| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.177 | I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, | I will be trebble-sinewed, hearted, breath'd, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.205 | breathed. | breath'd. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.181 | I have not breathed almost since I did see it. | I haue not breath'd almost since I did see it. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.101 | Three times they breathed, and three times did they drink | Three times they breath'd, and three times did they drink |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.112 | That need to be revived and breathed in me? | That need to be reuiu'd, and breath'd in me? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.345 | Through whom a thousand sighs are breathed for thee. | Through whom a thousand sighes are breath'd for thee. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.108 | Where your brave father breathed his latest gasp, | Where your braue Father breath'd his latest gaspe, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.ii.40 | Ah, Warwick! Montague hath breathed his last; | Ah Warwicke, Mountague hath breath'd his last, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.23 | This day I breathed first. Time is come round, | This day I breathed first, Time is come round, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.211 | Whenas he breathed his blessings on his sons. | When as he breathed his blessings on his sonnes, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.239 | Peruse your spoils; and after we have breathed | Peruse your spoiles, and after we haue breathd |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.36 | We breathed our counsel. But it pleased your highness | We breath'd our Councell: but it pleas'd your Highnes |
| King John | KJ V.ii.127 | By all the blood that ever fury breathed, | By all the bloud that euer fury breath'd, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.651 | A man so breathed that certain he would fight, yea, | A man so breathed, that certaine he would fight: yea |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.660 | breathed, he was a man. But I will forward with my | But I will forward with my |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.27 | I have toward heaven breathed a secret vow | I haue toward heauen breath'd a secret vow, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.173.1 | Which breathed this poison. | Which breath'd this poyson. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.239 | Thus have you breathed your curse against yourself. | Thus haue you breath'd your Curse against your self. |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.26 | That breathed upon this earth a Christian; | That breath'd vpon the Earth, a Christian. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.110 | Which, as he breathed defiance to my ears, | Which as he breath'd defiance to my eares, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.8 | And breathed such life with kisses in my lips | And breath'd such life with kisses in my lips, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.47 | As breathed stags, ay, fleeter than the roe. | As breathed Stags: I fleeter then the Roe. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.10 | A most incomparable man, breathed, as it were, | A most incomparable man, breath'd as it were, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.7 | Have wandered with our traversed arms, and breathed | Haue wander'd with our trauerst Armes, and breath'd |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.56 | That he hath breathed in my dishonour here. | That he hath breath'd in my dishonour heere. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.112 | My soul the faithfull'st offerings hath breathed out | My soule the faithfull'st offrings haue breath'd out |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.28 | Thou knewest my mistress breathed on me, and that | Thou knew'st my Mistris breathd on me, and that |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.44 | That sigh was breathed for Emily. Base cousin, | That sigh was breathd for Emily; base Cosen, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.64 | Would you not deem it breathed, and that those veins | Would you not deeme it breath'd? and that those veines |