| Original text | Modern text | Key line |
| HEnce: home you idle Creatures, get you home: | Hence! home, you idle creatures, get you home: | JC I.i.1 |
| Is this a Holiday? What, know you not | Is this a holiday? What, know you not, | JC I.i.2 |
| (Being Mechanicall) you ought not walke | Being mechanical, you ought not walk | JC I.i.3 |
| Vpon a labouring day, without the signe | Upon a labouring day without the sign | JC I.i.4 |
| Of your Profession? Speake, what Trade art thou? | Of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou? | JC I.i.5 |
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| What Trade thou knaue? Thou naughty knaue, what Trade? | What trade, thou knave? Thou naughty knave, what trade? | JC I.i.15 |
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| Thou art a Cobler, art thou? | Thou art a cobbler, art thou? | JC I.i.20 |
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| But wherefore art not in thy Shop to day? | But wherefore art not in thy shop today? | JC I.i.27 |
| Why do'st thou leade these men about the streets? | Why dost thou lead these men about the streets? | JC I.i.28 |
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| Go, go, good Countrymen, and for this fault | Go, go, good countrymen, and for this fault | JC I.i.56 |
| Assemble all the poore men of your sort; | Assemble all the poor men of your sort; | JC I.i.57 |
| Draw them to Tyber bankes, and weepe your teares | Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears | JC I.i.58 |
| Into the Channell, till the lowest streame | Into the channel, till the lowest stream | JC I.i.59 |
| Do kisse the most exalted Shores of all. | Do kiss the most exalted shores of all. | JC I.i.60 |
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| See where their basest mettle be not mou'd, | See where their basest mettle be not moved: | JC I.i.61 |
| They vanish tongue-tyed in their guiltinesse: | They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness. | JC I.i.62 |
| Go you downe that way towards the Capitoll, | Go you down that way towards the Capitol; | JC I.i.63 |
| This way will I: Disrobe the Images, | This way will I. Disrobe the images, | JC I.i.64 |
| If you do finde them deckt with Ceremonies. | If you do find them decked with ceremonies. | JC I.i.65 |
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| It is no matter, let no Images | It is no matter; let no images | JC I.i.68 |
| Be hung with Casars Trophees: Ile about, | Be hung with Caesar's trophies. I'll about, | JC I.i.69 |
| And driue away the Vulgar from the streets; | And drive away the vulgar from the streets; | JC I.i.70 |
| So do you too, where you perceiue them thicke. | So do you too, where you perceive them thick. | JC I.i.71 |
| These growing Feathers, pluckt from Casars wing, | These growing feathers plucked from Caesar's wing | JC I.i.72 |
| Will make him flye an ordinary pitch, | Will make him fly an ordinary pitch, | JC I.i.73 |
| Who else would soare aboue the view of men, | Who else would soar above the view of men, | JC I.i.74 |
| And keepe vs all in seruile fearefulnesse. | And keep us all in servile fearfulness. | JC I.i.75 |