| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.14 | great and trusty business in a main danger fail you. | great and trustie businesse, in a maine daunger, fayle you. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.89 | these main parcels of dispatch effected many nicer | these maine parcels of dispatch, affected many nicer |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.69 | The main consents are had, and here we'll stay | The maine consents are had, and heere wee'l stay |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.192 | For the main soldier; whose quality, going on, | For the maine Souldier. Whose quality going on, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.103 | That the main harvest reaps. Loose now and then | That the maine haruest reapes: loose now and then |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.37 | As the main point of this our after-meeting, | As the maine Point of this our after-meeting, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iii.17 | The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing | The maine blaze of it is past, but a small thing |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.105 | Is the main motive of our preparations, | Is the maine Motiue of our Preparations, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.28 | Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal. | Then the maine voyce of Denmarke goes withall. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.56 | I doubt it is no other but the main, | I doubt it is no other, but the maine, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.15 | Goes it against the main of Poland, sir, | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.47 | All at one cast? To set so rich a main | All at one Cast? To set so rich a mayne |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.79 | With a near aim, of the main chance of things | With a neere ayme, of the maine chance of things, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.144 | But fear the main intendment of the Scot, | But feare the maine intendment of the Scot, |
| Henry V | H5 III.iv.5 | à parler. Comment appelez-vous la main en anglais? | a parlen: Comient appelle vous le main en Anglois? |
| Henry V | H5 III.iv.6 | La main? Elle est appelée de hand. | Le main il & appelle de Hand. |
| Henry V | H5 III.iv.11 | La main, de hand; les doigts, de fingres. Je | Le main de Hand, le doyts le Fingres, ie |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iv.56 | entre les mains d'un chevalier, je pense, le plus brave, | entre les main d'vn Cheualier Ie peuse le plus braue |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.252 | baisant la main d'une – notre Seigneur – indigne serviteur. | baisant le main d'une nostre Seigneur indignie seruiteur |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.50 | the duchy of Anjou and the county of Maine shall be | the Dutchy of Aniou, and the County of Main, shall be |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.206 | Then let's make haste away, and look unto the main. | Then lets make hast away, / And looke vnto the maine. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.207 | Unto the main! O father, Maine is lost! | Vnto the maine? / Oh Father, Maine is lost, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.208 | That Maine which by main force Warwick did win, | That Maine, which by maine force Warwicke did winne, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.210 | Main chance, father, you meant; but I meant Maine, | Main-chance father you meant, but I meant Maine, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.8 | Charged our main battle's front, and, breaking in, | Charg'd our maine Battailes Front: and breaking in, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.6 | main power, took 'em from me, with this reason: his | maine power tooke 'em from me, with this reason: his |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.39 | Look into these affairs see this main end, | Looke into these affaires, see this maine end, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.93 | Put your main cause into the King's protection; | Put your maine cause into the Kings protection, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.215 | Made me put this main secret in the packet | Made me put this maine Secret in the Packet |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.31 | The King's late scruple, by the main assent | The Kings late Scruple, by the maine assent |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.196 | Quite from the main opinion he held once | Quite from the maine Opinion he held once, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.225 | For the main battles, I will guide myself, | For the mayne battells I will guide my selfe, |
| King John | KJ II.i.26 | Even till that England, hedged in with the main, | Euen till that England hedg'd in with the maine, |
| King Lear | KL III.i.6 | Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main, | Or swell the curled Waters 'boue the Maine, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.213 | Near, and on speedy foot. The main descry | Neere, and on speedy foot: the maine descry |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.198 | But in it shares some woe, though the main part | But in it shares some woe, though the maine part |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iv.10.2 | 'Tis his main hope. | 'Tis his maine hope: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.72 | And bid the main flood bate his usual height, | And bid the maine flood baite his vsuall height, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.97 | Into the main of waters. Music! hark! | Into the maine of waters: musique, harke. Musicke. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.11 | But the main article I do approve | But the maine Article I do approue |
| Othello | Oth II.i.3 | I cannot 'twixt the heaven and the main | I cannot 'twixt the Heauen, and the Maine, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.39 | Even till we make the main and th' aerial blue | Euen till we make the Maine, and th'Eriall blew, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.254 | master and main exercise, th' incorporate conclusion. | Master, and maine exercise, th'incorporate conclusion: |
| Pericles | Per V.i.27 | But the main grief springs from the loss | but the mayne griefe springs fro the losse |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.20 | Into the tumbling billows of the main. | Into the tumbling billowes of the maine. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.300 | In the main battle, whose puissance on either side | In the maine Battell, whose puissance on either side |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.373 | Why then we did our main opinion crush | Why then we did our maine opinion crush |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.259 | We must with all our main of power stand fast, | We must with all our maine of power stand fast: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.117 | 'Tis a main goodness, cousin, that our fortunes | Tis a maine goodnes Cosen, that our fortunes |