| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.29 | Who have been false to Fulvia? Riotous madness, | Who haue beene false to Fuluia? / Riotous madnesse, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.383 | Love is merely a madness and, I tell you, | Loue is meerely a madnesse, and I tel you, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.400 | love to a living humour of madness – which was, to | loue, to a liuing humor of madnes, wc was to |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.198 | madness, that blind rascally boy that abuses everyone's | madnesse, that blinde rascally boy, that abuses euery ones |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.76 | And what's a fever but a fit of madness? | And what's a Feauer, but a fit of madnesse? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.139 | A most outrageous fit of madness took him, | A most outragious fit of madnesse tooke him: |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.98 | To leave you in your madness, 'twere my sin, | To leaue you in your madnesse, 'twere my sin, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.135 | Absolute madness could so far have raved, | absolute madnesse could so farre haue rau'd |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.3 | A madness, of which her life's in danger: heavens, | A madnesse, of which her life's in danger: Heauens, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.74 | And draw you into madness? Think of it. | And draw you into madnesse thinke of it? |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.93 | Mad call I it. For, to define true madness, | Mad call I it; for to define true Madnesse, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.150 | Into the madness wherein now he raves | Into the Madnesse whereon now he raues, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.205 | Though this be madness, yet there | Though this be madnesse, / Yet there |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.210 | often madness hits on, which reason and sanity could | often Madnesse hits on, / Which Reason and Sanitie could |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.8 | But with a crafty madness keeps aloof | But with a crafty Madnesse keepes aloofe: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.165 | Was not like madness. There's something in his soul | Was not like Madnesse. There's something in his soule? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.189 | Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. | Madnesse in great Ones, must not vnwatch'd go. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.2 | To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you. | To let his madnesse range. Therefore prepare you, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.74 | Is apoplexed. For madness would not err, | |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.142 | And makes as healthful music. It is not madness | And makes as healthfull Musicke. It is not madnesse |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.144 | And I the matter will reword, which madness | And I the matter will re-word: which madnesse |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.147 | That not your trespass but my madness speaks. | That not your trespasse, but my madnesse speakes: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.188 | That I essentially am not in madness, | That I essentially am not in madnesse, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.25 | O'er whom his very madness, like some ore | O're whom his very madnesse like some Oare |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.34 | Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain, | Hamlet in madnesse hath Polonius slaine, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.158 | By heaven, thy madness shall be paid with weight | By Heauen, thy madnesse shall be payed by waight, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.179 | A document in madness: thoughts and | A document in madnesse, thoughts & |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.280.2 | This is mere madness. | This is meere Madnesse: |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.226 | Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness. | Roughly awake, I heere proclaime was madnesse: |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.231 | Who does it then? His madness. If't be so, | Who does it then? His Madnesse? If't be so, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.233 | His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy. | His madnesse is poore Hamlets Enemy. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.41 | And true obedience, of this madness cured, | And true Obedience, of this Madnesse cur'd, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.111 | Good Lord, what madness rules in brain-sick men, | Good Lord, what madnesse rules in braine-sicke men, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.252 | Madam, 'tis true; and were't not madness then | Madame 'tis true: and wer't not madnesse then, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.43 | Lady, you utter madness, and not sorrow. | Lady, you vtter madnesse, and not sorrow. |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.21 | O, that way madness lies; let me shun that; | O that way madnesse lies, let me shun that: |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.90 | stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey. | stealth, Wolfe in greedinesse, Dog in madnes, Lyon in prey. |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.103 | To lead him where he would; his roguish madness | |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.176 | Reason in madness! | Reason in Madnesse. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.3 | His flight was madness; when our actions do not, | His flight was madnesse: when our Actions do not, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iv.3 | actions show much like to madness. Pray heaven his | actions show much like to madnesse, pray heauen his |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.51 | That I am touched with madness. Make not impossible | That I am touch'd with madnesse: make not impossible |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.61 | Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense, | Her madnesse hath the oddest frame of sense, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.63.1 | As e'er I heard in madness. | As ere I heard in madnesse. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.19 | hare is madness the youth to skip o'er the meshes of good | hare is madnesse the youth, to skip ore the meshes of good |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.61 | me to madness, I shall never requite him. | me to madnesse, I should neuer requite him. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.24 | out!’, that any madness I ever yet beheld seemed but | out, that any madnesse I euer yet beheld, seem'd but |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.25 | Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, | Fetter strong madnesse in a silken thred, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.99 | My daughter is not for thee. And now in madness, | My Daughter is not for thee. And now in madnesse |
| Othello | Oth II.i.302 | Even to madness. 'Tis here, but yet confused: | Euen to madnesse. 'Tis heere: but yet confus'd, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.55 | Breaks out to savage madness. Look, he stirs. | Breakes out to sauage madnesse. Looke, he stirres: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.193 | What is it else? A madness most discreet, | What is it else? a madnesse, most discreet, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.14.1 | Do hiss me into madness. | Doe hisse me into madnesse: |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.116 | I fear a madness held me. This must crave – | I feare a madnesse held me: this must craue |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.41 | the madness is he cheers them up to't. | the madnesse is, he cheeres them vp too. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.131 | Like madness is the glory of this life | Like Madnesse is the glory of this life, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.36 | O plague and madness! | O plague and madnesse! |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.130 | Why, my negation hath no taste of madness. | Why my negation hath no taste of madnesse? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.145 | This is not she. O madness of discourse, | This is not she: O madnesse of discourse! |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.15 | If sad and merry madness equal be. | If sad and merry madnesse equall bee. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.56 | Why, this is very midsummer madness. | Why this is verie Midsommer madnesse. |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.iii.4 | Yet 'tis not madness. Where's Antonio, then? | Yet 'tis not madnesse. Where's Anthonio then, |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.iii.10 | That this may be some error, but no madness, | That this may be some error, but no madnesse, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.96 | But for thee, fellow – fellow, thy words are madness. | But for thee fellow, fellow thy words are madnesse, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.291 | No, madam; I do but read madness. An your | No Madam, I do but reade madnesse: and your |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.42 | Desire of liberty, a fever, madness, | Desire of liberty, a feavour, madnes, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.258 | And in this madness if I hazard thee | And in this madnes, if I hazard thee |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.48 | engraffed madness, but a most thick and profound | engraffed / Madnesse, but a most thicke, and profound |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.79 | become the pranks and friskins of her madness. Sing | become the prankes / And friskins of her madnes; Sing |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.481 | If not, my senses, better pleased with madness, | If not, my sences better pleas'd with madnesse, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.73 | The pleasure of that madness. Let't alone. | The pleasure of that madnesse. Let't alone. |