| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.143 | idle, made of self-love which is the most inhibited sin in | ydle, made of selfe-loue, which is the most inhibited sinne in |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.174 | That in their kind they speak it; only sin | That in their kinde they speake it, onely sinne |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.47 | Where both not sin, and yet a sinful fact. | Where both not sinne, and yet a sinfull fact. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.75 | Only, in this disguise, I think't no sin | Onely in this disguise, I think't no sinne, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.79 | Become a dog that's mad; then is it sin | Become a Dogge that's mad: Then is it sinne, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.64 | Most mischievous foul sin, in chiding sin: | Most mischeeuous foule sin, in chiding sin: |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.41 | is sin, and sin is damnation. Thou art in a parlous | is sin, and sinne is damnation: Thou art in a parlous |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.74 | That is another simple sin in you, to bring | That is another simple sinne in you, to bring |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.102 | And many suchlike liberties of sin. | And manie such like liberties of sinne: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.14 | Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint; | Teach sinne the carriage of a holy Saint, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.52 | A sin prevailing much in youthful men, | A sinne preuailing much in youthfull men, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.228 | I sin in envying his nobility, | I sinne in enuying his Nobility: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.68 | As it were sin to doubt – that love this painting | (As it were sinne to doubt) that loue this painting |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iii.25 | If it be a sin to make a true election, she | If it be a sin to make a true election, she |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.98 | To leave you in your madness, 'twere my sin, | To leaue you in your madnesse, 'twere my sin, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.110.2 | You sin against | You sinne against |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.19 | If it be sin to say so, sir, I yoke me | If it be sinne to say so (Sir) I yoake mee |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.36 | But by example – O, a sin in war, | But by example (Oh a sinne in Warre, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.76 | Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, | Cut off euen in the Blossomes of my Sinne, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.352 | sides, and the nation holds it no sin to tarre them to | sides: and the Nation holds it no sinne, to tarre them to |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.77 | Yea, there thou makest me sad, and makest me sin | Yea, there thou mak'st me sad, & mak'st me sin, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.104 | Why Hal, 'tis my vocation, Hal. 'Tis no sin | Why, Hal, 'tis my Vocation Hal: 'Tis no sin |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.237 | I'll be no longer guilty of this sin. This | Ile be no longer guiltie of this sinne. This |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.458 | sin, then many an old host that I know is damned. If to be | sinne, then many an olde Hoste that I know, is damn'd: if to be |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.149 | valour bear the sin upon their own heads. I'll take it | Valour, beare the sinne vpon their owne heads. Ile take't |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.95 | Thou shakest thy head, and holdest it fear or sin | Thou shak'st thy head, and hold'st it Feare, or Sinne, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.98 | And he doth sin that doth belie the dead, | And he doth sinne that doth belye the dead: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.72 | ‘ The time will come that foul sin, gathering head, | The Time will come, that foule Sinne gathering head, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.32 | As pure as sin with baptism. | As pure as sinne with Baptisme. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.97 | The sin upon my head, dread sovereign! | The sinne vpon my head, dread Soueraigne: |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.74 | Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin | Selfe-loue, my Liege, is not so vile a sinne, |
| Henry V | H5 III.iv.33 | De sin. Le col, de nick; le menton, de sin. | De Sin: le col de Nick, le menton de Sin. |
| Henry V | H5 III.iv.45 | Ainsi dis-je: d'elbow, de nick, et de sin. | Ainsi de ie d' Elbow, de Nick, & de Sin: |
| Henry V | H5 III.iv.55 | nick, de sin, de foot, le count. | Nick, de Sin, de Foot, le Count. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.177 | was gained; and in him that escapes, it were not sin to | was gayned: and in him that escapes, it were not sinne to |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.28 | But if it be a sin to covet honour, | But if it be a sinne to couet Honor, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.35 | Thou that givest whores indulgences to sin. | Thou that giu'st Whores Indulgences to sinne, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.129 | That malice was a great and grievous sin; | That Mallice was a great and grieuous sinne: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.25 | So should I give consent to flatter sin. | So should I giue consent to flatter sinne, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.69 | Although by his sight his sin be multiplied. | Although by his sight his sinne be multiplyed. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.131 | Murder indeed, that bloody sin, I tortured | Murther indeede, that bloodie sinne, I tortur'd |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.26 | Then is sin struck down like an ox, and iniquity's | Then is sin strucke downe like an Oxe, and iniquities |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.182 | It is great sin to swear unto a sin, | It is great sinne, to sweare vnto a sinne: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.183 | But greater sin to keep a sinful oath. | But greater sinne to keepe a sinfull oath: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.89 | But do not break your oaths; for of that sin | But do not breake your Oathes, for of that sinne, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.76 | 'Twas sin before, but now 'tis charity. | 'Twas Sin before, but now 'tis Charity. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.3 | 'Tis sin to flatter; ‘ good ’ was little better. | Tis sinne to flatter, Good was little better: |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.60 | Sparing would show a worse sin than ill doctrine. | Sparing would shew a worse sinne, then ill Doctrine, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.49 | The willing'st sin I ever yet committed | The willing'st sinne I euer yet committed, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.255 | Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing land | (Thou Scarlet sinne) robb'd this bewailing Land |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.441 | By that sin fell the angels. How can man then, | By that sinne fell the Angels: how can man then |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.56 | Which was a sin – yet in bestowing, madam, | (Which was a sinne) yet in bestowing, Madam, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.113 | For sin, though sin, would not be so esteemed, | For sinne though synne would not be so esteemd, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.114 | But rather, virtue sin, sin virtue deemed. | But rather vertue sin, synne vertue deemd, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.365 | But not his kingdom can buy out the sin; | But not his kingdome can buy out the sinne; |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.411 | Apparelled sin in virtuous sentences, | Apparraled sin, in vertuous sentences, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.423 | Why then, give sin a passport to offend | Why then giue sinne a pasport to offend, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.442 | That sin doth ten times aggravate itself, | That sinne doth ten times agreuate it selfe, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.445 | Is sin and subornation; deck an ape | Is sin and subbornation: Decke an Ape |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.453 | And every glory that inclines to sin, | And euery glory that inclynes to sin, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.112 | The sin is more to hack and hew poor men, | The sin is more to hacke and hew poore men, |
| King John | KJ I.i.275 | If thou hadst said him nay, it had been sin. | If thou hadst sayd him nay, it had beene sinne; |
| King John | KJ II.i.184 | That he is not only plagued for her sin, | That he is not onely plagued for her sin, |
| King John | KJ II.i.185 | But God hath made her sin and her the plague | But God hath made her sinne and her, the plague |
| King John | KJ II.i.187 | And with her plague; her sin his injury, | And with her plague her sinne: his iniury |
| King John | KJ II.i.188 | Her injury the beadle to her sin, | Her iniurie the Beadle to her sinne, |
| King John | KJ II.i.283 | Then God forgive the sin of all those souls | Then God forgiue the sinne of all those soules, |
| 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 IV.ii.238 | And didst in signs again parley with sin; | And didst in signes againe parley with sinne, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.54 | To the yet-unbegotten sin of times, | To the yet vnbegotten sinne of times; |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.113 | For I am stifled with this smell of sin. | For I am stifled with this smell of sinne. |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.135 | If I in act, consent, or sin of thought | If I in act, consent, or sinne of thought, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.105 | 'Tis deadly sin to keep that oath, my lord, | 'Tis deadly sinne to keepe that oath my Lord, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.106 | And sin to break it. | And sinne to breake it: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.113 | Do not call it sin in me, | Doe not call it sinne in me, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.175 | I that am honest, I that hold it sin | I that am honest, I that hold it sinne |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.770 | And even that falsehood, in itself a sin, | And euen that falshood in it selfe a sinne, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iv.16 | The sin of my ingratitude even now | The sinne of my Ingratitude euen now |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.59 | Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin | Sodaine, Malicious, smacking of euery sinne |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.31 | I would not, though 'tis my familiar sin | I would not, though 'tis my familiar sin, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.38 | Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: | Some rise by sinne, and some by vertue fall: |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.183 | To sin in loving virtue. Never could the strumpet | To sinne, in louing vertue: neuer could the Strumpet |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iii.19 | Repent you, fair one, of the sin you carry? | Repent you (faire one) of the sin you carry? |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iii.28 | Then was your sin of heavier kind than his. | Then was your sin of heauier kinde then his. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iii.31 | As that the sin hath brought you to this shame, | As that the sin hath brought you to this shame, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.63 | Might there not be a charity in sin | Might there not be a charitie in sinne, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.66 | It is no sin at all, but charity. | It is no sinne at all, but charitie. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.68 | Were equal poise of sin and charity. | Were equall poize of sinne, and charitie. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.69 | That I do beg his life, if it be sin, | That I do beg his life, if it be sinne |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.71 | If that be sin, I'll make it my morn prayer | If that be sin, Ile make it my Morne-praier, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.113 | When he would force it? Sure it is no sin, | When he would force it? Sure it is no sinne, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.137 | What sin you do to save a brother's life, | What sinne you do, to saue a brothers life, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.28 | Nay, if the devil have given thee proofs for sin, | Nay, if the diuell haue giuen thee proofs for sin |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.72 | To bring you thus together, 'tis no sin, | To bring you thus together 'tis no sinne, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.105 | This is his pardon, purchased by such sin | This is his Pardon purchas'd by such sin, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.54 | man. In truth, I know it is a sin to be a mocker, but he, | man, in truth I know it is a sinne to be a mocker, but he, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iii.16 | Alack, what heinous sin is it in me | Alacke, what hainous sinne is it in me |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.13 | But if you do, you'll make me wish a sin, | But if you doe, youle make me wish a sinne, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.45 | Mistress Ford. Now shall I sin in my wish: I would thy | (Mist.Ford) now shall I sin in my wish; I would thy |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.57 | truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred. | truly I hold it a sinne to match in my kinred. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.237 | and people sin upon purpose, because they would | and people sinne vpon purpose, because they would |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.34 | Can cunning sin cover itself withal! | Can cunning sinne couer it selfe withall! |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.48 | And so extenuate the 'forehand sin. | And so extenuate the forehand sinne: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.171 | A sin of perjury; she not denies it: | A sinne of periury, she not denies it: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.261 | Can lay upon my sin; yet sinned I not | Can lay vpon my sinne, yet sinn'd I not, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.284 | I stand accountant for as great a sin – | I stand accomptant for as great a sin) |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.197 | And to defend ourselves it be a sin | And to defend our selues, it be a sinne |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.334 | All seals and symbols of redeemed sin, | All Seales, and Simbols of redeemed sin: |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.69 | Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed? | Alas, what ignorant sin haue I committed? |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.53 | Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin; | Therefore confesse thee freely of thy sinne: |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.I.30 | Was with long use accounted no sin. | Was with long vse, account'd no sinne; |
| Pericles | Per I.i.81 | That, knowing sin within, will touch the gate. | That knowing sinne within, will touch the gate. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.122 | How courtesy would seem to cover sin, | How courtesie would seeme to couer sinne, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.138 | One sin, I know, another doth provoke. | One sinne (I know) another doth prouoke; |
| Pericles | Per I.i.140 | Poison and treason are the hands of sin, | Poyson and Treason are the hands of Sinne, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.147 | Nor tell the world Antiochus doth sin | Nor tell the world Antiochus doth sinne |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.39 | For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; | For flatterie is the bellowes blowes vp sinne, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.II.23 | How Thaliard came full bent with sin | How Thaliart came full bent with sinne, |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.15 | To bar heaven's shaft, but sin had his reward. | to barre heauens shaft, / But sinne had his reward. |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.187 | O God defend my soul from such deep sin! | Oh heauen defend my soule from such foule sin. |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.53 | But self-affrighted, tremble at his sin. | But selfe-affrighted, tremble at his sinne. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.241 | And water cannot wash away your sin. | And Water cannot wash away your sinne. |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.58 | More than it is ere foul sin, gathering head, | More then it is, ere foule sinne, gathering head, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.81 | I know she is come to pray for your foul sin. | I know she's come, to pray for your foule sin. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.292 | Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him, | Sinne, death, and hell haue set their markes on him, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.217 | For in that sin he is as deep as I. | For in that sinne, he is as deepe as I. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.43 | Would I be guilty of so deep a sin. | Would I be guiltie of so great a sinne. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.63 | So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin. | So farre in blood, that sinne will pluck on sinne, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.59 | To strike him dead I hold it not a sin. | To strike him dead I hold it not a sin. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.94 | This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this. | This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.107 | Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purged. | Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purg'd. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.108 | Then have my lips the sin that they have took. | Then haue my lips the sin that they haue tooke. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.109 | Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! | Sin from my lips? O trespasse sweetly vrg'd: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.110.1 | Give me my sin again. | Giue me my sin againe. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.40 | God pardon sin! Wast thou with Rosaline? | God pardon sin: wast thou with Rosaline? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.24 | O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness! | O deadly sin, O rude vnthankefulnesse! |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.39 | Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin. | Still blush, as thinking their owne kisses sin. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.237 | Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn, | It is more sin to wish me thus forsworne, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.17 | Where I have learned me to repent the sin | Where I haue learnt me to repent the sin |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.5 | Which, well thou knowest, is cross and full of sin. | Which well thou know'st, is crosse and full of sin. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.62 | Put not another sin upon my head | Put not an other sin vpon my head, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.118.2 | I should sin | I should sinne |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.54 | You are three men of sin, whom destiny – | You are three men of sinne, whom destiny |
| 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.245 | thou wouldst sin the faster. Thou givest so long, Timon, | thou wouldst sinne the faster. Thou giu'st so long Timon |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.3 | Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. | Nothing imboldens sinne so much, as Mercy. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.69 | He's a sworn rioter; he has a sin | He's a sworne Riotor, he has a sinne |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.ii.39 | When man's worst sin is he does too much good. | When mans worst sinne is, He do's too much Good. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.39 | Then do we sin against our own estate, | Then do we sinne against our owne estate, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.451 | Which Rome reputes to be a heinous sin, | Which Rome reputes to be a hainous sinne. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.63 | That left the camp to sin in Lucrece' bed? | That left the Campe to sinne in Lucrece bed. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.121 | We came to speak with him, and you shall not sin | We came to speake with him; and you shall not sinne, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.80 | Which, I beseech you, call a virtuous sin – | Which I beseech you call a vertuous sinne: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.44 | sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue. If | sinne, and sin that amends, is but patcht with vertue. If |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.44 | my desire of having is the sin of covetousness. But as | my desire of hauing is the sinne of couetousnesse: but as |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.160 | Where sin is justice, lust and ignorance | Where sin is Iustice, lust, and ignorance, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.283 | Than this; which to reiterate were sin | Then this; which to reiterate, were sin |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.171 | So sacred as it is, I have done sin: | (So sacred as it is) I haue done sinne, |