| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.74 | with honour to maintain. | with Honor to maintaine. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.9 | And I dare well maintain it with my life, | And I dare well maintaine it with my Life, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.74 | will maintain the word with my sword to be a soldier-like | will maintaine the Word with my Sword, to bee a Souldier-like |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.67 | I give it you, and will maintain my word; | I giue it you, and will maintaine my word: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.223 | 'Gainst all the world will rightfully maintain. | 'Gainst all the World, will rightfully maintaine. |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.12 | As much as would maintain, to the King's honour, | As much as would maintaine, to the Kings honor, |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.77 | knowledge of his directions. By Cheshu, he will maintain | knowledge of his directions: by Cheshu he will maintaine |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.276 | What watch the king keeps to maintain the peace, | What watch the King keepes, to maintaine the peace; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.71 | That here you maintain several factions; | That here you maintaine seuerall Factions: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.32 | But dare maintain the party of the truth, | But dare maintaine the partie of the truth, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.70 | Ay, sharp and piercing, to maintain his truth, | I, sharpe and piercing to maintaine his truth, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.73 | That shall maintain what I have said is true | That shall maintaine what I haue said is true, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.88 | By Him that made me, I'll maintain my words | By him that made me, Ile maintaine my words |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.130 | And will not you maintain the thing you teach, | And will not you maintaine the thing you teach? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iv.31 | Darest thou maintain the former words thou spakest? | Dar'st thou maintaine the former words thou spak'st? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.159 | ‘ Jesu maintain your royal excellence!’ | Iesu maintaine your Royall Excellence, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.65 | But to maintain the King, the realm, and you? | Kent to maintaine, the King, the Realme and you, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.88 | And that the Lord of Westmorland shall maintain. | And that the Lord of Westmerland shall maintaine. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.154 | You have a father able to maintain you, | You haue a Father able to maintaine you, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.31 | The clothiers all, not able to maintain | The Clothiers all not able to maintaine |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.95 | And, to maintain thy state, I freely give | and to maintayne thy state I freely giue, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.102 | Sweat in this business and maintain this war? | Sweat in this businesse, and maintaine this warre? |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.72 | Never, my lord. But I have heard him oft maintain | Neuer my Lord. But I haue heard him oft maintaine |
| King Lear | KL III.iii.14 | and maintain talk with the Duke, that my charity be not | and maintaine talke with the Duke, that my charity be not |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.101 | On him, on you – who not? – I will maintain | On him, on you, who not, I will maintaine |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.110 | lists of the army will maintain upon Edmund, supposed | lists of the Army, will maintaine vpon Edmund, supposed |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.149 | courage to maintain it. I am bound to call upon you, and, | courage to maintaine it; I am bound to call vppon you, and |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.45 | He will maintain you like a gentlewoman. | He will maintaine you like a Gentlewoman. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.218 | And never could maintain his part but in the | And neuer could maintaine his part, but in the |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.203 | Maintain a mourning ostentation, | Maintaine a mourning ostentation, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.62 | Which to maintain I would allow him odds, | Which to maintaine, I would allow him oddes, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.98 | Further I say, and further will maintain | Further I say, and further will maintaine |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.27 | And will maintain what thou hast said is false | And will maintaine what thou hast said, is false, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.259 | Will maintain it with some little cost. | I will maintaine it with some little cost. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.67 | good father, I am able to maintain it. | good Father, I am able to maintaine it. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.2 | That he will neither know how to maintain it, | That he will neither know how to maintaine it, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.72.1 | Maintain my opinion. | maintaine my opinion. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.47 | And maintain such a quarrel openly? | And maintaine such a quarrell openly? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.72 | Do you uphold and maintain in your speeches, | Do you vphold, and maintaine in your speeches, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.125 | Maintain – I know not what: 'tis trash. Farewell. | Maintaine I know not what: 'tis trash. Farewell. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.130 | To fight for and maintain. | To fight for, and maintaine. |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.99 | Maintain no words with him, good fellow. (In own | Maintaine no words with him good fellow. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.234 | I love her, and in loving her maintain | I love, and in loving her maintaine |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.53 | I'll maintain my proceedings. Pray be pleased | Ile maintaine my proceedings; pray be pleas'd |