a note infallible | Of Laughter, with a sigh? (a Note infallible |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.34 | That creep like shadows by him, and do sigh | That creepe like shadowes by him, and do sighe |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.424 | If I may ever know thou dost but sigh | If I may euer know thou dost but sigh, |