| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.147 | the worse. Away with't! | the worse. Away with't. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.173 | Seared otherwise, ne worse of worst, extended | Seard otherwise, ne worse of worst extended |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.ii.53 | I ne'er had worse luck in my life in my ‘ O Lord, | I nere had worse lucke in my life in my O Lord |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.66 | let her die too, and give him a worse, and let worse | let her dye too, and giue him a worse, and let worse |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.67 | follow worse till the worst of all follow him laughing to | follow worse, till the worst of all follow him laughing to |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.134 | No worse a husband than the best of men; | No worse a husband then the best of men: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.52 | He were the worse for that, were he a horse; | He were the worse for that were he a Horse, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.122 | I'll have no worse a name than Jove's own page, | Ile haue no worse a name then Ioues owne Page, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.61 | Are mere usurpers, tyrants, and what's worse | Are meere vsurpers, tyrants, and whats worse |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.23 | worse at ease he is, and that he that wants money, | worse at ease he is: and that hee that wants money, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.8 | O knowledge ill-inhabited, worse than Jove | O knowledge ill inhabited, worse then Ioue |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.7 | modern censure worse than drunkards. | moderne censure, worse then drunkards. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.20 | Ill-faced, worse-bodied, shapeless everywhere; |
Ill-fac'd, worse bodied, shapelesse euery where: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.22 | Stigmatical in making, worse in mind. |
Stigmaticall in making worse in minde. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.26 | And yet would herein others' eyes were worse. |
And yet would herein others eies were worse: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.32 | No. He's in Tartar limbo, worse than hell. |
No, he's in Tartar limbo, worse then hell: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.36 | A wolf, nay, worse, a fellow all in buff; |
A Wolfe, nay worse, a fellow all in buffe: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.51 | Nay, she is worse, she is the | Nay, she is worse, she is the |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ii.13 | Who is of Rome worse hated than of you, | (Who is of Rome worse hated then of you) |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.45.1 | From rascals worse than they. | From Rascals worse then they. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.viii.2.1 | Worse than a promise-breaker. | Worse then a Promise-breaker. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.22 | Worse than a theft, no less than a traducement, | worse then a Theft, / No lesse then a Traducement, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.48 | You adopt your policy, how is it less or worse | You adopt your policy: How is it lesse or worse |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.67 | thee no worse than thy old father Menenius does! O my | thee no worse then thy old Father Menenius do's. O my |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.139 | Frighted, and angered worse. Go bid my woman | Frighted, and angred worse: Go bid my woman |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.54 | Doth ill deserve by doing well: what's worse, | Doth ill deserue, by doing well: what's worse |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.88 | Stands in worse case of woe. | Stands in worse case of woe. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vi.14 | Is worse in kings than beggars. My dear lord, | Is worse in Kings, then Beggers. My deere Lord, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.134 | From one bad thing to worse, not frenzy, not | From one bad thing to worse: Not Frenzie, / Not |
| 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.i.14 | To second ills with ills, each elder worse, | To second illes with illes, each elder worse, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.27.2 | Who worse than a physician | Who worse then a Physitian |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.49 | More, sir, and worse. She did confess she had | More Sir, and worse. She did confesse she had |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.217 | By being worse than they. I am Posthumus, | By being worse then they. I am Posthumus, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.260 | Still better, and worse. | Still better and worse. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.180 | Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. | Thus bad begins, and worse remaines behinde. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.6 | Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Rashly, | Worse then the mutines in the Bilboes, rashly, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.122 | a coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime in it. A | a Coward is worse then a Cup of Sack with lime. A |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.155 | Worse than a smoky house. I had rather live | Worse then a smoakie House. I had rather liue |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.111 | No more, no more! Worse than the sun in March, | No more, no more, / Worse then the Sunne in March: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.19 | report of a caliver worse than a struck fowl or a hurt wild | report of a Caliuer, worse then a struck-Foole, or a hurt wilde- |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.93 | To make that worse, suffered his kinsman March – | To make that worse, suffer'd his Kinsman March, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.79 | They wound my thoughts worse than thy sword my flesh. | They wound my thoghts worse, then the sword my flesh: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.40 | They bring smooth comforts false, worse than true wrongs. | They bring smooth-Comforts-false, worse then True-wrongs. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.75 | it be a shame to be on any side but one, it is worse shame | it be a shame to be on any side but one, it is worse shame |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.76 | to beg than to be on the worst side, were it worse than | to begge, then to be on the worst side, were it worse then |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.133 | God send the wench no worse fortune! But I never | May the Wench haue no worse Fortune. But I neuer |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.50.1 | And find me worse provided. | And finde me worse prouided. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.101 | by my troth, I am the worse when one says ‘ swagger.’ | I am the worse when one sayes, swagger: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.86 | So much the worse, if your own rule be true. | So much the worse, if your owne Rule be true. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.29 | No worse than they are backbitten, sir, for they | No worse then they are bitten, sir: For they |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.47 | And, which is worse, within thy nasty mouth! | and which is worse, within thy nastie mouth. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.56 | I never saw a fellow worse bestead, | I neuer saw a fellow worse bestead, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.81 | Entreat her not the worse in that I pray | Entreat her not the worse, in that I pray |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.306 | Might happily have proved far worse than his. | Might happily haue prou'd farre worse then his. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.307 | What, worse than naught? Nay, then a shame take all! | What, worse then naught? nay, then a shame take all. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.322 | Gall, worse than gall, the daintiest that they taste! | Gall, worse then Gall, the daintiest that they taste: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.111 | She-wolf of France, but worse than wolves of France, | Shee-Wolfe of France, / But worse then Wolues of France, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.58 | What's worse than murderer, that I may name it? | What's worse then Murtherer, that I may name it? |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.60 | Sparing would show a worse sin than ill doctrine. | Sparing would shew a worse sinne, then ill Doctrine, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.124.2 | Your fears are worse. | Your feares are worse. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.295 | Worse than the sacring bell, when the brown wench | Worse then the Sacring Bell, when the browne Wench |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.35 | You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! | You Blockes, you stones, you worse then senslesse things: |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.319 | For we will shake him, or worse days endure. | For wee will shake him, or worse dayes endure. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.139 | I never thought him worse. | I neuer thought him worse: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.112 | I fear there will a worse come in his place. | I feare there will a worse come in his place. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.415 | And to be ten times worse envired by friends! | And to be ten times worse inuierd by friends: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.452 | Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds; | Lillies that fester, smel far worse then weeds, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.132 | Retreat is sounded; one side hath the worse. | Retreae is sounded, one side hath the worse, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.16 | Far worse than is the quiet sleep of death. | Farre worse then is the quiet sleepe of death: |
| King John | KJ I.i.183 | But many a many foot of land the worse! | But many a many foot of Land the worse. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.31 | Doth make the fault the worse by th' excuse, | Doth make the fault the worse by th'excuse: |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.78 | villain! worse than brutish! Go, sirrah, seek him; I'll | Villaine; worse then brutish: Go sirrah, seeke him: Ile |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.41 | worse after dinner. I will not part from thee yet. Dinner, | worse after dinner, I will not part from thee yet. Dinner |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.146 | My sister may receive it much more worse | My Sister may recieue it much more worsse, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.22 | They could not, would not do't; 'tis worse than murder | They could not, would not do't: 'tis worse then murther, |
| King Lear | KL III.iii.8 | between the Dukes; and a worse matter than that. I | betweene the Dukes, and a worsse matter then that: I |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.26.1 | I am worse than e'er I was. | I am worse then ere I was. |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.27 | And worse I may be yet. The worst is not, | And worse I may be yet: the worst is not, |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.6 | His answer was ‘The worse.' Of Gloucester's treachery | His answer was, the worse. Of Glosters Treachery, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.154 | Thou worse than any name, read thine own evil. | Thou worse then any name, reade thine owne euill: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.59 | They are worse fools to purchase mocking so. | They are worse fooles to purchase mocking so. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.388 | That hid the worse and showed the better face. | That hid the worse, and shew'd the better face. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.511 | To have one show worse than the King's and his company. | to haue one shew worse then the Kings and his companie. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.116 | I pray you speak not; he grows worse and worse. | I pray you speake not: he growes worse & worse |
| Macbeth | Mac III.v.10 | And, which is worse, all you have done | And which is worse, all you haue done |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.71 | To do worse to you were fell cruelty, | To do worse to you, were fell Cruelty, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.129 | The pendent world; or to be worse than worst | The pendant world: or to be worse then worst |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.50 | Still thus, and thus, still worse? | Still thus, and thus: still worse? |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.335 | much more, much worse. | much more, much worse. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.357 | This may prove worse than hanging. | This may proue worse then hanging. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.83 | is best he is a little worse than a man, and when he is | is best, he is a little worse then a man, and when he is |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.55 | Was set in worse than gold. They have in England | Was set in worse then gold! They haue in England |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.247 | Of any constant man. What, worse and worse? | Of any constant man. What, worse and worse? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.260 | That I was worse than nothing; for indeed | That I was worse then nothing: for indeede |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.32 | worse fortune. Tell Master Parson Evans I will do | worse fortune: Tell Master Parson Euans, I will doe |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.52 | worse of fat men as long as I have an eye to make | worse of fat men, as long as I haue an eye to make |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.45 | Now I but chide; but I should use thee worse, | Now I but chide, but I should vse thee worse. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.209 | worst are no worse, if imagination amend them. | worst are no worse, if imagination amend them. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.212 | If we imagine no worse of them than they of | If wee imagine no worse of them then they of |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.128 | Scratching could not make it worse, an 'twere | Scratching could not make it worse, and 'twere |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.158 | and torment the poor lady worse. | and torment the poore Lady worse. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.99 | I could say she were worse; think you of a worse | I could say she were worse, thinke you of a worse |
| Othello | Oth I.i.11 | I know my price, I am worth no worse a place. | I know my price, I am worth no worsse a place. |
| Othello | Oth I.i.125 | Transported with no worse nor better guard | Transported with no worse nor better guard, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.133.1 | Worse and worse. | Worse, and worse. |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.190 | She's the worse for all this. | She's the worse for all this. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.I.27 | Bad child, worse father, to entice his own | Bad child, worse father, to intice his owne |
| Pericles | Per I.i.107 | What being more known grows worse, to smother it. | What being more knowne, growes worse, to smother it. |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.36 | worse. Neither is our profession any trade; it's no | worse, neither is our profession any trade, It's no |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.130 | Worse and worse, mistress. She has here spoken | Worse and worse mistris, shee has heere spoken |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.77 | What I have spoke or thou canst worse devise. | What I haue spoken, or thou canst deuise. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.301 | Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. | Giues but the greater feeling to the worse: |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.52 | Ah, madam, 'tis too true! And, that is worse, | O Madam 'tis too true: and that is worse, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.120 | And all goes worse than I have power to tell. | And all goes worse then I haue power to tell. |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.132 | Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas – | Three Iudasses, each one thrice worse then Iudas, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.183 | Fear, and be slain. No worse can come to fight; | Feare, and be slaine, no worse can come to fight, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.102 | Poor Queen, so that thy state might be no worse | Poore Queen, so that thy State might be no worse, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.3 | In that you brook it ill, it makes him worse; | In that you brooke it ill, it makes him worse, |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.95 | Deserve not worse than wretched Clarence did, | Deserue not worse then wretched Clarence did, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.122 | Bettering thy loss makes the bad causer worse; | Bett'ring thy losse, makes the bad causer worse, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.155 | A thousand times the worse, to want thy light! | A thousand times the worse to want thy light, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.120 | worse. | worse. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.80 | There is thy gold – worse poison to men's souls, | There's thy Gold, / Worse poyson to mens soules, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.70 | As Socrates' Xanthippe, or a worse, | As Socrates Zentippe, or a worse: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.88 | Alas, sir, it is worse for me than so! | Alas sir, it is worse for me then so, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.175 | O no, good Kate, neither art thou the worse | Oh no good Kate: neither art thou the worse |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.33 | No worse than I, upon some agreement | No worse then I, vpon some agreement |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.83 | Pray God, sir, your wife send you not a worse. | Praie God sir your wife send you not a worse. |
| 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.59.1 | And princess, no worse issued. | And Princesse; no worse Issued. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.266 | That now hath seized them, why, they were no worse | That now hath seiz'd them, why they were no worse |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.37.1 | Are worse than devils. | Are worse then diuels. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.78 | Lingering perdition – worse than any death | Lingring perdition (worse then any death |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.29 | And now ingratitude makes it worse than stealth. | And now Ingratitude, makes it worse then stealth. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.107 | I'm worse than mad. I have kept back their foes, | I'm worse then mad: I haue kept backe their Foes |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.235.1 | I hate thee worse. | I hate thee worse. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.248 | Worse than the worst, content. | Worse then the worst, Content. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.167 | The worse to her, the better loved of me. | The worse to her, the better lou'd of me. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.175 | O, keep me from their worse-than-killing lust, | Oh keepe me from their worse then killing lust, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.302 | For, by my soul, were there worse end than death, | For by my soule, were there worse end then death, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.193 | For worse than Philomel you used my daughter, | For worse then Philomel you vsd my Daughter, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.194 | And worse than Procne I will be revenged. | And worse then Progne, I will be reueng'd, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.186 | Ten thousand worse than ever yet I did | Ten thousand worse, then euer yet I did, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.71 | to fear the worst oft cures the worst. | to feare the worst, oft cures the worse. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.32 | We do, and long to know each other worse. | We doe, and long to know each other worse. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.65 | O ho! Do you come near me now? No worse | Oh ho, do you come neere me now: no worse |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.19 | worse payment. | worse paiment. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.11 | Truly, sir, the better for my foes, and the worse for | Truely sir, the better for my foes, and the worse for |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.14 | No, sir: the worse. | No sir, the worse. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.21 | why then, the worse for my friends and the better | why then the worse for my friends, and the better |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.26 | Thou shalt not be the worse for me: there's gold. | Thou shalt not be the worse for me, there's gold. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.154 | I would it were no worse. | I would it were no worse. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.51 | And that's far worse than none; better have none | And that's farre worse then none: better haue none |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.126 | To keep us from corruption of worse men. | To keepe us from corruption of worse men, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.266 | No, never, Duke; 'tis worse to me than begging | No, never Duke: Tis worse to me than begging |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.120.1 | Far worse than now she shows. | For worse then now she showes. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.12 | ‘ down-a, down-a,’ and penned by no worse man than | downe / A downe a, and pend by no worse man, then |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.423 | Nay, hated too, worse than the great'st infection | Nay hated too, worse then the great'st Infection |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.112 | Worse than tears drown. Beseech you all, my lords, | Worse then Teares drowne: 'beseech you all (my Lords) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.97 | So like you, 'tis the worse. Behold, my lords, | So like you, 'tis the worse. Behold (my Lords) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.i.30 | If ever you have spent time worse ere now; | If euer you haue spent time worse, ere now: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.56 | No more such wives, therefore no wife: one worse, | No more such Wiues, therefore no Wife: one worse, |