| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.117 | I can build up. Strange is it that our bloods, | I can build vp: strange is it that our bloods |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.28 | But since the cuckoo builds not for himself, | But since the Cuckoo buildes not for himselfe, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.30 | To keep it builded, be the ram to batter | To keepe it builded, be the Ramme to batter |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.13 | Peruse the traders, gaze upon the buildings, | Peruse the traders, gaze vpon the buildings, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.4 | Shall love in building grow so ruinous? | Shall loue in buildings grow so ruinate? |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.192 | And the buildings of my fancy. Only | And the Buildings of my Fancie: / Onely |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.197 | To unbuild the city and to lay all flat. | To vnbuild the Citie, and to lay all flat. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.355 | It was a worthy building. How? A page? | It was a worthy building. How? a Page? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.142 | Lady, 'a must build churches then, or else shall 'a suffer | byrlady he must builde Churches then: or else shall he suffer |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.41 | What is he that builds stronger than | What is he that builds stronger then |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.50 | Who builds stronger than a mason, a | Who builds stronger then a Mason, a |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.41 | That frosts will bite them. When we mean to build, | That Frosts will bite them. When we meane to build, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.48 | To build at all? Much more, in this great work – | To builde at all? Much more, in this great worke, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.59 | Beyond his power to build it, who, half-through, | Beyond his power to builde it; who (halfe through) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.90 | Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart. | Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.108 | To build a grief on. Were you not restored | To build a Griefe on: were you not restor'd |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.198 | The singing masons building roofs of gold, | The singing Masons building roofes of Gold, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.128 | Thy sumptuous buildings and thy wife's attire | Thy sumptuous Buildings, and thy Wiues Attyre |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.55 | A pretty plot, well chosen to build upon! | A pretty Plot, well chosen to build vpon. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.100 | For in thy shoulder do I build my seat, | For in thy shoulder do I builde my Seate; |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.67 | Nor build their evils on the graves of great men, | Nor build their euils on the graues of great men; |
| King Lear | KL III.i.35 | If on my credit you dare build so far | |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.92 | And bawds and whores do churches build – | And Baudes, and whores, do Churches build, |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.85 | May all the building in my fancy pluck | May all the building in my fancie plucke |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.66.1 | The life o'the building. | The Life o'th' Building. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.94 | Of the all-binding law; and that there were | Of the all-building-Law: and that there were |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.165 | continency. Sparrows must not build in his house-eaves | Continencie. Sparrowes must not build in his house-eeues, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.29 | Builds in the weather on the outward wall, | Builds in the weather on the outward wall, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.38 | So did I mine, to build upon a foolish woman's | So did I mine, to build vpon a foolish Womans |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.42 | Will it serve for any model to build mischief | Will it serue for any Modell to build mischiefe |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.149 | Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble | Would take no notice, nor build your selfe a trouble |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.205 | this instant do build on thee a better opinion than ever | this instant do build on thee a better opinion then euer |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.II.14 | Build his statue to make him glorious. | Build his Statue to make him glorious: |
| Pericles | Per II.i.157 | This jewel holds his building on my arm. | This Iewell holdes his buylding on my arme: |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.36 | Like goodly buildings left without a roof, | Like goodly Buyldings left without a Roofe, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.263 | Our aery buildeth in the cedar's top | Our ayerie buildeth in the Cedars top, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.269 | Your aery buildeth in our aery's nest. | Your ayery buildeth in our ayeries Nest: |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.69 | Did Julius Caesar build that place, my lord? | Did Iulius Casar build that place, my Lord? |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.98 | Who builds his hope in air of your good looks | Who builds his hope in ayre of your good Lookes, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.147 | To build his fortune I will strain a little, | To build his Fortune, I will straine a little, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.66 | against great buildings. | against great buildings. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.529 | But thus conditioned: thou shalt build from men, | But thus condition'd: Thou shalt build from men: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.58 | O, why should nature build so foul a den, | O why should nature build so foule a den, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.23 | Upon the wasted building, suddenly | Vpon the wasted building, suddainely |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.49 | now, a kiss in fee-farm! Build there, carpenter, the air | now, a kisse in fee-farme? build there Carpenter, the ayre |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.102 | But the strong base and building of my love | But the strong base and building of my loue, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.31 | Why then, build me thy fortunes upon the basis | Why then build me thy fortunes vpon the basis |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.9 | Lest, growing ruinous, the building fall | Lest growing ruinous, the building fall, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.101 | In those foundations which I build upon, | In those Foundations which I build vpon, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.23 | My traffic is sheets; when the kite builds, look to lesser | My Trafficke is sheetes: when the Kite builds, looke to lesser |