| Original text | Modern text | Key line |
| Saue your selfe, my Lord. | Save yourself, my lord. | Ham IV.v.100.2 |
| The Ocean (ouer-peering of his List) | The ocean, overpeering of his list, | Ham IV.v.101 |
| Eates not the Flats with more impittious haste | Eats not the flats with more impiteous haste | Ham IV.v.102 |
| Then young Laertes, in a Riotous head, | Than young Laertes, in a riotous head, | Ham IV.v.103 |
| Ore-beares your Officers, the rabble call him Lord, | O'erbears your officers. The rabble call him lord, | Ham IV.v.104 |
| And as the world were now but to begin, | And, as the world were now but to begin, | Ham IV.v.105 |
| Antiquity forgot, Custome not knowne, | Antiquity forgot, custom not known, | Ham IV.v.106 |
| The Ratifiers and props of euery word, | The ratifiers and props of every word, | Ham IV.v.107 |
| They cry choose we? Laertes shall be King, | They cry ‘ Choose we! Laertes shall be king!’ | Ham IV.v.108 |
| Caps, hands, and tongues, applaud it to the clouds, | Caps, hands, and tongues applaud it to the clouds: | Ham IV.v.109 |
| Laertes shall be King, Laertes King. | ‘ Laertes shall be king! Laertes king!’ | Ham IV.v.110 |
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| Letters my Lord from Hamlet. | Letters, my lord, from Hamlet. | Ham IV.vii.36.2 |
| This to your Maiesty: this to the Queene. | These to your majesty. This to the Queen. | Ham IV.vii.37 |
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| Saylors my Lord they say, I saw them not: | Sailors, my lord, they say. I saw them not. | Ham IV.vii.39 |
| They were giuen me by Claudio, he receiu'd them. | They were given me by Claudio. He received them | Ham IV.vii.40 |
| Of him that brought them. | Ham IV.vii.41.1 |