| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.237 | And, breathless, power breathe forth. | And breathlesse powre breath forth. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.viii.14.3 | breathless | breathles. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.31 | Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, | Breathlesse, and Faint, leaning vpon my Sword, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iii.16 | All's done, all's won. Here breathless lies the King. | All's done, all's won, here breathles lies the king |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.132 | Breathless and bleeding on the ground. Art thou alive? | Breathlesse, and bleeding on the ground: Art thou aliue? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.132 | Enter his chamber, view his breathless corpse, | Enter his Chamber, view his breathlesse Corpes, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.2 | Why are you breathless? and why stare you so? | Why are you breathlesse, and why stare you so? |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.66 | And breathing to this breathless excellence | And breathing to his breathlesse Excellence |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.30 | Stewed in his haste, half breathless, panting forth | Stew'd in his haste, halfe breathlesse, painting forth |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.37 | And bootless make the breathless housewife churn, | And bootlesse make the breathlesse huswife cherne, |
| Richard II | R2 V.vi.31 | Thy buried fear. Herein all breathless lies | Thy buried feare. Heerein all breathlesse lies |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.10 | Cries of itself ‘ No more.’ Now breathless wrong | Cries (of it selfe) no more: Now breathlesse wrong, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.24 | Weak as we are, and almost breathless swim | Weake as we are, and almost breathlesse swim |