| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.73.2 | The gods forbid else! | The goddes forbid else. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.44 | Let it be forbid, sir; so should I be a great | Let it be forbid sir, so should I bee a great |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.21 | Wrinkles forbid! | Wrinkles forbid. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ii.19.2 | The gods forbid! | The Gods forbid. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.213.2 | The gods forbid! | The Gods forbid. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.92 | Being forbid? There, take you that, sir knave. | Being forbid? There take you that sir knaue. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.232.2 | The gods forbid! | The Gods forbid: |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.288.2 | Now the good gods forbid | Now the good Gods forbid, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.13 | Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid | Are burnt and purg'd away? But that I am forbid |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.186 | And therefore I forbid my tears. But yet | And therefore I forbid my teares: but yet |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.35 | Did you beg any? God forbid! | Did you begge any? God forbid. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.10 | And God forbid a shallow scratch should drive | And heauen forbid a shallow scratch should driue |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.38 | God forbid, sir, but a knave should have some countenance | heauen forbid Sir, but a Knaue should haue some Countenance, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.13 | And God forbid, my dear and faithful lord, | And God forbid, my deare and faithfull Lord, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.23 | God forbid any malice should prevail | God forbid any Malice should preuayle, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.264 | And therefore do they cry, though you forbid, | And therefore doe they cry, though you forbid, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.10 | For God forbid so many simple souls | For God forbid, so many simple soules |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.18 | No; God forbid your grace should be forsworn. | No: God forbid your Grace should be forsworne. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.189 | And when thou failest – as God forbid the hour! – | And when thou failst (as God forbid the houre) |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.25 | God forbid that! For he'll take vantages. | God forbid that, for hee'le take vantages. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.21 | No, God forbid that I should wish them severed | no: / God forbid, that I should wish them seuer'd, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.48 | If any such be here – as God forbid! – | If any such be here, as God forbid, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.113 | To him that does best, God forbid else. Cardinal, | To him that does best, God forbid els: Cardinall, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.54.1 | The Lord forbid! | The Lord forbid. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.201 | Now God forbid that any in my house | Now God forbid that anie in my howse |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.147 | Let it forbid you to attempt the other. | Let it forbid you to attempt the other: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.81 | The Lord forbid! Return and tell the king: | The Lord forbid, returne and tell the king, |
| King John | KJ III.i.190 | How can the law forbid my tongue to curse? | How can the Law forbid my tongue to curse? |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.64 | From whose obedience I forbid my soul, | From whose obedience I forbid my soule, |
| King Lear | KL III.iii.19 | This courtesy forbid thee shall the Duke | This Curtesie forbid thee,shall the Duke |
| King Lear | KL V.i.47.2 | I was forbid it. | I was forbid it: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.60 | To know the thing I am forbid to know: | To know the thing I am forbid to know: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.62 | When I to feast expressly am forbid; | When I to fast expressely am forbid. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.740 | Forbid the smiling courtesy of love | Forbid the smiling curtesie of Loue: |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.21 | He shall live a man forbid. | He shall liue a man forbid: |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.45 | And yet your beards forbid me to interpret | And yet your Beards forbid me to interprete |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.46 | In stamps that are forbid: 'tis all as easy | In stamps that are forbid: 'tis all as easie, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.60 | Marry, God forbid! The boy was the very staff of | Marrie God forbid, the boy was the verie staffe of |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.75 | You may as well forbid the mountain pines | You may as well forbid the Mountaine Pines |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.162 | forbid her my house? She comes of errands, does she? | forbid her my house. She comes of errands do's she? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.86 | When thou wakest let love forbid | When thou wak'st, let loue forbid |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.276 | Why then, you left me – O, the gods forbid! – | Why then you left me (O the gods forbid |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.201 | 'twas not so; but, indeed, God forbid it should be so! | 'twas not so: but indeede, God forbid it should be so. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.202 | If my passion change not shortly, God forbid it | If my passion change not shortly, God forbid it |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.9 | Forbid the sun to enter – like favourites, | Forbid the sunne to enter: like fauourites, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.7 | and forbid him to wear it. I will only be bold with Benedick | and forbid him to weare it, I will onely bee bold with Benedicke |
| Othello | Oth II.i.187.2 | The heavens forbid | The Heauens forbid |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.165 | Which heaven hath forbid the Ottomites? | Which Heauen hath forbid the Ottamittes. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.254 | Marry, God forbid! | Marry Heauen forbid. |
| Othello | Oth V.i.72.2 | Marry, heaven forbid! | Marry heauen forbid: |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.60 | I thank thee for't, and heaven forbid | I thanke thee fort, and heaue forbid |
| Pericles | Per II.i.78 | Die, quotha! Now gods forbid it an I | Die, ke-tha; now Gods forbid't, and I |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.200 | Now afore God – God forbid I say true – | Now afore God, God forbid I say true, |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.51.2 | Now God in heaven forbid! | Now God in heauen forbid. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.101 | The King of heaven forbid our lord the King | The King of Heauen forbid our Lord the King |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.114 | Marry, God forbid! | Mary, Heauen forbid. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.129 | And he himself not present? O, forfend it God | And he himselfe not present? Oh, forbid it, God, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.40 | To mild entreaties, God in heaven forbid | To milde entreaties, God forbid |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.4 | God forbid! – Where's this girl? What, Juliet! | God forbid, / Where's this Girle? what Iuliet? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.87 | Forbid this bandying in Verona streets. | Forbidden bandying in Verona streetes. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.23 | No, no! This shall forbid it. Lie thou there. | No, no, this shall forbid it. Lie thou there, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.157 | And I expressly am forbid to touch it, | And I expressely am forbid to touch it: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.78 | Of Mantua? Sir, marry, God forbid! | Of Mantua Sir, marrie God forbid, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.135 | No, sir, God forbid – but ashamed to kiss. | Mo sir, God forbid, but asham'd to kisse. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.131 | Join with me to forbid him her resort; | Ioyne with me to forbid him her resort, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.90 | forbid I should be so bold to press to heaven in my | forbid I should be so bold, to presse to heauen in my |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.302 | Now heavens forbid such scarcity of youth! | Now heauens forbid such scarsitie of youth. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.128 | And Jove forbid there should be done amongst us | And Ioue forbid there should be done among'st vs |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.196 | This lord go to him? Jupiter forbid, | This L. goe to him? Iupiter forbid, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.75 | Which you do here forbid me, royal Priam. | Which you doe here forbid me, Royall Priam. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.3.2 | Hector? The gods forbid! | Hector? the gods forbid. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.ii.18 | Fortune forbid my outside have not charmed her! | Fortune forbid my out-side haue not charm'd her: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.26 | And oftentimes have purposed to forbid | And oftentimes haue purpos'd to forbid |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.139.2 | Heaven forbid, man! | Heaven forbid man. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.241.2 | Be it forbid, my lord! | Be it forbid (my Lord.) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.427 | Forbid the sea for to obey the moon | Forbid the Sea for to obey the Moone, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.200.2 | The higher powers forbid! | The higher powres forbid. |