| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.89 | May spend our wonder too, or take off thine | May spend our wonder too, or take off thine |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.i.8 | If he would spend his power. God save you, sir! | If he would spend his power. God saue you sir. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.vi.10 | That Antony may seem to spend his fury | That Anthony may seeme to spend his Fury |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.9 | To spend upon his haters. If thou please | To spend vpon his haters. If thou please |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.301 | He'll make demand of her, and spend that kiss | Hee'l make demand of her, and spend that kisse |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.50 | What I think I utter, and spend my malice in my breath. | What I think, I vtter, and spend my malice in my breath. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.127.1 | To spend the time to end it. | To spend the time, to end it. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.67 | How you can frown, than spend a fawn upon 'em | How you can frowne, then spend a fawne vpon 'em, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.i.5 | oaths of him, and might not spend them at my | oathes of him, and might not spend them at my |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.81 | On either side I come to spend my breath, | On eyther side I come to spend my breath; |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.63 | And thy best graces spend it at thy will. | And thy best graces spend it at thy will: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.55 | At Holmedon met, where they did spend | At Holmeden met, where they did spend |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.54 | A sweet reversion – we may boldly spend | a sweet reuersion. / We may boldly spend, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.82 | To spend that shortness basely were too long | To spend that shortnesse basely, were too long. |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.70 | Most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten | Most spend their mouths, whẽ what they seem to threaten |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.24 | We may as bootless spend our vain command | We may as bootlesse spend our vaine Command |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.16 | And he may well in fretting spend his gall; | And he may well in fretting spend his gall, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.38 | And in his bosom spend my latter gasp. | And in his Bosome spend my latter gaspe. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.76 | What? Did my brother Henry spend his youth, | What? did my brother Henry spend his youth, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.27 | On sheep or oxen could I spend my fury. | On Sheepe or Oxen could I spend my furie. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.21 | And spend her strength with overmatching waves. | And spend her strength with ouer-matching Waues. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.43 | And in devotion spend my latter days, | And in deuotion spend my latter dayes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.57 | And men ne'er spend their fury on a child. | And Men, ne're spend their fury on a Childe. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vii.42 | And now what rests but that we spend the time | And now what rests, but that we spend the time |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.167 | Or in a rightful quarrel spend my breath. | Or in a rightfull quarrel spend my breath, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.117 | Play, spend, give, riot, waste, do what thou wilt, | Play, spend, giue, ryot, wast, do what thou wilt, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.8 | And not to spend the time in circumstance, | And not to spend the time in circumstaunce, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.15 | Spendthrifts, and such that gape for nothing else | Spend thrifts, and such as gape for nothing else, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.16 | Ay, so the grasshopper doth spend the time | I so the Grashopper doth spend the time, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.123 | That is so prodigal to spend your lives? | That is so prodigall to spend your liues? |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.138 | These English fain would spend the time in words, | These English faine would spend the time in wodrs, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.39 | And not to spend it so unneighbourly! | And not to spend it so vn-neighbourly. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.145 | How will he scorn, how will he spend his wit! | How will he scorne? how will he spend his wit? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.180 | Or groan for Joan? Or spend a minute's time | Or grone for Ioane? or spend a minutes time, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.64 | And spend his prodigal wits in bootless rhymes, | And spend his prodigall wits in booteles rimes. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.198 | We number nothing that we spend for you. | We number nothing that we spend for you, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.811 | | Hence euer then, my heart is in thy brest. / Ber. And what to me my Loue? and what to me? / Ros. You must be purged too, your sins are rack'd. / You are attaint with faults and periurie: / Therefore if you my fauor meane to get, / A tweluemonth shall you spend, and neuer rest, / But seeke the wearie beds of people sicke. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.23 | We would spend it in some words upon that business, | We would spend it in some words vpon that Businesse, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.v.20 | I am for the air; this night I'll spend | I am for th' Ayre: This night Ile spend |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.890.1 | And that I'll spend for him. | and that Ile spend for him. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.99 | We shall not spend a large expense of time | We shall not spend a large expence of time, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.153 | You know me well, and herein spend but time | You know me well, and herein spend but time |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.223 | Believe it, for you know it. There is money. Spend | Beleeue it, for you know it: there is money, spend |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.224 | it, spend it; spend more; spend all I have. Only give me | it, spend it, spend more; spend all I haue, onely giue me |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.74 | You spend your passion on a misprised mood. | You spend your passion on a mispris'd mood, |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.48 | I will but spend a word here in the house, | I will but spend a word here in the house, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.297 | To spend with thee. We must obey the time. | To spend with thee. We must obey the the time. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.189 | And spend your rich opinion for the name | And spend your rich opinion, for the name |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.51 | And in your search spend your adventurous worth. | And in your search, spend your aduenturous worth, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.131 | Boult, spend thou that in the town. Report what a | Boult, spend thou that in the towne: report what a |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.81 | Will in that kingdom spend our following days. | will in that kingdome spend our following daies, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.219 | For ere the six years that he hath to spend | For ere the sixe yeares that he hath to spend |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.180 | Did win what he did spend, and spent not that | Did win what he did spend: and spent not that |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.67 | An he shall spend mine honour with his shame, | And he shall spend mine Honour, with his Shame; |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.5 | I would not spend another such a night | I would not spend another such a night |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.61 | my son and my servant spend all at the university. | my sonne and my seruant spend all at the vniuersitie. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.134 | And spend our flatteries to drink those men | And spend our Flatteries, to drinke those men, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.i.26 | him of purpose to have him spend less. And yet he | him of purpose, to haue him spend lesse, and yet he |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.57 | I have no more to reckon, he to spend. | I haue no more to reckon, he to spend. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.87 | spend his mouth, and promise, like Brabbler the | spend his mouth & promise, like Brabler the |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.272 | I thank you for your pains. Spend this for me. | I thanke you for your paines: spend this for mee. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.5 | Would suffer him to spend his youth at home, | Would suffer him, to spend his youth at home, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.14 | To let him spend his time no more at home, | To let him spend his time no more at home; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.66 | I am resolved that thou shalt spend some time | I am resolu'd, that thou shalt spend some time |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.39 | Sir, if you spend word for word with me, I shall | Sir, if you spend word for word with me, I shall |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.78 | And here he means to spend his time awhile. | And heere he meanes to spend his time a while, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.101 | Even for this time I spend in talking to thee. | Euen for this time I spend in talking to thee. |