| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.115 | in the defence yet is weak. Unfold to us some warlike | in the defence yet is weak: vnfold to vs some war-like |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.73.1 | In honestest defence. | In honestest defence. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.56 | of a bachelor; and by how much defence is better than | of a Batcheller: and by how much defence is better then |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v. | how to say that. For the defence of a town our general | how to say that: for the Defence of a Towne, our Generall |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.129 | Is all the policy, strength, and defence, | Is all the Policy, Strength, and Defence |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.80 | Something's afore't – soft, soft! we'll no defence – | Something's a-foot: Soft, soft, wee'l no defence, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.96 | For art and exercise in your defence, | For Art and exercise in your defence; |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.7 | herself in her own defence? | her selfe in her owne defence? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.12 | Make fearful musters, and prepared defence, | Make fearfull Musters, and prepar'd Defence, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.153 | That England, being empty of defence, | That England being emptie of defence, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.43 | In cases of defence, 'tis best to weigh | In cases of defence, 'tis best to weigh |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.45 | So the proportions of defence are filled; | So the proportions of defence are fill'd: |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.43 | Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroyed? | Or guiltie in defence, be thus destroy'd. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.99 | And in defence of my lord's worthiness, | And in defence of my Lords worthinesse, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.75 | Now is it manhood, wisdom, and defence, | Now is it manhood, wisedome, and defence, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.160 | Lord Clifford vows to fight in thy defence; | Lord Clifford vowes to fight in thy defence: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.32 | Offering their own lives in their young's defence? | Offering their owne liues in their yongs defence? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.79 | And hearten those that fight in your defence; | And hearten those that fight in your defence: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.64 | If not, the city being but of small defence, | If not, the Citie being but of small defence, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.109 | Alas, I am not cooped here for defence! | Alas, I am not coop'd here for defence: |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.200 | Are full of rest, defence, and nimbleness. | Are full of rest, defence, and nimblenesse. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.172 | All shifts were tried, both for defence and hurt; | All shifts were tried both for defence and hurt, |
| King John | KJ I.i.258 | Which was so strongly urged past my defence. | Which was so strongly vrg'd past my defence. |
| King John | KJ II.i.81 | We must awake endeavour for defence; | We must awake indeuor for defence, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.84 | Nor tempt the danger of my true defence; | Nor tempt the danger of my true defence; |
| King John | KJ V.i.76 | They saw we had a purpose of defence. | They saw we had a purpose of defence. |
| King John | KJ V.ii.18 | Where honourable rescue and defence | Where honourable rescue, and defence |
| King John | KJ V.vii.88 | Ourselves well sinewed to our defence. | Our selues well sinew'd to our defence. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.113 | defence. | defence. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.85 | Muster your wits, stand in your own defence, | Muster your Wits, stand in your owne defence, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.98 | Thy praises, in his kingdom's great defence, | Thy prayses in his Kingdomes great defence, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.78 | Do I put up that womanly defence | Do I put vp that womanly defence, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.45 | Give him defence against the elements, | Giue him defence against the Elements, |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.43 | To God, the widow's champion and defence. | To heauen, the widdowes Champion to defence |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.134 | And thou dismembered with thine own defence. | And thou dismembred with thine owne defence. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.56 | But in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just. | But in defence, by Mercy, 'tis most iust. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.344 | safety were remotion, and thy defence absence. What | safety were remotion, and thy defence absence. What |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.199 | Spent more in her defence. But, worthy Hector, | Spent more in her defence. But worthy Hector, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.216 | That defence thou hast, betake thee to't. Of | That defence thou hast, betake the too't: of |