| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iv.31 | As if the world should cleave, and that slain men | As if the world should cleaue, and that slaine men |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.39 | The battery from my heart. O, cleave, my sides! | The battery from my heart. Oh cleaue my sides. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.28.1 | Cleave in the midst and perish. | Cleaue in the midd'st, and perish. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.560 | And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, | And cleaue the generall eare with horrid speech: |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.145 | Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould | Like our strange Garments, cleaue not to their mould, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.25 | If you shall cleave to my consent when 'tis, | If you shall cleaue to my consent, / When 'tis, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.66.1 | To cleave a heart in twain. | To cleaue a heart in twaine: |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.30 | My tongue cleave to my roof within my mouth, | My tongue cleaue to my roofe within my mouth, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.165.1 | Thy thoughts I cleave to. What's thy pleasure? | Thy thoughts I cleaue to, what's thy pleasure? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.91 | Knock me down with 'em; cleave me to the girdle. | Knocke me downe with 'em, cleaue mee to the Girdle. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.136 | And cleave to no revenge but Lucius. | And cleaue to no reuenge but Lucius. |