| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.51 | Safely, I think: 'twas a contention in public, | Safely, I thinke, 'twas a contention in publicke, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.34 | | [Q1 replaces this scene with the following] Enter Horatio and the Queene. HOR. Madame, your sonne is safe arriv'de in Denmarke, This letter I euen now receiv'd of him, Whereas he writes how he escap't the danger, And subtle treason that the king had plotted, Being crossed by the contention of the windes, He found the Packet sent to the king of England, Wherein he saw himselfe betray'd to death, As at his next conuersion with your grace, He will relate the circumstance at full. QUEENE. Then I perceiue there's treason in his lookes That seem'd to sugar o're his villanie: But I will soothe and please him for a time, For murderous mindes are alwayes jealous, But know not you Horatio where he is? HOR. Yes Madame, and he hath appoynted me To meete him on the east side of the Cittie To morrow morning. QUEENE. O faile not, good Horatio, and withall, commend me A mothers care to him, bid him a while Be wary of his presence, lest that he Faile in that he goes about. HOR. Madam, neuer make doubt of that: I thinke by this the news be come to court: He is arriv'de, obserue the king, and you shall Quickely finde, Hamlet being here, Things fell not to his minde. QUEENE. But what became of Gilderstone and Rossencraft? HOR. He being set ashore, they went for England, And in the Packet there writ down that doome To be perform'd on them poynted for him: And by great chance he had his fathers Seale, So all was done without discouerie. QUEENE. Thankes be to heauen for blessing of the prince, Horatio once againe I take my leaue, With thowsand mothers blessings to my sonne. HORAT. Madam adue. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.60 | And pride of their contention did take horse, | And pride of their contention, did take horse, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.9 | The times are wild; contention, like a horse | The Times are wilde: Contention (like a Horse |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.156 | To feed contention in a lingering act; | To feede Contention in a ling'ring Act: |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.10 | place where I could not breed no contention with him; | place where I could not breed no contention with him; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.6 | No quarrel, but a slight contention. | No Quarrell, but a slight Contention. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.92 | The great contention of the sea and skies | The great Contention of Sea, and Skies |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.17 | But when contention and occasion meet, | But when contention, and occasion meetes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.205 | I would my arms could match thee in contention, | I would my armes could match thee in contention |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.253 | To make me their contention, or to know me, | To make me their Contention, or to know me, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.108 | The grace of the contention; so the deities | The grace of the Contention: So the Deities |