| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.242 | Avoid, and leave him. | Auoid, and leaue him. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.23 | how to avoid it. | how to auoid it. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.31 | And I have been all this day to avoid him. He is | And I haue bin all this day to auoid him: / He is |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.94 | avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may avoid that too, | auoyd, but the Lye direct : and you may auoide that too, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.48 | Satan, avoid! I charge thee, tempt me not! | Sathan auoide, I charge thee tempt me not. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.65 | Avoid then, fiend. What tellest thou me of supping? | Auoid then fiend, what tel'st thou me of supping? |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.25 | Pray you avoid the house. | Pray you auoid the house. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.33 | avoid. Come. | auoid: Come. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.56 | Thou basest thing, avoid hence, from my sight! | Thou basest thing, auoyd hence, from my sight: |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.71 | And did avoid a puttock. | And did auoyd a Puttocke. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.135 | Which happily foreknowing may avoid, | (Which happily foreknowing may auoyd) |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.14 | Herod. Pray you avoid it. | Herod. Pray you auoid it. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.151 | Repent what's past. Avoid what is to come; | Repent what's past, auoyd what is to come, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.208 | To be again displaced; which to avoid, | To be againe displac'd. Which to auoyd, |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.42 | What say you? Will you yield, and this avoid? | What say you? Will you yeeld, and this auoyd? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.39 | False fiend, avoid! | False Fiend auoide. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.66 | Because he would avoid such bitter taunts | Because he would auoid such bitter taunts |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.86.1 | Avoid the gallery. | Auoyd the Gallery. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.199 | I do not know the man I should avoid | I do not know the man I should auoyd |
| King John | KJ I.i.215 | Yet to avoid deceit I mean to learn; | Yet to auoid deceit I meane to learne; |
| King Lear | KL I.i.124 | On her kind nursery. (To Cordelia) Hence and avoid my sight! – | On her kind nursery. Hence and avoid my sight: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.262 | And therefore red, that would avoid dispraise, | And therefore red that would auoyd dispraise, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.140 | Is to avoid the aim. Therefore to horse, | Is to auoid the ayme. Therefore to Horse, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.198 | now stands, he will avoid your accusation; he made trial | now stands, he will auoid your accusation: he made triall |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.263 | I would you knew Ford, sir, that you might avoid | I would you knew Ford, sir, that you might auoid |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.137 | impossible places. Though what I am I cannot avoid, | impossible places: though what I am, I cannot auoide; |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.90 | your trouble? The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, | your trouble: the fashion of the world is to auoid cost, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.248 | I may avoid him. Which of these is he? | I may auoide him: which of these is he? |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.241 | A partial slander sought I to avoid, | |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.264 | Yet see no shelter to avoid the storm. | Yet seeke no shelter to auoid the storme: |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.67 | T' avoid the censures of the carping world. | T'auoid the Censures of the carping World. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.150 | Therefore – to speak, and to avoid the first, | Therefore to speake, and to auoid the first, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.142 | Is almost come. – Well done! Avoid! No more! | Is almost come: Well done, auoid: no more. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.66 | Of will and judgement: how may I avoid, | Of Will, and Iudgement. How may I auoyde |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.299 | avoid it. But he has promised me, as he is a gentleman | auoide it: but hee has promised me, as he is a Gentleman |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.433 | Avoid what's grown than question how 'tis born. | Auoid what's growne, then question how 'tis borne. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.462 | Thou bear'st my life off. Hence! Let us avoid. | Thou bear'st my life off, hence: Let vs auoid. |