| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.9 | sirrah. The complaints I have heard of you I do not all | sirra: the complaints I haue heard of you I do not all |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.66 | Sirrah, tell my gentlewoman I would speak | Sirra tell my gentlewoman I would speake |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.79 | sirrah. | sirra. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.197 | I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man, to which | I must tell thee sirrah, I write Man: to which |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.240 | Sirrah, your lord and master's married, there's | Sirra, your Lord and masters married, there's |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iv.54 | I pray you. Come, sirrah. | I pray you come sirrah. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.50 | The King's coming; I know by his trumpets. Sirrah, | The Kings comming I know by his Trumpets. Sirrah, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.234 | Tell me, sirrah – but tell me true I charge you, | Tell me sirrah, but tell me true I charge you, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.iii.10 | Now, sirrah: you do wish yourself in Egypt? | Now sirrah: you do wish your selfe in Egypt? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.32 | But, sirrah, mark, we use | But sirrah marke, we vse |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.229 | To meet Mark Antony. Sirrah Iras, go. | To meete Marke Anthony. Sirra Iras, go |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.155 | – Go with him, sirrah. | go with him sirrah. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.166 | I do so, I confess it. Ah, sirrah, a body would | I doe so, I confesse it: Ah, sirra, a body would |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.219 | Sirrah, if any ask you for your master, | Sirra, if any aske you for your Master, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.83 | If a crow help us in, sirrah, we'll pluck a crow together. | If a crow help vs in sirra, wee'll plucke a crow together. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.82 | But, sirrah, you shall buy this sport as dear | But sirrah, you shall buy this sport as deere, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.275 | Denies that saying. (to Dromio of Ephesus) Sirrah, what say you? | Denies that saying. Sirra, what say you? |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.49 | Sirrah, if thy captain knew I were here, he | Sirra, if thy Captaine knew I were heere, / He |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.75.2 | Your knee, sirrah. | Your knee, Sirrah. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.81.2 | Who is here? What, are you packing, sirrah? | Who is heere? What, are you packing sirrah? |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.107 | Sirrah, is this letter true? | Sirra, is this Letter true? |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.109 | It is Posthumus' hand, I know't. Sirrah, if thou | It is Posthumus hand, I know't. Sirrah, if thou |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.116 | grave's this, sirrah? | Graue's this Sir? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.177 | them. And, sirrah, I have cases of buckram for the nonce, | them: and sirrah, I haue Cases of Buckram for the nonce, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.116 | Art thou not ashamed? But sirrah, henceforth | Art thou not asham'd? But Sirrah, henceforth |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.42 | Sirrah carrier, what time do you mean to come | Sirra Carrier: What time do you mean to come |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.62 | Sirrah, if they meet not with Saint Nicholas' | Sirra, if they meete not with S. Nicholas |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.68 | Sirrah Jack, thy horse stands behind the hedge. | Sirra Iacke, thy horse stands behinde the hedg, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.6 | bass string of humility. Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a | base string of humility. Sirra, I am sworn brother to a |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.86 | Sirrah, Falstaff and the rest of the thieves | Sirra, Falstaffe and the rest of the Theeues, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.133 | Sirrah, do I owe you a thousand pound? | Sirrah, do I owe you a thousand pound? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.151 | about thy knees! But sirrah, there's no room for faith, | about thy knees. But sirra: There's no roome for Faith, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.72 | fingers in the ribs bare. But sirrah, make haste. Percy is | fingers on the Ribbes bare. But sirra, make haste, Percy is |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.126 | sirrah (stabbing him), with a new wound in your thigh, | sirra, with a new wound in your thigh |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.1 | Sirrah, you giant, what says the doctor to my | Sirra, you giant, what saies the Doct. to my |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.5 | Sirrah – where's Snare? | Sirrah, where's Snare? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.154 | Sirrah, you boy, and Bardolph, no word | Sirrah, you boy, and Bardolph, no word |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.15 | Sirrah, here will be the Prince and Master Poins | Sirrha, heere will be the Prince, and Master Points, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.231 | Sirrah, what humour's the Prince of? | Sirrha, what humor is the Prince of? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.368 | Pay the musicians, sirrah. Farewell, | Pay the Musitians, Sirrha: farewell |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.16 | Ah, sirrah! quoth 'a, we shall | Ah sirra (quoth-a) we shall |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.140 | Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when thou | Then keepe thy vow sirrah, when thou |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.1 | Sirrah, thou knowest how Orleans is besieged | Sirrha, thou know'st how Orleance is besieg'd, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.62 | Lest it be said ‘ Speak, sirrah, when you should; | Least it be said, Speake Sirrha when you should: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iv.35 | Sirrah, thy lord I honour as he is. | Sirrha,thy Lord I honour as he is. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.215 | Sirrah, or you must fight or else be hanged. | Sirrha, or you must fight, or else be hang'd. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.116 | Tell me, sirrah, what's my name? | Tell me Sirrha, what's my Name? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.137 | Sirrah, go fetch the beadle hither straight. | Sirrha, goe fetch the Beadle hither straight. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.139 | Now, sirrah, if you mean to save yourself from whipping, | Now Sirrha, if you meane to saue your selfe from Whipping, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.144 | Sirrah beadle, whip him till he leap over that same | Sirrha Beadle, whippe him till he leape ouer that same |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.146 | I will, my lord. Come on, sirrah, off with your | I will, my Lord. Come on Sirrha, off with your |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.80 | Sirrah, what's thy name? | Sirrha, what's thy Name? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.90 | hither, sirrah, I must examine thee. What is thy name? | hither sirrah, I must examine thee: What is thy name? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.147 | Go to, sirrah, tell the King from me that for his father's | Go too Sirrah, tell the King from me, that for his Fathers |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.111 | Sirrah, call in my sons to be my bail; | Sirrah, call in my sonne to be my bale: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.6 | Sirrah, leave us to ourselves; we must confer. | Sirra, leaue vs to our selues, we must conferre. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.30 | puppy. Keep the door close, sirrah. | Puppy, / Keepe the dore close Sirha. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.10.2 | Sirrah, give place. | Sirra, giue place. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.132 | Get you hence, sirrah! Saucy fellow, hence! | Get you hence sirra: Sawcy Fellow, hence. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.297 | Sleep again, Lucius. Sirrah Claudius! | Sleepe againe Lucius: Sirra Claudio, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.25 | My life is run his compass. (to Pindarus) Sirrah, what news? | My life is run his compasse. Sirra, what newes? |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.36 | Come hither, sirrah. | Come hither sirrah: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.69 | No, sirrah, tell them, since they did refuse | No sirra, tell them since they did refuse, |
| King John | KJ I.i.90 | And finds them perfect Richard. (to Robert Faulconbridge) Sirrah, speak. | And findes them perfect Richard: sirra speake, |
| King John | KJ I.i.116 | Sirrah, your brother is legitimate. | Sirra, your brother is Legittimate, |
| King John | KJ II.i.140 | Sirrah, look to't! I'faith, I will, i'faith! | Sirra looke too't, yfaith I will, yfaith. |
| King John | KJ II.i.290 | Teach us some fence! (to Austria) Sirrah, were I at home | Teach vs some fence. Sirrah, were I at home |
| King John | KJ II.i.291 | At your den, sirrah, with your lioness, | At your den sirrah, with your Lionnesse, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.78 | villain! worse than brutish! Go, sirrah, seek him; I'll | Villaine; worse then brutish: Go sirrah, seeke him: Ile |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.44 | You! You, sirrah! Where's my daughter? | You you Sirrah, where's my Daughter? |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.97 | Sirrah, you were best take my coxcomb. | Sirrah, you were best take my Coxcombe. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.109 | Take heed, sirrah, the whip! | Take heed Sirrah, the whip. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.114 | Sirrah, I'll teach thee a speech. | Sirha, Ile teach thee a speech. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.167 | When were you wont to be so full of songs, sirrah? | When were you wont to be so full of Songs sirrah? |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.177 | And you lie, sirrah, we'll have you whipped. | And you lie sirrah, wee'l haue you whipt. |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.66 | Peace, sirrah! | Peace sirrah, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.173 | Sirrah, come on. Go along with us. | Sirra, come on: go along with vs. |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.50.2 | Sirrah naked fellow! | Sirrah, naked fellow. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.269 | Ay, the best for the worst. But, sirrah, what say you | I the best, for the worst. But sirra, What say you |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.297 | Sirrah, come on. | Sirra, come on. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.118 | Sirrah Costard, I will enfranchise thee. | Sirra Costard, I will infranchise thee. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.33 | Quare ‘ chirrah ’, not ‘ sirrah ’? | Quari Chirra, not Sirra? |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.44.2 | Sirrah! | Sirrha, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.31 | Sirrah, your father's dead. | Sirra, your Fathers dead, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.17 | Fie, sirrah, a bawd, a wicked bawd! | Fie, sirrah, a Bawd, a wicked bawd, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.1 | Come hither, sirrah. Can you cut off a man's | Come hither sirha; can you cut off a mans |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.20 | Sirrah, here's a fellow will help you tomorrow | Sirha, here's a fellow will helpe you to morrow |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.49 | You, sirrah, provide your block and your axe | You sirrah, prouide your blocke and your Axe |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.19 | Sirrah, bring Barnardine hither. | Sirrah, bring Barnardine hether. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.35 | Is the axe upon the block, sirrah? | Is the Axe vpon the blocke, sirrah? |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.212.2 | Sirrah, no more! | Sirha, no more. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.477 | Sirrah, thou art said to have a stubborn soul, | Sirha, thou art said to haue a stubborne soule |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.497 | (To Lucio) You, sirrah, that knew me for a fool, a coward, | You sirha, that knew me for a foole, a Coward, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.125 | shrive me than wive me. Come, Nerissa. Sirrah, go | shriue me then wiue me. Come Nerrissa, sirra go |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.37 | But I will go. Go you before me, sirrah. | But I will goe: goe you before me sirra, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.43 | Go in, sirrah, bid them prepare for dinner. | goe in sirra, bid them prepare for dinner? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.252 | (To Simple) Go, sirrah, for all you are my man, go wait | goe, Sirha, for all you are my man, goe wait |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.74 | Hold, sirrah, bear you these letters tightly; | Hold Sirha, beare you these Letters tightly, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.19 | knight's name, sirrah? | Knights name sirrah? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.18 | Come on, sirrah. Hold up your head. | Come-on Sirha; hold vp your head; |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.127 | sirrah! | sirrah. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.12 | Pray, write down, Borachio. Yours, sirrah? | Pray write downe Borachio. Yours sirra. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.26 | I will go about with him. Come you hither, sirrah; a | I will goe about with him: come you hither sirra, a |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.1 | Do you know, sirrah, where Lieutenant | Do you know Sirrah, where Lieutenant |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.90 | Sirrah, get thee to Pleshey to my sister Gloucester. | Sirra, get thee to Plashie to my sister Gloster, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.34 | Come, go with me. (To Servant) Go, sirrah, trudge about | Come, goe with me: goe sirrah trudge about, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.30 | Ah, sirrah, this unlooked-for sport comes well. | Ah sirrah, this vnlookt for sport comes well: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.126 | Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late. | Ah sirrah, by my faie it waxes late, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.2 | Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks. | Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning Cookes. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iv.16.2 | Sirrah, fetch drier logs. | sirrah, fetch drier Logs. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.280 | Sirrah, what made your master in this place? | Sirra, what made your Master in this place? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.72 | Sirrah, go see what trumpet 'tis that sounds – | Sirrah, go see what Trumpet 'tis that sounds, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.100 | Go, sirrah, take them to the buttery, | Go sirra, take them to the Butterie, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.103 | Sirrah, go you to Barthol'mew my page, | Sirra go you to Bartholmew my Page, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.218 | Here comes the rogue. Sirrah, where have you been? | Heere comes the rogue. Sirra, where haue you bin? |
| 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.i.238 | But, sirrah, not for my sake but your master's, I advise | But sirra, not for my sake, but your masters, I aduise |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.5 | Here, sirrah Grumio, knock, I say. | Heere sirra Grumio, knocke I say. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.16 | Faith, sirrah, an you'll not knock, I'll ring it. | 'Faith sirrah, and you'l not knocke, Ile ring it, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.19 | Now knock when I bid you, sirrah villain. | Now knocke when I bid you: sirrah villaine. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.40 | these words plain, ‘ Sirrah, knock me here, rap me here, | these words plaine? Sirra, Knocke me heere: rappe me heere: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.43 | Sirrah, be gone, or talk not, I advise you. | Sirra be gone, or talke not I aduise you. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.159 | Peace, sirrah. | Peace sirra. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.108.2 | Sirrah, lead these gentlemen | Sirrah, leade these Gentlemen |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.393 | Sirrah, young gamester, your father were a fool | Sirra, yong gamester, your father were a foole |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.15 | Sirrah, I will not bear these braves of thine. | Sirra, I will not beare these braues of thine. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.136 | Where's my spaniel Troilus? Sirrah, get you hence, | Where's my Spaniel Troilus? Sirra, get you hence, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.10 | Fear you not him. Sirrah Biondello, | Feare you not him: sirra Biondello, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.137 | (to Grumio) Come, sirrah, let's away. | Come Sirra let's awaie. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.85 | Sirrah Biondello, go and entreat my wife | Sirra Biondello, goe and intreate my wife to |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.94 | Sirrah Grumio, go to your mistress, | Sirra Grumio, goe to your Mistris, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.288 | You'd be king o'th' isle, sirrah? | You'ld be King o'the Isle, Sirha? |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.292 | As in his shape. – Go, sirrah, to my cell. | As in his shape: Goe Sirha, to my Cell, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.i.38 | Get you gone, sirrah. | get you gone sirrah. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.75 | (Striking the fly) Ah, sirrah! | Ah sirra, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.78 | Sirrah, what tidings? Have you any letters? | Sirrah, what tydings? haue you any letters? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.101 | Sirrah, come hither; make no more ado, | Sirrah come hither, make no more adoe, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.106 | Sirrah, can you with a grace deliver up a supplication? | Sirrah, can you with a Grace deliuer a Supplication? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.114 | Sirrah, hast thou a knife? Come, let me see it. | Sirrha hast thou a knife? Come let me see it. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.47 | Come, sirrah, you must be hanged. | Come sirrah you must be hang'd. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.5 | Sirrah, walk off. | Sirra walke off. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.143.1 | Her husband, sirrah? | Her husband, sirrah? |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.280 | (To Feste) How does he, sirrah? | How does he sirrah? |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.299 | it you, sirrah. | it you, sirrah. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.7 | How now, sirrah? | How now Sirha? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.v.9 | shalt have five thousand welcomes. But, sirrah, how did | shalt haue fiue thousand welcomes: But sirha, how did |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.204 | Sirrah, I say forbear. Friend Valentine, a word. | Sirha, I say forbeare: friend Valentine, a word. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.259 | Go, sirrah, find him out. Come, Valentine. | Goe sirha, finde him out: Come Valentine. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.52.2 | Sirrah – | Sir ha: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.83 | I know you, you're a tinker; sirrah tinker, | I know you, y'ar a Tinker: Sirha Tinker |