| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.249 | And pray God's blessing into thy attempt. | And praie Gods blessing into thy attempt: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.62 | the attempt for a worthy exploit. If you speed well in it | the attempt for a worthy exploit: if you speede well in it, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.75 | but the attempt I vow. | but the attempt I vow. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.167 | give over this attempt. | giue ouer this attempt. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.45 | heart, stagger in this attempt; for here we have no temple | heart, stagger in this attempt: for heere wee haue no Temple |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.146 | But with his last attempt he wiped it out, | But with his last Attempt, he wip'd it out: |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.109 | offence herein too, I durst attempt it against any | offence heerein to, I durst attempt it against any |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.113 | worthy of by your attempt. | worthy of, by your Attempt. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.115 | A repulse: though your attempt – as you call it – | A Repulse though your Attempt (as you call it) |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.184 | All that good time will give us. This attempt | All that good time will giue vs. This attempt, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.61 | The quality and hair of our attempt | The qualitie and Heire of our Attempt |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.45 | We have supplies to second our attempt. | Wee haue Supplyes, to second our Attempt: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.79 | But mark: as in this haughty great attempt | But marke: as in this haughtie great attempt, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.ii.26 | You that will follow me to this attempt, | You that will follow me to this attempt, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.17 | Bar his access to th' King, never attempt | Barre his accesse to'th'King, neuer attempt |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.40 | Thou shouldst attempt it. Come now, keep thine oath; | Thou should'st attempt it. Come now, keepe thine oath, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.147 | Let it forbid you to attempt the other. | Let it forbid you to attempt the other: |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.90 | For what is he that will attempt great deeds | For what is he that will attmpt great deeds, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.111 | Till my attempt so much be glorified | Till my attempt so much be glorified, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.10 | And 'tis not done. The attempt and not the deed | And 'tis not done: th' attempt, and not the deed, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.39.1 | Prepares for some attempt of war. | Prepares for some attempt of Warre. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.79 | By fearing to attempt. Go to Lord Angelo, | By fearing to attempt: Goe to Lord Angelo |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.256 | will I frame and make fit for his attempt. If you think | will I frame, and make fit for his attempt: if you thinke |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.184 | persuasion can with ease attempt you, I will go further than | perswasion, can with ease attempt you, I wil go further then |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.i.39 | And either not attempt to choose at all | And either not attempt to choose at all, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.418 | Dear sir, of force I must attempt you further. | Deare sir, of force I must attempt you further, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.200 | waste, attempt us again. | waste, attempt vs againe. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.29 | Neglecting an attempt of ease and gain | Neglecting an attempt of ease, and gaine |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.22 | therefore I will attempt the doing of it. | therefore I will attempt the doing it. |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.236 | your pleasure. I will be near to second your attempt, | your pleasure. I will be neere to second your Attempt, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.253 | (within) If thou attempt it, it will cost thee dear; | If thou attempt it, it will cost thee deere; |
| Pericles | Per V.i.174 | And having wooed a villain to attempt it, | and hauing wooed a villaine, / To attempt it, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.266 | For me, the ransom of my bold attempt | For me, the ransome of my bold attempt, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.268 | But if I thrive, the gain of my attempt | But if I thriue, the gaine of my attempt, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.68 | And what love can do, that dares love attempt. | And what Loue can do, that dares Loue attempt: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.50 | For which attempt the judges have pronounced | For which attempt the Iudges haue pronounc'st |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.27 | do redeem it by some laudable attempt either of valour | do redeeme it, by some laudable attempt, either of valour |