| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.5 | hour, and your son here at home, more advanced by the | houre, and your sonne heere at home, more aduanc'd by the |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.25 | With hearts more proof than shields. Advance, brave Titus. | With hearts more proofe then Shields. / Aduance braue Titus, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.61 | Filling the air with swords advanced and darts, | Filling the aire with Swords aduanc'd) and Darts, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.154 | Which, being advanced, declines, and then men die. | Which being aduanc'd, declines, and then men dye. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.54 | Inclinable to honour and advance | inclinable to honor and aduance |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.67 | For what advancement may I hope from thee, | For what aduancement may I hope from thee, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.215 | The poor advanced makes friends of enemies. | The poore aduanc'd, makes Friends of Enemies: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.347 | Sir, I lack advancement. | Sir I lacke Aduancement. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.7 | How in our means we should advance ourselves | How (in our Meanes) we should aduance our selues |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.206 | By whose fell working I was first advanced, | By whose fell working, I was first aduanc'd, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.73 | Give you advancement. (to the Lord Chief Justice) Be it your charge, my lord, | Giue you aduancement. Be it your charge (my Lord) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.82 | your advancements; I will be the man yet that shall | your aduancement: I will be the man yet, that shall |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.192 | Cheerly to sea! The signs of war advance! | Chearely to Sea, the signes of Warre aduance, |
| Henry V | H5 V.chorus.44 | Then brook abridgement, and your eyes advance, | Then brooke abridgement, and your eyes aduance, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.346 | In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance | In their sweet Bosomes: that neuer Warre aduance |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.vi.1 | Advance our waving colours on the walls; | Aduance our wauing Colours on the Walls, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.5 | And here advance it in the market-place, | And here aduance it in the Market-Place, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.69 | Endeavoured my advancement to the throne. | Endeuour'd my aduancement to the Throne. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.31 | Or how haps it I seek not to advance | Or how haps it, I seeke not to aduance |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.98 | Advance our half-faced sun, striving to shine, | Aduance our halfe-fac'd Sunne, striuing to shine; |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.416 | What and how true thou art. He will advance thee; | What, and how true thou art; he will aduance thee: |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.52 | A field of plate, a wood of picks advanced. | A field of plate, a wood of pickes aduanced: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.392 | The King that would distain thee will advance thee. | The king that would distaine thee, will aduance thee: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.99 | It must not be. – Come, boy, forward, advance! | It must not be, come boy forward, aduaunce, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.72 | Yet in the end thy foot thou shalt advance | Yet in the end thy foot thou shalt aduance, |
| King John | KJ II.i.207 | These flags of France, that are advanced here | These flagges of France that are aduanced heere |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.195.1 | Deserved much less advancement. | Deseru'd much lesse aduancement. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.29 | One step I have advanced thee; if thou dost | One step I haue aduanc'd thee, if thou do'st |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.343 | Advance your standards, and upon them, lords! | Aduance your standards, & vpon them Lords. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.123 | And every one his love-suit will advance | And euery one his Loue-feat will aduance, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iv.21 | Towards which, advance the war. | Towards which, aduance the warre. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.79 | I must advance the colours of my love | I must aduance the colours of my loue, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.128 | You do advance your cunning more and more. | You doe aduance your cunning more & more, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.10 | Made proud by princes, that advance their pride | Made proud by Princes, that aduance their pride, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.155 | We will advance you, Thaliard. | We will aduaunce you, Thaliard: |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.16 | Advanced in time to great and high estate. | Aduancde in time to great and hie estate. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.40 | Advance thy halberd higher than my breast, | Aduance thy Halbert higher then my brest, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.74 | You envy my advancement and my friends'. | You enuy my aduancement, and my friends: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.242 | Th' advancement of your children, gentle lady. | Th'aduancement of your children, gentle Lady |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.265 | Advance your standards, draw your willing swords. | Aduance your Standards, draw your willing Swords. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.349 | Advance our standards, set upon our foes. | Aduance our Standards, set vpon our Foes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.1 | Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye | The gray ey'd morne smiles on the frowning night, / Checkring the Easterne Cloudes with streaks of light: / And fleckled darknesse like a drunkard reeles, / From forth daies path, and Titans burning wheeles: / Now ere the Sun aduance his burning eye, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.72 | For 'twas your heaven she should be advanced. | For 'twas your heauen, she shouldst be aduan'st, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.73 | And weep ye now, seeing she is advanced | And weepe ye now, seeing she is aduan'st |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.96 | And death's pale flag is not advanced there. | And Deaths pale flag is not aduanced there. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.80 | How to deny them, who t' advance, and who | how to deny them: who t' aduance, and who |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.409 | The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, | The fringed Curtaines of thine eye aduance, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.273 | For your advancement! Do you understand me? | For your aduancement? Do you vnderstand me? |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.177 | Advanced their eyelids, lifted up their noses | Aduanc'd their eye-lids, lifted vp their noses |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.168 | As to advance this jewel. Accept it and wear it, | As to aduance this Iewell, accept it, and weare it, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.241 | And for an onset, Titus, to advance | And for an Onset Titus to aduance |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.333 | If Saturnine advance the Queen of Goths, | If Saturnine aduance the Queen of Gothes, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.396 | Is of a sudden thus advanced in Rome? | Is of a sodaine thus aduanc'd in Rome? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.4 | Advanced above pale envy's threat'ning reach. | Aduanc'd about pale enuies threatning reach: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.125 | But to your wishes' height advance you both. | But to your wishes height aduance you both. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.34 | Captives, to be advanced to this height? | Captiues, to be aduanced to this height? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.156 | And how by this their child shall be advanced, | And how by this their Childe shall be aduaunc'd, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.188 | When thou hast hung thy advanced sword i'th' air, | When thou hast hung thy aduanced sword i'th'ayre, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iv.2 | you, Cesario, you are like to be much advanced. He hath | you Cesario, you are like to be much aduanc'd, he hath |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.31 | of him; how he jets under his advanced plumes! | of him, how he iets vnder his aduanc'd plumes. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.93 | Require him he advance it o'er our heads; | Require him he advance it ore our heades; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.112 | Our hands advanced before our hearts, what will | Our hands advanc'd before our hearts, what will |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.133 | Say ‘ ay,’ and all shall presently advance. | Say I, and all shall presently advance. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.93 | They bow several ways, then advance and stand | They bow severall wayes: then advance and stand. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.59 | I may advance my streamer, and by thee | I may advance my Streamer, and by thee, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.165 | With sacred act advances: but one rose! | With sacred act advances: But one Rose, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.829 | knows how that may turn back to my advancement? I | knowes how that may turne backe to my aduancement?) I |