| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.125 | is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve | is not politicke, in the Common-wealth of Nature, to preserue |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iv.22 | Best to preserve it. If I lose mine honour, | Best to preserue it: if I loose mine Honour, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.60.2 | So the gods preserve thee! | So the Gods preserue thee. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.143 | The gods preserve our noble Tribunes! Come! | The Gods preserue our Noble Tribunes, come. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.20.1 | The gods preserve you both! | The Gods preserue you both. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.132 | ladies' flesh at a million a dram, you cannot preserve | Ladies flesh at a Million a Dram, you cannot preseure |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.13 | To make perfumes? Distil? Preserve? Yea so, | To make Perfumes? Distill? Preserue? Yea so, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.89 | Well, there is sixpence to preserve thee. | Well, there is six pence to preserue thee. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.286 | O, the Lord preserve thy grace! By my troth, | Oh, the Lord preserue thy good Grace: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.106 | that. God pless it and preserve it, as long as it pleases | that: God plesse it, and preserue it, as long as it pleases |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.160 | With ‘ God preserve the good Duke Humphrey!’, | With God preserue the good Duke Humfrey: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.70 | Jesus preserve your royal majesty! | Iesus preserue your Royall Maiesty. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.271 | And to preserve my sovereign from his foe, | And to preserue my Soueraigne from his Foe, |
| King Lear | KL II.iii.6 | I will preserve myself; and am bethought | I will preserue myselfe: and am bethought |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.72 | Which is too nigh your person. Heaven preserve you! | Which is too nie your person. Heauen preserue you, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.82 | If to preserve this vessel for my lord | If to preserue this vessell for my Lord, |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.16 | Which, to preserve mine honour, I'll perform. | Which to preserue mine honour, I'le performe. |
| Pericles | Per IV.iii.15 | To foster is not ever to preserve. | to foster it, not euer to preserue, |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.105 | The good gods preserve you. | The good Gods preserue you. |
| Pericles | Per V.i.13.2 | Hail, reverend sir! The gods preserve you! | Hayle reuerent Syr, the Gods preserue you. |
| Pericles | Per V.i.36 | Sir King, all hail! The gods preserve you! | Sir King all haile, the Gods preserue you, |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.17 | ‘ Jesu preserve thee, welcome Bolingbroke,’ | Iesu preserue thee, welcom Bullingbrooke. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.59 | Whom God preserve better than you would wish! – | (Whom God preserue better then you would wish) |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.153 | Thou wast that did preserve me. Thou didst smile, | Thou was't that did preserue me; Thou didst smile, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.312 | Preserve the King! | preserue the King. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.166.2 | The gods preserve ye! | The Gods preserue ye. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.2 | Than will preserve just so much strength in us | Then will preserue iust so much strength in vs |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.268 | I never shall enjoy her, yet I'll preserve | I never shall enjoy her, yet ile preserve |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.104.1 | But still preserve her in this way. | But still preserve her in this way. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.328 | Which to preserve is sleep, which being spotted | (Which to preserue, is Sleepe; which being spotted, |