| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.46 | serve the turn, or the breaking of my Spanish sword. | serue the turne, or the breaking of my Spanish sword. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.246 | not keeping of oaths; in breaking 'em he is stronger than | not keeping of oaths, in breaking em he is stronger then |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iv.11 | I am supposed dead. The army breaking, | I am supposed dead, the Army breaking, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.79 | Your letters did withhold our breaking forth, | your Letters did with-holde our breaking forth |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.14 | The breaking of so great a thing should make | The breaking of so great a thing, should make |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.128 | the first time that ever I heard breaking of ribs was sport | the first time that euer I heard breaking of ribbes was sport |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.135 | A drop of water in the breaking gulf, | A drop of water in the breaking gulfe, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.74 | Break any breaking here, and I'll break your knave's pate. | Breake any breaking here, and Ile breake your knaues pate. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.77 | It seems thou wantest breaking. Out upon thee, hind! | It seemes thou want'st breaking, out vpon thee hinde. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iii.23 | for the violent breaking out. | for the violent breaking out. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.95 | Breaking his oath and resolution like | Breaking his Oath and Resolution, like |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.28 | Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.200 | By breaking through the foul and ugly mists | By breaking through the foule and vgly mists |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.221.1 | Grow stronger for the breaking. | Grow stronger, for the breaking. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.119 | To keep the horsemen off from breaking in. | To keepe the Horsemen off, from breaking in. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.8 | Charged our main battle's front, and, breaking in, | Charg'd our maine Battailes Front: and breaking in, |
| King John | KJ V.vi.14 | That any accent breaking from thy tongue | That any accent breaking from thy tongue, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.198 | Do hourly carp and quarrel, breaking forth | Do hourely Carpe and is Quarrell, breaking forth |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.109 | breaking out of mirth, as it were, I have acquainted | breaking out of myrth (as it were) I haue acquainted |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.355 | So much I hate a breaking cause to be | So much I hate a breaking cause to be |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.3 | After your late tossing on the breaking seas? | After your late tossing on the breaking Seas? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.9 | Then this breaking of his has been but a try for his | Then this breaking of his, / Ha's beene but a Try for his |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.16 | Why sigh'st thou without breaking?’ | why sighest thou without breaking? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.11 | In breaking faith with Julia, whom I loved; | In breaking faith with Iulia, whom I lou'd; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.114 | For breaking prison, and I, if you reveal me, | For breaking prison, and I, if you reveale me, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.288 | Of breaking honesty. Horsing foot on foot? | Of breaking Honestie) horsing foot on foot? |