| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.89 | Th' ambition in my love thus plagues itself: | Th' ambition in my loue thus plagues it selfe: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.168 | His humble ambition, proud humility, | His humble ambition, proud humility: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.i.22 | Becomes his captain's captain; and ambition, | Becomes his Captaines Captaine: and Ambition |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.133 | young fellow of France, full of ambition, an | yong fellow of France, full of ambition, an |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.35 | Who doth ambition shun, | Who doth ambition shunne, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.49 | This tribute from us, we were free. Caesar's ambition, | This Tribute from vs, we were free. Casars Ambition, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.251 | Why, then your ambition makes it one. | Why then your Ambition makes it one: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.256 | Which dreams indeed are ambition. | Which dreames indeed are Ambition: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.260 | Truly; and I hold ambition of so airy and | Truely, and I hold Ambition of so ayry and |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.43 | most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. And then | most pittifull Ambition in the Foole that vses it. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.55 | My crown, mine own ambition, and my Queen. | My Crowne, mine owne Ambition, and my Queene: |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.49 | Whose spirit, with divine ambition puffed, | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.87 | Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk. | Ill-weau'd Ambition, how much art thou shrunke? |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.223 | my father's ambition! He was thinking of civil wars | my Fathers Ambition, hee was thinking of Ciuill Warres |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.112 | Go forward, and be choked with thy ambition! | Goe forward, and be choak'd with thy ambition: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.123 | Choked with ambition of the meaner sort; | Choakt with Ambition of the meaner sort. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.178 | Pride went before; Ambition follows him. | Pride went before, Ambition followes him. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.200 | With Somerset's and Buckingham's ambition; | With Somersets and Buckinghams Ambition, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.32.1 | And thy ambition, Gloucester. | And thy Ambition, Gloster. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.ii.71 | At Beaufort's pride, at Somerset's ambition, | At Beaufords Pride, at Somersets Ambition, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.143 | Virtue is choked with foul ambition, | Vertue is choakt with foule Ambition, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.254.2 | Thy ambition, | Thy Ambition |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.324 | That out of mere ambition you have caused | That out of meere Ambition, you haue caus'd |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.440 | Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: | Cromwel, I charge thee, fling away Ambition, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.63 | Become a churchman better than ambition. | Become a Churchman, better then Ambition: |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.317 | Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at. | Casars Ambition shall be glanced at. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.28 | for his valour; and death for his ambition. Who is here | for his Valour: and Death, for his Ambition. Who is heere |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.93 | Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: | Ambition should be made of sterner stuffe, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.98 | Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition? | Which he did thrice refuse. Was this Ambition? |
| King John | KJ II.i.476 | Are capable of this ambition, | Are capeable of this ambition, |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.27 | No blown ambition doth our arms incite | No blowne Ambition doth our Armes incite, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.17 | Art not without ambition, but without | Art not without Ambition, but without |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.27 | Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself | Vaulting Ambition, which ore-leapes it selfe, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iv.28 | Thriftless ambition, that wilt raven up | Thriftlesse Ambition, that will rauen vp |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.42 | the period of my ambition. O this blessed hour! | the period of my ambition: O this blessed houre. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.347 | That make ambition virtue – O, farewell! | That makes Ambition, Vertue! Oh farewell; |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.18 | Thoughts tending to ambition, they do plot | Thoughts tending to Ambition, they do plot |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.144 | Tongue-tied ambition, not replying, yielded | Tongue-ty'd Ambition, not replying, yeelded |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.105 | With all prerogative. Hence his ambition growing – | With all prerogatiue: hence his Ambition growing: |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.483 | Are then most humble. I have no ambition | Are then most humble: I haue no ambition |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.246 | Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond, | Ambition cannot pierce a winke beyond |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.75 | You, brother mine, that entertained ambition, | You, brother mine, that entertaine ambition, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.329 | A beastly ambition, which the gods grant thee | A beastly Ambition, which the Goddes graunt thee |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iii.10 | Whose fall the mark of his ambition is. | Whose fall the marke of his Ambition is. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.221 | with praises, pour in, pour in; his ambition is dry. | with praises, poure in, poure in: his ambition is dry. |