| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.112 | That truth should be silent I had almost | That trueth should be silent, I had almost |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.29 | that for their tongues to be silent and not confess so much | that for their Tongues to be silent, and not confesse so much, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.59 | I would you rather had been silent. Please you | I would you rather had been silent: Please you |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.94 | Should we be silent and not speak, our raiment | Should we be silent & not speak, our Raiment |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.183 | Holds her by the hand, silent | Holds her by the hand silent. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.93 | But that you shall not say I yield being silent, | But that you shall not say, I yeeld being silent, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.127.1 | Be silent: let's see further. | Be silent: let's see further. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.90 | The business asketh silent secrecy. | The businesse asketh silent secrecie. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.15 | Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night, | Deepe Night, darke Night, the silent of the Night, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.ii.68 | But with advice and silent secrecy. | But with aduice and silent secrecie. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.122 | And be you silent and attentive too, | And be you silent and attentiue too, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.ii.28 | Why, then, let's on our way in silent sort; | Why then, let's on our way in silent sort, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iii.23.2 | French soldiers, silent all | French Souldiors, silent all. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.14 | and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine | and be silent, that you may heare. Beleeue me for mine |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.18 | Dark, deadly, silent, and uncomfortable. | Darke, deadly, silent, and vncomfortable. |
| King Lear | KL I.i.62 | What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent. | What shall Cordelia speake? Loue, and be silent. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.64 | be mistaken; for my duty cannot be silent when I think | bee mistaken, for my duty cannot be silent, when I thinke |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.157 | upon. It is not for prisoners to be too silent in their | vpon. It is not for prisoners to be silent in their |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.24 | No woman may approach his silent court. | No woman may approach his silent Court: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.137 | Be like our warranted quarrel! Why are you silent? | Be like our warranted Quarrell. Why are you silent? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.67 | If silent, why, a block moved with none. | If silent, why a blocke moued with none. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.154 | For I have only silent been so long, | for I haue onely bene silent so long, |
| Othello | Oth V.i.64 | How silent is this town! Ho, murder, murder! | How silent is this Towne? Hoa, murther, murther. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.289 | Mark, silent King, the moral of this sport: | Marke silent King, the Morall of this sport, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.330 | With the sweet silent hours of marriage joys; | With the sweet silent houres of Marriage ioyes: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.86 | So much for that. The silent hours steal on | So much for that. The silent houres steale on, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.59 | No tongue! All eyes! Be silent. | No tongue: all eyes: be silent. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.36 | prithee, let my meat make thee silent. | prythee let my meate make thee silent. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.8 | And so let's leave her to her silent walks. | And so let's leaue her to her silent walkes. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.46 | A stone is silent and offendeth not, | A stone is silent, and offendeth not, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.227.1 | I will be silent. | I will be silent. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.14 | Prithee, be silent, boy; I profit not by thy | Prythee be silent boy, I profit not by thy |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.90 | Dumb jewels often in their silent kind | Dumbe Iewels often in their silent kinde |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.126 | That seek out silent hanging; then mine host | That seeke out silent hanging: Then mine Host |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.171 | You had only in your silent judgement tried it, | You had onely in your silent iudgement tride it, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.180 | That should be silent. If young Doricles | That should be silent: If yong Doricles |