| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.104 | Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly. | Cold wisedome waighting on superfluous follie. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.9.2 | His love and wisdom, | His loue and wisedome |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.84 | Wisdom, and constancy hath amazed me more | Wisedome and constancy, hath amaz'd mee more |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.181 | Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage – all | Youth, beauty, wisedome, courage, all |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.71.1 | I leave you to your wisdom. | I leaue you to your wisedome. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.49 | In me to lose. Thus your own proper wisdom | In mee to loose. Thus your owne proper wisedome |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.246 | If beauty, wisdom, modesty, can settle | If Beauty, Wisedome, Modesty, can settle |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.79 | Wisdom and fortune combating together, | Wisedome and Fortune combatting together, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.150.1 | Your wisdom in the deed. | Your Wisedome in the deede. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.68 | Ay, marry, now unmuzzle your wisdom. | I marry, now vnmuzzle your wisedome. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.89 | Once this: your long experience of her wisdom, | Once this your long experience of your wisedome, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.97 | and since the wisdom of their choice is rather to have my | & since the wisedome of their choice, is rather to haue my |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.144 | Insult without all reason; where gentry, title, wisdom, | Insult without all reason: where Gentry, Title, wisedom |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.10.1 | Your wisdom may inform you. | Your wisedome may informe you. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.25 | It fits your wisdom so far to believe it | It fits your wisedome so farre to beleeue it; |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.64 | And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, | And thus doe we of wisedome and of reach |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.188.1 | Your wisdom best shall think. | Your wisedome best shall thinke. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.313 | Your wisdom should show itself more richer to | Your wisedome should shew it selfe more richer, to |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.42 | A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.8 | As by your safety, greatness, wisdom, all things else, | As by your Safety, Wisedome, all things else, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.259 | Which let thy wisdom fear. Hold off thy hand. | Which let thy wisenesse feare. Away thy hand. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.88 | Thou didst well, for wisdom cries out in the | Thou didst well: for |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.64 | That wisdom, loyalty, and mere dislike | That wisedome, loyaltie, and meere dislike |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iv.39 | And 'tis but wisdom to make strong against him. | And, 'tis but Wisedome to make strong against him: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.162 | Sweet earl, divorce not wisdom from your honour; | Sweet Earle, diuorce not wisedom from your Honor. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.6 | Do what you will; your wisdom be your guide. | Do what you will: your Wisedome, be your guide. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.141 | Though 'tis no wisdom to confess so much | Though 'tis no wisdome to confesse so much |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.75 | Now is it manhood, wisdom, and defence, | Now is it manhood, wisedome, and defence, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.84 | Whose wisdom was a mirror to the wisest; | Whose Wisdome was a Mirror to the wisest: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vii.60 | Till then, 'tis wisdom to conceal our meaning. | Till then, 'tis wisdome to conceale our meaning. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.29 | Out of a foreign wisdom, renouncing clean | Out of a forreigne wisedome, renouncing cleane |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.84 | Your grace has given a precedent of wisdom | Your Grace ha's giuen a President of wisedome |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.87 | Of disposition gentle and of wisdom | Of disposition gentle, and of wisedome, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.13 | And want of wisdom, you, that best should teach us, | And want of wisedome, you that best should teach vs, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.136 | And wisdom of my Council, but I find none. | And wisedome of my Councell; but I finde none: |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.24 | More covetous of wisdom and fair virtue | More couetous of Wisedome, and faire Vertue |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.49 | Your wisdom is consumed in confidence. | Your wisedome is consum'd in confidence: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.183.2 | I doubt not of your wisdom. | I doubt not of your Wisedome: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.16 | believe. Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your | beleeue. Censure me in your Wisedom, and awake your |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.163 | When wisdom keeps the gate as beauty's guard? – | When wisedome keepes the gate as beuties gard, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.40 | Wisdom is foolishness but in her tongue, | Wisedome is foolishnes, but in her tongue, |
| King John | KJ II.i.523 | What you in wisdom still vouchsafe to say. | What you in wisedome still vouchsafe to say. |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.99 | your own wisdom. I would unstate myself to be in a due | your owne wisedome. I would vnstate my selfe, to be in a due |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.104 | portend no good to us. Though the wisdom of nature | portend no good to vs: though the wisedome of Nature |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.91 | wisdom? | wisedome, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.215 | I would you would make use of your good wisdom, | I would you would make vse of your good wisedome |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.340 | You are much more a-taxed for want of wisdom | Your are much more at task for want of wisedome, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.302 | To have his ear abused, wisdom bids fear. | To haue his eare abus'd, wisedome bids feare. |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.38 | Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; | |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.8.2 | What can man's wisdom | What can mans wisedome |
| King Lear | KL IV.v.35 | I pray desire her call her wisdom to her. | I pray desire her call her wisedome to her. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.139.2 | In wisdom I should ask thy name; | In wisedome I should aske thy name, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.70 | As wit turned fool. Folly, in wisdom hatched, | As Wit turn'd foole, follie in Wisedome hatch'd: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.727 | In your rich wisdom to excuse or hide | In your rich wisedome to excuse, or hide, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.52 | He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour | He hath a Wisdome, that doth guide his Valour, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.v.31 | His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace, and fear. | His hopes 'boue Wisedome, Grace, and Feare: |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.45 | His wisdom can provide. Some holy angel | His wisedome can prouide. Some holy Angell |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.5 | Whether it was his wisdom or his fear. | Whether it was his wisedome, or his feare. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.6 | Wisdom! To leave his wife, to leave his babes, | Wisedom? to leaue his wife, to leaue his Babes, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.13 | As little is the wisdom, where the flight | As little is the Wisedome, where the flight |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.15 | You may deserve of him, through me; and wisdom | You may discerne of him through me, and wisedome |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.119 | Into his power, and modest wisdom plucks me | Into his power: and modest Wisedome pluckes me |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.32.1 | Be it as your wisdom will. | Be it as your wisedome will. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.78 | Thus wisdom wishes to appear most bright | Thus wisdome wishes to appeare most bright, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.218 | accursed. Much upon this riddle runs the wisdom | accurst: Much vpon this riddle runs the wisedome |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.116 | It is no other. Show your wisdom, daughter, | It is no other, Shew your wisedome daughter |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.131 | There to give up their power. If you can, pace your wisdom | There to giue vp their powre: If you can pace your wisdome, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iv.4 | wisdom be not tainted. And why meet him at the gates, | wisedome bee not tainted: and why meet him at the gates |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.92 | Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit, | Of wisedome, grauity, profound conceit, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.81 | They have the wisdom by their wit to lose. | They haue the wisdome by their wit to loose. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.406 | Have by your wisdom been this day acquitted | Haue by your wisedome beene this day acquitted |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.164 | O, my lord, wisdom and blood combating in so | O my Lord, wisedome and bloud combating in so |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.2 | And 'tis not wisdom thus to second grief | And 'tis not wisedome thus to second griefe, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.151 | She that in wisdom never was so frail | She that in wisedome neuer was so fraile, |
| Othello | Oth III.i.45 | And great affinity; and that in wholesome wisdom | And great Affinitie: and that in wholsome Wisedome |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.147 | Shapes faults that are not – that your wisdom then, | Shapes faults that are not) that your wisedome |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.152 | Nor for my manhood, honesty, and wisdom, | Nor for my Manhood, Honesty, and Wisedome, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.135 | Antioch, farewell, for wisdom sees those men | Antioch farewell, for Wisedome sees those men, |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.63 | Who by thy wisdom makes a prince thy servant, | Who by thy wisdome makes a Prince thy seruant, |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.54 | To wisdom he's a fool that will not yield, | To wisedome, hee's a foole, that will not yeeld: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.99 | You may, sir; 'tis a point of wisdom. | You may sir, 'tis a point of wisedome: |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.16 | Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace, | Your Discipline in Warre, Wisdome in Peace, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.69 | I would say thou hadst sucked wisdom from thy teat. | I would say thou had'st suckt wisedome from thy teat. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.170 | And why, my Lady Wisdom? Hold your tongue, | And why my Lady wisedome? hold your tongue, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.11 | And in his wisdom hastes our marriage | And in his wisedome, hasts our marriage, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.52 | If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help, | If in thy wisedome, thou canst giue no helpe, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.126 | The wisdom of your duty, fair Bianca, | The wisdome of your dutie faire Bianca, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.52 | If wisdom be in suffering. O my lords, | If Wisedome be in suffering, Oh my Lords, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.339 | Whose wisdom hath her fortune conquered. | Whose wisedome hath her Fortune Conquered, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.198 | Count wisdom as no member of the war; | Count Wisedome as no member of the Warre, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.85 | If you'll avouch 'twas wisdom Paris went – | If you'l auouch, 'twas wisedome Paris went, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.101 | The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may | The amitie that wisedome knits, not folly may |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.245 | To sinewy Ajax. I will not praise thy wisdom, | To sinnowie Aiax: I will not praise thy wisdome, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.13 | Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and | Well, God giue them wisedome that haue it: & |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.40 | I think I saw your wisdom there? | I thinke I saw your wisedome there. |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.51 | Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion, sway | Let thy fayre wisedome, not thy passion sway |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.242 | That were a cruel wisdom; do men prune | That were a cruell wisedome, doe men proyne |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.21 | What wisdom stirs amongst you? Come, sir, now | What wisdome stirs amongst you? Come Sir, now |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.150 | With wisdom I might fear, my Doricles, | With wisedome, I might feare (my Doricles) |