| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.33 | Today in our young lords, but they may jest | To day in our yong Lords: but they may iest |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.62 | I pray you, jest, sir, as you sit at dinner. | I pray you iest sir as you sit at dinner: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.8 | As you love strokes, so jest with me again. | As you loue stroakes, so iest with me againe: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.21 | What means this jest, I pray you, master, tell me? | What meanes this iest, I pray you Master tell me? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.23 | Thinkest thou I jest? Hold, take thou that, and that. | Thinkst yu I iest? hold, take thou that, & that. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.24 | Hold, sir, for God's sake; now your jest is earnest. | Hold sir, for Gods sake, now your iest is earnest, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.28 | Your sauciness will jest upon my love, | Your sawcinesse will iest vpon my loue, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.32 | If you will jest with me, know my aspect, | If you will iest with me, know my aspect, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.69 | Well, sir, learn to jest in | Well sir, learne to iest in |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.123 | Do so. – This jest shall cost me some expense. | Do so, this iest shall cost me some expence. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.93 | Verily I do not jest with you. There came news | Verily I do not iest with you: there came newes |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.52 | jest unless by chance, as the blind man catcheth a hare. | |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.244 | No, no, they do but jest, poison in jest. No | No, no, they do but iest, poyson in iest, no |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.182 | Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. | Horatio, a fellow of infinite Iest; of most excellent fancy, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.159 | tomorrow: I have a jest to execute that I cannot manage | to morrow. I haue a iest to execute, that I cannot mannage |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.184 | The virtue of this jest will be the incomprehensible lies | The vertue of this Iest will be, the incomprehensible lyes |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.188 | reproof of this lives the jest. | reproofe of this, lyes the iest. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.45 | cup of sack be my poison. When a jest is so forward – | Cup of Sacke be my poyson: when a iest is so forward, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.94 | month, and a good jest for ever. | Moneth, and a good iest for euer. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.102 | Nay, tell me if you speak in jest or no? | Nay, tell me if thou speak'st in iest, or no. |
| 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 V.iii.55 | What, is it a time to jest and dally now? | What, is it a time to iest and dally now. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.75 | it is much that a lie with a slight oath, and a jest with a | it is much that a Lye (with a slight Oath) and a iest (with a |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.58 | Reply not to me with a fool-born jest. | Reply not to me, with a Foole-borne Iest, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.296 | His jest will savour but of shallow wit | His Iest will sauour but of shallow wit, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.130 | A proper jest, and never heard before, | A proper iest, and neuer heard before, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.400 | To die by thee were but to die in jest; | To dye by thee, were but to dye in iest, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.28 | Were played in jest by counterfeiting actors? | Were plaid in iest, by counterfetting Actors. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.91 | I am a subject fit to jest withal, | I am a subiect fit to ieast withall, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.116 | Well, jest on, brothers; I can tell you both | Well, ieast on Brothers: I can tell you both, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.261 | Then none but I shall turn his jest to sorrow. | Then none but I, shall turne his Iest to Sorrow. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.30 | Or did he make the jest against his will? | Or did he make the Ieast against his will? |
| King John | KJ III.i.16 | And, though thou now confess thou didst but jest, | And though thou now confesse thou didst but iest |
| King John | KJ III.i.242 | Play fast and loose with faith? So jest with heaven, | Play fast and loose with faith? so iest with heauen, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.55 | And prove a deadly bloodshed but a jest, | And proue a deadly blood-shed, but a iest, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.54 | By yea and nay, sir, then I swore in jest. | By yea and nay sir, than I swore in iest. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.71 | The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, | The other turnes to a mirth-mouing iest. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.202.1 | Not a word with him but a jest. | Not a word with him, but a iest. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.202.2 | And every jest but a word. | And euery iest but a word. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.207 | You sheep, and I pasture. Shall that finish the jest? | You Sheepe & I pasture: shall that finish the iest? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.172.2 | Too bitter is thy jest. | Too bitter is thy iest. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.46 | A pox of that jest, and I beshrew all shrews. | A Pox of that iest, and I beshrew all Shrowes: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.373 | This jest is dry to me. My gentle sweet, | This iest is drie to me. Gentle sweete, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.390 | Let us confess, and turn it to a jest. | Let vs confesse, and turne it to a iest. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.775 | At courtship, pleasant jest, and courtesy, | At courtship, pleasant iest, and curtesie, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.780 | Our letters, madam, showed much more than jest. | Our letters Madam, shew'd much more then iest. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.860 | I'll jest a twelvemonth in an hospital. | Ile iest a tweluemonth in an Hospitall. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.32 | With maids to seem the lapwing and to jest, | With Maids to seeme the Lapwing, and to iest |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.127 | Great men may jest with saints: 'tis wit in them, | Great men may iest with Saints: tis wit in them, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.47 | Do we jest now, think you? | do we iest now thinke you? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.56 | Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. | Though Nestor sweare the iest be laughable. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.199 | Brook – only for a jest. | Broome: onely for a iest. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.108 | That were a jest indeed! They have | That were a iest indeed: they haue |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.143 | be your jest; I deserve it. (To John and Robert) How now? | be your iest, / I deserue it: How now? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.40 | Anne the jest how my father stole two geese out of a pen, | Anne the iest how my Father stole two Geese out of a Pen, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.56 | My will? 'Od's heartlings, that's a pretty jest | My will? Odd's-hart-lings, that's a prettie iest |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.100 | We do not act that often jest and laugh; | We do not acte that often, iest, and laugh, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.209 | jest, should he not be publicly shamed. | iest, should he not be publikely sham'd. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.17 | Hath a great scene. The image of the jest | Hath a great Scene; the image of the iest |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.105 | I pray you, come, hold up the jest no higher. | I pray you come, hold vp the iest no higher. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.44 | I jest to Oberon, and make him smile | I iest to Oberon, and make him smile, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.239 | Wink each at other, hold the sweet jest up. | Winke each at other, hold the sweete iest vp: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.265.1 | Do you not jest? | Do you not iest? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.280 | Be certain. Nothing truer – 'tis no jest | Be certaine, nothing truer: 'tis no iest, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.224 | than a great thaw; huddling jest upon jest with such | then a great thaw, hudling iest vpon iest, with such |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.137 | a pretty jest your daughter told us of. | a pretty iest your daughter told vs of. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.58 | Tush, tush, man, never fleer and jest at me; | Tush, tush, man, neuer fleere and iest at me, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.142 | You are a villain; I jest not. | You are a villaine, I iest not, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.95 | As gentle and as jocund as to jest | As gentle, and as iocond, as to iest, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.100 | His eyes do drop no tears, his prayers are in jest; | His eyes do drop no teares: his prayres are in iest: |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.30 | Grandam, this would have been a biting jest. | Grandam, this would haue beene a byting Iest. |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.75 | You may jest on, but, by the Holy Rood, | You may ieast on, but by the holy Rood, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.91 | A queen in jest, only to fill the scene. | A Queene in ieast, onely to fill the Scene. |
| Richard III | R3 V.i.22 | And given in earnest what I begged in jest. | And giuen in earnest, what I begg'd in iest. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.46 | To see now how a jest shall come about! | to see now how a Iest shall come about. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.60 | Sure wit, follow me this jest now till thou hast | Sure wit, follow me this ieast, now till thou hast |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.62 | is worn, the jest may remain, after the wearing, solely | is worne, the ieast may remaine after the wearing, sole- |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.64 | O single-soled jest, solely singular for the | O single sol'd ieast, / Soly singular for the |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.76 | I will bite thee by the ear for that jest. | I will bite thee by the eare for that iest. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.190 | Look to't, think on't. I do not use to jest. | Looke too't, thinke on't, I do not vse to iest. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.43 | Then take him up, and manage well the jest. | Then take him vp, and manage well the iest: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.223 | Sirrah, come hither. 'Tis no time to jest, | Sirra come hither, 'tis no time to iest, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.83 | I will continue that I broached in jest. | I will continue that I broach'd in iest, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.19 | Nay then you jest, and now I well perceive | Nay then you iest, and now I wel perceiue |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.22 | If that be jest, then all the rest was so. | If that be iest, then all the rest was so. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.48 | Tranio, you jest – but have you both forsworn me? | Tranio you iest, but haue you both forsworne mee? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.v.72 | Like pleasant travellers, to break a jest | Like pleasant trauailors to breake a Iest |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.45 | Have at you for a bitter jest or two. | Haue at you for a better iest or too. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.61 | And as the jest did glance away from me, | And as the Iest did glaunce awaie from me, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.90 | She says you have some goodly jest in hand. | She saies you haue some goodly Iest in hand, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.241 | I thank thee for that jest. Here's a garment | I thank thee for that iest; heer's a garment |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.253 | My brother dead? I know thou dost but jest. | My brother dead? I know thou dost but iest, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.26 | Here's no sound jest. The old man hath found their guilt, | Heer's no sound iest, the old man hath found their guilt, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.139 | How I have governed our determined jest? | How I haue gouern'd our determined iest? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.173 | My hand cut off and made a merry jest, | My hand cut off, and made a merry iest, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.72 | I can keep my hand dry. But what's your jest? | I can keepe my hand dry. But what's your iest? |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.73 | A dry jest, sir. | A dry iest Sir. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.178 | jest. | iest. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.128 | O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible | Oh Iest vnseene: inscrutible: inuisible, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.145 | yourself? Why, do you not perceive the jest? | your selfe? Why, doe you not perceiue the iest? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.v.12 | very fairly in jest. | very fairely in iest. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.35 | affliction a toy to jest at. | affliction, a toy to jest at. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.249.1 | And tak'st it all for jest. | And tak'st it all for ieast. |