| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.151 | That dost in vile misprision shackle up | That dost in vile misprision shackle vp |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.83.1 | I would poison that vile rascal. | I would poison that vile Rascall. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.313 | In this vile world? So, fare thee well. | In this wilde World? So fare thee well: |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.16 | but in respect that it is private, it is a very vile life. Now | but in respect that it is priuate, it is a very vild life. Now |
| As You Like It | AYL V.i.6 | vile Martext. But, Audrey, there is a youth here in the | vile Mar-text. But Awdrie, there is a youth heere in the |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.35 | Was wrought by nature, not by vile offence, | Was wrought by nature, not by vile offence, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.67 | Still did I tell him it was vile and bad. | Still did I tell him, it was vilde and bad. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.237 | Of vile confederates. Along with them | Of vilde Confederates: Along with them |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.182 | Him vile that was your garland. What's the matter | Him vilde, that was your Garland. What's the matter, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.74.2 | O thou vile one! | O thou vilde one! |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.74.2 | Hence, vile instrument! | Hence vile Instrument, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.18 | I know you are more clement than vile men, | I know you are more clement then vilde men, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.252 | In killing creatures vile, as cats and dogs | In killing Creatures vilde, as Cats and Dogges |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.72 | Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust | Most Lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.110 | Ophelia – That's an ill phrase, a vile phrase; ‘ beautified ’ | Ophelia. / That's an ill Phrase, a vilde Phrase, beautified |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.111 | is a vile phrase. But you shall hear. Thus: | is a vilde Phrase: but you shall heare these |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.30 | But we will ship him hence; and this vile deed | But we will ship him hence, and this vilde deed, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.117.2 | O thou vile King, | Oh thou vilde King, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.62 | So cowardly, and but for these vile guns | So Cowardly. And but for these vile Gunnes, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.238 | Of this vile politician Bolingbroke. | Of this vile Politician Bullingbrooke. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.243 | sheath, you bow-case, you vile standing tuck! | sheath you Bow-case, you vile standing tucke. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.87 | With vile participation. Not an eye | With vile participation. Not an Eye |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.38 | Hold up thy head, vile Scot, or thou art like | Hold vp thy head vile Scot, or thou art like |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.17 | you neither in gold nor silver, but in vile apparel, and | you neyther in Gold, nor Siluer, but in vilde apparell, and |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.46 | keeping such vile company as thou art hath in reason | keeping such vild company as thou art, hath in reason |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.154 | tortures vile also! Hold hook and line, say I! Down | and Tortures vilde also. Hold Hooke and Line, say I: Downe: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.15 | O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile | O thou dull God, why lyest thou with the vilde, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.18 | That must strike sail to spirits of vile sort! | That must strike saile, to Spirits of vilde sort? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.137 | Let vultures vile seize on his lungs also! | Let Vultures vil'de seize on his Lungs also: |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.43 | ‘ Solus,’ egregious dog? O viper vile! | Solus, egregious dog? O Viper vile; |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.57 | O braggart vile, and damned furious wight! | O Braggard vile, and damned furious wight, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.74 | Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin | Selfe-loue, my Liege, is not so vile a sinne, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.47 | With edge of penny cord and vile reproach. | with edge of Penny-Cord, and vile reproach. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.50 | With four or five most vile and ragged foils, | With foure or fiue most vile and ragged foyles, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.62 | Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, | Shall be my brother: be he ne're so vile, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.11 | The manner of thy vile outrageous crimes, | The manner of thy vile outragious Crymes, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.45 | Scoff on, vile fiend and shameless courtesan! | Scoffe on vile Fiend, and shamelesse Curtizan, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.97 | With other vile and ignominious terms. | With other vile and ignominious tearmes. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.33 | All 'long of this vile traitor Somerset. | All long of this vile Traitor Somerset. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.112 | To be a queen in bondage is more vile | To be a Queene in bondage, is more vile, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.16 | Wicked and vile; and so her death concludes. | Wicked and vile, and so her death concludes. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.136 | Great men oft die by vile Besonians: | Great men oft dye by vilde Bezonions. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.40.2 | O, let the vile world end, | O let the vile world end, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.111 | So vile a thing as Caesar! But, O grief, | So vile a thing as Casar. But oh Griefe, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.265 | To dare the vile contagion of the night, | To dare the vile contagion of the Night? |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.32 | Who is here so vile that will not love his country? | Who is heere so vile, that will not loue his Countrey? |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.71 | For I can raise no money by vile means; | For I can raise no money by vile meanes: |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.74 | From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash | From the hard hands of Peazants, their vile trash |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.39 | Villains! You did not so, when your vile daggers | Villains: you did not so, when your vile daggers |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.103 | But I do find it cowardly and vile, | But I do finde it Cowardly, and vile, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.38 | By this vile conquest shall attain unto. | By this vile Conquest shall attaine vnto. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.12 | And, in their vile uncivil skipping jigs, | And in their vild vnseuill skipping giggs, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.418 | To be his scandalous and vile solicitor? | To be his scandalous and vile soliciter: |
| King John | KJ II.i.509 | In such a love so vile a lout as he. | In such a loue, so vile a Lout as he. |
| King John | KJ II.i.577 | Till this advantage, this vile-drawing bias, | Till this aduantage, this vile drawing byas, |
| King John | KJ III.i.165 | And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust, | And by the merit of vilde gold, drosse, dust, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.19 | In the vile prison of afflicted breath. | In the vilde prison of afflicted breath: |
| King John | KJ III.iv.138 | Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. | Makes nice of no vilde hold to stay him vp: |
| King John | KJ IV.i.95 | Your vile intent must needs seem horrible. | Your vilde intent must needs seeme horrible. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.241 | The deed which both our tongues held vile to name. | The deed, which both our tongues held vilde to name. |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.71 | And can make vile things precious. Come, your hovel. | And can make vilde things precious. Come, your Houel; |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.138 | Our flesh and blood, my lord, is grown so vile | Our flesh and blood, my Lord, is growne so vilde, |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.82 | Lest it see more, prevent it. Out, vile jelly! | Lest it see more, preuent it; Out vilde gelly: |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.38 | Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; | |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.47 | Send quickly down to tame these vile offences, | |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.278 | The King is mad; how stiff is my vile sense, | The King is mad: / How stiffe is my vilde sense |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.274 | I never knew man hold vile stuff so dear. | I neuer knew man hold vile stuffe so deere. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.278 | O, vile! Then, as she goes, what upward lies | O vile, then as she goes what vpward lyes? |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.108 | Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world | Whom the vile Blowes and Buffets of the World |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.95 | For this was of much length – the vile conclusion | (For this was of much length) the vild conclusion |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.6 | 'Tis vile, unless it may be quaintly ordered, | 'Tis vile vnlesse it may be quaintly ordered, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.29 | And the vile squealing of the wry-necked fife, | And the vile squealing of the wry-neckt Fife, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.89 | How Falstaff, varlet vile, | How Falstaffe (varlet vile) |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.32 | O, what a world of vile ill-favoured faults | O what a world of vilde ill-fauour'd faults |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.83 | Vile worm, thou wast o'erlooked even in thy birth. | Vilde worme, thou wast ore-look'd euen in thy birth. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.232 | Things base and vile, holding no quantity, | Things base and vilde, holding no quantity, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.40 | Wake when some vile thing is near! | Wake when some vile thing is neere. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.113 | Is that vile name to perish on my sword! | Is that vile name, to perish on my sword! |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.260 | Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! Vile thing, let loose, | Hang off thou cat, thou bur; vile thing let loose, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.131 | Wall – that vile wall which did these lovers sunder; | Wall, that vile wall, which did these louers sunder: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.142 | Which Lion vile with bloody mouth did stain. | Which Lyon vile with bloody mouth did staine. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.197 | O kiss me through the hole of this vile wall! | O kisse me through the hole of this vile wall. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.284 | Since lion vile hath here deflowered my dear? | Since Lion vilde hath heere deflour'd my deere: |
| 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 IV.i.91 | Confessed the vile encounters they have had | Confest the vile encounters they haue had |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.249 | And silence those whom this vile brawl distracted. | And silence those whom this vil'd brawle distracted. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.135 | Utter my thoughts. Why, say they are vile and false? | Vtter my Thoughts? Why say, they are vild, and falce? |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.220 | My speech should fall into such vile success | My speech should fall into such vilde successe, |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.180 | Throw your vile guesses in the devil's teeth | Throw your vilde gesses in the Diuels teeth, |
| Pericles | Per III.iii.21 | Should therein make me vile, the common body, | should therein make me vile, / The common body |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.41 | The sooner her vile thoughts to stead, | The sooner her vile thoughts to stead, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.25 | So it be new there's no respect how vile – | So it be new, there's no respect how vile, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.88 | Falsely to draw me in these vile suspects. | Falsely to draw me in these vile suspects. |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.62 | 'Tis a vile thing to die, my gracious lord, | 'Tis a vile thing to dye, my gracious Lord, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.111 | By some vile forfeit of untimely death. | By some vile forfeit of vntimely death. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.13 | For naught so vile that on the earth doth live | For nought so vile, that on the earth doth liue, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.72 | O calm, dishonourable, vile submission! | O calme, dishonourable, vile submission: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.141 | Where are the vile beginners of this fray? | Where are the vile beginners of this Fray? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.59 | Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here, | Vile earth to earth resigne, end motion here, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.83 | Was ever book containing such vile matter | Was euer booke containing such vile matter |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.106 | In what vile part of this anatomy | In what vile part of this Anatomie |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.54 | Stop thy unhallowed toil, vile Montague! | Stop thy vnhallowed toyle, vile Mountague: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.158 | And twangling Jack, with twenty such vile terms, | And twangling Iacke, with twentie such vilde tearmes, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.92 | Worse and worse, she will not come! O vile, | Worse and worse, she will not come: / Oh vilde, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.358 | With words that made them known. But thy vile race, | With words that made them knowne: But thy vild race |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.15 | ‘ When we for recompense have praised the vile, | When we for recompence haue prais'd the vild, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.171 | You killed her husband, and for that vile fault | You kil'd her husband, and for that vil'd fault, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.199 | And in that paste let their vile heads be baked. | And in that Paste let their vil'd Heads be bakte, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.90 | I bade the vile owl go learn me the tenor of the | I bad thee vile Owle, goe learne me the tenure of the |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.23 | Stay yet. You vile abominable tents, | Stay yet: you vile abhominable Tents, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.73 | No, we detest such vile base practices. | No, we detest such vile base practises. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.78 | Be vile or disobedient, not his kinsmen | Be vile, or disobedient, not his kinesmen |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.92 | But with her most vile principal – that she's | But with her most vild Principall: that shee's |