| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.ii.2 | height of your breeding. | height of your breeding. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.113 | She had her breeding at my father's charge. | Shee had her breeding at my fathers charge: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.193 | The sides o'th' world may danger. Much is breeding | The sides o'th'world may danger. Much is breeding, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.28 | by nature nor art may complain of good breeding, or | by Nature, nor Art, may complaine of good breeding, or |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.75 | And will you, being a man of your breeding, be | And wil you (being a man of your breeding) be |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iv.26 | Who find in my exile the want of breeding, | Who finde in my Exile, the want of Breeding; |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.17 | So long a breeding as his white beard came to, | So long a breeding, as his white beard came to, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.340 | Could put into them. My breeding was, sir, as | Could put into them. My breeding was (Sir) / As |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.15 | Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds. | dangerous coniectures / In ill breeding minds. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.90 | see't. Did these bones cost no more the breeding but | see't. Did these bones cost no more the breeding, but |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.34 | breeding than thine. | breeding then thine. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.107 | Honest gentleman, I know not your breeding. | Honest Gentleman, I know not your breeding. |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.28 | That you are worth your breeding – which I doubt not; | That you are worth your breeding: which I doubt not: |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.134 | Beseeching him to give her virtuous breeding. | Beseeching him to giue her vertuous breeding. |
| King Lear | KL I.i.8 | His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge. | His breeding Sir, hath bin at my charge. |
| King Lear | KL III.i.40 | I am a gentleman of blood and breeding, | |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.141 | And that thy tongue some 'say of breeding breathes, | And that thy tongue (some say) of breeding breathes, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.97 | The spring is near when green geese are a-breeding. | The Spring is neare when greene geesse are a breeding. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.33 | In graces, and in qualities of breeding; | In graces, and in qualities of breeding: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.218 | excellent breeding, admirable discourse, of great | excellent breeding, admirable discourse, of great |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.237.1 | As levels with her breeding. | As leuels with her breeding. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.98 | That I extend my manners. 'Tis my breeding | That I extend my Manners. 'Tis my breeding, |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.8 | A generation of still-breeding thoughts, | A generation of still breeding Thoughts; |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.1 | O blessed breeding sun, draw from the earth | O blessed breeding Sun, draw from the earth |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.183 | good capacity and breeding; his employment between | good capacity, and breeding: his employment betweene |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.320 | So far beneath your soft and tender breeding, | So farre beneath your soft and tender breeding, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.374 | So leaves me to consider what is breeding | So leaues me, to consider what is breeding, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.577 | She is as forward of her breeding as | She's as forward, of her Breeding, as |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.714 | names, your ages, of what having, breeding, and | names? your ages? of what hauing? breeding, and |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.37 | nature shows above her breeding, and many other | Nature shewes aboue her Breeding, and many other |