| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.37 | Is to do thus – when such a mutual pair | Is to do thus: when such a mutuall paire, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.v.12 | Then, world, thou hast a pair of chaps, no more; | Then would thou hadst a paire of chaps no more, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.x.12 | When vantage like a pair of twins appeared, | When vantage like a payre of Twinnes appear'd |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.358 | A pair so famous. High events as these | A payre so famous: high euents as these |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.14 | He hath bought a pair of cast lips of Diana. A nun | Hee hath bought a paire of cast lips of Diana: a Nun |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.36 | degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage | degrees, haue they made a paire of staires to marriage, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.36 | couples are coming to the ark. Here comes a pair of | couples are comming to the Arke. Here comes a payre of |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.60 | What needs all that, and a pair of stocks in the town? | What needs all that, and a paire of stocks in the towne? |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.74 | cause is calling both the parties knaves. You are a pair of | Cause, is calling both the parties Knaues. You are a payre of |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.16 | A pair of tribunes that have wracked for Rome | A paire of Tribunes, that haue wrack'd for Rome, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.357.1 | A pair of worthier sons. | A payre of worthier Sonnes. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.185 | And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses, | And let him for a paire of reechie kisses, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.107 | double ones too, than the length and breadth of a pair | double ones too, then the length and breadth of a paire |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.68 | hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows. For if I hang, old | hang, Ile make a fat payre of Gallowes. For, if I hang, old |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.47 | show it a fair pair of heels, and run from it? | show it a faire paire of heeles, and run from it? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.14 | thy face tomorrow! Or to take note how many pair of | thy face to morrow? Or to take note how many paire of |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.220 | canvass thee between a pair of sheets. | canuas thee betweene a paire of Sheetes. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.147 | I thought upon one pair of English legs | I thought, vpon one payre of English Legges |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.30 | Like to a pair of loving turtle-doves | Like to a payre of louing Turtle-Doues, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.103 | To call them both a pair of crafty knaves. | To call them both a payre of craftie Knaues. |
| King John | KJ IV.i.98 | Must needs want pleading for a pair of eyes. | Must needes want pleading for a paire of eyes: |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.27 | Well, there went but a pair of | Well: there went but a paire of |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.i.6 | what I can to get you a pair of horns. | what I can to get you a paire of hornes. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.253 | Here stand a pair of honourable men, | Here stand a paire of honourable men, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.162 | Of a pair of bases. | of a paire of Bases. |
| Pericles | Per II.i.164 | have my best gown to make thee a pair, and I'll bring | haue / My best Gowne to make thee a paire; / And Ile bring |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.152 | My subjects for a pair of carved saints, | My Subiects, for a payre of carued Saints, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.167 | Till they have fretted us a pair of graves | Till they haue fretted vs a payre of Graues, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.272 | A pair of bleeding hearts; thereon engrave | A paire of bleeding hearts: thereon ingraue |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.13 | Played for a pair of stainless maidenhoods. | Plaid for a paire of stainlesse Maidenhoods, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.2 | A pair of stocks, you rogue! | A paire of stockes you rogue. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.44 | an old jerkin; a pair of old breeches thrice turned; a | an old ierkin, a paire of old breeches thrice turn'd; a |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.45 | pair of boots that have been candle-cases, one buckled, | paire of bootes that haue beene candle-cases, one buckled, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.144 | A pair of cursed hellhounds and their dam. | A payre of cursed hell-hounds and their Dam. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.13 | What a pair of spectacles is here! Let me | What a paire of spectacles is here? let me |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.48 | Would not a pair of these have bred, sir? | Would not a paire of these haue bred sir? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.93 | Why, lady, Love hath twenty pair of eyes. | Why Lady, Loue hath twenty paire of eyes. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.118 | To cast up with a pair of anchoring hooks, | To cast vp, with a paire of anchoring hookes, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.18 | Like to a pair of lions, smeared with prey, | Like to a paire of Lions, smeard with prey, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.26 | They are famed to be a pair of absolute men. | They are fam'd to be a paire of absolute men. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.21 | Be by a pair of kings backed, in a field | Be by a paire of Kings backt, in a Field |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.154 | Your hand, my Perdita: so turtles pair, | Your hand (my Perdita:) so Turtles paire |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.249 | and a pair of sweet gloves. | and a paire of sweet Gloues. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.146 | By us, a pair of kings. Let's from this place. | By Vs, a paire of Kings. Let's from this place. |