| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.216 | Her infinite cunning with her modern grace | Her insuite comming with her moderne grace, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.146 | She is cunning past man's thought. | She is cunning past mans thought. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.151 | cannot be cunning in her; if it be, she makes a shower | cannot be cunning in her; if it be, she makes a showre |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.iii.35 | And in our sports my better cunning faints | And in our sports my better cunning faints, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xii.31 | The ne'er-touched vestal. Try thy cunning, Thidias. | The ne're touch'd Vestall. Try thy cunning Thidias, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.9 | A noble cunning. You were used to load me | A Noble cunning. You were vs'd to load me |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.89 | a cunning thief, or a – that way – accomplished courtier, | A cunning Thiefe, or a (that way) accomplish'd Courtier, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.205 | O cunning, how I got it! – nay, some marks | (Oh cunning how I got) nay some markes |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.439 | with as much modesty as cunning. I remember one said | with as much modestie, as cunning. I remember one said, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.588 | Have by the very cunning of the scene | Haue by the very cunning of the Scoene, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.140.1 | Is very cunning in. | is very cunning in. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.377 | Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, | Of death's put on by cunning, and forc'd cause, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.89 | cunning match have you made with this jest of the | cunning match haue you made this iest of the |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.444 | cleanly, but to carve a capon and eat it? Wherein cunning, | cleanly, but to carue a Capon, and eat it? wherein Cunning, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.111 | And whatsoever cunning fiend it was | And whatsoeuer cunning fiend it was |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.143 | out my eloquence, nor I have no cunning in protestation: | out my eloquence, nor I haue no cunning in protestation; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.50 | Is this thy cunning, thou deceitful dame? | Is this thy cunning, thou deceitfull Dame? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.10 | And of thy cunning had no diffidence; | And of thy Cunning had no diffidence, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.75 | With Margery Jourdain, the cunning witch, | With Margerie Iordane the cunning Witch, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.130 | miracle; and would ye not think his cunning to be great, | Miracle: / And would ye not thinke it, Cunning to be great, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.34 | A cunning man did calculate my birth, | A cunning man did calculate my birth, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.168 | Pray give me favour, sir. This cunning Cardinal | Pray giue me fauour Sir: This cunning Cardinall |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.107 | T' oppose your cunning. You're meek and humble-mouthed; | T' oppose your cunning. Y'are meek, & humble-mouth'd |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.1 | Where's the Frenchman by whose cunning guide | Wheres the French man by whose cunning guide, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.54 | And call it cunning. Do, an if you will. | And call it cunning. Do, and if you will, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.107 | Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes, | Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.280 | Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides; | Time shall vnfold what plighted cunning hides, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.60 | cunning of it. I found it thrown in at the casement of my | cunning of it. I found it throwne in at the Casement of my |
| King Lear | KL II.i.29 | In cunning I must draw my sword upon you. | In cunning, I must draw my Sword vpon you: |
| King Lear | KL III.i.21 | With mutual cunning – 'twixt Albany and Cornwall; | With mutuall cunning) 'twixt Albany, and Cornwall: |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.49.2 | Cunning. | Cunning. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.101 | To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose. | To sell a bargaine well is as cunning as fast and loose: |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.180 | O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint, | Oh cunning enemy, that to catch a Saint, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.98 | O, 'tis the cunning livery of hell, | Oh 'tis the cunning Liuerie of hell, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.153 | cunning I will lay myself in hazard. Claudio, whom | cunning, I will lay my selfe in hazard: Claudio, whom |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.100 | The seeming truth which cunning times put on | The seeming truth which cunning times put on |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.36 | With cunning hast thou filched my daughter's heart, | With cunning hast thou filch'd my daughters heart, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.128 | You do advance your cunning more and more. | You doe aduance your cunning more & more, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.47 | put it in practice. Be cunning in the working this, and | put it in practise: be cunning in the working this, and |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.50 | cunning shall not shame me. | cunning shall not shame me. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.34 | Can cunning sin cover itself withal! | Can cunning sinne couer it selfe withall! |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.218 | is too cunning to be understood; what's your offence? | is too cunning to be vnderstood, what's your offence? |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.102 | To find out practices of cunning hell | To find out practises of cunning hell |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.49 | That errs in ignorance, and not in cunning, | That erres in Ignorance, and not in Cunning, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.90 | I will be found most cunning in my patience, | I will be found most cunning in my Patience: |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.88 | I took you for that cunning whore of Venice | I tooke you for that cunning Whore of Venice, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.329 | If there be any cunning cruelty | If there be any cunning Crueltie, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.26 | Virtue and cunning were endowments greater | Vertue and Cunning, / Were endowments greater, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.163 | Or like a cunning instrument cased up – | Or like a cunning Instrument cas'd vp, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.135 | So cunning, and so young, is wonderful. | So cunning, and so young, is wonderfull. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.101 | Than those that have more cunning to be strange. | Then those that haue coying to be strange, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.2 | Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks. | Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning Cookes. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.90 | Wherein your cunning can assist me much. | Wherein your cunning can assist me much. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.97 | Prefer them hither; for to cunning men | Preferre them hither: for to cunning men, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.184 | To get her cunning schoolmasters to instruct her? | To get her cunning Schoolemasters to instruct her. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.56 | Cunning in music and the mathematics, | Cunning in Musicke, and the Mathematickes, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.80 | hath been long studying at Rheims, as cunning in Greek, | hath / Beene long studying at Rhemes, as cunning / In Greeke, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.404 | A child shall get a sire, if I fail not of my cunning. | A childe shall get a sire, if I faile not of my cunning. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.81 | The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning! | The bigger bulke it shewes. Hence bashfull cunning, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.42 | a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the | A Sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me / Of the |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.210 | By putting on the cunning of a carper. | By putting on the cunning of a Carper. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.28 | Shame, that they wanted cunning, in excess | (Shame that they wanted, cunning in excesse) |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.77 | I'll find some cunning practice out of hand | Ile find some cunning practise out of hand |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.28 | am too courtly, and thou art too cunning. At whose | am too courtly, and thou art too cunning. At whose |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.130 | Cunning in dumbness, from my weakness draws | Comming in dumbnesse, from my weakenesse drawes |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.104 | Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns, | Whil'st some with cunning guild their copper crownes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.v.41 | As if that luck, in very spite of cunning, | As if that luck in very spight of cunning, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.229 | Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. | Natures owne sweet, and cunning hand laid on: |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.ii.22 | She loves me, sure, the cunning of her passion | She loues me sure, the cunning of her passion |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.113 | To force that on you in a shameful cunning | To force that on you in a shamefull cunning |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.277 | valiant, and so cunning in fence, I'd have seen him | valiant, and so cunning in Fence, I'de haue seene him |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.84 | Where, being apprehended, his false cunning – | Where being apprehended, his false cunning |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.178 | With all the cunning manner of our flight, | With all the cunning manner of our flight |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.80 | That you shall say my cunning drift excels. | That you shall say, my cunning drift excels. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.43 | And with a finger of so deep a cunning, | And with a finger of so deepe a cunning |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.120 | I know your cunning, and I know your cause; | I know your cunning, and I know your cause, |