| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.175 | Not sickness should detain me. | not sickenesse should detaine me. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.29 | Should be deposed; and, being, that we detain | should be depos'd, / And being that, we detaine |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.v.13 | Detain no jot, I charge thee. Write to him – | Detaine no iot I charge thee: write to him, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.107 | Would that alone a love he would detain | Would that alone, a loue he would detaine, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.41 | I shall offend either to detain or give it. The | I shall offend, either to detaine, or giue it: / The |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.9 | I would detain you here some month or two | I would detaine you here some month or two |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.142 | detain us longer. I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but | detaine vs longer: I dare sweare hee is no hypocrite, but |