| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.107 | Confess 'twas hers, and by what rough enforcement | Confesse 'twas hers, and by what rough enforcement |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.229 | My father's rough and envious disposition | My Fathers rough and enuious disposition |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.8 | But winter and rough weather. | But Winter and rough Weather. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.42 | But winter and rough weather. | |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.35 | A fiend, a fairy, pitiless and rough; |
A Feind, a Fairie, pittilesse and ruffe: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.58.2 | Ay, but not rough enough. | I but not rough enough. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.88 | When he demeaned himself rough, rude, and wildly. | When he demean'd himselfe, rough, rude, and wildly, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.25 | Come, come, you have been too rough, something too rough. | Come, come, you haue bin too rough, somthing too rough: |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.26 | But to be rough, unswayable and free. | But to be rough, vnswayable, and free. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.i.20 | angry for my so rough usage: but my mother, having | angry for my so rough vsage: but my Mother hauing |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.173 | Not wagging his sweet head; and yet, as rough – | Not wagging his sweet head; and yet, as rough |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.81 | widow to so rough a course to come by her own? | Widdowe to so rough a course, to come by her owne? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.2 | Give even way unto my rough affairs; | Giue an euen way vnto my rough Affaires: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.72 | By the rough torrent of occasion, | By the rough Torrent of Occasion, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.192 | We shall be winnowed with so rough a wind | Wee shall be winnowed with so rough a winde, |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.11 | And the fleshed soldier, rough and hard of heart, | And the flesh'd Souldier, rough and hard of heart, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.144 | the mastiffs in robustious and rough coming on, | the Mastiffes, in robustious and rough comming on, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.52 | But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, | But hatefull Docks, rough Thistles, Keksyes, Burres, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.282 | Our tongue is rough, coz, and my condition | Our Tongue is rough, Coze, and my Condition |
| Henry V | H5 Epil.chorus.1 | Thus far, with rough and all-unable pen, | Thus farre with rough, and all-vnable Pen, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.8 | Rough deeds of rage and stern impatience; | Rough deeds of Rage, and sterne Impatience: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.71 | Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough. | 'Confounds the tongue, and makes the senses rough. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.175 | His well-proportioned beard made rough and rugged, | His well proportion'd Beard, made ruffe and rugged, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.123 | Suffolk's imperial tongue is stern and rough, | Suffolkes Imperiall tongue is sterne and rough: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ix.44 | In any case, be not too rough in terms, | In any case, be not to rough in termes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.27 | Come, bloody Clifford, rough Northumberland, | Come bloody Clifford, rough Northumberland, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.142 | Thou stern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorseless. | Thou, sterne, obdurate, flintie, rough, remorselesse. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.63 | Of sweet young Rutland, by rough Clifford slain; | Of sweet young Rutland, by rough Clifford slaine: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.22 | But keep our course, though the rough wind say no, | But keepe our Course (though the rough Winde say no) |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.75 | 'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake | 'Tis but the fate of Place, and the rough Brake |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.96 | From whence we'll shake him with so rough a storm | From whence wele shake him with so rough a storme, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.9 | Or forced by rough insulting barbarism; | Or forst by rough insulting barbarisme: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.34 | Is governed by the rough Chattillon. | Is gouernd by the rough Chattillion, |
| King John | KJ III.i.104 | The grappling vigour and rough frown of war | The grapling vigor, and rough frowne of Warre |
| King John | KJ IV.i.75 | Alas, what need you be so boisterous-rough? | Alas, what neede you be so boistrous rough? |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.130 | that it follows I am rough and lecherous. Fut! I should | that it followes, I am rough and Leacherous. I should |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.2 | The tyranny of the open night's too rough | The tirrany of the open night's too rough |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.306 | And their rough carriage so ridiculous, | And their rough carriage so ridiculous, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.58.2 | 'Twas a rough night. | 'Twas a rough Night. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.204 | And swearing till my very roof was dry | And swearing till my very rough was dry |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.31 | From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint, | From brassie bosomes, and rough hearts of flints, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.278 | cannot abide 'em – they are very ill-favoured rough | cannot abide 'em, they are very ill-fauour'd rough |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.62 | him have some plaster, or some loam, or some roughcast | him haue some Plaster, or some Lome, or some rough cast |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.119 | He hath rid his prologue like a rough colt; he | He hath rid his Prologue, like a rough Colt: he |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.218 | When Lion rough in wildest rage doth roar. | When Lion rough in wildest rage doth roare. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.140 | Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, | Rough Quarries, Rocks, Hills, whose head touch heauen, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.132 | Till the rough seas, that spares not any man, | Till the rough Seas, that spares not any man, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.150 | we that made up this garment through the rough seams | wee that made vp this Garment through the rough seames |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.84 | Was by the rough seas reft of ships and men, | Was by the rough Seas reft of Ships and men, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.77 | For look how fresh she looks. They were too rough | for looke how fresh she looks. / They were too rough, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.87 | The rough and woeful music that we have, | the rough and / Wofull Musick that we haue, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.106 | To me for justice and rough chastisement. | To me for iustice, and rough chasticement: |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.156 | We must supplant those rough rug-headed kerns | We must supplant those rough rug-headed Kernes, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.4 | These high wild hills and rough uneven ways | These high wilde hilles, and rough vneeuen waies, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.54 | Not all the water in the rough rude sea | Not all the Water in the rough rude Sea |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.100 | Rough cradle for such little pretty ones! | Rough Cradle for such little prettie ones, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.170 | Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! | Should be so tyrannous and rough in proofe. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.25 | Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, | Is loue a tender thing? it is too rough, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.27 | If love be rough with you, be rough with love. | If loue be rough with you, be rough with loue, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.96 | To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. | To smooth that rough touch, with a tender kisse. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.55 | To cart her rather. She's too rough for me. | To cart her rather. She's to rough for mee, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.72 | Affection's edge in me, were she as rough | Affections edge in me. Were she is as rough |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.137 | For I am rough and woo not like a babe. | For I am rough, and woo not like a babe. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.237 | 'Twas told me you were rough, and coy, and sullen, | 'Twas told me you were rough, and coy, and sullen, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.254 | Be rough and razorable; she that from whom | Be rough, and Razor-able: She that from whom |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.50 | By my so potent art. But this rough magic | By my so potent Art. But this rough Magicke |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.44 | I have in this rough work shaped out a man | I haue in this rough worke, shap'd out a man |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.445 | The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power | The Lawes, your curbe and whip, in their rough power |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iii.11 | Rough and unhospitable. My willing love, | Rough, and vnhospitable. My willing loue, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.111 | is rough, and will not be roughly used. | is rough, and will not be roughly vs'd. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.161 | And make rough winter everlastingly. | And make rough winter euerlastingly. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.47 | This afternoon to ride; but 'tis a rough one. | This after noone to ride, but tis a rough one. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.102 | You love me not; be rough with me, and pour | You love me not, be rough with me, and powre |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.72 | Of boisterous and rough jadery to dis-seat | Of boystrous and rough Iadrie, to dis-seate |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.128 | Thou want'st a rough pash and the shoots that I have | Thou want'st a rough pash, & the shoots that I haue |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.54 | A lullaby too rough: I never saw | A lullabie too rough: I neuer saw |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.327 | but they themselves are o'th' mind, if it be not too rough | but they themselues are o'th' minde (if it bee not too rough |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.717 | A lie: you are rough and hairy. Let me have | A Lye; you are rough, and hayrie: Let me haue |