| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.63 | Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel. | Grapple them to thy Soule, with hoopes of Steele: |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.18 | and in the grapple I boarded them. On the instant they got | In the Grapple, I boorded them: On the instant they got |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.195 | And let them grapple. O, the blood more stirs | And let them grapple: The blood more stirres |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.18 | Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy, | Grapple your minds to sternage of this Nauie, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.255 | To grapple with the house of Lancaster; | To grapple with the house of Lancaster, |
| King John | KJ V.i.61 | And grapple with him ere he come so nigh. | And grapple with him ere he come so nye. |
| King John | KJ V.ii.36 | And grapple thee unto a pagan shore, | And cripple thee vnto a Pagan shore, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.204 | I was as willing to grapple as he was to board. | I was as willing to grapple, as he was to boord. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.53 | With which, such scatheful grapple did he make | With which such scathfull grapple did he make, |