| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.77 | And every hair that's on't, Helen that's dead | And eu'rie haire that's on't, Helen that's dead |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.194 | Which, like the courser's hair, hath yet but life | Which like the Coursers heire, hath yet but life, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.114 | The colour of her hair. Bring me word quickly. | The colour of her haire. Bring me word quickly, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iii.32.1 | Her hair, what colour? | Her haire what colour? |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.6 | His very hair is of the dissembling colour. | His very haire / Is of the dissembling colour. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.9 | I'faith, his hair is of a good colour. | I'faith his haire is of a good colour. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.46 | 'Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair, | 'Tis not your inkie browes, your blacke silke haire, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.130 | He said mine eyes were black and my hair black, | He said mine eyes were black, and my haire blacke, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.107 | A wretched ragged man, o'ergrown with hair, | A wretched ragged man, ore-growne with haire |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.78 | recover his hair that grows bald by nature. | recouer his haire that growes bald by nature. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.82 | and recover the lost hair of another man. | and recouer the lost haire of another man. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.84 | niggard of hair, being, as it is, so plentiful an excrement? | niggard of haire, being (as it is) so plentifull an excrement? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.87 | hair he hath given them in wit. | haire, hee hath giuen them in wit. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.89 | man hath more hair than wit. | man hath more haire then wit. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.91 | the wit to lose his hair. | the wit to lose his haire. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.111 | no time to recover hair lost by nature. | no time to recouer haire lost by Nature. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.72 | A rush, a hair, a drop of blood, a pin, | a rush, a haire, a drop of blood, a pin, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.173 | Great pails of puddled mire to quench the hair. | Great pailes of puddled myre to quench the haire; |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.31 | See him pluck Aufidius down by th' hair; | See him plucke Auffidius downe by th' haire: |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.135 | And not a hair upon a soldier's head | And not a haire vpon a Souldiers head |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.19 | And each particular hair to stand an end | And each particular haire to stand an end, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.122 | Your bedded hair like life in excrements, | Your bedded haire, like life in excrements, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.133 | afore thee like a flock of wild geese, I'll never wear hair | afore thee like a flocke of Wilde-geese, Ile neuer weare haire |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.134 | I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. | Ile cauill on the ninth part of a hayre. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.56 | boy, servant by servant – the tithe of a hair was never | Boy, Seruant by Seruant: the tight of a hayre was neuer |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.59 | many a hair, and I'll be sworn my pocket was picked. | many a hayre; and Ile be sworne my Pocket was pick'd: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.61 | The quality and hair of our attempt | The qualitie and Heire of our Attempt |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.23 | finish it when He will, 'tis not a hair amiss yet. He may | finish it when he will, it is not a haire amisse yet: he may |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.162 | There is not a white hair in your | There is not a white haire on your |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.244 | white hair of my chin. About it! You know where to | white haire on my chin. About it: you know where to |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.248 | Prince himself is such another – the weight of a hair | Prince himselfe is such another: the weight of an hayre |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.23 | With one appearing hair that will not follow | With one appearing Hayre, that will not follow |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.59 | own hair. | owne hayre. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.43 | Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair, | Like Prisoners wildly ouer-growne with hayre, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.171 | His hair upreared, his nostrils stretched with struggling; | His hayre vprear'd, his nostrils stretcht with strugling: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.174 | Look, on the sheets his hair, you see, is sticking; | Looke on the sheets his haire (you see) is sticking, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.318 | Mine hair be fixed on end, as one distract; | Mine haire be fixt an end, as one distract: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.iii.15 | Comb down his hair; look, look, it stands upright, | Combe downe his haire; looke, looke, it stands vpright, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.162 | Old Salisbury, shame to thy silver hair, | Old Salsbury, shame to thy siluer haire, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.54 | This hand, fast wound about thy coal-black hair, | This Hand, fast wound about thy coale-black hayre, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.259 | Weighed not a hair of his. Plague of your policy! | Weigh'd not a haire of his. Plague of your policie, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.37.20 | under it the Queen in her robe; in her hair, richly | vnder it the Queene in her Robe, in her haire, richly |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.135 | Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, | Yea, begge a haire of him for Memory, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.278 | That mak'st my blood cold, and my hair to stare? | That mak'st my blood cold, and my haire to stare? |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.115 | Her hair, far softer than the silkworm's twist, | Her hair far softor then the silke wormes twist, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.45 | I am not mad. This hair I tear is mine. | I am not mad: this haire I teare is mine, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.92 | A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair, | A graine, a dust, a gnat, a wandering haire, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.54 | Are turned to one thread, one little hair; | Are turned to one thred, one little haire: |
| King Lear | KL II.iii.10 | Blanket my loins, elf all my hair in knots, | Blanket my loines, elfe all my haires in knots, |
| King Lear | KL III.i.7 | That things might change or cease; tears his white hair, | That things might change, or cease. |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.83 | curled my hair, wore gloves in my cap, served the lust of | curl'd my haire, wore Gloues in my cap; seru'd the Lust of |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.257 | It mourns that painting and usurping hair | It mournes, that painting vsurping haire |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.319 | As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair. | As bright Apollo's Lute, strung with his haire. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.258 | Cutting a smaller hair than may be seen; | Cutting a smaller haire then may be seene, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.134 | Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, | Whose horrid Image doth vnfixe my Heire, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.112 | Thy crown does sear mine eye-balls. And thy hair, | Thy Crowne do's seare mine Eye-bals. And thy haire |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.11 | To hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair | To heare a Night-shrieke, and my Fell of haire |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.87 | Thou hast got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my | thou hast got more haire on thy chin, then Dobbin my |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.90 | backward. I am sure he had more hair on his tail than I | backeward. I am sure he had more haire of his |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.302 | Shall lose a hair through Bassanio's fault. | Shall lose a haire through Bassano's fault. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.328 | But in the estimation of a hair, | But in the estimation of a hayre, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.158 | The clerk will ne'er wear hair on's face that had it! | The Clearke wil nere weare haire on's face that had it. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.44 | Mistress Anne Page? She has brown hair, and | Mistris Anne Page? she has browne haire, and |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.36 | fight, you go against the hair of your professions. Is it | fight, you goe against the haire of your professions: is it |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.33 | With bracelets of thy hair, rings, gauds, conceits, | With bracelets of thy haire, rings, gawdes, conceits, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.90 | Some of your French crowns have no hair at all; | Some of your French Crownes haue no haire at all, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.37 | Pard, or boar with bristled hair | Pard, or Boare with bristled haire, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.25 | I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me, I | I am such a tender asse, if my haire do but tickle me, I |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.163 | Would you desire lime and hair to speak better? | Would you desire Lime and Haire to speake better? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.188 | Thy stones with lime and hair knit up in thee. | Thy stones with Lime and Haire knit vp in thee. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.246 | fetch you a hair off the great Cham's beard; do you any | you a hayre off the great Chams beard: doe you any |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.32 | good discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair shall | good discourse: an excellent Musitian, and her haire shal |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.149 | sobs, beats her heart, tears her hair, prays, curses – ‘ O | sobs, beates her heart, teares her hayre, praies, curses, O |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.13 | hair were a thought browner; and your gown's a most | haire were a thought browner: and your gown's a most |
| Pericles | Per III.iii.29 | Unscissored shall this hair of mine remain, | vnsisterd shall this heyre of mine remayne, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.54 | hair, complexion, height, her age, with warrant of her | haire, complexion, height, her age, with warrant of her |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.303 | My hair doth stand an end to hear her curses. | My haire doth stand an end to heare her curses. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.53 | A shadow like an angel, with bright hair | A Shadow like an Angell, with bright hayre |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.34.1 | Enter Queen Elizabeth, with her hair about her ears, | Enter the Queene with her haire about her ears, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.93 | the hair. | the haire. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.17 | thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a | thou wilt quarrell with a man that hath a haire more, or a |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.18 | hair less in his beard than thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel | haire lesse in his beard, then thou hast: thou wilt quarrell |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.69 | Then mightst thou speak; then mightst thou tear thy hair, | Then mightest thou speake, / Then mightest thou teare thy hayre, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.83 | legs, and not presume to touch a hair of my master's | legges, and not presume to touch a haire of my Masters |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.30 | No, not so much perdition as an hair | No not so much perdition as an hayre |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.213 | With hair upstaring – then like reeds, not hair – | With haire vp-staring (then like reeds, not haire) |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.217.2 | Not a hair perished. | Not a haire perishd: |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.237 | jerkin, you are like to lose your hair and prove a bald | Ierkin you are like to lose your haire, & proue a bald |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.34 | My fleece of woolly hair that now uncurls | My fleece of Woolly haire, that now vncurles, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.259 | Rend off thy silver hair, thy other hand | Rent off thy siluer haire, thy other hand |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.56 | Go, drag the villain hither by the hair. | Goe dragge the villaine hither by the haire, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.43 | An her hair were not somewhat darker than | And her haire were not somewhat darker then |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.55 | Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice; | Her Eyes, her Haire, her Cheeke, her Gate, her Voice, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.27 | against the hair; he hath the joints of everything, but | against the haire, hee hath the ioynts of euery thing, but |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.140 | And she takes upon her to spy a white hair on | And shee takes vpon her to spie a white haire on |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.151 | Marry, at the white hair that Helen spied on | Marry at the white haire that Hellen spied on |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.153 | An't had been a green hair I should have | And t'had beene a greene haire, I should haue |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.155 | They laughed not so much at the hair as at | They laught not so much at the haire, as at |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.163 | hair is my father, and all the rest are his sons.’ ‘ Jupiter,’ | haire is my Father, and all the rest are his Sonnes. Iupiter |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.102.1 | Enter Cassandra, raving, with her hair about her | Enter Cassandra with her haire about her |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.141 | To a hair. | To a To a hayre. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.182 | If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, | If I be false, or swerue a haire from truth, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.106 | Tear my bright hair, and scratch my praised cheeks; | Teare my bright heire, and scratch my praised cheekes, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.92 | Then hadst thou had an excellent head of hair. | Then hadst thou had an excellent head of haire. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.93 | Why, would that have mended my hair? | Why, would that haue mended my haire? |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.43 | Now Jove, in his next commodity of hair, send | Now Ioue in his next commodity of hayre, send |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.44 | Why then, your ladyship must cut your hair. | Why then your Ladiship must cut your haire. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.191 | Him we go to find: there's not a hair on's head | Him we goe to finde, / There's not a haire on's head, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.343 | Item: She hath more hair than wit, and more faults | Item, shee hath more haire then wit, and more faults |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.348 | Item: She hath more hair than wit – | Item, she hath more haire then wit. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.349 | More hair than wit? It may be I'll prove it: the | More haire then wit: it may be ile proue it: The |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.351 | than the salt; the hair that covers the wit is more than | then the salt; the haire that couers the wit, is more then |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.186 | Her hair is auburn, mine is perfect yellow; | Her haire is Aburne, mine is perfect Yellow; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.287 | For me, a hair shall never fall of these men. | For me, a hayre shall never fall of these men. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.83 | His hair hangs long behind him, black and shining | His haire hangs long behind him, blacke and shining |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.137.2 | hair about her shoulders, with a wheaten wreath; one | haire about her shoulders, a wheaten wreath: One |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.137.3 | in white holding up her train, her hair stuck with | in white holding up her traine, her haire stucke with |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.10 | Too much hair there, but in a semicircle, | Too much haire there, but in a Cemicircle, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.324 | themselves all men of hair: they call themselves | themselues all men of haire, they cal themselues |