| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.23 | My thanks and duty are your majesty's. | My thankes and dutie are your Maiesties. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.114 | in, which I held my duty speedily to acquaint you | in, which I held my dutie speedily to acquaint you |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.125 | My duty then shall pay me for my pains. | My dutie then shall pay me for my paines: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.160 | Which both thy duty owes and our power claims; | Which both thy dutie owes, and Our power claimes, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.24 | world I will hold a long distance. My duty to you. | world, I will hold a long distance. My duty to you. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.12 | My mother did but duty, such, my lord, | My mother did but dutie, such (my Lord) |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.144.1 | By duty ruminated. | By duty ruminated. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.88.2 | I have done my duty. | I haue done my duty. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.82.1 | My duty on your hand. | My dutie on your hand. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ii.25 | May be it is the period of your duty. | May be, it is the period of your duty, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.155 | I attend them with all respect and duty. | I attend them with all respect and dutie. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.58 | When service sweat for duty, not for meed! | When seruice sweate for dutie, not for meede: |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.91 | All adoration, duty and observance, | All adoration, dutie, and obseruance, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.107 | A charitable duty of my order. | A charitable dutie of my order, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.51 | Of thy deep duty more impression show | Of thy deepe duty, more impression shew |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.55 | Show duty as mistaken all this while | Shew duty as mistaken, all this while, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.167 | That thou restrain'st from me the duty which | That thou restrain'st from me the Duty, which |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.18 | Always reserved my holy duty – what | (Alwayes reseru'd my holy duty) what |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.32 | The duty of the day. She looks us like | The duty of the day. She looke vs like |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.33 | A thing more made of malice than of duty, | A thing more made of malice, then of duty, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.48 | She should that duty leave unpaid to you | She should that dutie leaue vnpaide to you |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.viii.16.2 | We will discharge our duty. | We will discharge our duty. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.174 | As needful in our loves, fitting our duty? | As needfull in our Loues, fitting our Duty? |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.39 | Farewell; and let your haste commend your duty. | Farewell, and let your hast commend your duty. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.40 | In that, and all things, will we show our duty. | In that, and all things, will we shew our duty. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.53 | To show my duty in your coronation, | To shew my duty in your Coronation, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.54 | Yet now I must confess, that duty done, | Yet now I must confesse, that duty done, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.222 | And we did think it writ down in our duty | And we did thinke it writ downe in our duty |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.253.2 | Our duty to your honour. | Our duty to your Honour. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.44 | I hold my duty as I hold my soul, | I hold my dutie, as I hold my Soule, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.87 | What majesty should be, what duty is, | What Maiestie should be, what Dutie is, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.107 | Who in her duty and obedience, mark, | Who in her Dutie and Obedience, marke, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.356 | O my lord, if my duty be too bold, my | O my Lord, if my Dutie be too bold, my |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.6 | We shall express our duty in his eye. | We shall expresse our dutie in his eye, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.178 | I commend my duty to your lordship. | I commend my duty to your Lordship. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.15 | Our duty this way lies: for God's sake, come. | Our duty this way lies, for heauens sake come. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.124 | virtuous. No, my lord, my humble duty remembered, | vertuous: No, my Lord (your humble duty remẽbred) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 epilogue.2 | My fear is your displeasure; my curtsy, my duty; | My Feare, is your Displeasure: My Curtsie, my Dutie: |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.31 | With hearts create of duty and of zeal. | With hearts create of duty, and of zeale. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.8 | soul, and my heart, and my duty, and my live, and my | soule, and my heart, and my dutie, and my liue, and my |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.171 | for the which they are now visited. Every subject's duty | for the which they are now visited. Euery Subiects Dutie |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.23 | My duty to you both, on equal love, | My dutie to you both, on equall loue. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.37 | How much in duty I am bound to both. | How much in duty, I am bound to both. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.52 | My lord, it were your duty to forbear. | My Lord, it were your dutie to forbeare. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.172 | And in reguerdon of that duty done | And in reguerdon of that dutie done, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.177 | And as my duty springs, so perish they | And as my dutie springs, so perish they, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iv.4 | To do my duty to my sovereign; | To doe my dutie to my Soueraigne. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iv.34 | I owe him little duty, and less love, | I owe him little Dutie, and lesse Loue, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.156 | As I in duty love my king and country! | As I in dutie loue my King and Countrey. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.17 | Disdaining duty that to us belongs. | Disdaining dutie that to vs belongs. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.173 | For shame! In duty bend thy knee to me, | For shame in dutie bend thy knee to me, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.33 | I know my duty; you are all undutiful. | I know my dutie, you are all vndutifull: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vii.28 | The duty that I owe unto your majesty | The duty that I owe vnto your Maiesty, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.198 | As he made semblance of his duty, would | (As he made semblance of his duty) would |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.80 | If I but knew him, with my love and duty | (If I but knew him) with my loue and duty |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.67 | Malice ne'er meant. Our breach of duty this way | Malice ne're meant: Our breach of Duty this way, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.40 | My bond to wedlock, or my love and duty | My bond to Wedlocke, or my Loue and Dutie |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.188 | Should, notwithstanding that your bond of duty, | Should, notwithstanding that your bond of duty, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.193 | Though all the world should crack their duty to you, | (Though all the world should cracke their duty to you, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.196 | Appear in forms more horrid – yet my duty, | Appeare in formes more horrid) yet my Duty, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.90.2 | It is my duty | It is my dutie |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.119 | That holy duty, out of dear respect, | That holy duty out of deare respect, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.258 | It is my duty, sir. | It is my duty Sir. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.259 | I should not urge thy duty past thy might; | I should not vrge thy duty past thy might, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.39 | Ah, wherein may our duty more be seen | Ah where in may our duety more be seene, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.89 | To show my duty and his dignity? | To shew my duety, and his dignitie. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.107 | In duty lower than the ground I kneel, | In duetie lower then the ground I kneele, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.191 | Let my intrusion here be called my duty, | Let my intrusion here be cald my duetie, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.255 | For Sarah owes that duty to her lord. | For Sara owes that duetie to her Lord, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.316 | That never pay the duty of their words. | That neuer pay the duetie of their words, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.340 | Of love and duty 'twixt thyself and me. | Ofloue and duetie twixt thy self and mee, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.366 | I'll say it is my duty to persuade, | Ile say it is my duety to perswade, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.28 | All love and duty to my lord the king! | All loue and duety to my Lord the King. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.76 | First having done my duty as beseemed, | First hauing donne my duety as beseemed |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.83 | And here with humble duty I present | And heere with humble duety I present, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.100 | And done, I hope, the duty of a knight. | And done I hope the duety of a Knight |
| King John | KJ II.i.247 | To pay that duty which you truly owe | To pay that dutie which you truly owe, |
| King John | KJ III.iii.73 | With all true duty. On toward Calais, ho! | With al true duetie: On toward Callice, hoa. |
| King Lear | KL I.i.102 | Half my love with him, half my care and duty. | Halfe my loue with him, halfe my Care, and Dutie, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.147 | Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak | Think'st thou that dutie shall haue dread to speake, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.276.1 | Prescribe not us our duty. | Prescribe not vs our dutie. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.64 | be mistaken; for my duty cannot be silent when I think | bee mistaken, for my duty cannot be silent, when I thinke |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.261 | That all particulars of duty know | That all particulars of dutie know, |
| King Lear | KL II.i.105.2 | It was my duty, sir. | It was my duty Sir. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.29 | My duty kneeling, came there a reeking post, | My dutie kneeling, came there a reeking Poste, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.135.1 | Than she to scant her duty. | Then she to scant her dutie. |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.141 | Go in with me. My duty cannot suffer | Go in with me; my duty cannot suffer |
| King Lear | KL IV.v.18 | My lady charged my duty in this business. | My Lady charg'd my dutie in this busines. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.256 | ever-esteemed duty pricks me on – have sent to thee, to | euer esteemed dutie prickes me on) haue sent to thee, to |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.265 | devoted and heart-burning heat of duty, | deuoted and heart-burning heat of dutie. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.141 | compliment; I forgive thy duty. Adieu. | complement, I forgiue thy duetie, adue. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.199 | Our duty is so rich, so infinite, | Our dutie is so rich, so infinite, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.50 | Not so, sir, neither. I know my duty. | Not so sir neither, I know my dutie. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.127 | With duty and desire we follow you. | With dutie and desire we follow you. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.83 | When simpleness and duty tender it. | when simplenesse and duty tender it. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.86 | And duty in his service perishing. | And duty in his seruice perishing. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.91 | And what poor duty cannot do, noble respect | And what poore duty cannot doe, noble respect |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.101 | And in the modesty of fearful duty | And in the modesty of fearefull duty, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.147 | you all duty. | you all duetie. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.46 | Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make | Yes faith, it is my cosens dutie to make |
| Othello | Oth I.i.50 | Who, trimmed in forms and visages of duty, | Who trym'd in Formes, and visages of Dutie, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.60 | Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, | Heauen is my Iudge, not I for loue and dutie, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.136 | Tying her duty, beauty, wit, and fortunes | Tying her Dutie, Beautie, Wit, and Fortunes |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.41 | With his free duty recommends you thus, | With his free dutie, recommends you thus, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.179 | I do perceive here a divided duty: | I do perceiue heere a diuided dutie. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.182 | How to respect you. You are the lord of all my duty, | How to respect you. You are the Lord of duty, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.184 | And so much duty as my mother showed | And so much dutie, as my Mother shew'd |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.142 | A knave teach me my duty? I'll beat the knave into | A Knaue teach me my dutie? Ile beate the Knaue into |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.161 | Have you forgot all sense of place and duty? | Haue you forgot all place of sense and dutie? |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.133 | Though I am bound to every act of duty, | Though I am bound to euery Acte of dutie, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.192 | To show the love and duty that I bear you | To shew the Loue and Duty that I beare you |
| Pericles | Per III.iii.22 | By you relieved would force me to my duty. | by you relieu'd, / Would force me to my duety: |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.134 | Neglected my sworn duty in that case. | Neglected my sworne duty in that case: |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.167 | The one my duty owes, but my fair name, | The one my dutie owes, but my faire name |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.52 | The appellant in all duty greets your highness | The Appealant in all duty greets your Highnes, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.180 | Swear by the duty that you owe to God – | Sweare by the duty that you owe to heauen |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.164 | Shall tender duty make me suffer wrong? | Shall tender dutie make me suffer wrong? |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.113 | And duty bids defend. T'other again | And dutie bids defend: th'other againe |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.84 | Whose duty is deceivable and false. | Whose dutie is deceiuable, and false. |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.173 | Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty; | Tradition, Forme, and Ceremonious dutie, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.48 | My stooping duty tenderly shall show. | My stooping dutie tenderly shall shew. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.76 | To pay their awful duty to our presence? | To pay their awfull dutie to our presence? |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.188 | And show fair duty to his majesty. | And shew faire dutie to his Maiestie. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.63 | Their fruits of duty. Superfluous branches | Their fruites of dutie. Superfluous branches |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.216 | I will with all expedient duty see you. | I will with all expedient duty see you, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.249 | Were you well served, you would be taught your duty. | Were you wel seru'd, you would be taught your duty. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.250 | To serve me well, you all should do me duty, | To serue me well, you all should do me duty, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.252 | O, serve me well, and teach yourselves that duty! | O serue me well, and teach your selues that duty. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.227 | Thy brother's love, our duty, and thy fault | Thy Brothers Loue, our Duty, and thy Faults, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.108 | Love, charity, obedience, and true duty! | Loue Charity, Obedience, and true Dutie. |
| Richard III | R3 III.iii.3 | For truth, for duty, and for loyalty. | For Truth, for Dutie, and for Loyaltie. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.80 | So please your lordship to accept our duty. | So please your Lordshippe to accept our dutie. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.111 | Such duty to the drunkard let him do, | Such dutie to the drunkard let him do: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.115 | May show her duty and make known her love?’ | May shew her dutie, and make knowne her loue. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.172 | So shall I no whit be behind in duty | So shal I no whit be behinde in dutie |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.7 | So well I know my duty to my elders. | So well I know my dutie to my elders. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.32 | and therefore fire. Do thy duty, and have thy duty, for | & therefore fire: do thy duty, and haue thy dutie, for |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.112 | What, no attendance? No regard? No duty? | What? no attendance? no regard? no dutie? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.11 | Now do your duty throughly, I advise you. | Now doe your dutie throughlie I aduise you: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.124 | Fie! what a foolish duty call you this? | Fie what a foolish dutie call you this? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.125 | I would your duty were as foolish too! | I would your dutie were as foolish too: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.126 | The wisdom of your duty, fair Bianca, | The wisdome of your dutie faire Bianca, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.128 | The more fool you for laying on my duty. | The more foole you for laying on my dutie. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.130 | What duty they do owe their lords and husbands. | what dutie they doe owe their Lords and husbands. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.154 | Such duty as the subject owes the prince, | Such dutie as the subiect owes the Prince, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.177 | In token of which duty, if he please, | In token of which dutie, if he please, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.263 | At duty, more than I could frame employment; | At duty more then I could frame employment; |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.519 | Duty, and zeal to your unmatched mind, | Dutie, and Zeale, to your vnmatched minde; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.153 | Yea, what he shall receive of us in duty | Yea what he shall receiue of vs in duetie, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.92 | My duty, madam, and most humble service! | My dutie Madam, and most humble seruice. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.105 | My lord would speak; my duty hushes me. | My Lord would speake, my dutie hushes me. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.306 | shame. Think of me as you please, I leave my duty a little | shame: thinke of me as you please. I leaue my duty a little |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.101 | But for my duty to your ladyship. | But for my duty to your Ladiship. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.109 | My duty will I boast of, nothing else. | My dutie will I boast of, nothing else. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.110 | And duty never yet did want his meed. | And dutie neuer yet did want his meed. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.8 | My duty pricks me on to utter that | My dutie pricks me on to vtter that |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.69 | Proud, disobedient, stubborn, lacking duty; | Prowd, disobedient, stubborne, lacking duty, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.75 | Should have been cherished by her child-like duty, | Should haue beene cherish'd by her child-like dutie, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.19 | Is but a debt to honour, and my duty. | Is but a debt to honour, and my duty. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.182 | His dignity and duty both cast off – | (His Dignitie, and Dutie both cast off) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.212 | Where you were tied in duty; and as sorry | Where you were ty'd in dutie: and as sorry, |