| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.69 | Fall not a tear, I say; one of them rates | Fall not a teare I say, one of them rates |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.117 | If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear, | If euer from your eye-lids wip'd a teare, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.133 | Ah, do not tear away thyself from me; | Ah doe not teare away thy selfe from me; |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.145 | And tear the stained skin off my harlot brow, | And teare the stain'd skin of my Harlot brow, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.65 | did so set his teeth and tear it. O, I warrant, how he | did so set his teeth, and teare it. Oh, I warrant how he |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.151 | To tear with thunder the wide cheeks o'th' air, | To teare with Thunder the wide Cheekes a'th' Ayre, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.53 | Whose children he hath slain, their base throats tear | Whose children he hath slaine, their base throats teare |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.121 | Tear him to pieces! – Do it presently! | Teare him to peeces, do it presently: |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.147 | O, that I had her here, to tear her limb-meal! | O that I had her heere, to teare her Limb-meale: |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.61 | Did scandal many a holy tear, took pity | Did scandall many a holy teare: tooke pitty |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.9 | hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to | see a robustious Pery-wig-pated Fellow, teare a Passion to |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.168 | And in his grave rained many a tear – | And on his graue raines many a teare, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.271 | Woo't weep? Woo't fight? Woo't fast? Woo't tear thyself? | Woo't weepe? Woo't fight? Woo't teare thy selfe? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.152 | Or I will tear the reckoning from his heart. | Or I will teare the Reckoning from his Heart. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.150 | could tear her! I'll be revenged of her. | could teare her: Ile be reueng'd on her. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.31 | He hath a tear for pity, and a hand | Hee hath a Teare for Pitie, and a Hand |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.40 | The walls they'll tear down than forsake the siege. | The Walls they'le teare downe, then forsake the Siege. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.28 | Or tear the lions out of England's coat; | Or teare the Lyons out of Englands Coat; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.15 | To tear the Garter from thy craven's leg, | To teare the Garter from thy Crauens legge, |
| 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 III.ii.246 | They will by violence tear him from your palace | They will by violence teare him from your Pallace, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.114 | Father, tear the crown from the usurper's head. | Father teare the Crowne from the Vsurpers Head. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.88 | That not a tear can fall for Rutland's death? | That not a Teare can fall, for Rutlands death? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.76 | Weep, wretched man; I'll aid thee tear for tear; | Weepe wretched man: Ile ayde thee Teare for Teare, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.21 | Ay, ay, for this I draw in many a tear | I, I, for this I draw in many a teare, |
| Henry VIII | H8 prologue.6 | May, if they think it well, let fall a tear; | May (if they thinke it well) let fall a Teare, |
| 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.iii.28 | Tear him to pieces! He's a conspirator. | Teare him to peeces, hee's a Conspirator. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.iii.30 | Tear him for his bad verses, tear him | Teare him for his bad verses, teare him |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.iii.35 | Tear him, tear him! | Teare him, tear him; |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.100 | He chance to tear him piecemeal for his pride. | He chaunce to teare him peecemeale for his pride. |
| King John | KJ III.iv.45 | I am not mad. This hair I tear is mine. | I am not mad: this haire I teare is mine, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.15 | Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand | Is it not as this mouth should teare this hand |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.65 | They are apt enough to dislocate and tear | |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.12 | And now and then an ample tear trilled down | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.31 | Thou shinest in every tear that I do weep; | Thou shin'st in euery teare that I doe weepe, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.55 | These numbers will I tear, and write in prose. | These numbers will I teare, and write in prose. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.198 | How now, what is in you? Why dost thou tear it? | How now, what is in you? why dost thou tear it? |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.49 | Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond | Cancell and teare to pieces that great Bond, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.12 | In pious rage – the two delinquents tear, | In pious rage, the two delinquents teare, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.231 | Take thrice thy money, bid me tear the bond. | Take thrice thy money, bid me teare the bond. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.26 | Ercles rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to make all split: | Ercles rarely, or a part to teare a Cat in, to make all split |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.286 | No touch of bashfulness? What, will you tear | No touch of bashfulnesse? What, will you teare |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.189 | These hands shall tear her; if they wrong her honour, | These hands shall teare her: If they wrong her honour, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.428.2 | I'll tear her all to pieces! | Ile teare her all to peeces. |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.192 | Or sound so base a parle, my teeth shall tear | Or sound so base a parle: my teeth shall teare |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.59 | O, let no noble eye profane a tear | Oh let no noble eye prophane a teare |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.9 | Did grace our hollow parting with a tear. | Did grace our hollow parting with a teare. |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.138 | Except like curs to tear us all to pieces. | Except like Curres, to teare vs all in peeces: |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.23 | And never borrow any tear of thee. | And neuer borrow any Teare of thee. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.104 | Here did she fall a tear. Here in this place | Heere did she drop a teare, heere in this place |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.20 | May tear a passage through the flinty ribs | May teare a passage through the Flinty ribbes |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.155 | These eyes, which never shed remorseful tear – | These eyes, which neuer shed remorsefull teare, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.164 | My manly eyes did scorn an humble tear; | My manly eyes did scorne an humble teare: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.57 | Had I it written, I would tear the word. | Had I it written, I would teare the word. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.161 | Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies, | Else would I teare the Caue where Eccho lies, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.72 | Of an old tear that is not washed off yet. | Of an old teare that is not washt off yet. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.69 | Then mightst thou speak; then mightst thou tear thy hair, | Then mightest thou speake, / Then mightest thou teare thy hayre, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.35 | By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint | By heauen I will teare thee ioynt by ioynt, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.100 | Tear me, take me, and the gods fall upon you! | Teare me, take me, and the Gods fall vpon you. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.140 | Thy napkin cannot drink a tear of mine, | Thy napkin cannot drinke a teare of mine, |
| 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.ii.47 | Stab them, or tear them on thy chariot wheels, | Stab them, or teare them on thy Chariot wheeles, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.155 | Tear for tear and loving kiss for kiss, | Teare for teare, and louing kisse for kisse, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.9 | But I am weaker than a woman's tear, | But I am weaker then a womans teare; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.106 | Tear my bright hair, and scratch my praised cheeks; | Teare my bright heire, and scratch my praised cheekes, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.125 | Him will I tear out of that cruel eye | Him will I teare out of that cruell eye, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.105 | O, hateful hands, to tear such loving words. | Oh hatefull hands, to teare such louing words; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.125 | To the sweet Julia. That I'll tear away; | To the sweet Iulia: that ile teare away: |
| 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 II.iii.29 | makes. Now the dog all this while sheds not a tear, nor | makes: now the dogge all this while sheds not a teare: nor |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.128 | As easily as I do tear his paper. | As easily as I doe teare his paper. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.137 | I see one eye of yours conceives a tear, | I see one eye of yours conceives a teare |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.12 | almost, with staring on one another, to tear the cases of | almost, with staring on one another, to teare the Cases of |