| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.72 | But she is armed for him and keeps her guard | But she is arm'd for him, and keepes her guard |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.i.10.1 | Made good guard for itself. | Made good guard for it selfe. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.vi.23 | Came on my guard, and at thy tent is now | Came on my guard, and at thy Tent is now |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ix.2 | We must return to th' court of guard. The night | We must returne to'th'Court of Guard: the night |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ix.31 | To th' court of guard; he is of note. Our hour | to'th'Court of Guard: he is of note: / Our houre |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.104.1 | The guard, ho! O, dispatch me! | The Guard, how? Oh dispatch me. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.104 | Enter Decretas and a company of the Guard | Enter a Guard. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.110 | Exeunt Guard | exeunt |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.128 | Too late, good Diomed. Call my guard, I prithee. | Too late good Diomed: call my Guard I prythee. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.129 | What ho! The Emperor's guard! The guard, what ho! | What hoa: the Emperors Guard, / The Guard, what hoa? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.131 | Enter four or five of the Guard of Antony | Enter 4. or 5. of the Guard of Anthony. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.9.1 | His guard have brought him thither. | His Guard haue brought him thither. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.9 | Enter, below, the Guard, bearing Antony | Enter Anthony, and the Guard. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.36 | Guard her till Caesar come. | Guard her till Casar come. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.67.1 | I'll take her to my guard. | Ile take her to my Guard. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.132 | To that destruction which I'll guard them from | To that destruction which Ile guard them from, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.319 | Enter the Guard, rustling in | Enter the Guard rustling in, and Dolabella. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.328.2 | All dead. | 2. Guard. All dead. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.149 | He broke from those that had the guard of him, | He broke from those that had the guard of him, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.185 | Come, stand by me. Fear nothing. Guard with halberds! | Come stand by me, feare nothing: guard with Halberds. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ii.27 | Let us alone to guard Corioles. | Let vs alone to guard Corioles |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vii.1.1 | Titus Lartius, having set a guard upon Corioles, | Titus Lartius, hauing set a guard vpon Carioles, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.x.25 | At home upon my brother's guard, even there, | At home, vpon my Brothers Guard, euen there |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.140 | Give him deserved vexation. Let a guard | Giue him deseru'd vexation. Let a guard |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.1 | Enter Menenius to the Watch on guard | Enter Menenius to the Watch or Guard. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.2 | You guard like men, 'tis well. But, by your leave, | You guard like men, 'tis well. But by your leaue, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.91 | The Guard and Menenius stay behind | Manet the Guard and Menenius. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.10 | Guard me, beseech ye! | Guard me beseech yee. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.171 | Should from encounter guard. Could I find out | Should from encounter guard. Could I finde out |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.305 | Had ever scar for. (to the Guard) Let his arms alone, | Had euer scarre for. Let his Armes alone, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.10.1 | Have you had quiet guard? | Haue you had quiet Guard? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.102.5 | the guard carrying torches | his Guard carrying Torches. Danish March. Sound a Flourish. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.99 | Attend. Where is my Switzers? Let them guard the door. | Where are my Switzers? / Let them guard the doore. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.100 | He swore had neither motion, guard, nor eye, | |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.148 | Thou art a guard too wanton for the head | Thou art a guard too wanton for the head, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.122 | Some guard these traitors to the block of death, | Some guard these Traitors to the Block of Death, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.74 | Blunt, lead him hence, and see you guard him sure. | Blunt, leade him hence, and see you guard him sure. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.45 | Which God shall guard, and put the world's whole strength | Which Heauen shall guard: And put the worlds whole strength |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.145 | Long guard it yours! If I affect it more | Long guard it yours. If I affect it more, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.42 | The heavens thee guard and keep, most royal | The heauens thee guard, and keepe, most royall |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.7 | God and His angels guard your sacred throne, | God and his Angels guard your sacred Throne, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.153 | My army but a weak and sickly guard: | My Army, but a weake and sickly Guard: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.58 | I stay but for my guidon. To the field! | I stay but for my Guard: on / To the field, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iv.75 | is none to guard it but boys. | is none to guard it but boyes. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.127 | Fight till the last gasp; I'll be your guard. | Fight till the last gaspe: Ile be your guard. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.87 | Abominable Gloucester, guard thy head; | Abhominable Gloster, guard thy Head, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.53 | Wherefore a guard of chosen shot I had | Wherefore a guard of chosen Shot I had, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.4 | Let us have knowledge at the court of guard. | Let vs haue knowledge at the Court of Guard. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.49 | Tut, holy Joan was his defensive guard. | Tut, holy Ioane was his defensiue Guard. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.40.3 | with their guard, Sir Humphrey Stafford as captain, | with their Guard, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.53.3 | and the guard | |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.1.2 | York, Suffolk, and Salisbury; the Duchess of | with Guard, to banish the Duchesse. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.188 | Sirs, take away the Duke and guard him sure. | Sirs, take away the Duke, and guard him sure. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.249 | To guard the chicken from a hungry kite, | To guard the Chicken from a hungry Kyte, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.265 | That they will guard you, whe'er you will or no, | That they will guard you, where you will, or no, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.33 | Where it should guard. O war, thou son of hell, | Where it should guard. O Warre, thou sonne of hell, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.ii.16 | And but attended by a simple guard, | And but attended by a simple Guard, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.ii.23 | At unawares may beat down Edward's guard | At vnawares may beat downe Edwards Guard, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iii.1.1 | Enter three Watchmen, to guard King Edward's | Enter three Watchmen to guard the Kings Tent. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iii.21 | Ay, wherefore else guard we his royal tent, | I: wherefore else guard we his Royall Tent, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iii.23 | This is his tent; and see where stand his guard. | This is his Tent, and see where stand his Guard: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iii.28.2 | and set upon the guard, who fly, crying, ‘ Arm! Arm!’, | and set vpon the Guard, who flye, crying, Arme, Arme, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.8 | Either betrayed by falsehood of his guard | Either betrayd by falshood of his Guard, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.v.7 | And, often but attended with weak guard, | And often but attended with weake guard, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.115.2 | certain of the guard, and two Secretaries with papers. | certaine of the Guard, and two Secretaries with Papers: |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.198.2 | two or three of the guard | two or three of the Guard. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.95.1 | Let some o'th' guard be ready there. | Let some o'th'Guard be ready there. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.95 | Enter the Guard | Enter the Guard. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.4 | Flourish. Enter the King and Guard | Flourish. Enter King and Guard. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.ii.52 | Lucilius and Titinius guard our door. | Let Lucilius and Titinius guard our doore. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.163 | When wisdom keeps the gate as beauty's guard? – | When wisedome keepes the gate as beuties gard, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.158 | And what, I pray you, is his goodly guard? | And what I praie you is his goodly gard, |
| King John | KJ I.i.70 | Heaven guard my mother's honour, and my land! | Heauen guard my mothers honor, and my Land. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.10 | To guard a title that was rich before, | To guard a Title, that was rich before; |
| King Lear | KL II.i.16 | My father hath set guard to take my brother, | My Father hath set guard to take my Brother, |
| King Lear | KL II.iii.4 | That guard and most unusual vigilance | That guard, and most vnusall vigilance |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.1 | Some officers take them away. Good guard, | Some Officers take them away: good guard, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.48 | To some retention and appointed guard; | to some retention, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.196 | Though Argus were her eunuch and her guard! | Though Argus were her Eunuch and her garde. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.51 | Stands at a guard with envy, scarce confesses | Stands at a guard with Enuie: scarce confesses |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.172 | See to my house, left in the fearful guard | See to my house left in the fearefull gard |
| Othello | Oth I.i.125 | Transported with no worse nor better guard | Transported with no worse nor better guard, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.180 | To get good guard and go along with me. | To get good Guard, and go along with me. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.77 | A se'nnight's speed. Great Jove, Othello guard, | A Senights speed. Great Ioue, Othello guard, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.211 | list me. The Lieutenant tonight watches on the court of | list-me; the Lieutenant to night watches on the Court of Guard. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.212 | guard. First, I must tell thee this: Desdemona is directly | First, I must tell thee this: Desdemona, is directly |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.1 | Good Michael, look you to the guard tonight. | Good Michael, looke you to the guard to night. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.210 | In night, and on the court and guard of safety, | In night, and on the Court and Guard of safetie? |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.239 | Come guard the door without: let him not pass, | Come guard the doore without, let him not passe, |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.14 | This king were great, his greatness was no guard | this King were great, / His greatnesse was no gard |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.20 | Guard it, I pray thee, with a lurking adder, | Guard it I prethee with a lurking Adder, |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.7.1 | Enter Richard and guard | Enter Richard, and Guard. |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.42 | Brother, good day. What means this armed guard | Brother, good day: What meanes this armed guard |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.116 | Exeunt Clarence with Brakenbury and guard | Exit Clar. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.1.2 | guard it; Lady Anne being the mourner, attended by | guard it, Lady Anne being the Mourner. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.226 | Exeunt bearers and guard with corse | Exit Coarse |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.20 | God and our innocence defend and guard us! | God and our Innocencie defend, and guard vs. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.77 | Bid my guard watch. Leave me. Ratcliffe, | Bid my Guard watch. Leaue me. / Ratcliffe, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.139 | Good angels guard thy battle! Live, and flourish! | Good Angels guard thy battell, Liue and Flourish. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.157 | Good angels guard thee from the boar's annoy! | Good Angels guard thee from the Boares annoy, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.200 | Will guard your person while you take your rest, | will guard your person, / While you take your rest, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.326 | That's verily. 'Tis best we stand upon our guard, | That's verily: 'tis best we stand vpon our guard; |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.80 | You and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from, | You, and your wayes, whose wraths to guard you from, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iii.40 | Now to guard sure their master. | Now to guard sure their Master: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.286 | Traitors, avaunt! Where is the Emperor's guard? | Traytors auant, where is the Emperours Guarde? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.306.1 | Exeunt with Martius and Quintus under guard, | Exeunt. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.22 | To guard a thing not ours nor worth to us – | To guard a thing not ours, nor worth to vs |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.127 | Though the great bulk Achilles be thy guard, | (Though the great bulke Achilles be thy guard) |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.253 | I'd not believe thee. Henceforth guard thee well, | I'ld not beleeue thee: henceforth guard thee well, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.68 | Ajax commands the guard to tend on you. | Aiax commands the guard to tend on you. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.55 | A guard of patience; stay a little while. | A guard of patience; stay a little while. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.187 | Ajax, your guard, stays to conduct you home. | Aiax your Guard, staies to conduct you home. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.81 | you now, he's out of his guard already; unless you laugh | you now, he's out of his gard already: vnles you laugh |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.69 | Dieu vous garde, monsieur! | Dieu vou guard Monsieur. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.12 | ladyship were best to have some guard about you, if he | Ladyship were best to haue some guard about you, if hee |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.227 | your guard; for your opposite hath in him what youth, | your gard: for your opposite hath in him what youth, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.58.2 | You care not for a grand guard? | You care not for a Grand guard? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.92 | For all my hopes. My cause and honour guard me! | For all my hopes: My Cause and honour guard me. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.122.1 | Upon thy present guard. | Vpon thy present guard. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.1.2 | executioner, and a guard of soldiers | Executioner &c. Gard. |