| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.81 | But, like a timorous thief, most fain would steal | But like a timorous theefe, most faine would steale |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.129 | For with the dark, poor thief, I'll steal away. | For with the darke (poore theefe) Ile steale away. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.92 | safety: you have been a great thief by sea. | safety: you haue bin a great Theefe by Sea. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.316 | With a thief to the gallows: for though he go | With a theefe to the gallowes : for though hee go |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.16 | What simple thief brags of his own attaint? | What simple thiefe brags of his owne attaine? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.58 | Nay, he's a thief, too. Have you not heard men say |
Nay, he's a theefe too: haue you not heard men say, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.28 | thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience. | theefe of Occasion, will rob you of a great deale of Patience: |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.89 | a cunning thief, or a – that way – accomplished courtier, | A cunning Thiefe, or a (that way) accomplish'd Courtier, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.70 | Which makes the true-man killed, and saves the thief: | Which makes the True-man kill'd, and saues the Theefe: |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.71 | Nay, sometime hangs both thief, and true-man: what | Nay, sometime hangs both Theefe, and True-man: what |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.75 | A law-breaker, a villain: yield thee, thief. | A Law-breaker, a Villaine: yeeld thee Theefe. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.86.2 | Thou injurious thief, | Thou iniurious Theefe, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.211 | Egregious murderer, thief, any thing | Egregious murtherer, Theefe, any thing |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.220 | A sacrilegious thief, to do't. The temple | A sacrilegious Theefe to doo't. The Temple |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.61 | when thou art King hang a thief. | when thou art a King, hang a Theefe. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.136 | Who I? Rob? I a thief? Not I, by my faith. | Who, I rob? I a Theefe? Not I. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.154 | thief, for the poor abuses of the time want countenance. | theefe; for the poore abuses of the time, want countenance. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.95 | false thief. | false Theefe. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.402 | Shall the son of England prove a thief, and take purses? A | Shall the Sonne of England proue a Theefe, and take Purses? a |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.229 | Lie still, ye thief, and hear the lady sing in Welsh. | Lye still ye Theefe, and heare the Lady sing in Welsh. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.186 | find one that can steal well? O for a fine thief of the age | finde one that can steale well? O, for a fine theefe |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.56 | Page) Welcome, my little tiny thief, and welcome indeed, | Welcome my little tyne theefe, and welcome indeed |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.129 | Or foul felonious thief that fleeced poor passengers, | Or foule felonious Theefe, that fleec'd poore passengers, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.32 | And like a thief to come to rob my grounds, | And like a Theefe to come to rob my grounds: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.12 | The thief doth fear each bush an officer. | The Theefe doth feare each bush an Officer, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.64 | To be the gallows of an English thief. | To be the gallowes of an English theefe. |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.23 | Pinion him like a thief; bring him before us. | Pinnion him like a Theefe, bring him before vs: |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.153 | rails upon yon simple thief. Hark in thine ear – change | railes vpon yond simple theefe. Hearke in thine eare: Change |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.155 | the thief? Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a | the theefe: Thou hast seene a Farmers dogge barke at a |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.185 | A true man or a thief that gallops so? | A true man, or a theefe, that gallops so. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.22.1 | Upon a dwarfish thief. | Vpon a dwarfish Theefe. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.20 | May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two | May in the sworne-twelue haue a thiefe, or two |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.14 | take him to be a thief too, sir, for we have found upon | take him to be a Theefe too Sir: for wee haue found vpon |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.40 | Every true man's apparel fits your thief. If it | Euerie true mans apparrell fits your Theefe. If it |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.41 | be too little for your thief, your true man thinks it big | be too little for your theefe, your true man thinkes it bigge |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.42 | enough. If it be too big for your thief, your thief | enough. If it bee too bigge for your Theefe, your Theefe |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.44 | fits your thief. | fits your Theefe. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.40 | That Angelo is an adulterous thief, | That Angelo is an adulterous thiefe, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.84 | search. Why thou loss upon loss! The thief gone with so | search: why thou losse vpon losse, the theefe gone with so |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.85 | much, and so much to find the thief! – And no satisfaction, | much, and so much to finde the theefe, and no satisfaction, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.289 | aqua-vitae bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling gelding, | Aqua-vitae-bottle, or a Theefe to walke my ambling gelding, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.283 | You thief of love! What, have you come by night | You theefe of loue; What, haue you come by night, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.49 | If you meet a thief, you may suspect him, by | If you meet a theefe, you may suspect him, by |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.53 | If we know him to be a thief, shall | If wee know him to be a thiefe, shall |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.57 | way for you, if you do take a thief, is to let him | way for you, if you doe take a theefe, is, to let him |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.121 | seest thou not what a deformed thief this fashion is? | seest thou not what a deformed theefe this fashion is? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.123 | been a vile thief this seven year; 'a goes up and down | bin a vile theefe, this vii. yeares, a goes vp and downe |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.127 | Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief | Seest thou not (I say) what a deformed thiefe |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.57.2 | Down with him, thief! | Downe with him, Theefe. |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.62 | O thou foul thief! Where hast thou stowed my daughter? | Oh thou foule Theefe, / Where hast thou stow'd my Daughter? |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.206 | The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief; | The rob'd that smiles, steales something from the Thiefe, |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.112 | A curse upon him, die he like a thief, | a curse vpon him, die he like a theefe |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.47 | So when this thief, this traitor Bolingbroke, | So when this Theefe, this Traytor Bullingbrooke, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.98 | served thief. | seru'd Theefe. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.46 | But yet I'll bury thee. Thou'lt go, strong thief, | But yet Ile bury thee: Thou't go (strong Theefe) |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.438 | The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction | The Sunnes a Theefe, and with his great attraction |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.439 | Robs the vast sea. The moon's an arrant thief, | Robbes the vaste Sea. The Moones an arrant Theefe, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.441 | The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves | The Seas a Theefe, whose liquid Surge, resolues |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.442 | The moon into salt tears. The earth's a thief, | The Moone into Salt teares. The Earth's a Theefe, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.444 | From general excrement. Each thing's a thief, | From gen'rall excrement: each thing's a Theefe. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.66 | Notable pirate, thou salt-water thief, | Notable Pyrate, thou salt-water Theefe, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.72 | Antonio never yet was thief or pirate; | Anthonio neuer yet was Theefe, or Pyrate, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.116 | Like to th' Egyptian thief at point of death | Like to th'Egyptian theefe, at point of death |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.41 | A very thief in love, a chaffy lord | A very theefe in love, a Chaffy Lord |