| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.125 | stay him from his intendment, or brook such disgrace | stay him from his intendment, or brooke such disgrace |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.32 | Upon the brook that brawls along this wood, | Vpon the brooke that brawles along this wood, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.42 | Stood on th' extremest verge of the swift brook | Stood on th'extremest verge of the swift brooke, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.279 | He is drowned in the brook; look but in and | He is drown'd in the brooke, looke but in, and |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.59 | My business cannot brook this dalliance. | My businesse cannot brooke this dalliance, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.260 | His insolence can brook to be commanded | his insolence can brooke to be commanded |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.166 | There is a willow grows askant the brook, | There is a Willow growes aslant a Brooke, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.175 | Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, | Fell in the weeping Brooke, her cloathes spred wide, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.65 | Nor can one England brook a double reign | Nor can one England brooke a double reigne, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.73 | I can no longer brook thy vanities. | I can no longer brooke thy Vanities. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.77 | I better brook the loss of brittle life | I better brooke the losse of brittle life, |
| Henry V | H5 V.chorus.44 | Then brook abridgement, and your eyes advance, | Then brooke abridgement, and your eyes aduance, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.24 | Whom Henry, our late sovereign, ne'er could brook? | Whom Henry our late Soueraigne ne're could brooke? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.74 | Let him perceive how ill we brook his treason, | Let him perceiue how ill we brooke his Treason, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.168 | This weighty business will not brook delay; | This weighty businesse will not brooke delay, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.1 | Believe me, lords, for flying at the brook, | Beleeue me Lords, for flying at the Brooke, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.53 | Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep, | Smooth runnes the Water, where the Brooke is deepe, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ix.45 | For he is fierce and cannot brook hard language. | For he is fierce, and cannot brooke hard Language. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.92 | Knowing how hardly I can brook abuse? | Knowing how hardly I can brooke abuse? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.110 | If they can brook I bow a knee to man. | If they can brooke I bow a knee to man: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.5 | Whose warlike ears could never brook retreat, | Whose Warlike eares could neuer brooke retreat, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.60 | My heart for anger burns; I cannot brook it. | My heart for anger burnes, I cannot brooke it. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.18 | Right gracious lord, I cannot brook delay; | Right gracious Lord, I cannot brooke delay: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.27 | My breast can better brook thy dagger's point | My brest can better brooke thy Daggers point, |
| King John | KJ III.i.36 | Fellow, be gone! I cannot brook thy sight. | Fellow be gone: I cannot brooke thy sight, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.33 | Many can brook the weather that love not the wind. | Many can brooke the weather, that loue not the winde. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.47 | As o'er a brook to see fair Portia. | As ore a brooke to see faire Portia. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.96 | Empties itself, as doth an inland brook | Empties it selfe, as doth an inland brooke |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.199 | Brook – only for a jest. | Broome: onely for a iest. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.201 | regress. – Said I well? – And thy name shall be Brook. | regresse, (said I well?) and thy name shall be Broome. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.140 | Sir John, there's one Master Brook below | Sir Iohn, there's one Master Broome below |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.144 | Brook is his name? | Broome is his name? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.150 | Enter Bardolph, with Ford disguised as Brook | |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.157 | name is Brook. | name is Broome. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.158 | Good Master Brook, I desire more acquaintance | Good Master Broome, I desire more acquaintance |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.172 | Speak, good Master Brook. I shall be glad to | Speake (good Master Broome) I shall be glad to |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.242 | Master Brook, I will first make bold with your | Master Broome, I will first make bold with your |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.248 | Want no Mistress Ford, Master Brook; you | Want no Mistresse Ford (Master Broome) you |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.268 | Master Brook, thou shalt know I will predominate over | Master Broome, thou shalt know, I will predominate ouer |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.271 | his style. Thou, Master Brook, shalt know him for | his stile: thou (Master Broome) shalt know him for |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.53 | I marvel I hear not of Master Brook. He sent | I meruaile I heare not of Mr Broome: he sent |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.56 | Enter Ford disguised as Brook | |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.57 | Now, Master Brook, you come to know what | Now M. Broome, you come to know / What |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.60 | Master Brook, I will not lie to you. I was at her | M. Broome I will not lye to you, / I was at her |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.63 | Very ill-favouredly, Master Brook. | very ill-fauouredly M. Broome. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.65 | No, Master Brook, but the peaking cornuto | No (M. Broome) but the peaking Curnuto |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.66 | her husband, Master Brook, dwelling in a continual | her husband (M. Broome) dwelling in a continual |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.83 | greasy napkins, that, Master Brook, there was the | greasie Napkins, that (Master Broome) there was the |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.87 | Nay, you shall hear, Master Brook, what I | Nay, you shall heare (Master Broome) what I |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.98 | But mark the sequel, Master Brook. I suffered the | But marke the sequell (Master Broome) I suffered the |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.112 | Brook! | Broome.) |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.116 | Master Brook, I will be thrown into Etna, as | Master Broome: I will be throwne into Etna, as |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.120 | and nine is the hour, Master Brook. | and nine is the houre (Master Broome.) |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.126 | her, Master Brook; Master Brook, you shall cuckold | her (Master Broome) Master Broome, you shall cuckold |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.74 | Nay, I'll to him again in name of Brook. | Nay, Ile to him againe in name of Broome, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.i.9 | Enter Ford disguised as Brook | |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.i.9 | How now, Master Brook! Master Brook, the matter will | How now M. Broome? Master Broome, the matter will |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.i.14 | I went to her, Master Brook, as you see, like | I went to her (Master Broome) as you see, like |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.i.15 | a poor old man. But I came from her, Master Brook, like | a poore-old-man, but I came from her (Master Broome) like |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.i.18 | Brook, that ever governed frenzy. I will tell you: he | Broome) that euer gouern'd Frensie. I will tell you, he |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.i.20 | shape of man, Master Brook, I fear not Goliath with a | shape of Man (Master Broome) I feare not Goliah with a |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.i.23 | Brook. Since I plucked geese, played truant and whipped | Broome:) since I pluckt Geese, plaide Trewant, and whipt |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.i.28 | in hand, Master Brook! Follow. | in hand (M. Broome) follow. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.109 | Now, sir, who's a cuckold now? Master Brook, | Now Sir, whose a Cuckold now? Mr Broome, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.111 | horns, Master Brook. And, Master Brook, he hath | hornes Master Broome: / And Master Broome, he hath |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.114 | paid to Master Brook. His horses are arrested for it, | paid to Mr Broome, his horses are arrested for it, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.115 | Master Brook. | Mr Broome. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.164 | Master Brook, that you have cozened of money, to whom | Mr Broome, that you haue cozon'd of money, to whom |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.236 | To Master Brook you yet shall hold your word, | To Master Broome, you yet shall hold your word, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.84 | By paved fountain or by rushy brook, | By paued fountaine, or by rushie brooke, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.3 | In that you brook it ill, it makes him worse; | In that you brooke it ill, it makes him worse, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.161 | Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, | Being a Barke to brooke no mightie Sea; |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.159 | That cannot brook the accent of reproof. | That cannot brooke the accent of reproofe. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.49 | Adonis painted by a running brook, | Adonis painted by a running brooke, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.118 | Soldiers should brook as little wrongs as gods. | Souldiers should brooke as little wrongs as Gods. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.226 | And skip when thou pointest out? Will the cold brook, | And skip when thou point'st out? Will the cold brooke |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.77 | And cannot brook competitors in love? | And cannot brooke Competitors in loue? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iii.4 | Have learned me how to brook this patiently. | Haue learn'd me how to brooke this patiently. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.3 | I better brook than flourishing peopled towns. | I better brooke then flourishing peopled Townes: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.v.6 | Fast by a brook, and there he shall keep close, | Fast by a Brooke, and there he shall keepe close, |