| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.294 | prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the King | preuent your discouery of your secricie to the King |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.168 | Will be some danger; which for to prevent, | Will be some danger, which to preuent |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iv.35 | And to prevent the worst, Sir Michael, speed. | And to preuent the worst, Sir Michell speed; |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.234 | degrees prevent my curses. Boy! | Degrees preuent my curses. Boy? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.29 | But to prevent the tyrant's violence – | But to preuent the Tyrants violence, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.96 | Therefore, Lord Oxford, to prevent the worst, | Therefore, Lord Oxford, to preuent the worst, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.28 | Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel | Then least he may, preuent. And since the Quarrell |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.160 | As to annoy us all; which to prevent, | As to annoy vs all: which to preuent, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.35.2 | I must prevent thee, Cimber; | I must preuent thee Cymber: |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.104 | For fear of what might fall, so to prevent | For feare of what might fall, so to preuent |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.152 | How to prevent the fiend and to kill vermin. | How to preuent the Fiend, and to kill Vermine. |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.82 | Lest it see more, prevent it. Out, vile jelly! | Lest it see more, preuent it; Out vilde gelly: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.110 | With liver burning hot. Prevent. Or go thou | With liuer, burning hot: preuent: / Or goe thou |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.294 | jealousy! Eleven o'clock the hour. I will prevent this, | iealousie: eleuen o'clocke the howre, I will preuent this, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.135 | that it wants matter to prevent so gross o'erreaching as | that it wants matter to preuent so grosse ore-reaching as |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.I.35 | Which to prevent he made a law, | Which to preuent, he made a Law, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.179 | But presently prevent the ways to wail. | But presently preuent the wayes to waile: |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.148 | Prevent it; resist it; let it not be so, | Preuent it, resist it, and let it not be so, |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.55 | If God prevent not, I purpose so. | If God preuent not, I purpose so. |
| Richard III | R3 II.iii.26 | Will touch us all too near, if God prevent not. | Will touch vs all too neere, if God preuent not. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.51 | Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it. | Vnlesse thou tell me how I may preuent it: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.70 | As that is desperate which we would prevent. | As that is desperate which we would preuent. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.350 | Thou didst prevent me. I had peopled else | Thou didst preuent me, I had peopel'd else |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.201 | I'll teach them to prevent wild Alcibiades' wrath. | Ile teach them to preuent wilde Alcibiades wrath. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.40 | Not like a woman, for I would prevent | Not like a woman, for I would preuent |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.6 | Have their good wishes. We prevent | Have their good wishes, we prevent |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.26.2 | Lords, and the Servant, who try to prevent her | |