| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.83 | He was disposed to mirth; but on the sudden | He was dispos'd to mirth, but on the sodaine |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.5 | That I am sudden sick. Quick, and return. | That I am sodaine sicke. Quicke, and returne. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.342.1 | And on the sudden dropped. | And on the sodaine dropt. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.26 | let us talk in good earnest: is it possible on such a sudden | let vs talke in good earnest: Is it possible on such a sodaine, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.152 | Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, | Ielous in honor, sodaine, and quicke in quarrell, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.6 | poverty of her, the small acquaintance, my sudden | pouertie of her, the small acquaintance, my sodaine |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.7 | wooing, nor her sudden consenting; but say with me | woing, nor sodaine consenting: but say with mee, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.29 | was never anything so sudden but the fight of two rams, | was neuer any thing so sodaine, but the sight of two Rammes, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.52 | With them he enters, who upon the sudden | With them he enters: who vpon the sodaine |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.213.2 | On the sudden | On the suddaine, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.111 | And with a sudden reinforcement struck | And with a sudden re-inforcement strucke |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.250.1 | Your sudden approbation. | Your suddaine approbation. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.68 | And with a sudden vigour it doth posset | And with a sodaine vigour it doth posset |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.8 | This sudden sending him away must seem | This sodaine sending him away, must seeme |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.46 | recount the occasion of my sudden and more strange return. | recount th'Occasions of my sodaine, and more strange returne. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.104 | Your sudden coming o'er to play with you. | Your sodaine comming ore to play with him; |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.46 | He should those bearers put to sudden death, | He should the bearers put to sodaine death, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.64 | On some great sudden hest. O, what portents are these? | On some great sodaine hast. O what portents are these? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.80 | For I am on the sudden something ill. | For I am, on the sodaine, something ill. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.83 | Therefore be merry, coz, since sudden sorrow | Therefore be merry (Cooze) since sodaine sorrow |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.34 | As humorous as winter, and as sudden | As humorous as Winter, and as sudden, |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.32 | Never was such a sudden scholar made; | Neuer was such a sodaine Scholler made: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.173 | Some sudden mischief may arise of it; | Some sodaine mischiefe may arise of it: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.48 | None durst come near for fear of sudden death. | None durst come neere, for feare of suddaine death. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.59 | This sudden mischief never could have fallen. | This sudden Mischiefe neuer could haue falne. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.23 | Roused on the sudden from their drowsy beds, | Rows'd on the sudden from their drowsie Beds, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.6 | As I with sudden and extemporal speech | As I with sudden, and extemporall speech, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.11 | One sudden foil shall never breed distrust. | One sudden Foyle shall neuer breed distrust. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.11 | By sudden flight. Come, dally not, be gone. | By sodaine flight. Come, dally not, be gone. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.ii.14 | Somewhat too sudden, sirs, the warning is, | Somewhat too sodaine Sirs, the warning is, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.99 | This sudden execution of my will. | This sodaine execution of my will. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.53 | Some sudden qualm hath struck me at the heart | Some sodaine qualme hath strucke me at the heart, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.133 | And comment then upon his sudden death. | And comment then vpon his sodaine death. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.1 | Madam, what makes you in this sudden change? | Madam, what makes you in this sodain change? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.86 | He's sudden if a thing comes in his head. | He's sodaine if a thing comes in his head. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.94.1 | The sudden breach on't. | The sodaine breach on't. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.114 | Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground, | Stops on a sodaine, lookes vpon the ground, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.204 | What sudden anger's this? How have I reaped it? | What sodaine Anger's this? How haue I reap'd it? |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.394.2 | That's somewhat sudden. | That's somewhat sodain. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.96 | How much her grace is altered on the sudden? | How much her Grace is alter'd on the sodaine? |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.20 | Which reformation must be sudden too, | Which Reformation must be sodaine too |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.122 | You were ever good at sudden commendations, | You were euer good at sodaine Commendations, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.19 | Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention. | Caska be sodaine, for we feare preuention. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.212 | To such a sudden flood of mutiny. | To such a sodaine Flood of Mutiny: |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.ii.5 | And sudden push gives them the overthrow. | And sodaine push giues them the ouerthrow: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.10 | This sudden, mighty, and expedient head | This suddaine, mightie, and expedient head, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.1 | A sudden darkness hath defaced the sky, | A sodaine darknes hath defast the skie, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.16 | And on a sudden hath he hid himself, | and on a sodaine hath he hid himselfe, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.32 | With their approach there came this sudden fog, | With their approach there came this sodain fog, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.27 | Therefore I will be sudden, and dispatch. | Therefore I will be sodaine, and dispatch. |
| King John | KJ V.vi.26 | The better arm you to the sudden time | The better arme you to the sodaine time, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.171 | Then they for sudden joy did weep, | then they / For sodaine ioy did weepe, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.108 | sweet self are good at such eruptions and sudden | sweet self are good at such eruptions, and sodaine |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.810 | The sudden hand of death close up mine eye! | The sodaine hand of death close vp mine eie. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.59 | Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin | Sodaine, Malicious, smacking of euery sinne |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.83 | Tomorrow? O, that's sudden; spare him, spare him. | To morrow? oh, that's sodaine, / Spare him, spare him: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.50 | And rattles in their hands. Upon a sudden, | And rattles in their hands; vpon a sodaine, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.123 | guiltiness of my mind, the sudden surprise of my | guiltinesse of my minde, the sodaine surprize of my |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.293 | But lest my liking might too sudden seem, | But lest my liking might too sodaine seeme, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.263 | Sir, he's rash and very sudden in choler, and haply | Sir, he's rash, and very sodaine in Choller: and happely |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.189 | and returned me expectations and comforts of sudden respect | and return'd me expectations and comforts of sodaine respect, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.227 | Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, | Shorten my dayes thou canst with sudden sorow, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.35 | Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short. | Small showres last long, but sodaine stormes are short, |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.17 | To make my end too sudden. Learn, good soul, | To make my end too sudden: learne good Soule, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.345 | But, sirs, be sudden in the execution, | But sirs be sodaine in the execution, |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.86 | This sudden stab of rancour I misdoubt. | This sudden stab of Rancour I misdoubt: |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.43 | Tomorrow, in my judgement, is too sudden; | To morrow, in my iudgement, is too sudden, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.510 | Is that by sudden flood and fall of water | Is, that by sudden Floods, and fall of Waters, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.118 | It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; | It is too rash, too vnaduis'd, too sudden, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.46 | Where on a sudden one hath wounded me | Where on a sudden one hath wounded me, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.89 | O, let us hence! I stand on sudden haste. | O let vs hence, I stand on sudden hast. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.46 | No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean, | No sudden meane of death, though nere so meane, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.109 | Hath sorted out a sudden day of joy | Hath sorted out a sudden day of ioy, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.136 | Without a sudden calm will overset | Without a sudden calme will ouer set |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.12.1 | In this so sudden business. | In this so sudden businesse. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.144 | That love should of a sudden take such hold? | That loue should of a sodaine take such hold. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.217 | Whose sudden sight hath thralled my wounded eye. | Whose sodaine sight hath thral'd my wounded eye. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.311.1 | Then let us both be sudden. | Then let vs both be sodaine. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.321 | If thou be pleased with this my sudden choice, | If thou be pleas'd with this my sodaine choyse, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.394 | My lord, to step out of these dreary dumps, | My Lord to step out of these sudden dumps, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.396 | Is of a sudden thus advanced in Rome? | Is of a sodaine thus aduanc'd in Rome? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.42 | Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness. | Is like that mirth, Fate turnes to sudden sadnesse. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.12 | And notwithstanding all her sudden quips, | And notwithstanding all her sodaine quips, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.169.1 | Here is heard a sudden twang of instruments, and the | Here is heard a sodaine twang of Instruments, and the |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.90 | So out of circumstance and sudden tells us | (So out of circumstance, and suddaine) tells vs, |