| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.32 | Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow; | Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.208 | brow and true maid. | brow, and true maid. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.55 | of a married man more honourable than the bare brow | of a married man, more honourable then the bare brow |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.10 | By the stern brow and waspish action | By the sterne brow, and waspish action |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.145 | And tear the stained skin off my harlot brow, | And teare the stain'd skin of my Harlot brow, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.35 | Though you were born in Rome.’ His bloody brow | Though you were borne in Rome; his bloody brow |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.39 | His bloody brow? O Jupiter, no blood! | His bloody Brow? Oh Iupiter, no blood. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.66 | Prepare thy brow to frown. Know'st thou me yet? | Prepare thy brow to frowne: knowst yu me yet? |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.4 | To be contracted in one brow of woe, | To be contracted in one brow of woe: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.89 | And with his other hand thus o'er his brow | And with his other hand thus o're his brow, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.56 | See what a grace was seated on this brow: | See what a grace was seated on his Brow, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.121 | Even here between the chaste unsmirched brows | Euen heere betweene the chaste vnsmirched brow |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.84 | See riot and dishonour stain the brow | See Ryot and Dishonor staine the brow |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.18 | The moody frontier of a servant brow. | The moody Frontier of a seruant brow, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.60 | That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow | That beds of sweate hath stood vpon thy Brow, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.83 | This seeming brow of justice, did he win | This seeming Brow of Iustice, did he winne |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.60 | Yea, this man's brow, like to a title-leaf, | Yea, this mans brow, like to a Title-leafe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.109 | cause the false way. It is not a confident brow, nor the | cause, the false way. It is not a confident brow, nor the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.28 | As he whose brow with homely biggen bound | As hee whose Brow (with homely Biggen bound) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.76 | sad brow, will do with a fellow that never had the ache | sadde brow) will doe, with a Fellow, that neuer had the Ache |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.11 | Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it | Like the Brasse Cannon: let the Brow o'rewhelme it, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.15 | He knits his brow and shows an angry eye, | He knits his Brow, and shewes an angry Eye, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.155 | And Suffolk's cloudy brow his stormy hate; | And Suffolks cloudie Brow his stormie hate; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.iii.4 | And, like a gallant in the brow of youth, | And like a Gallant, in the brow of youth, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.ii.22 | And who durst smile when Warwick bent his brow? | And who durst smile, when Warwicke bent his Brow? |
| Henry VIII | H8 prologue.2 | That bear a weighty and a serious brow, | That beare a Weighty, and a Serious Brow, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.182 | The angry spot doth glow on Caesar's brow, | The angry spot doth glow on Casars brow, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.78 | Sham'st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night, | Sham'st thou to shew thy dang'rous Brow by Night, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.85 | But hold thee, take this garland on thy brow; | But hold thee, take this Garland on thy Brow, |
| King John | KJ II.i.505 | Hanged in the frowning wrinkle of her brow | Hang'd in the frowning wrinkle of her brow, |
| King John | KJ III.i.247 | And make a riot on the gentle brow | And make a ryot on the gentle brow |
| King John | KJ V.i.49 | Threaten the threatener, and outface the brow | Threaten the threatner, and out-face the brow |
| King John | KJ V.ii.54 | Lift up thy brow, renowned Salisbury, | Lift vp thy brow (renowned Salisburie) |
| King John | KJ V.vi.17 | Why, here walk I in the black brow of night | Why heere walke I, in the black brow of night |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.281 | Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth, | Let it stampe wrinkles in her brow of youth, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.193 | A whitely wanton with a velvet brow, | A whitly wanton, with a veluet brow. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.17 | Where fair is not, praise cannot mend the brow. | Where faire is not, praise cannot mend the brow. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.118 | You still wrangle with her, Boyet, and she strikes at the brow. | You still wrangle with her Boyet, and shee strikes at the brow. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.183 | A gait, a state, a brow, a breast, a waist, | a gate, a state, a brow, a brest, a waste, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.225 | Dares look upon the heaven of her brow | Dares looke vpon the heauen of her brow, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.263 | Paints itself black, to imitate her brow. | Paints it selfe blacke, to imitate her brow. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.739 | And though the mourning brow of progeny | And though the mourning brow of progenie |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.87 | And wears upon his baby brow the round | And weares vpon his Baby-brow, the round |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.113 | Thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first. | Thou other Gold-bound-brow, is like the first: |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.150 | More of him anon. There is written in your brow, | More of him anon: There is written in your brow |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.78 | What damned error but some sober brow | What damned error, but some sober brow |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.267 | To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow | To view with hollow eye, and wrinkled brow |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.52 | hast the right arched beauty of the brow that becomes | hast the right arched-beauty of the brow, that becomes |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.11 | Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. | Sees Helens beauty in a brow of Egipt. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.171 | this with a sad brow? Or do you play the flouting Jack, | this with a sad brow? Or doe you play the flowting iacke, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.53 | The town is empty; on the brow o'th' sea | The Towne is empty; on the brow o'th'Sea |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.112 | And didst contract and purse thy brow together, | And didd'st contract, and purse thy brow together, |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.52 | An angry brow, dread lord. | An angrie brow, dread Lord. |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.16 | And frowning brow to brow, ourselves will hear | And frowning brow to brow, our selues will heare |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.59 | Of golden metal that must round my brow | Of Golden Mettall, that must round my Brow, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.39 | For even the day before she broke her brow. | for euen the day before she broke her brow, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.53 | And yet, I warrant, it had upon it brow | and yet I warrant it had vpon it brow, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.92 | Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit. | Vpon his brow shame is asham'd to sit; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.20 | 'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow. | 'Tis but the pale reflexe of Cinthias brow. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.135 | Fie, fie, unknit that threatening unkind brow, | Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brow, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.239 | My father had a mole upon his brow. | My father had a moale vpon his brow. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.62 | How angerly I taught my brow to frown, | How angerly I taught my brow to frowne, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.101 | And do the deed with a bent brow. Most certain | And doe the deede with a bent brow, most crtaine |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.18 | A shining constellation. What a brow, | A shining constellation: What a brow, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.45 | Has a most menacing aspect; his brow | Has a most menacing aspect, his brow |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.149 | As if you held a brow of much distraction. | as if you held a Brow of much distraction: |