| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.124 | with the breach yourselves made you lose your city. It | with the breach your selues made, you lose your Citty. It |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.49 | Your breach of promise to the Porpentine. | Your breach of promise to the Porpentine, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.27 | breach of hers; let thine own hands take away | breach of hers; let thine owne hands take away |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.10 | Stick to your journal course: the breach of custom | Sticke to your Iournall course: the breach of Custome, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.11 | Is breach of all. I am ill, but your being by me | Is breach of all. I am ill, but your being by me |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.16 | More honoured in the breach than the observance. | More honour'd in the breach, then the obseruance. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.50 | off the breach, with his pike bent bravely; and to | off the Breach, with his Pike bent brauely, and to |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.149 | Came pouring, like the tide into a breach, | Came pouring like the Tyde into a breach, |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.1 | Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, | Once more vnto the Breach, / Deare friends, once more; |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.1 | On, on, on, on, on! To the breach, to the | On, on, on, on, on, to the breach, to the |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.2 | breach! | breach. |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.20 | Up to the breach, you dogs! Avaunt, you | Vp to the breach, you Dogges; auaunt you |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.105 | town is beseeched, and the trumpet call us to the breach, | Town is beseech'd: and the Trumpet call vs to the breech, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.71 | and such a sconce, at such a breach, at such a convoy; | and such a Sconce, at such a Breach, at such a Conuoy: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.165 | vengeance; so that here men are punished for before-breach | Vengeance: so that here men are punisht, for before breach |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.74 | But weakly guarded, where the breach was made. | But weakely guarded, where the breach was made: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.2 | Through which our policy must make a breach. | Through which our Pollicy must make a breach. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.66 | But I in danger for the breach of law. | But I in danger for the breach of Law. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.288 | A breach that craves a quick expedient stop! | A Breach that craues a quick expedient stoppe. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.82 | And where this breach now in our fortunes made | And where this breach now in our Fortunes made |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.94.1 | The sudden breach on't. | The sodaine breach on't. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.67 | Malice ne'er meant. Our breach of duty this way | Malice ne're meant: Our breach of Duty this way, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.106 | However, yet there is no great breach. When it comes, | How euer, yet there is no great breach, when it comes |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.87 | The breach of faith dwells in the soul's consent, | The breach of faith dwels in the soules consent, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.89 | Thou art not charged with the breach of faith. | Thou art not charged with the breach of faith, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.45 | To yield her city for one little breach, | To yeeld her Citie for one little breach, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.32 | As patches set upon a little breach | As patches set vpon a little breach, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.15 | Cure this great breach in his abused nature! | Cure this great breach in his abused Nature, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.170 | As honour, without breach of honour, may | As honour, without breach of Honour may |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.110 | And his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature | And his gash'd Stabs, look'd like a Breach in Nature, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.135 | Of hair-breadth scapes i'th' imminent deadly breach, | Of haire-breadth scapes i'th'imminent deadly breach; |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.224 | An unkind breach; but you shall make all well. | An vnkind breach: but you shall make all well. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.136 | To no apparent likelihood of breach, | To no apparant likely-hood of breach, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.92 | Or else a breath. The combatants being kin | Or else a breach: the Combatants being kin, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.245 | And make distinct the very breach whereout | And make distinct the very breach, where-out |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.20 | from the breach of the sea was my sister drowned. | from the breach of the sea, was my sister drown'd. |