| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.213 | Had you not lately an intent – speak truly – | Had you not lately an intent, speake truely, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.45 | You may be pleased to catch at mine intent | You may be pleas'd to catch at mine intent, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.154 | May they perceive's intent! He will require them | May they perceiue's intent: he wil require them |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.13 | If you do hold the same intent wherein | If you do hold the same intent / Wherein |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.112 | Do I impart toward you. For your intent | Do I impart towards you. For your intent |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.40 | My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, | My stronger guilt, defeats my strong intent, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.88 | When the intent of bearing them is just. | When the intent for bearing them is iust. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.68 | Though then, God knows, I had no such intent, | (Though then, Heauen knowes, I had no such intent, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.9 | Their cold intent, tenor, and substance, thus: | Their cold intent, tenure, and substance thus. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.101 | He hath intent his wonted followers | He hath intent his wonted Followers |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.114 | Tomorrow shall you bear our full intent | To morrow shall you beare our full intent |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.103 | To set a gloss upon his bold intent, | To set a glosse vpon his bold intent, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.3 | I have, my lord, and their intent is this: | I haue my Lord, and their intent is this, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.355 | And, for a minister of my intent, | And for a minister of my intent, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.251 | Free from a stubborn opposite intent, | Free from a stubborne opposite intent, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.39 | And tell him privily of our intent. | And tell him priuily of our intent. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.116 | That she was coming with a full intent | That she was comming with a full intent |
| King John | KJ II.i.580 | From all direction, purpose, course, intent – | From all direction, purpose, course, intent. |
| King John | KJ IV.i.95 | Your vile intent must needs seem horrible. | Your vilde intent must needs seeme horrible. |
| King Lear | KL I.i.38 | In three our kingdom: and 'tis our fast intent | In three our Kingdome: and 'tis our fast intent, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.82 | you can derive from him better testimony of his intent, | you can deriue from him better testimony of his intent, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.2 | That can my speech diffuse, my good intent | That can my speech defuse, my good intent |
| King Lear | KL II.i.63 | When I dissuaded him from his intent, | When I disswaded him from his intent, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.9 | Yet to be known shortens my made intent. | Yet to be knowne shortens my made intent, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.294 | You lords and noble friends, know our intent: | You Lords and Noble Friends, know our intent, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.137 | But in this changing what is your intent? | But in this changing, What is your intent? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.138 | The effect of my intent is to cross theirs. | The effect of my intent is to crosse theirs: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.140 | And mock for mock is only my intent. | And mocke for mocke is onely my intent. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.26 | To prick the sides of my intent but only | To pricke the sides of my intent, but onely |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.124 | Who knew of your intent and coming hither? | Who knew of your intent and comming hither? |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.448 | His act did not o'ertake his bad intent, | his Act did not ore-take his bad intent, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.449 | And must be buried but as an intent | And must be buried but as an intent |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.244 | For the intent and purpose of the law | For the intent and purpose of the Law |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.162 | offer it. But these that accuse him in his intent towards | offer it: But these that accuse him in his intent towards |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.132 | The rite of May, and hearing our intent | The right of May; and hearing our intent, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.150 | I came with Hermia hither. Our intent | I came with Hermia hither. Our intent |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.114 | Our true intent is. All for your delight | Our true intent is. All for your delight, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.181 | have no intent to turn husband, have you? | haue no intent to turne husband, haue you? |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.56.1 | He comes to bad intent. | He comes to bad intent. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.II.24 | And hid intent to murder him, | And had intent to murder him; |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.107 | That I came with no ill intent; for to me | that I came with no ill intent, for to me |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.49 | O, belike his majesty hath some intent | O belike, his Maiesty hath some intent, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.149 | And, if I fail not in my deep intent, | And if I faile not in my deepe intent, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.158 | As for another secret close intent | As for another secret close intent, |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.68 | Which since you come too late of our intent, | Which since you come too late of our intent, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.196 | Why came I hither but to that intent? | Why came I hither, but to that intent? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.20 | I must serve him so too, tell him of an intent that's | I must serue him so too; / Tell him of an intent that's |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.150 | And now be it known to you my full intent. | And now be it knowne to you my full intent. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.306 | Achilles shall have word of this intent; | Achilles shall haue word of this intent, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.8 | Here, sister; armed, and bloody in intent. | Here sister, arm'd, and bloudy in intent: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.ii.56 | The form of my intent. I'll serve this Duke. | The forme of my intent. Ile serue this Duke, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.76 | and their intent everywhere; for that's it that | and their intent euerie where, for that's it, that |