| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.119 | Would quite confound distinction, yet stands off | Would quite confound distinction: yet stands off |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.45 | Let's not confound the time with conference harsh. | Let's not confound the time with Conference harsh; |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.28 | Call on him for't. But to confound such time | Call on him for't. But to confound such time, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.92 | The gods confound thee! Dost thou hold there still? | The Gods confound thee, / Dost thou hold there still? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.58 | What willingly he did confound he wailed, | What willingly he did confound, he wail'd, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.17 | How couldst thou in a mile confound an hour, | How could'st thou in a mile confound an houre, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.562 | Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed | Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.187.2 | O, confound the rest! | Oh confound the rest: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.99 | He did confound the best part of an hour | He did confound the best part of an houre |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.41 | Confound themselves with working. Learn this, Thomas, | Confound themselues with working. Learne this Thomas, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.354 | Were to profane the idol than confound it. | Were to prophaine the Idoll then confound it, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.47 | The number would confound my memory, | The number would confound my memorie, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.29 | They do confound their skill in covetousness; | They do confound their skill in couetousnesse, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.20 | Confound themselves. 'Tis strange that death should sing. | Counfound themselues. 'Tis strange yt death shold sing: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.397 | Bruise me with scorn, confound me with a flout, | Bruise me with scorne, confound me with a flout. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.53 | Confound and swallow navigation up; | Confound and swallow Nauigation vp: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.99 | Uproar the universal peace, confound | Vprore the vniuersall peace, confound |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.276 | So keen and greedy to confound a man. | So keene and greedy to confound a man. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.287 | Come tears, confound; | Come teares, confound: |
| Pericles | Per V.ii.14 | The interim, pray you, all confound. | The Interim pray, you all confound. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.60 | With too much riches it confound itself. | With too much riches it confound it selfe? |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.141 | Shall kin with kin, and kind with kind, confound. | Shall Kinne with Kinne, and Kinde with Kinde confound. |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.85 | This let alone will all the rest confound. | This let alone, will all the rest confound. |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.14 | Confound your hidden falsehood and award | Confound your hidden falshood, and award |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.262 | Be not so hasty to confound my meaning. | Be not so hasty to confound my meaning: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.399 | Of hostile arms! Myself myself confound! | Of hostile Armes: My selfe, my selfe confound: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.240 | Traffic confound thee, if the gods will not! | Traffick confound thee, if the Gods will not. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.242 | Traffic's thy god, and thy god confound | Traffickes thy God, & thy God confound |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.37 | The gods confound – hear me, you good gods all – | The Gods confound (heare me you good Gods all) |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.76 | Confound thee, for thou art a man. | confound thee, for / thou art a man. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.104 | The gods confound them all in thy conquest, | The Gods confound them all in thy Conquest, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.338 | unicorn, pride and wrath would confound thee and | the Vnicorne, pride and wrath would confound thee, and |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.451 | And gold confound you howsoe'er. Amen. | And Gold confound you howsoere: Amen. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.101 | Confound them by some course, and come to me, | Confound them by some course, and come to me, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.6 | (Aside) And pray the Roman gods confound you both. | And pray the Romane Gods confound you both. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.74 | subject, and war and lechery confound all! | Subiect, and Warre and Lecherie confound all. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.28 | To seat something I would confound. So hoist we | To seate something I would confound: So hoyst we |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.166 | If well inspired, this battle shall confound | If well inspird, this Battaile shal confound |