| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.17.1 | For breathing and exploit. | For breathing, and exploit. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.14 | I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose – | I am sorry to giue breathing to my purpose. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.36 | And like the tyrannous breathing of the north. | And like the Tyrannous breathing of the North, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.18 | How dearly they do't: 'tis her breathing that | How deerely they doo't: 'Tis her breathing that |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.130 | Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds, | Breathing like sanctified and pious bonds, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.171 | majesty, it is the breathing time of day with me. Let the | Maiestie, 'tis the breathing time of day with me; let the |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.31 | Lo, there thou standest, a breathing valiant man | Loe, there thou standst a breathing valiant man |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.21 | Be my last breathing in this mortal world! | Be my last breathing in this mortall world. |
| King John | KJ II.i.419 | Rescue those breathing lives to die in beds | Rescue those breathing liues to dye in beds, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.66 | And breathing to this breathless excellence | And breathing to his breathlesse Excellence |
| King John | KJ V.iv.36 | Even this ill night, your breathing shall expire, | Euen this ill night, your breathing shall expire, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.40 | To kiss this shrine, this mortal breathing saint. | To kisse this shrine, this mortall breathing Saint. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.87 | o' my shoulders, no sighs but o' my breathing, no tears | a my shoulders, no sighes but a my breathing, no teares |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.141 | Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy. | Therefore I scant this breathing curtesie. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.336 | breathing; but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall | breathing, but I warrant thee Claudio, the time shall |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.100 | Come, sir, here's a lady that wants breathing too, | Come sir, heer's a Lady that wants breathing too, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.173 | Which robs my tongue from breathing native breath? | Which robs my tongue from breathing natiue breath? |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.48.1 | Of mortal breathing. | Of mortall breathing. |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.21 | Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, | Into this breathing World, scarse halfe made vp, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.60 | Cannot be quiet scarce a breathing while | Cannot be quiet scarse a breathing while, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.25 | But, like dumb statuas or breathing stones, | But like dumbe Statues, or breathing Stones, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.129 | Poor breathing orators of miseries, | Poore breathing Orators of miseries, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.384 | And both the princes had been breathing here, | And both the Princes had bene breathing heere, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.173 | For breathing in their faces, beat the ground | For breathing in their faces: beate the ground |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.viii.6 | How ugly night comes breathing at his heels; | How vgly night comes breathing at his heeles, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.89.1 | To any lady breathing – | To any Lady breathing--- |