| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.55 | To grow there and to bear – ‘Let me not live', | To grow there and to beare: Let me not liue, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.36 | I grow to you, and our parting is a tortured | I grow to you, & our parting is a tortur'd |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.156 | We please to have it grow. Check thy contempt. | We please to haue it grow. Checke thy contempt: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.i.5 | Be bold you do so grow in my requital | Be bold you do so grow in my requitall, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.32 | Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow; | Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.25.1 | Nor curstness grow to th' matter. | Nor curstnesse grow to'th'matter. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.98.1 | And it grows fouler. | and it grow fouler. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.111 | But when we in our viciousness grow hard – | But when we in our viciousnesse grow hard |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ii.38 | Grace grow where those drops fall! My hearty friends, | Grace grow where those drops fall (my hearty Friends) |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.80 | Is it even so? Begin you to grow upon me? I will | Is it euen so, begin you to grow vpon me? I will |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.127 | Thus men may grow wiser every day. It is | Thus men may grow wiser euery day. It is |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.5 | If he, compact of jars, grow musical, | If he compact of iarres, grow Musicall, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.4 | Shall love in building grow so ruinous? | Shall loue in buildings grow so ruinate? |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.34 | helps are many, or else your actions would grow wondrous | helpes are many, or else your actions would growe wondrous |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.43 | I'th' war do grow together. Grant that, and tell me | I'th' Warre do grow together: Grant that, and tell me |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iv.21 | Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends | Some tricke not worth an Egge, shall grow deere friends |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.39 | The loathness to depart would grow. Adieu! | The loathnesse to depart, would grow: Adieu. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.58.2 | Grow, patience! | Grow patient, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.122 | Displace our heads where – thank the gods! – they grow, | Displace our heads, where (thanks the Gods) they grow |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.143 | the old stock, and freshly grow, then shall | the old Stocke, and freshly grow, then shall |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.441 | jointed to the old stock, and freshly grow, then | ioynted to the old Stocke, and freshly grow, then |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.11 | For nature crescent does not grow alone | For nature cressant does not grow alone, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.94 | And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, | And you my sinnewes, grow not instant Old; |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.204 | grow old as I am – if, like a crab, you could go backward. | be old as I am, if like a Crab you could go backward. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.336 | How comes it? Do they grow rusty? | How comes it? doe they grow rusty? |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.347 | if they should grow themselves to common players – as | if they should grow themselues to common Players (as |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.182 | Where little fears grow great, great love grows there. | |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.236 | My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile | My spirits grow dull, and faine I would beguile |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.6 | Hazard so near us as doth hourly grow | Hazard so dangerous as doth hourely grow |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.59 | Does by their own insinuation grow. | Doth by their owne insinuation grow: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.24 | Another king! They grow like Hydra's heads. | Another King? They grow like Hydra's heads: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.162 | rewards me, God reward him! If I do grow great, I'll | rewards me, heauen reward him. If I do grow great again, Ile |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.163 | grow less, for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live | grow lesse? For Ile purge, and leaue Sacke, and liue |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.20 | fledge. I will sooner have a beard grow in the palm of | fledg'd, I will sooner haue a beard grow in the Palme of |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.10 | Our present musters grow upon the file | Our present Musters grow vpon the File |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.60 | That it may grow and sprout as high as heaven | That it may grow, and sprowt, as high as Heauen, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.167 | Be gone, good ancient; this will grow to a | Be gone, good Ancient: this will grow to a |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.39 | How foul it is, what rank diseases grow, | How foule it is: what ranke Diseases grow, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.86 | Would of that seed grow to a greater falseness, | Would of that Seed, grow to a greater falsenesse, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.246 | Bullcalf, grow till you come unto it. I will none of you. | Bull-calfe, grow till you come vnto it: I will none of you. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.221.1 | Grow stronger for the breaking. | Grow stronger, for the breaking. |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.52 | an humour to knock you indifferently well. If you grow | an humor to knocke you indifferently well: If you grow |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.97 | garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their | Garden where Leekes did grow, wearing Leekes in their |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.55 | Defective in their natures, grow to wildness, | Defectiue in their natures, grow to wildnesse. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.59 | But grow like savages – as soldiers will | But grow like Sauages, as Souldiers will, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.160 | grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax | grow bald, a faire Face will wither, a full Eye will wax |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.135 | My Lord of Gloucester, now ye grow too hot; | My Lord of Gloster, now ye grow too hot, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.53 | The winds grow high; so do your stomachs, lords. | The Windes grow high, / So doe your Stomacks, Lords: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.286 | Before the wound do grow uncurable; | Before the Wound doe grow vncurable; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.337 | Where biting cold would never let grass grow, | Where byting cold would neuer let grasse grow, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vii.59 | When we grow stronger, then we'll make our claim; | When wee grow stronger, / Then wee'le make our Clayme: |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.89 | They that my trust must grow to, live not here. | They that my trust must grow to, liue not heere, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.144 | Or felt the flatteries that grow upon it! | Or felt the Flatteries that grow vpon it: |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.161 | Grow from the King's acquaintance, by this carriage. | Grow from the Kings Acquaintance, by this Carriage. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.164 | They swell, and grow as terrible as storms. | They swell and grow, as terrible as stormes. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.164 | For so I will. Mine eyes grow dim. Farewell, | (For so I will) mine eyes grow dimme. Farewell |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.181 | So I grow stronger, you more honour gain. | So I grow stronger, you more Honour gaine. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.67 | They grow still, too; from all parts they are coming, | They grow still too; from all Parts they are comming, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.49 | Shall then be his, and like a vine grow to him. | Shall then be his, and like a Vine grow to him; |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.33 | Which, hatched, would, as his kind, grow mischievous, | Which hatch'd, would as his kinde grow mischieuous; |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.iv.43 | That Caesar will not grant. (aside) O, I grow faint. | That Casar will not grant. O, I grow faint: |
| King John | KJ V.i.52 | Grow great by your example and put on | Grow great by your example, and put on |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.21 | Shall top the legitimate. I grow. I prosper. | Shall to'th'Legitimate: I grow, I prosper: |
| King Lear | KL I.iii.7 | His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us | His Knights grow riotous, and himselfe vpbraides vs |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.201 | To have found a safe redress; but now grow fearful | To haue found a safe redresse, but now grow fearefull |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.155 | A good man's fortune may grow out at heels. | A good mans fortune may grow out at heeles: |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.5 | Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow | Darnell, and all the idle weedes that grow |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.5 | Why then your other senses grow imperfect | Why then your other Senses grow imperfect |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.96 | He weeds the corn, and still lets grow the weeding. | Hee weedes the corne, and still lets grow the weeding. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.54 | Such short-lived wits do wither as they grow. | Such short liu'd wits do wither as they grow. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.138 | Come, come, you talk greasily; your lips grow foul. | Come, come, you talke greasely, your lips grow foule. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.232 | Nay then, two treys, an if you grow so nice, | Nay then two treyes, an if you grow so nice |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.253 | Then die a calf before your horns do grow. | Then die a Calfe before your horns do grow. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.58 | And say which grain will grow and which will not, | And say, which Graine will grow, and which will not, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iv.33.2 | There if I grow, | There if I grow, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.41 | As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time | As those that feed, grow full: as blossoming Time |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.261 | trust it will grow to a most prosperous perfection. | trust it will grow to a most prosperous perfection. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.258 | To weed my vice and let his grow. | To weede my vice, and let his grow. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.67 | You grow exceeding strange. Must it be so? | You grow exceeding strange: must it be so? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.110 | Fare you well; I'll grow a talker for this gear. | Far you well, Ile grow a talker for this geare. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.15 | indeed my father did something smack, something grow | indeede my Father did something smack, something grow |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.316 | my creditors grow cruel, my estate is very low, my bond | my Creditors grow cruell, my estate is very low, my bond |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.22 | price of hogs; if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall | price of Hogs, if wee grow all to be porke-eaters, wee shall |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.26 | I shall grow jealous of you shortly, Launcelot, | I shall grow iealous of you shortly Lancelet, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.42 | discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots. | discourse grow commendable in none onely but Parrats: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.72 | peradventures shall tell you another tale, if matters grow | peraduentures shall tell you another tale, if matters grow |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.232 | I hope upon familiarity will grow more content. But if | I hope vpon familiarity will grow more content: but if |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.79 | So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord, | So will I grow, so liue, so die my Lord, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.9 | on; then read the names of the actors; and so grow to a | on: then read the names of the Actors: and so grow on to a |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.129 | And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind; | And grow big bellied with the wanton winde: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.84 | So sorrow's heaviness doth heavier grow | So sorrowes heauinesse doth heauier grow: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.140 | Thy lips – those kissing cherries – tempting grow! | Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow! |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.46 | Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will | Grow this to what aduerse issue it can, I will |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.298 | men grow hard-hearted and will lend nothing for God's | men grow hard-harted and will lend nothing for Gods |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.144 | Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear | Grew beneath their shoulders. These things to heare, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.189.1 | Even as our days do grow. | Euen as our dayes do grow. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.315 | naming, this crack of your love shall grow stronger than | naming, this cracke of your Loue, shall grow stronger, then |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.365 | Though other things grow fair against the sun, | Though other things grow faire against the Sun, |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.31 | Which fence the roots they grow by and defend them, | Which fence the rootes they grow by and defend them, |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.85 | Decrease not, but grow faster than the years. | Decrease not, but grow faster then the yeares, |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.19 | So with his steerage shall your thoughts grow on – | So with his sterage, shall your thoughts grone |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.182 | Mine honour is my life. Both grow in one. | Mine Honor is my life; both grow in one: |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.212 | To ear the land that hath some hope to grow; | To eare the Land, that hath some hope to grow, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.180 | In the base-court – base-court, where kings grow base | In the base Court? base Court, where Kings grow base, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.101 | Pray God the plants thou graftest may never grow. | I would the Plants thou graft'st, may neuer grow. |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.29 | For ever may my knees grow to the earth, | For euer may my knees grow to the earth, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.105 | Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow. | Our knees shall kneele, till to the ground they grow: |
| Richard II | R2 V.vi.46 | That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow. | That blood should sprinkle me, to make me grow. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.41 | Why grow the branches when the root is gone? | Why grow the Branches, when the Roote is gone? |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.9 | Why, my young cousin? It is good to grow. | Why my good Cosin, it is good to grow. |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.11 | My uncle Rivers talked how I did grow | My Vnkle Riuers talk'd how I did grow |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.13 | ‘ Small herbs have grace; great weeds do grow apace.’ | Small Herbes haue grace, great Weeds do grow apace. |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.14 | And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast, | And since, me thinkes I would not grow so fast, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.154 | Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow, | Could we but learne from whence his sorrowes grow, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.96 | No less? Nay, bigger! Women grow by men. | No lesse, nay bigger: women grow by men. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.15 | With thy black mantle till strange love grow bold, | With thy Blacke mantle, till strange Loue grow bold, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.136 | Which otherwise would grow into extremes. | Which otherwise would grow into extreames. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.1 | Fiddler, forbear, you grow too forward, sir. | Fidler forbeare, you grow too forward Sir, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.164 | I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow; | I 'prethee let me bring thee where Crabs grow; |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.19 | To make this contract grow; but barren hate, | To make this contract grow; but barraine hate, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.39 | And grant, as Timon grows, his hate may grow | And graunt as Timon growes, his hate may grow |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.157 | Here grow no damned drugs, here are no storms, | Heere grow no damned grudges, heere are no stormes, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.45.1 | Ay, boy, grow ye so brave? | I Boy, grow ye so braue? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.95 | Who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, | Who markes the waxing tide, / Grow waue by waue, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.6 | Grow in the veins of actions highest reared, | Grow in the veines of actions highest rear'd. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.151 | grow? I know not what it is. | grow? I know not what it is. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.120 | My thoughts were like unbridled children, grown | My thoughts were like vnbrideled children grow |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.69 | And I'll grow friend with danger. Wear this sleeve. | And Ile grow friend with danger; / Weare this Sleeue. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.33 | Let grow thy sinews till their knots be strong, | Let grow thy Sinews till their knots be strong; |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iv.17 | And tell them, there thy fixed foot shall grow | And tell them, there thy fixed foot shall grow |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.37 | you grow dishonest. | you grow dis-honest. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.41 | To die, even when they to perfection grow. | To die, euen when they to perfection grow. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.46 | one – (aside) though I would not have it grow on my | one, though I would not haue it grow on my |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.164 | Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow | Or will not else thy craft so quickely grow, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.97 | The vine shall grow, but we shall never see it; | The Vine shall grow, but we shall never see it: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.120 | The gall of hazard, so they grow together, | The gaule of hazard, so they grow together, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.192 | My knees shall grow to th' ground but I'll get mercy. | My knees shall grow to 'th ground but Ile get mercie. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.168 | Must grow alone, unplucked. | Must grow alone unpluck'd. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.93 | My Palamon I hope will grow too, finely, | My Palamon I hope will grow too finely |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.431.2 | How should this grow? | How should this grow? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.550 | He chides to hell and bids the other grow | He chides to Hell, and bids the other grow |