| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.200 | Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke and made | Which to the tune of Flutes kept stroke, and made |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.216 | Ballad us out o' tune. The quick comedians | Ballads vs out a Tune. The quicke Comedians |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.241 | bringest me out of tune. | bring'st me out of tune. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.ii.8 | Sing it. 'Tis no matter how it be in tune, so it | Sing it: 'tis no matter how it bee in tune, so it |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iii.13 | I'faith, i'faith; and both in a tune, like | I faith, y'faith, and both in a tune like |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.84 | Pray you now, if it may stand with the tune | Pray you now, if it may stand with the tune |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.13 | Come on, tune: if you can penetrate her with your | Come on, tune: If you can penetrate her with your |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.241 | For notes of sorrow out of tune are worse | For Notes of sorrow, out of tune, are worse |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.238.2 | The tune of Innogen! | The tune of Imogen. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.467 | The fingers of the powers above do tune | The fingers of the Powres aboue, do tune |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.159 | Like sweet bells jangled, out of time and harsh, | Like sweet Bels iangled out of tune, and harsh, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.186 | know the drossy age dotes on, only got the tune of the | know the drossie age dotes on; only got the tune of the |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.41 | Whose dismal tune bereft my vital powers; | Whose dismall tune bereft my Vitall powres: |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.265 | This is a sleepy tune; O murderous slumber, | This is a sleepy Tune: O Murd'rous slumbler! |
| King John | KJ III.iii.26 | But I will fit it with some better tune. | But I will fit it with some better tune. |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.39 | Who sometime in his better tune remembers | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.109 | the tune. | the tune. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.10 | No, my complete master; but to jig off a tune at | No my compleat master, but to Iigge off a tune at |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.19 | the old painting; and keep not too long in one tune, but a | the old painting, and keepe not too long in one tune, but a |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.166 | And profound Solomon to tune a jig, | And profound Salomon tuning a Iygge? |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.87 | To the selfsame tune and words. Who's here? | Toth' selfe-same tune and words: who's here? |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.234.2 | This tune goes manly. | This time goes manly: |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.46 | tune, matter, and method? Is't not drowned i'th' last | Tune, Matter, and Method? Is't not drown'd i'th last |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.58 | place together than the Hundredth Psalm to the tune of | place together, then the hundred Psalms to the tune of |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.19 | potatoes. Let it thunder to the tune of ‘ Greensleeves,’ | Potatoes: let it thunder, to the tune of Greenesleeues, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.37 | Why how now? Do you speak in the sick tune? | Why how now? do you speake in the sick tune? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.38 | I am out of all other tune, methinks. | I am out of all other tune, me thinkes. |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.119 | My advocation is not now in tune: | My Aduocation is not now in Tune; |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.116 | Not Cassio killed! Then murder's out of tune, | Not Cassio kill'd? Then Murther's out of tune, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.116 | As your fair self, doth tune us otherwise. | As your faire selfe, doth tune vs otherwise; |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.165 | That knows no touch to tune the harmony. | That knowes no touch to tune the harmony. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.27 | It is the lark that sings so out of tune, | It is the Larke that sings so out of tune, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.24 | You'll leave his lecture when I am in tune? | You'll leaue his Lecture when I am in tune? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.25 | That will be never. Tune your instrument. | That will be neuer, tune your instrument. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.37 | Madam, my instrument's in tune. | Madam, my Instrument's in tune. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.39 | Spit in the hole, man, and tune again. | Spit in the hole man, and tune againe. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.44.1 | Madam, 'tis now in tune. | Madam, tis now in tune. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.85 | To what tune pleased his ear, that now he was | To what tune pleas'd his eare, that now he was |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.43 | This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's funeral. | This is a very scuruy tune to sing at a mans / Funerall: |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.54 | This is a scurvy tune too. But here's my comfort. | This is a scuruy tune too: But here's my comfort. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.125 | That's not the tune. | That's not the tune. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.126 | Ariel plays the tune on a tabor and pipe | Ariell plaies the tune on a Tabor and Pipe. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.127 | This is the tune of our catch, played by the | This is the tune of our Catch, plaid by the |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.300 | Why, but he is not in this tune, is he? | Why, but he is not in this tune, is he? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.301 | No, but he's out o' tune thus. What music | No, but he's out a tune thus: what musicke |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.110 | Out o' tune, sir, ye lie. (To Malvolio) Art any | Out o'tune sir, ye lye: Art any |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.14 | Seek him out, and play the tune the while. | Seeke him out, and play the tune the while. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.20 | That is beloved. How dost thou like this tune? | That is belou'd. How dost thou like this tune? |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.106 | If it be aught to the old tune, my lord, | If it be ought to the old tune my Lord, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.80 | That I might sing it, madam, to a tune. | That I might sing it (Madam) to a tune: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.83 | Best sing it to the tune of ‘ Light o' love.’ | Best sing it to the tune of Light O, Loue. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.84 | It is too heavy for so light a tune. | It is too heauy for so light a tune. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.89 | Keep tune there still, so you will sing it out; | Keepe tune there still; so you will sing it out: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.90 | And yet methinks I do not like this tune. | And yet me thinkes I do not like this tune. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.85 | Tune a deploring dump – the night's dead silence | Tune a deploring dumpe: the nights dead silence |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.25 | Let's tune, and to it lustily awhile. | Let's tune: and too it lustily a while. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.58 | How? Out of tune on the strings? | How, out of tune on the strings. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.6 | Tune my distresses, and record my woes. | Tune my distrestes, and record my woes. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.52 | And gallops to the tune of ‘ Light o' Love.’ | And gallops to the turne of Light a'love, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.260 | Here's one to a very doleful tune, how a | Here's one, to a very dolefull tune, how a |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.287 | to the tune of ‘ Two maids wooing a man.’ There's | to the tune of two maids wooing a man: there's |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.292 | We had the tune on't a month ago. | We had the tune on't, a month agoe. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.603 | that he would not stir his pettitoes till he had both tune | that hee would not stirre his Petty-toes, till he had bothTune |