| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.134 | And is not like the sire. Honours thrive | And is not like the sire: Honours thriue, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.26 | Bless this unworthy husband? He cannot thrive, | Blesse this vnworthy husband, he cannot thriue, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.328 | Safest in shame; being fooled, by foolery thrive. | Safest in shame: being fool'd, by fool'rie thriue; |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.31 | herself is a good lady and would not have knaves thrive | her selfe is a good Lady, and would not haue knaues thriue |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.iii.11 | Our navy thrive, I have an absolute hope | Our Nauie thriue, I haue an absolute hope |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.iv.9 | We shall thrive now. Seest thou, my good fellow? | we shall thriue now. / Seest thou my good Fellow. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.23.2 | Live and thrive! | Liue, and thriue. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.20 | A sixth, a tenth, letting them thrive again | A sixt, a tenth, letting them thriue againe |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.104 | His comforts thrive, his trials well are spent: | His Comforts thriue, his Trials well are spent: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.294 | Farewell, good brother. We shall thrive, I trust. | Farewell good Brother, we shall thriue, I trust. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iv.36 | For if Lord Percy thrive not, ere the King | For if Lord Percy thriue not, ere the King |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.61 | And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best | And holesome Berryes thriue and ripen best, |
| Henry V | H5 II.chorus.3 | Now thrive the armourers, and honour's thought | Now thriue the Armorers, and Honors thought |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.176 | And so thrive Richard as thy foes may fall! | And so thriue Richard, as thy foes may fall, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.379 | Say that he thrive, as 'tis great like he will, | Say that he thriue, as 'tis great like he will, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iii.14 | If we mean to thrive and do good, break open the | If we meane to thriue, and do good, breake open the |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.17 | As I intend, Clifford, to thrive today, | As I intend Clifford to thriue to day, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.52 | And, if we thrive, promise them such rewards | And if we thriue, promise them such rewards |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.13 | I wish your enterprise today may thrive. | I wish your enterprize to day may thriue. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.16 | He wished today our enterprise might thrive. | He wisht to day our enterprize might thriue: |
| King John | KJ III.i.334 | Grandam, I will not wish thy wishes thrive; | Grandam, I will not wish thy wishes thriue: |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.95 | So thrive it in your game! And so, farewell. | So thriue it in your game, and so farewell. |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.20 | And my invention thrive, Edmund the base | And my inuention thriue, Edmond the base |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.114 | Let copulation thrive; for Gloucester's bastard son | Let Copulation thriue: / For Glousters bastard Son |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.247 | If ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body | If euer thou wilt thriue, bury my bodie, |
| King Lear | KL V.ii.2 | For your good host. Pray that the right may thrive. | For your good hoast: pray that the right may thriue: |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.35.1 | Or thrive by other means. | Or thriue by other meanes. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.534 | And if these four Worthies in their first show thrive, | And if these foure Worthies in their first shew thriue, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.86 | This was a way to thrive, and he was blest, | This was a way to thriue, and he was blest: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.60 | Here do I choose, and thrive I as I may! | Here doe I choose, and thriue I as I may. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.18 | It is a life that I have desired. I will thrive. | It is a life that I haue desir'd: I will thriue. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.69 | We will thrive, lads, we will thrive. | we will thriue (Lads) we will thriue. |
| Othello | Oth I.i.53 | Do well thrive by them; and when they have lined their coats, | Doe well thriue by them. / And when they haue lin'd their Coates |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.125 | How I did thrive in this fair lady's love, | How I did thriue in this faire Ladies loue, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.152 | vails. I hope, sir, if you thrive, you'll remember from | Vailes: I hope sir, if you thriue, you'le remember from |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.84 | Mine innocence and Saint George to thrive! | Mine innocence, and S. George to thriue. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.78 | As I intend to thrive in this new world | As I intend to thriue in this new World, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.98 | Ill mayst thou thrive if thou grant any grace. | |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.11 | So thrive I as I truly swear the like! | So thriue I, as I truly sweare the like. |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.24 | Our former hatred, so thrive I and mine! | Our former hatred, so thriue I, and mine. |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.97 | If you thrive well, bring them to Baynard's Castle, | If you thriue wel, bring them to Baynards Castle, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.236 | Madam, so thrive I in my enterprise | Madam, so thriue I in my enterprize |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.398 | So thrive I in my dangerous affairs | So thriue I in my dangerous Affayres |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.268 | But if I thrive, the gain of my attempt | But if I thriue, the gaine of my attempt, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.153.2 | So thrive my soul – | So thriue my soule. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.55 | Haply to wive and thrive as best I may. | Happily to wiue and thriue, as best I may: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.i.58 | Why should it thrive and turn to nutriment | Why should it thriue, and turne to Nutriment, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.171 | If I thrive well, I'll visit thee again. | if I thriue well, Ile visit thee againe. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.211 | Be thou a flatterer now, and seek to thrive | Be thou a Flatterer now, and seeke to thriue |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.455 | thus advises us, not to have us thrive in our mystery. | thus aduises vs not to haue vs thriue in our mystery. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.536 | And so farewell, and thrive. | And so farewell, and thriue. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.396 | By swaggering could I never thrive, | By swaggering could I neuer thriue, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.9 | But, since thou lovest, love still, and thrive therein, | But since thou lou'st; loue still, and thriue therein, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.27 | And as you wish your womb may thrive with fair ones, | And as you wish your womb may thrive with faire ones, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.113 | 'Twill never thrive else. | Twill never thrive else. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.670 | unjust man doth thrive. What an exchange had this been | vniust man doth thriue. What an exchange had this been, |