| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.80 | Before I speak, too threateningly replies. | Before I speake too threatningly replies: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.24 | the twigs that threatens them. I hope I need not to | the twigges that threatens them. I hope I neede not to |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.52 | Upon the present state, whose numbers threaten; | Vpon the present state, whose Numbers threaten, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.171 | Have knit again, and fleet, threatening most sea-like. | Haue knit againe, and Fleete, threatning most Sea-like. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.49 | (threatening him) | |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.10 | Excludes all pity from our threatening looks. | Excludes all pitty from our threatning lookes: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.36 | Ransoming him or pitying, threatening th' other; | Ransoming him, or pittying, threatning th' other; |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.77 | We should not, when the blood was cool, have threatened | We should not when the blood was cool, haue threatend |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.503 | ‘ Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames | Run bare-foot vp and downe, / Threatning the flame |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.58 | An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, | An eye like Mars, to threaten or command |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.41 | It is the Prince of Wales that threatens thee, | it is the Prince of Wales that threatens thee, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.70 | Most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten | Most spend their mouths, whẽ what they seem to threaten |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.110 | This is his claim, his threatening, and my message – | This is his Clayme, his Threatning, and my Message: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.10 | Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs, | Steed threatens Steed, in high and boastfull Neighs |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.107 | Being captain of a pinnace, threatens more | Being Captaine of a Pinnace, threatens more |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iii.17 | And not with such a cruel threatening look! | And not with such a cruell threatning Looke. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.58 | Now death shall stop his dismal threatening sound | Now death shall stop his dismall threatning sound, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iii.4 | I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud, | I spy a black suspicious threatning Cloud, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.23 | From shelves and rocks that threaten us with wrack. | From Shelues and Rocks, that threaten vs with Wrack. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.8 | To be exalted with the threatening clouds; | To be exalted with the threatning Clouds: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.10 | Caesar shall forth. The things that threatened me | Caesar shall forth; the things that threaten'd me, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.32 | But either to persuade or threaten me | But either to perswade or threaten me, |
| King John | KJ II.i.225 | To save unscratched your city's threatened cheeks, | To saue vnscratch'd your Citties threatned cheekes: |
| King John | KJ II.i.481 | This friendly treaty of our threatened town? | This friendly treatie of our threatned Towne. |
| King John | KJ III.iv.120 | She looks upon them with a threatening eye. | Shee lookes vpon them with a threatning eye: |
| King John | KJ V.i.49 | Threaten the threatener, and outface the brow | Threaten the threatner, and out-face the brow |
| King John | KJ V.ii.73 | Therefore thy threatening colours now wind up, | Therefore thy threatning Colours now winde vp, |
| King Lear | KL II.i.65 | I threatened to discover him. He replied, | I threaten'd to discouer him; he replied, |
| King Lear | KL III.iii.16 | bed. If I die for it, as no less is threatened me, the King | bed, if I die for it, (as no lesse is threatned me) the King |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.75 | To his great master; who, thereat enraged, | To his great Master, who, threat-enrag'd |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iv.6 | Threatens his bloody stage. By the clock 'tis day, | Threatens his bloody Stage: byth' Clock 'tis Day, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.24 | Having bound up the threatening twigs of birch, | Hauing bound vp the threatning twigs of birch, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.18 | This casket threatens; men that hazard all | This casket threatens men that hazard all |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.105 | Which rather threaten'st than dost promise aught, | Which rather threatnest then dost promise ought, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.27 | being here, and hath threatened to put me into everlasting | being heere: and hath threatned to put me into euerlasting |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.82 | house, and hath threatened to beat her. | house, and hath threatned to beate her. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.312 | But he hath chid me hence, and threatened me | But he hath chid me hence, and threatned me |
| Pericles | Per I.iii.24 | With whom each minute threatens life or death. | with whome eache minute threatens life or death. |
| Pericles | Per V.i.200 | As thunder threatens us. This is Marina. | As thunder threatens vs, this is Marina. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.51 | Let's march without the noise of threatening drum, | Let's march without the noyse of threatning Drum, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.191 | To threaten me with death is most unlawful. | To threaten me with death, is most vnlawfull. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.139 | The law, that threatened death, becomes thy friend | The law that threatned death became thy Friend, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.276 | And threatened me with death, going in the vault, | And threatned me with death, going in the Vault, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.135 | Fie, fie, unknit that threatening unkind brow, | Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brow, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.178 | Though the seas threaten, they are merciful. | Though the Seas threaten they are mercifull, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.118.2 | Tamora threatens Lavinia | |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.76 | Ajax threatens to beat him; Achilles intervenes | |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.124 | Mine own, and what to come shall threaten me | Mine owne, and what to come shall threaten me, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.40 | And threaten love, and what young maid dare cross 'em? | And threaten Love, and what yong Mayd dare crosse 'em |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.162 | Reward did threaten and encourage him, | Reward, did threaten and encourage him, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.4 | And threaten present blusters. In my conscience, | And threaten present blusters. In my conscience |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.200 | Bohemia stops his ears, and threatens them | Bohemia stops his eares, and threatens them |