| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.6 | Why, he will look upon his boot and sing, mend | Why he will looke vppon his boote, and sing: mend |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.7 | the ruff and sing, ask questions and sing, pick his teeth | the Ruffe and sing, aske questions and sing, picke his teeth, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.8 | and sing. I knew a man that had this trick of melancholy | and sing: I know a man that had this tricke of melancholy |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.9 | bounty to sing happiness to him. I will tell you a thing, | bounty to sing happinesse to him. I will tell you a thing, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.9 | Not now to hear thee sing. I take no pleasure | Not now to heare thee sing. I take no pleasure |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.73.1 | I sing but after you. | I sing but after you. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.108 | The while I'll place you; then the boy shall sing. | The while, Ile place you, then the Boy shall sing. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.17 | Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number – hoo! – | Thinke speake, cast, write, sing, number: hoo, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.16 | to sing. Come, more, another stanzo. Call you 'em | to sing: / Come, more, another stanzo: Cal you'em |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.20 | nothing. Will you sing? | nothing. Wil you sing? |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.26 | the beggarly thanks. Come, sing; and you that will not, | the beggerly thankes. Come sing; and you that wil not |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.35 | (sing) | Song. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.45 | And I'll sing it. | And Ile sing it. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.174 | Give us some music and, good cousin, sing. | Giue vs some Musicke, and good Cozen, sing. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.181 | Hey-ho, sing hey-ho, unto the green holly, | Heigh ho, sing heigh ho, vnto the greene holly, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.191 | Hey-ho, sing hey-ho, unto the green holly, | Heigh ho, sing, &c. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.240 | I would sing my song without a burden. Thou | I would sing my song without a burthen, thou |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.ii.8 | Sing it. 'Tis no matter how it be in tune, so it | Sing it: 'tis no matter how it bee in tune, so it |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.ii.12 | Then sing him home, the rest shall bear | Then sing him home, the rest shall beare |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iii.19 | When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding, | When Birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iii.25 | When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding, | |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iii.31 | When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding, | |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iii.37 | When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding, | |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.134 | Whiles a wedlock-hymn we sing, | Whiles a Wedlocke Hymne we sing, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.47 | Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote. | Sing Siren for thy selfe, and I will dote: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.1 | I pray you, daughter, sing, or express yourself | I pray you daughter sing, or expresse your selfe |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.11 | The crickets sing, and man's o'erlaboured sense | The Crickets sing, and mans ore-labor'd sense |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.44.1 | And sing our bondage freely. | And sing our Bondage freely. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.236 | Have got the mannish crack, sing him to th' ground, | Haue got the mannish cracke, sing him to'th'ground |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.240 | I cannot sing: I'll weep, and word it with thee; | I cannot sing: Ile weepe, and word it with thee; |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.346 | longer than they can sing? Will they not say afterwards, | longer then they can sing? Will they not say afterwards |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.172 | You must sing ‘ A-down a-down, and you call | You must sing downe a-downe, and you call |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.75 | That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing | That Scull had a tongue in it, and could sing |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.233 | To sing a requiem and such rest to her | To sing sage Requiem, and such rest to her |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.354 | And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! | And flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.128 | world I say. I would I were a weaver: I could sing | world I say. I would I were a Weauer, I could sing |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.209 | And she will sing the song that pleaseth you, | And rest your gentle Head vpon her Lappe, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.210 | And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep, | And she will sing the Song that pleaseth you, And on your Eye-lids Crowne the God of Sleepe, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.216 | With all my heart I'll sit and hear her sing, | With all my heart Ile sit, and heare her sing: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.229 | Lie still, ye thief, and hear the lady sing in Welsh. | Lye still ye Theefe, and heare the Lady sing in Welsh. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.251 | Come, sing. | Come, sing. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.252 | I will not sing. | I will not sing. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.13 | Why, there is it. Come, sing me a bawdy song, | Why there is it: Come, sing me a bawdy Song, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.110 | As far as France. I heard a bird so sing, | As farre as France. I heare a Bird so sing, |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.19 | As bird doth sing on bough. | as Bird doth sing on bough. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.295 | Sing still for Richard's soul. More will I do, | sing still / For Richards Soule. More will Idoe: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.vi.20 | Shall in procession sing her endless praise. | Shall in procession sing her endlesse prayse. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.40 | Came he right now to sing a raven's note, | Came he right now to sing a Rauens Note, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.91 | Stamp, rave, and fret, that I may sing and dance. | Stampe, raue, and fret, that I may sing and dance. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.2 | Sing, and disperse 'em, if thou canst. Leave working. | Sing, and disperse 'em if thou canst: leaue working: |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.5 | Bow themselves when he did sing. | Bow themselues when he did sing. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.34 | Under his own vine what he plants, and sing | Vnder his owne Vine what he plants; and sing |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.106 | And I must sing of doleful accidents. | and I must sing of dolefull accidents, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.20 | Confound themselves. 'Tis strange that death should sing. | Counfound themselues. 'Tis strange yt death shold sing: |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.9 | We two alone will sing like birds i'the cage; | We two alone will sing like Birds i'th'Cage: |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.12 | And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh | And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.103 | Before the birds have any cause to sing? | Before the Birds haue any cause to sing? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.116 | Sing, boy. My spirit grows heavy in love. | Sing Boy, my spirit grows heauy in ioue. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.119 | I say, sing. | I say sing. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.12 | with turning up your eyelids, sigh a note and sing a | with turning vp your eie: sigh a note and sing a |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.327 | In honourable terms. Nay, he can sing | In honorable tearmes: Nay he can sing |
| Macbeth | Mac III.v.35 | Sing within: ‘ Come away, come away,’ etc, | Sing within. Come away, come away, &c. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.41 | And now about the cauldron sing | And now about the Cauldron sing |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.57 | every man in no man. If a throstle sing, he falls straight | euery man in no man, if a Trassell sing, he fals straight |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.102 | The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark | The Crow doth sing as sweetly as the Larke |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.104 | The nightingale, if she should sing by day, | The Nightingale if she should sing by day |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.43 | Vat is you sing? I do not like dese toys. Pray you go | Vat is you sing? I doe not like des-toyes: pray you goe |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.116 | Take heed, ere summer comes or cuckoo-birds do sing. | Take heed, ere sommer comes, or Cuckoo-birds do sing. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.22 | Melodious birds sing madrigals – | Melodious birds sing Madrigalls: --- |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.33 | Falstaff's boy with her. A man may hear this shower sing | Falstaffes boy with her: A man may heare this showre sing |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.65 | And nightly, meadow-fairies, look you sing, | And Nightly-meadow-Fairies, looke you sing |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.91 | About him, fairies, sing a scornful rhyme, | About him (Fairies) sing a scornfull rime, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.7 | At our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep; | At our queint spirits: Sing me now asleepe, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.9.1 | Fairies sing | Fairies Sing. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.14 | Sing in our sweet lullaby, | Sing in your sweet Lullaby. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.25 | Sing in our sweet lullaby, | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.117 | and I will sing, that they shall hear I am not afraid. | and I will sing that they shall heare I am not afraid. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.130 | I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again! | I pray thee gentle mortall, sing againe, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.150 | And sing while thou on pressed flowers dost sleep; | And sing, while thou on pressed flowers dost sleepe: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.214 | I will sing it in the latter end of a play before the Duke. | I will sing it in the latter end of a play, before the Duke. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.215 | Peradventure, to make it the more gracious, I shall sing | Peraduenture, to make it the more gracious, I shall sing |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.386 | Sing, and dance it trippingly. | sing and dance it trippinglie. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.390 | Will we sing and bless this place. | Will we sing and blesse this place. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.31 | a clog; therefore I have decreed not to sing in my cage. | a clog, therefore I haue decreed, not to sing in my cage: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.212 | I will but teach them to sing, and restore them | I will but teach them to sing, and restore them |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.46 | I pray thee sing, and let me woo no more. | I pray thee sing, and let me woe no more. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.47 | Because you talk of wooing, I will sing, | Because you talke of wooing, I will sing, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.68 | Sing no more ditties, sing no moe, | Sing no more ditties, sing no moe, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.40 | burden. Do you sing it, and I'll dance it. | burden,) do you sing it and Ile dance it. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.272 | And sing it to her bones, sing it tonight. | And sing it to her bones, sing it to night: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iii.11 | Now, music, sound, and sing your solemn hymn. | Now musick sound & sing your solemn hymne |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.187 | with her needle, an admirable musician! O, she will sing | with her Needle: an admirable Musitian. Oh she will sing |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.32 | And sing it like poor Barbary – prithee, dispatch. | And sing it like poore Brabarie: prythee dispatch. |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.39 | Sing all a green willow; | Sing all a greene Willough: |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.41 | Sing willow, willow, willow; | Sing Willough, Willough, Wtllough. |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.43 | Sing willow, willow, willow; | Sing Willough, &c. |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.45 | (She speaks) | Sing Willough, &c. |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.46 | Sing willow, willow, willow – | Willough, Willough. |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.48 | Sing all a green willow must be my garland. | Sing all a greene Willough must be my Garland. |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.53 | Sing willow, willow, willow: | Sing Willough, &c. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.I.1 | To sing a song that old was sung, | TO sing a Song that old was sung, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.I.13 | And that to hear an old man sing | And that to heare an old man sing, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.7 | And crickets sing at the oven's mouth, | And Cricket sing at the Ouens mouth, |
| Pericles | Per IV.v.7 | bawdy-houses. Shall's go hear the vestals sing? | bawdie houses, shall's goe heare the Vestalls sing? |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.182 | Proclaim that I can sing, weave, sew, and dance, | proclaime that I can sing, weaue, sow, & dance, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.263 | But, lords, we hear this fearful tempest sing | But Lords, we heare this fearefull tempest sing, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.183 | For night-owls shriek where mounting larks should sing. | For night-Owls shrike, where moũting Larks should sing. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.19.1 | Madam, I'll sing. | Madame, Ile sing. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.22 | And I could sing would weeping do me good, | And I could sing, would weeping doe me good, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.22 | That birds would sing and think it were not night. | That Birds would sing, and thinke it were not night: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.21 | you sing pricksong: keeps time, distance, and proportion. | you sing pricksong, keeps time, distance, and proportion, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.35 | And twenty caged nightingales do sing. | And twentie caged Nightingales do sing. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.17 | I'll try how you can sol-fa and sing it. | Ile trie how you can Sol,Fa, and sing it. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.20 | sing i'th' wind. Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, | sing ith' winde: yond same blacke cloud, yond huge one, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.43 | This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's funeral. | This is a very scuruy tune to sing at a mans / Funerall: |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.121 | reason. Come on, Trinculo, let us sing. | reason: Come on Trinculo, let vs sing. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.99 | The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder, | The windes did sing it to me: and the Thunder |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.106 | They sing | They sing. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.158 | Did ever raven sing so like a lark | Did euer Rauen sing so like a Larke, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.83 | The eagle suffers little birds to sing, | The Eagle suffers little Birds to sing, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.60 | sing, certainly. | sing certainely. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.102 | Come, come, I'll hear no more of this; I'll | Come, come, Ile heare no more of this, Ile sing |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.103 | sing you a song now. | you a song now. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.211 | And all the Greekish girls shall tripping sing: | And all the Greekish Girles shall tripping sing, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.84 | So mainly as my merit: I cannot sing, | So mainely as my merit: I cannot sing, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.10 | She will sing any man at first sight. | She will sing any man at first sight. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.11 | And any man may sing her, if he can take her | And any man may finde her, if he can take her |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.42 | Full merrily the humble-bee doth sing, | Full merrily the humble Bee doth sing, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.ii.58 | It may be worth thy pains, for I can sing | It may be worth thy paines: for I can sing, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.260 | And sing them loud even in the dead of night; | And sing them lowd euen in the dead of night: |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.20 | sweet a breath to sing, as the fool has. In sooth, thou | sweet a breath to sing, as the foole has. Insooth thou |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.39 | That can sing both high and low. | That can sing both high and low. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.9 | sing it. | sing it? |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.49.2 | Ay, prithee sing. | I prethee sing. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.80 | That I might sing it, madam, to a tune. | That I might sing it (Madam) to a tune: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.83 | Best sing it to the tune of ‘ Light o' love.’ | Best sing it to the tune of Light O, Loue. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.86 | Ay, and melodious were it, would you sing it. | I: and melodious were it, would you sing it, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.89 | Keep tune there still, so you will sing it out; | Keepe tune there still; so you will sing it out: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.48 | Then to Silvia let us sing | Then to Siluia, let vs sing, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.22 | May on our bridehouse perch or sing, | May on our Bridehouse pearch or sing, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.78 | And sing it in her slumbers. This rehearsal – | And sing it in her slumbers; This rehearsall |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iii.19 | Sing in an evening, what a heaven it is! | Sing in an evening, what a heaven it is? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.v.15 | Some honest-hearted maids, will sing my dirge, | Some honest harted Maides, will sing my Dirge. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iv.19 | (She sings) | Sing. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.285.1 | And soldiers sing my epitaph. | And Souldiers sing my Epitaph. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.106.1 | I can sing twenty more. | I can sing twenty more. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.107 | Yes, truly can I; I can sing ‘ The Broom,’ | Yes truely can I, I can sing the Broome, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.133.1 | And sing the wars of Theseus. | And sing the wars of Theseus. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.23 | Pointed in heaven, should clap their wings, and sing | Pointed in heaven, should clap their wings, and sing |
| 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 Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.85 | for Palamon can sing, and Palamon is sweet and every | for Palamon can / Sing, and Palamon is sweet, and ev'ry |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.12.1 | She would have me sing. | She would have me sing. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.6 | With heigh, the sweet birds O, how they sing! | With hey the sweet birds, O how they sing: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.58 | Would sing her song and dance her turn; now here, | Would sing her song, and dance her turne: now heere |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.137 | I'd have you do it ever; when you sing, | I'ld haue you do it euer: When you sing, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.140 | To sing them too; when you do dance, I wish you | To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.290 | We can both sing it. If thou'lt bear a part, thou | We can both sing it: if thou'lt beare a part, thou |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.295 | They sing | Song |