| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.113 | bitter touch of sorrow that e'er I heard virgin exclaim | bitter touch of sorrow that ere I heard Virgin exclaime |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.75 | With sprightly fire and motion; whose simple touch | With sprightly fire and motion, whose simple touch |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.111 | That sings with piercing; do not touch my lord. | That sings with piercing, do not touch my Lord: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.24 | Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms, | Touch you the sowrest points with sweetest tearmes, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.246 | that should desire you to touch him, for his biting is | that should desire you to touch him, for his byting is |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.329 | Touch their effects in this. Thyself art coming | Touch their effects in this: Thy selfe art comming |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.134.1 | I will not touch a bit. | I will not touch a bit. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.13 | touch of holy bread. | touch of holy bread. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.111 | That others touch; and often touching will | That others touch, and often touching will, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.125 | That never touch well welcome to thy hand, | That neuer touch well welcome to thy hand, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.139 | How dearly would it touch me to the quick | How deerely would it touch thee to the quicke, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.52 | you Lycurguses – if the drink you give me touch my | you Licurgusses,) if the drinke you giue me, touch my |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.247 | Shall touch the people – which time shall not want, | Shall teach the People, which time shall not want, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.49 | My friends of noble touch; when I am forth, | My Friends of Noble touch: when I am forth, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.66 | I am senseless of your wrath; a touch more rare | I am senselesse of your Wrath; a Touch more rare |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.100 | To bathe my lips upon: this hand, whose touch – | To bathe my lips vpon: this hand, whose touch, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.101 | Whose every touch – would force the feeler's soul | (Whose euery touch) would force the Feelers soule |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.16 | And whiter than the sheets! That I might touch! | And whiter then the Sheetes: that I might touch, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.164 | Alack, no remedy – to the greedy touch | Alacke no remedy) to the greedy touch |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.4 | How deeply you at once do touch me! Innogen, | How deeply you at once do touch me. Imogen, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.78 | Once touch my shoulder. Great the slaughter is | Once touch my shoulder. Great the slaughter is |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.12 | Than your particular demands will touch it. | Then your particular demands will touch it, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.364 | I know no touch of it, my lord. | I know no touch of it, my Lord. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.29 | The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch | The Sun no sooner shall the Mountaines touch, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.145 | That is but scratched withal. I'll touch my point | That is but scratcht withall: Ile touch my point, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.280 | A touch, a touch. I do confess't. | A touch, a touch, I do confesse. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.202 | Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, | Where Fadome-line could neuer touch the ground, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.265 | beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. | beware Instinct, the Lion will not touch the true Prince: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.293 | ran away upon instinct, you will not touch the true | ranne away vpon instinct: you will not touch the true |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iv.10 | Must bide the touch. For, sir, at Shrewsbury, | Must bide the touch. For Sir, at Shrewsbury, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.17 | Thus do the hopes we have in him touch ground | Thus do the hopes we haue in him, touch ground, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.55 | Touch her soft mouth, and march. | Touch her soft mouth, and march. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.47 | A little touch of Harry in the night. | A little touch of Harry in the Night, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.273 | more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the | more eloquence in a Sugar touch of them, then in the |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.39 | O, tell me when my lips do touch his cheeks, | Oh tell me when my Lippes doe touch his Cheekes, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.47 | For I will touch thee but with reverent hands; | For I will touch thee but with reuerend hands, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.227 | Ready to starve, and dare not touch his own. | Ready to sterue, and dare not touch his owne. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.47 | Their touch affrights me as a serpent's sting. | Their touch affrights me as a Serpents sting. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.325 | Their softest touch as smart as lizards' stings! | Their softest Touch, as smart as Lyzards stings: |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.52 | Touch me alike; they're breath I not believe in. | Touch me alike: th'are breath I not beleeue in. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.155.1 | Or touch of her good person? | Or touch of her good Person? |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.13 | Some touch of your late business. Affairs that walk, | Some touch of your late businesse: Affaires that walke |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.7 | To touch Calphurnia; for our elders say, | To touch Calphurnia: for our Elders say, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.255 | And touch thy instrument a strain or two? | And touch thy Instrument a straine or two. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.76 | For if the touch of sweet concordant strings | For if the touch of sweet concordant strlngs, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.56 | Go, bid the drummer learn to touch the lute, | Go bid the drummer learne to touch the Lute, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.29 | How gently had we thought to touch thy breast | How gently had we thought to touch thy brest, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.141 | That your intended force must bide the touch. | That your intended force must bide the touch, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.33 | The lion scorns to touch the yielding prey, | The Lion scornes to touch the yeelding pray, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.160 | Maybe he will not touch young Arthur's life, | May be he will not touch yong Arthurs life, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.121 | Well, see to live. I will not touch thine eye | Well, see to liue: I will not touch thine eye, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.271 | To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger, | To beare it tamely: touch me with Noble anger, |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.23 | Might I but live to see thee in my touch | Might I but liue to see thee in my touch, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.83 | No, they cannot touch me for coining.; I am the | No, they cannot touch me for crying. I am the |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.39 | And one day in a week to touch no food, | And one day in a weeke to touch no foode: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.322 | Never durst poet touch a pen to write | Neuer durst Poet touch a pen to write, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.56 | sweet touch, a quick venue of wit! Snip, snap, quick | sweet tutch, a quicke venewe of wit, snip snap, quick |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.26.1 | Can touch him further. | Can touch him further. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.9 | He wants the natural touch; for the poor wren, | He wants the naturall touch. For the poore Wren |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.143 | The great assay of art; but at his touch, | The great assay of Art. But at his touch, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.70.2 | Ay, touch him; there's the vein. | I, touch him: there's the veine. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.180 | habit no loss shall touch her by my company. | habit, no losse shall touch her by my company. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iv.25 | That no particular scandal once can touch | That no particular scandall once can touch |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.141 | Who is as free from touch or soil with her | Who is as free from touch, or soyle with her |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.270 | And not one vessel scape the dreadful touch | And not one vessell scape the dreadfull touch |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.76 | Or any air of music touch their ears, | Or any ayre of musicke touch their eares, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.84 | With trial-fire touch me his finger-end. | With Triall-fire touch me his finger end: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.70 | And hast thou killed him sleeping? O, brave touch! | And hast thou kill'd him sleeping? O braue tutch: |
| 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 III.iii.56 | they that touch pitch will be defiled. The most peaceable | they that touch pitch will be defil'd: the most peaceable |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.140 | Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, | Rough Quarries, Rocks, Hills, whose head touch heauen, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.214.2 | Touch me not so near. | Touch me not so neere, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.81 | Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed | Wherein I meane to touch your Loue indeed, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.197 | to offend, for if it touch not you, it comes near | to offend, for if it touch not you, it comes neere |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.83 | From any other foul unlawful touch, | From any other foule vnlawfull touch |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.37 | to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip. | to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip. |
| 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.88 | Prince Pericles, touch not, upon thy life, | Prince Pericles, touch not, vpon thy life; |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.43 | Or daring-hardy as to touch the lists | Or daring hardie as to touch the Listes, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.165 | That knows no touch to tune the harmony. | That knowes no touch to tune the harmony. |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.288 | And shortly mean to touch our northern shore. | And shortly meane to touch our Northerne shore: |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.90 | Dared once to touch a dust of England's ground? | Dar'd once to touch a Dust of Englands Ground? |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.21 | Whose double tongue may with a mortal touch | Whose double tongue may with a mortall touch |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.71 | No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. | No Beast so fierce, but knowes some touch of pitty. |
| Richard III | R3 II.iii.26 | Will touch us all too near, if God prevent not. | Will touch vs all too neere, if God preuent not. |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.25 | To touch his growth nearer than he touched mine. | To touch his growth, neerer then he toucht mine. |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.92 | But touch this sparingly, as 'twere far off, | Yet touch this sparingly, as 'twere farre off, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.8 | Ah, Buckingham, now do I play the touch, | Ah Buckingham, now doe I play the Touch, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.158 | Madam, I have a touch of your condition | Madam, I haue a touch of your condition, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.96 | To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. | To smooth that rough touch, with a tender kisse. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.99 | For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, | For Saints haue hands, that Pilgrims hands do tuch, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.25.1 | That I might touch that cheek! | That I might touch that cheeke. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.62 | Madam, before you touch the instrument | Madam, before you touch the instrument, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.232 | And here she stands. Touch her whoever dare! | And heere she stands, touch her who euer dare, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.237 | Fear not, sweet wench, they shall not touch thee, Kate. | Feare not sweet wench, they shall not touch thee Kate, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.83 | legs, and not presume to touch a hair of my master's | legges, and not presume to touch a haire of my Masters |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.157 | And I expressly am forbid to touch it, | And I expressely am forbid to touch it: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.46 | And so shall mine before you touch the meat. | And so shall mine before you touch the meate. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.144 | Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it. | Will daigne to sip, or touch one drop of it. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.98 | Stephano! If thou beest Stephano, touch me | Stephano: if thou beest Stephano, touch me, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.21 | Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling | Hast thou (which art but aire) a touch, a feeling |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.286 | O, touch me not! I am not Stephano, but a | O touch me not, I am not Stephano, but a |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.14 | If he will touch the estimate. But for that – | If he will touch the estimate. But for that--- |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.37.1 | Here is a touch. Is't good? | Heere is a touch: Is't good? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.124 | Taste, touch, smell, all pleased from thy table rise; | tast, touch all pleas'd from thy Table rise: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.5 | Scarce is dividant – touch them with several fortunes, | Scarse is diuidant; touch them with seuerall fortunes, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.391 | To every purpose! O thou touch of hearts! | To euerie purpose: O thou touch of hearts, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.49 | Touch not the boy, he is of royal blood. | Touch not the Boy, he is of Royall blood. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.304 | Fair Lord Aeneas, let me touch your hand; | Faire Lord Aneas, / Let me touch your hand: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.175 | One touch of nature makes the whole world kin, | One touch of nature makes the whole world kin: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.96 | I know no touch of consanguinity, | I know no touch of consanguinitie: |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.10 | extravagancy. But I perceive in you so excellent a touch | extrauagancie. But I perceiue in you so excellent a touch |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.152 | touch Fortune's fingers. Farewell. She that would alter | touch Fortunes fingers Farewell, Shee that would alter |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.18 | Didst thou but know the inly touch of love, | Didst thou but know the inly touch of Loue, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.60 | That touch me near, wherein thou must be secret. | That touch me neere: wherein thou must be secret. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.79 | Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones, | Whose golden touch could soften steele and stones; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.60 | Ruffian, let go that rude uncivil touch; | Ruffian: let goe that rude vnciuill touch, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.131 | Take but possession of her with a touch – | Take but possession of her, with a Touch: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.97 | But touch the ground for us no longer time | But touch the ground for us no longer time |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.139 | Subdue before they touch. Think, dear Duke, think | Subdue before they touch, thinke, deere Duke thinke |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.41 | Keep touch, do you think? For he does all, ye know. | keep touch / Doe you thinke: for he do's all ye know. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.53.2 | If he keep touch, he dies for't. | If he keepe touch, he dies for't. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.295 | By fair and knightly strength to touch the pillar, | By fayre and knightly strength to touch the Pillar, |