| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.17 | Whom I myself embrace to set him free. | Whom I my selfe embrace, to set him free. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.56 | He knows that you embraced not Antony | He knowes that you embrace not Anthony |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.166 | you for your own sake to embrace your own safety, and | you for your owne sake to embrace your own safetie, and |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.414 | Embrace thy brother there, rejoice with him. | Embrace thy brother there, reioyce with him. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vii.10 | When first I did embrace him. Yet his nature | When first I did embrace him. Yet his Nature |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.153 | I embrace these conditions, let us have articles betwixt | I embrace these Conditions, let vs haue Articles betwixt |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.178 | With joy he will embrace you: for he's honourable, | With ioy he will imbrace you: for hee's Honourable, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.246.2 | I embrace it freely, | I do embrace it freely, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.382 | For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune. | For me, with sorrow, I embrace my Fortune, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.73 | I will embrace him with a soldier's arm, | I will imbrace him with a Souldiers arme, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.98 | And by that music let us all embrace, | And by that Musicke, let vs all imbrace: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.100.1 | Here they embrace, the trumpets sound. | They embrace, the trumpets sound, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.v.12 | And I embrace this fortune patiently, | And I embrace this fortune patiently, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.63 | Let's drink together friendly and embrace, | Let's drinke together friendly, and embrace, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.201 | I embrace it. | I embrace it. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.13 | Embrace we then this opportunity, | Embrace we then this opportunitie, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.37 | Direct mine arms I may embrace his neck | Direct mine Armes, I may embrace his Neck, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.82 | And, lords, accept this hearty kind embrace. | And Lords accept this heartie kind embrace. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.171 | I do embrace thee as I would embrace | I do embrace thee, as I would embrace |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.354 | Embrace and kiss and take ten thousand leaves, | Embrace, and kisse, and take ten thousand leaues, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.6 | But where's the body that I should embrace? | But where's the body that I should imbrace? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.13 | Who loves the King and will embrace his pardon, | Who loues the King, and will imbrace his pardon, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.202 | Long live King Henry! Plantagenet, embrace him. | Long liue King Henry: Plantagenet embrace him. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.29 | See, see! They join, embrace, and seem to kiss, | See, see, they ioyne, embrace, and seeme to kisse, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.45 | Let me embrace thee in my weary arms. | Let me imbrace thee in my weary armes: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.24 | Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, | Let me embrace the sower Aduersaries, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.158 | Make me no more ado, but all embrace him; | Make me no more adoe, but all embrace him; |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.171.1 | Embrace and love this man. | Embrace, and loue this man. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.259 | He would embrace the means to come by it. | He would embrace the meanes to come by it. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.38 | What then should subjects but embrace their king? | What then should subiects but imbrace their King, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.290 | Why, so she is; for when I would embrace her, | Why so she is, for when I would embrace her, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.359 | If she remember to embrace the King; | If she remember to embrace the king, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.113 | Than to embrace in an unlawful bed | Then to embrace in an vnlawfull bed, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.74 | Enter Prince Edward in triumph, bearing in his hand his shivered lance, and the body of the King of Bohemia borne before, wrapped in the colours. They run and embrace him | Enter Prince Edward in tryumph, bearing in his hande his shiuered Launce, and the King of Boheme, borne before, wrapt in the Coullours: They runne and imbrace him. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.50 | Hereafter I'll embrace thee as myself. | Heereafter Ile embrace thee as my selfe, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.1 | Audley, the arms of death embrace us round, | Audley the armes of death embrace vs round, |
| King John | KJ II.i.11 | Embrace him, love him, give him welcome hither. | Embrace him, loue him, giue him welcome hether. |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.12 | It is our safety, and we must embrace | It is our safetie, and we must embrace |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.7 | Thou unsubstantial air that I embrace! | Thou vnsubstantiall ayre that I embrace: |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.174 | A royal nobleness. I must embrace thee. | A Royall Noblenesse: I must embrace thee, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.212 | Sweet lords, sweet lovers, O, let us embrace! | Sweet Lords, sweet Louers, O let vs imbrace, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.136 | Than is his father's, must embrace the fate | Then is his Fathers, must embrace the fate |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.64 | And you embrace th' occasion to depart. | And you embrace th' occasion to depart. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.96 | You embrace your charge too willingly. I | You embrace your charge too willingly: I |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.47 | You will say she did embrace me as a husband, | You will say, she did imbrace me as a husband, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.281 | I do embrace your offer, and dispose | I do embrace your offer, and dispose |
| Pericles | Per III.iii.37.2 | I will embrace | I will imbrace |
| Pericles | Per V.i.222.2 | I embrace you. | I embrace you, |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.55 | Embrace him, dear Thaisa, this is he. | imbrace him deere Thaisa, this is hee, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.89 | Cast off his chains of bondage and embrace | Cast off his chaines of bondage, and embrace |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.184 | Embrace each other's love in banishment, | Embrace each others loue in banishment, |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.25 | Dorset, embrace him; Hastings, love Lord Marquess. | Dorset, imbrace him: / Hastings, loue Lord Marquesse. |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.41.1 | Embrace | Embrace |
| Richard III | R3 III.iii.24 | Come, Grey; come, Vaughan; let us here embrace. | Come Grey, come Vaughan, let vs here embrace. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.113 | Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you | Armes take your last embrace: And lips, O you |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.v.34 | Sweet Kate, embrace her for her beauty's sake. | Sweete Kate embrace her for her beauties sake. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.v.68 | Let me embrace with old Vincentio, | Let me imbrace with old Vincentio, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.109 | Does now speak to thee, I embrace thy body, | Do's now speake to thee, I embrace thy body, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.121 | Let me embrace thine age, whose honour cannot | Let me embrace thine age, whose honor cannot |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.214 | Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart | Let griefe and sorrow still embrace his heart, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.45 | Whom this beneath world doth embrace and hug | Whom this beneath world doth embrace and hugge |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.i.27 | would embrace no counsel, take no warning by my | wold embrace no counsell, take no warning by my |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.ii.30.1 | Flavius and the Servants embrace each other | Embrace and part seuerall wayes. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.69 | I will embrace thee in it by and by. | I will imbrace thee in it by and by. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.107 | And oped their arms to embrace me as a friend. | And op'd their armes to imbrace me as a Friend: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.33 | Even such a passion doth embrace my bosom. | Euen such a passion doth imbrace my bosome: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.14 | embrace too. ‘ O heart,’ as the goodly saying is – | embrace too: oh hart, as the goodly saying is; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.135 | Be drained! Let me embrace thee, Ajax: | Be drained. Let me embrace thee Aiax: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.199 | Never like thee. Let an old man embrace thee; | Neuer like thee. Let an oldman embrace thee, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.202 | Let me embrace thee, good old chronicle, | Let me embrace thee good old Chronicle, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.143 | spirit embrace them; and to inure thyself to what thou art | spirit embrace them, and to invre thy selfe to what thou art |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.248 | Do not embrace me, till each circumstance | Do not embrace me, till each circumstance, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.317 | Madam, I am most apt t' embrace your offer. | Madam, I am most apt t'embrace your offer: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.129 | Now kiss, embrace, contend, do what you will. | Now kisse, embrace, contend, doe what you will. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.127 | Thurio, give back, or else embrace thy death; | Thurio giue backe; or else embrace thy death: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.93 | I do embrace you and your offer – for | I doe embrace you, and your offer, for |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.300.2 | I embrace ye. | I embrace ye. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.31 | Before I turn, let me embrace thee, cousin; | Before I turne, Let me embrace thee Cosen |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.32 | They embrace | |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.520 | Your gracious self, embrace but my direction. | Your gracious selfe; embrace but my direction, |