| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.110 | Fly with false aim, move the still-piecing air | Fly with false ayme, moue the still-peering aire |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.40.1 | We stand up peerless. | We stand vp Peerelesse. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.97 | Thou wouldst appear most ugly. He is married? | Thou would'st appeere most vgly: He is married? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iv.33 | When it appears to you where this begins, | When it appeeres to you where this begins, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.18 | That day appeared, and oft before gave audience, | That day appeer'd, and oft before gaue audience, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.115 | To beg of Hob and Dick that does appear | To begge of Hob and Dicke, that does appeere |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.120 | For truth to o'erpeer. Rather than fool it so, | For Truth to o're-peere. Rather then foole it so, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.59 | Could not outpeer these twain. Pardon me, gods! | Could not out-peere these twaine. Pardon me Gods, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.101 | The ocean, overpeering of his list, | The Ocean (ouer-peering of his List) |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.1 | How bloodily the sun begins to peer | How bloodily the Sunne begins to peere |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.90 | What peer hath been suborned to grate on you, | What Peere hath beene suborn'd, to grate on you, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.144 | No prince nor peer shall have just cause to say, | No Prince, nor Peere, shall haue iust cause to say, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.33 | Then hear me, gracious sovereign, and you peers, | Then heare me gracious Soueraign, & you Peers, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.84 | See you, my Princes, and my noble peers, | See you my Princes, and my Noble Peeres, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.171 | His princes and his peers to servitude, | His Princes, and his Peeres to seruitude, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.24 | then I felt to his knees, and so up'ard and up'ard, and | then I felt to his knees, and so vp-peer'd, and vpward, and |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.4 | The well-appointed King at Hampton pier | The well-appointed King at Douer Peer, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.12 | The English are embattled, you French peers. | The English are embattail'd, you French Peeres. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.83 | For yet a many of your horsemen peer | For yet a many of your horsemen peere, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.8 | And, Princes French, and peers, health to you all! | And Princes French and Peeres health to you all. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.364 | And all the peers', for surety of our leagues. | And all the Peeres, for suretie of our Leagues. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.11 | In yonder tower to overpeer the city, | In yonder Tower, to ouer-peere the Citie, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.70 | That two such noble peers as ye should jar! | That two such Noble Peeres as ye should iarre? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.191 | This late dissension grown betwixt the peers | This late dissention growne betwixt the Peeres, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iv.1 | My gracious prince, and honourable peers, | My gracious Prince, and honorable Peeres, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.146 | King Henry's peers and chief nobility | King Henries Peeres, and cheefe Nobility, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.57 | Or be inferior to the proudest peer. | Or be inferiour to the proudest Peere; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.103 | After the slaughter of so many peers, | After the slaughter of so many Peeres, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.68 | Her peerless feature, joined with her birth, | Her peerelesse feature, ioyned with her birth, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.11 | In sight of England and her lordly peers, | In sight of England, and her Lordly Peeres, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.73 | Brave peers of England, pillars of the state, | Braue Peeres of England, Pillars of the State, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.96 | O peers of England, shameful is this league, | O Peeres of England, shamefull is this League, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.216 | The peers agreed, and Henry was well pleased | The Peeres agreed, and Henry was well pleas'd, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.251 | And Humphrey with the peers be fallen at jars. | And Humfrey with the Peeres be falne at iarres: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.72 | Salisbury and Warwick are no simple peers. | Salisbury and Warwick are no simple Peeres. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.124 | And all the peers and nobles of the realm | And all the Peeres and Nobles of the Realme |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.21 | Pernicious Protector, dangerous peer, | Pernitious Protector, dangerous Peere, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.28 | So good a quarrel and so bad a peer. | So good a Quarrell, and so bad a Peere. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.33 | Good Queen, and whet not on these furious peers; | good Queene, / And whet not on these furious Peeres, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.10 | The King and all the peers are here at hand. | The King and all the Peeres are here at hand. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.112 | The proudest peer in the realm shall not wear a head | the proudest Peere in the Realme, shall not weare a head |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.52 | Backed by the power of Warwick, that false peer, | Backt by the power of Warwicke, that false Peere, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.35 | Our people and our peers are both misled, | Our People, and our Peeres, are both mis-led, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.91 | Methinks these peers of France should smile at that. | Me thinkes these Peeres of France should smile at that. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.ii.14 | Whose top branch overpeered Jove's spreading tree | Whose top-branch ouer-peer'd Ioues spreading Tree, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.26 | And so his peers, upon this evidence, | And so his Peeres vpon this euidence, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.9.2 | Which of the peers | Which of the Peeres |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.ii.7 | This is a piece of malice. I am glad | This is a Peere of Malice: I am glad |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.371 | My mother and the peers importune you | My mother and the Peeres importune you, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.2 | How is it with our sovereign and his peers? | How is it with oursoueraigne and his peeres? |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.105 | The Dauphin, and the peers at liberty. – | The Dolphin and the Peeres at liberty, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.122 | You peers of France, why do you follow him | You peeres of France, why do you follow him, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.206 | My gracious father, and ye forward peers, | My gratious father and yee forwarde peeres, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.43 | Is, by the fruitful service of your peers | Is by the fruitfull seruice of your peeres, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.167 | And so I will; but all the peers in France | And so I will, but all the Peeres in Fraunce, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.180 | Triumphant rideth like a Roman peer, | Triumphant rideth like a Romane peere, |
| King John | KJ III.i.23 | Like a proud river peering o'er his bounds? | Like a proud riuer peering ore his bounds? |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.127 | My discontented peers. What! Mother dead? | My discontented Peeres. What? Mother dead? |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.179 | Some messenger betwixt me and the peers; | Some Messenger betwixt me, and the Peeres, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.260 | Doth Arthur live? O, haste thee to the peers! | Doth Arthur liue? O hast thee to the Peeres, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.70 | By me invested, he compeers the best. | By me inuested, he compeeres the best. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iv.59 | It is a peerless kinsman. | It is a peerelesse Kinsman. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.95.2 | Think of this, good peers, | Thinke of this good Peeres |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.12 | Do overpeer the petty traffickers | Do ouer-peere the pettie Traffiquers |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.19 | Peering in maps for ports and piers and roads, | Peering in Maps for ports, and peers, and rodes: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.23 | buffets himself on the forehead, crying ‘ Peer out, peer | buffettes himselfe on the for-head: crying peere-out, peere- |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.84 | (sings) King Stephen was and-a worthy peer, | King Stephen was and-a worthy Peere, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.209 | It hath not appeared. | It hath not appeer'd. |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.210 | I grant indeed it hath not appeared; and your suspicion | I grant indeed it hath not appeer'd: and your suspition |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.I.21 | This king unto him took a peer, | This King vnto him tooke a Peere, |
| Pericles | Per I.iii.10 | You shall not need, my fellow peers of Tyre, | You shall not neede my fellow-Peers of Tyre, |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.58 | When peers thus knit, a kingdom ever stands. | When Peeres thus knit, a Kingdome euer stands. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.40 | Might stand peerless by this slaughter. | Might stand peerlesse by this slaughter. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.93 | Most mighty liege, and my companion peers, | Most mighty Liege, and my companion Peeres, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.271 | I spy life peering; but I dare not say | I spie life peering: but I dare not say |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.88 | Besides himself are all the English peers, | Besides himselfe, are all the English Peeres, |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.67.2 | Thanks, noble peer. | Thankes Noble Peere, |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.2 | You peers, continue this united league. | You Peeres, continue this vnited League: |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.48 | And, princely peers, a happy time of day! | And Princely Peeres, a happy time of day. |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.52 | Between these swelling, wrong-incensed peers. | Betweene these swelling wrong incensed Peeres. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.112 | You cloudy princes and heart-sorrowing peers | You clowdy-Princes, & hart-sorowing-Peeres, |
| Richard III | R3 III.iii.9 | Fatal and ominous to noble peers! | Fatall and ominous to Noble Peeres: |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.1 | Now, noble peers, the cause why we are met | Now Noble Peeres, the cause why we are met, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.95 | Where be the bending peers that flattered thee? | Where be the bending Peeres that flattered thee? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.119 | Peered forth the golden window of the East, | Peer'd forth the golden window of the East, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.63 | Shall play the umpire, arbitrating that | Shall play the vmpeere, arbitrating that, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.170 | So honour peereth in the meanest habit. | So honor peereth in the meanest habit. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.47 | So perfect and so peerless, are created | So perfect, and so peerlesse, are created |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.222 | O King Stephano! O peer! O worthy | O King Stephano, O Peere: O worthy |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.8 | And overlooks the highest-peering hills, | And ouer-lookes the highest piering hills: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.271 | First, all you peers of Greece, go to my tent; | First, all you Peeres of Greece go to my Tent, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.1 | When daffodils begin to peer, | When Daffadils begin to peere, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.3 | Peering in April's front. This your sheep-shearing | Peering in Aprils front. This your sheepe-shearing, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.94 | Ay, the most peerless piece of earth, I think, | I: the most peerelesse peece of Earth, I thinke, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.14.2 | As she lived peerless, | As she liu'd peerelesse, |