| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.143 | I will never trust a man again for keeping | I will neuer trust a man againe, for keeping |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.246 | not keeping of oaths; in breaking 'em he is stronger than | not keeping of oaths, in breaking em he is stronger then |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.265 | the keeping of wise people; for indeed there is no | the keeping of wise people: for indeede, there is no |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.8 | home unkept – for call you that ‘ keeping ’ for a gentleman | home vnkept: for call you that keeping for a gentleman |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.94 | Do you hear how we are shent for keeping | Do you heare how wee are shent for keeping |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.46 | She prayed me to excuse her keeping close, | She pray'd me to excuse her keeping close, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.50 | with his lips, and thus keeping in his cinquepace of | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.119 | Then art thou damned for keeping thy word with | Then art thou damn'd for keeping thy word with |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.46 | keeping such vile company as thou art hath in reason | keeping such vild company as thou art, hath in reason |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.199 | Here's a goodly tumult! I'll forswear keeping | Here's a goodly tumult: Ile forsweare keeping |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.57 | Keeping them prisoner underneath her wings. | Keeping them prisoner vnderneath his wings: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.17 | keeping my house, and lands, and wife, and all, from me. | keeping my House, and Lands, and Wife and all, from me. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.65 | Or, having sworn too hard-a-keeping oath, | Or hauing sworne too hard a keeping oath, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.177 | I am betrayed by keeping company | I am betrayed by keeping company |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.332 | Or, keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools. | Or keeping what is sworne, you will proue fooles, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.75 | promise-keeping. | promise keeping. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.307 | So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring. | So sore, as keeping safe Nerrissas ring. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.51 | I will take order for her keeping close. | I will take order for her keeping close. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.154 | The state or fortune fall into my keeping | That state or Fortune fall into my keeping, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.82 | Is she worth keeping? – Why, she is a pearl | Is she worth keeping? Why she is a Pearle, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.150 | Wiped off in honourable keeping her. | Wip'd off in honourable keeping her. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.93 | mother's statue, which is in the keeping of Paulina – a | Mothers Statue (which is in the keeping of Paulina) a |