| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.viii.3 | Strike not by land; keep whole: provoke not battle | Strike not by Land, / Keepe whole, prouoke not Battaile |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.45.1 | Provoked by my offence. | Prouok'd by my offence. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.108 | Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. | Beautie prouoketh theeues sooner then gold. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.216 | Nor heady-rash provoked with raging ire, | Nor headie-rash prouoak'd with raging ire, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.138 | Provoked by him you cannot – the great danger | Prouok'd by him, you cannot) the great danger |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.64 | Being so far provoked as I was in France, I would | Being so farre prouok'd as I was in France: I would |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.293 | Were nothing prince-like; for he did provoke me | Were nothing Prince-like; for he did prouoke me |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.3 | The need we have to use you did provoke | The neede we haue to vse you, did prouoke |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.96 | That thou provokest thyself to cast him up. | That thou prouok'st thy selfe to cast him vp. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.69 | Let my presumption not provoke thy wrath, | Let my presumption not prouoke thy wrath, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.34 | More than I do, except I be provoked? | More then I doe? except I be prouok'd. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.104 | Yet know, my lord, I was provoked by him, | Yet know (my Lord) I was prouok'd by him, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.141 | How will their grudging stomachs be provoked | How will their grudging stomackes be prouok'd |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.6 | Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide, | Prouokes the mightiest Hulke against the tide, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.86 | The palsy and not fear provokes me. | The Palsie, and not feare prouokes me. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.288 | Since you provoke me, shall be most notorious. | Since you prouoke me, shall be most notorious. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.35 | Provokes my tongue, thus lavish in report. | Prouokes my tongue thus lauish in report. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.85 | But if thou didst it to provoke me on, | But if thou didst it to prouoke me on, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.234 | That justly would provoke fair England's ire | That iustly would prouoke faire Englands ire, |
| King John | KJ II.i.246 | Religiously provokes. Be pleased then | Religiously prouokes. Be pleased then |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.207 | No had, my lord! Why, did you not provoke me? | No had (my Lord?) why, did you not prouoke me? |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.13 | The which he lacks; that to provoke in him | The which he lackes: that to prouoke in him |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.74 | thought, my spleen; the heaving of my lungs provokes | thought, my spleene, the heauing of my lunges prouokes |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.347 | Rebuke me not for that which you provoke. | Rebuke me not for that which you prouoke: |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.23 | cock; and drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things. | Cock: And Drinke, Sir, is a great prouoker of three things. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.25 | provoke? | prouoke? |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.27 | Lechery, sir, it provokes and unprovokes: it provokes | Lecherie, Sir, it prouokes, and vnprouokes: it prouokes |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.15 | To make bad good, and good provoke to harm. | To make bad, good; and good prouoake to harme. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.64 | And I will provoke him to't, or let him wag. | And I will prouoke him to't, or let him wag. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.70 | at his heels a rabble of his companions, thither provoked | at his heeles, a rabble of his companions, thither prouoked |
| Othello | Oth II.i.264 | with his truncheon may strike at you: provoke him that | may strike at you, prouoke him that |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.I.26 | And her to incest did provoke. | And her to Incest did prouoke: |
| Pericles | Per I.i.138 | One sin, I know, another doth provoke. | One sinne (I know) another doth prouoke; |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.101 | So my untruth had not provoked him to it – | (So my vntruth had not prouok'd him to it) |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.61 | Provokes this deluge most unnatural. | Prouokes this Deluge most vnnaturall. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.97 | I was provoked by her slanderous tongue | I was prouoked by her sland'rous tongue, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.99 | Thou wast provoked by thy bloody mind | Thou was't prouoked by thy bloody minde, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.180 | But 'twas thy beauty that provoked me. | But 'twas thy Beauty that prouoked me. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.64 | And not provoked by any suitor else, | (And not prouok'd by any Sutor else) |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.228 | Provoke us hither now to slaughter thee. | Prouoke vs hither now, to slaughter thee. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.21 | Told me the King, provoked to it by the Queen, | Told me, the King prouok'd to it by the Queene, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.70 | Wilt thou provoke me? Then have at thee, boy! | Wilt thou prouoke me? Then haue at thee Boy. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.140 | My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not, | My Tale prouokes that question: Deare, they durst not, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.111.1 | May now provoke them to. | May now prouoke them to. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.24 | Provokes itself, and like the current flies | Prouokes it selfe, and like the currant flyes |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.99 | Not soon provoked, nor being provoked soon calmed; | Not soone prouok't, nor being prouok't, soone calm'd; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vi.5 | Provokes me to this threefold perjury: | Prouokes me to this three-fold periurie. |