| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.126 | virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and | virginity. Losse of Virginitie, is rationall encrease, and |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.146 | is a goodly increase, and the principal itself not much | is a goodly increase, and the principall it selfe not much |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iv.35 | pleasure and the increase of laughter. | pleasure, and the encrease of laughter. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.92 | Drink thou; increase the reels. | Drinke thou: encrease the Reeles. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.177 | Which would increase his evil. He that depends | Which would encrease his euill. He that depends |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.114 | My dear wife's estimate, her womb's increase | My deere Wiues estimate, her wombes encrease, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.227 | increase tailors, and breed ballad-makers. | encrease Taylors, / and breed Ballad-makers. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.102 | you, be that you are, long; and your misery increase | you, bee that you are, long; and your misery encrease |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.48 | Increase your services: so seem, as if | Encrease your Seruices: so seeme, as if |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.144 | As if increase of appetite had grown | As if encrease of Appetite had growne |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.104 | And I do wish your honours may increase | And I do wish your Honors may encrease, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.292 | Thou wilt but add increase unto my wrath. | Thou wilt but adde encrease vnto my Wrath. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.385 | Theirs for the earth's increase, mine for my sorrows? | Theirs for the earths encrease, mine for my sorrowes. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.164 | And that thy summer bred us no increase, | And that thy Summer bred vs no increase, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.161.1 | The Lord increase this business! | The Lord increase this businesse. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.5 | Increase and die in his disturbed cheeks. | Increase and die in his disturbed cheekes: |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.130 | Did thrice so much increase our heaviness. | Did thrice so much increase our heauines, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.276 | Dry up in her the organs of increase, | Drie vp in her the Organs of increase, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.71 | will pray, Pompey, to increase your bondage. If you | will pray (Pompey) to encrease your bondage if you |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.114 | By their increase now knows not which is which. | By their increase, now knowes not which is which; |
| Othello | Oth II.i.188 | But that our loves and comforts should increase, | But that our Loues / And Comforts should encrease |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.95 | The heavens, through you, increase our wonder, and | The Heauens, through you, encrease our wonder, / And |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.44 | Lest thou increase the number of the dead | Lest thou encrease the number of the dead, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.297 | To quicken your increase I will beget | To quicken your encrease, I will beget |
| Richard III | R3 V.v.38 | Let them not live to taste this land's increase | Let them not liue to taste this Lands increase, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.110 | Earth's increase, foison plenty, | Earths increase, foyzon plentie, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.190 | Like to the earth swallow her own increase. | Like to the earth swallow her increase. |