| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.156 | Myself against the level of mine aim, | My selfe against the leuill of mine aime, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.110 | Fly with false aim, move the still-piecing air | Fly with false ayme, moue the still-peering aire |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.71.1 | Though enemy, lost aim and could not? | (Though Enemy) lost ayme, and could not. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.34 | That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt | That from the Hunters aime had tane a hurt, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.63 | My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim, | My foode, my fortune, and my sweet hopes aime; |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.261.2 | Fame, at the which he aims – | Fame, at the which he aymes, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ii.23 | We shall be shortened in our aim, which was | We shalbe shortned in our ayme, which was |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.9 | The hearers to collection. They aim at it, | The hearers to Collection; they ayme at it, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.24 | And not where I had aimed them. | And not where I had arm'd them. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.276 | In faith it is exceedingly well aimed. | Infaith it is exceedingly well aym'd. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.123 | That arrows fled not swifter toward their aim | That Arrowes fled not swifter toward their ayme, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.124 | Than did our soldiers, aiming at their safety, | Then did our Soldiers (ayming at their safety) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.149 | Which princes, fleshed with conquest, aim to hit. | Which Princes, flesh'd with Conquest, ayme to hit. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.79 | With a near aim, of the main chance of things | With a neere ayme, of the maine chance of things, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.259 | enemy – the foeman may with as great aim level at the | Enemie, the foe-man may with as great ayme leuell at the |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.186 | To which is fixed as an aim or butt, | To which is fixed as an ayme or butt, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.4 | Howe'er unfortunate I missed my aim. | How e're vnfortunate, I miss'd my ayme. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.8 | Here stand we both, and aim we at the best; | Heere stand we both, and ayme we at the best: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.68 | Your highness aims at, if I aim aright. | Your Highnesse aymes at, if I ayme aright. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.69 | To tell thee plain, I aim to lie with thee. | To tell thee plaine, I ayme to lye with thee. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.124 | Not I; my thoughts aim at a further matter. | Not I: / My thoughts ayme at a further matter: |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.138 | Madam, you wander from the good we aim at. | Madam, you wander from the good / We ayme at. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.118 | The chief aim of his honour, and, to strengthen | The cheefe ayme of his Honour, and to strengthen |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.162 | What you would work me to, I have some aim: | What you would worke me too, I haue some ayme: |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.52 | Even in the aim and very flash of it. | Euen in the ayme, and very flash of it. |
| King John | KJ II.i.196 | It ill beseems this presence to cry aim | It ill beseemes this presence to cry ayme |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.140 | Is to avoid the aim. Therefore to horse, | Is to auoid the ayme. Therefore to Horse, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.5 | More grave and wrinkled than the aims and ends | More graue, and wrinkled, then the aimes, and ends |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.150 | As I will watch the aim, or to find both | As I will watch the ayme: Or to finde both, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.40 | proceedings all my neighbours shall cry aim. | proceedings all my neighbors shall cry aime. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.18.1 | That now I aim at. | That now I ayme at. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.157 | Cupid all armed. A certain aim he took | Cupid all arm'd; a certaine aime he tooke |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.86 | hereafter, and aim better at me by that I now will | hereafter, and ayme better at me by that I now will |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.235 | But if all aim but this be levelled false, | But if all ayme but this be leuelld false, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.6 | As in these cases where the aim reports | (As in these Cases where the ayme reports, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.221 | As my thoughts aimed not at. Cassio's my worthy friend. | Which my Thoughts aym'd not. / Cassio's my worthy Friend: |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.8 | Whose aim seems far too short to hit me here. | Whose arme seemes farre too short to hit me here, |
| Pericles | Per II.v.46 | That never aimed so high to love your daughter, | That neuer aymed so hie, to loue your Daughter, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.14 | Aimed at your highness; no inveterate malice. | Aym'd at your Highnesse, no inueterate malice. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.65 | Aiming, belike, at your interior hatred, | Ayming (belike) at your interiour hatred, |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.45 | But canst thou guess that he doth aim at it? | But canst thou guesse, that he doth ayme at it? |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.40 | Now, for I know the Britain Richmond aims | Now for I know the Britaine Richmond aymes |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.89 | To be the aim of every dangerous shot; | To be the ayme of euery dangerous Shot; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.205 | I aimed so near when I supposed you loved. | I aym'd so neare, when I suppos'd you lou'd. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.231.2 | Well aimed of such a young one. | Well aym'd of such a yong one. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.50 | This bird you aimed at, though you hit her not – | This bird you aim'd at, though you hit her not, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.66 | My lord, I aimed a mile beyond the moon: | My Lord, I aime a Mile beyond the Moone, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.148 | But, gentle people, give me aim awhile, | But gentle people, giue me ayme a-while, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.15 | Bias and thwart, not answering the aim | Bias and thwart, not answering the ayme: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vi.30 | Aiming at Silvia as a sweeter friend. | Ayming at Siluia as a sweeter friend. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.28 | But, fearing lest my jealous aim might err, | But fearing lest my iealous ayme might erre, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.45 | That my discovery be not aimed at; | That my discouery be not aimed at: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.102 | Behold her that gave aim to all thy oaths, | Behold her, that gaue ayme to all thy oathes, |