| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iii.6.1 | To th' extreme edge of hazard. | To th' extreme edge of hazard. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.120 | What hoop should hold us staunch, from edge to edge | What Hoope should hold vs staunch from edge to edge |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.26 | Edge, sting, or operation, I am safe. | Edge, sting, or operation. I am safe: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.29 | And he shall feel mine edge. | And he shall feele mine edge. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.35 | Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue | Whose edge is sharper then the Sword, whose tongue |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.77 | And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry. | And borrowing duls the edge of Husbandry. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.26 | Good gentlemen, give him a further edge | Good Gentlemen, / Giue him a further edge, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.259 | edge. | edge. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.17 | The edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife, | The edge of Warre, like an ill-sheathed knife, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.127 | And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, | And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.170 | You knew he walked o'er perils, on an edge, | You knew he walk'd o're perils, on an edge |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.260 | edge of a penknife. And for a retreat, how swiftly will | edge of a Pen-knife: and for a Retrait, how swiftly will |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.27 | 'Gainst him whose wrongs gives edge unto the swords | 'Gainst him, whose wrongs giues edge vnto the Swords, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.47 | With edge of penny cord and vile reproach. | with edge of Penny-Cord, and vile reproach. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.175 | This news, I think, hath turned your weapon's edge; | This Newes I thinke hath turn'd your Weapons edge; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.54 | ever I heard! Steel, if thou turn the edge, or cut not | euer I heard. Steele, if thou turne the edge, or cut not |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.166 | And though the edge hath something hit ourselves, | And though the edge hath something hit our selues, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.ii.11 | Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge, | Thus yeelds the Cedar to the Axes edge, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.110 | Hath a sharp edge – it's long, and't may be said | Hath a sharpe edge: It's long, and't may be saide |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.55.2 | before him, the axe with the edge towards him, | before him, the Axe with the edge towards him, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.6 | That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, | That honour which shall bate his sythes keene edge, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.50 | Whose edge hath power to cut, whose will still wills | Whose edge hath power to cut whose will still wills, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.9 | Hereby, upon the edge of yonder coppice; | Hereby vpon the edge of yonder Coppice, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.257 | As is the razor's edge invisible, | As is the Razors edge, inuisible: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.150 | Seize upon Fife, give to the edge o'the sword | Seize vpon Fife; giue to th' edge o'th' Sword |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.29 | Or else my sword with an unbattered edge | Or else my Sword with an vnbattered edge |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.60 | But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge | But doth rebate, and blunt his naturall edge |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.153 | the edge of a feather-bed! Here are simple scapes. Well, | the edge of a featherbed, here are simple scapes: well, |
| Pericles | Per III.iii.35 | We'll bring your grace e'en to the edge o'th' shore, | Weel bring your Grace ene to the edge ath shore, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.296 | Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite | Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, |
| Richard III | R3 V.v.35 | Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, | Abate the edge of Traitors, Gracious Lord, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.72 | Affection's edge in me, were she as rough | Affections edge in me. Were she is as rough |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.29 | The edge of that day's celebration | The edge of that dayes celebration, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.26 | Chiron, thy years want wit, thy wit wants edge | Chiron thy yeres wants wit, thy wit wants edge |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.149 | Shall more obey than to the edge of steel | Shall more obey then to the edge of Steele, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.68 | Shall to the edge of all extremity | Shall to the edge of all extremitie |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.v.24 | And there the strawy Greeks, ripe for his edge, | And there the straying Greekes, ripe for his edge, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.96.1 | More than my sword's edge on't. | More then my Swords edge ont. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.7 | Doth set my pugging tooth an edge, | Doth set my pugging tooth an edge, |