| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.66 | That I protest I simply am a maid. | That I protest, I simply am a Maide: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.28 | To swear by him whom I protest to love | To sweare by him whom I protest to loue |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.213 | My meaning in't, I protest, was very honest in | My meaning in't I protest was very honest in |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.100 | mind, for I protest her frown might kill me. | mind, for I protest her frowne might kill me. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.22 | No, I protest, I know not the contents; | No, I protest, I know not the contents, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.112 | My wife – but, I protest, without desert – | My wife (but I protest without desert) |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.2 | But I protest he had the chain of me, | But I protest he had the Chaine of me, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.240 | The lady doth protest too much, methinks. | The Lady protests to much me thinkes. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.18 | this! By the Lord, our plot is a good plot, as ever was | this? I protest, our plot is as good a plot as euer was |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.249 | And such protest of pepper-gingerbread, | And such protest of Pepper Ginger-bread, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.25 | With quiet hours. For I protest | With quiet houres: For I do protest, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.19 | For I protest we are well fortified, | For I protest we are well fortified, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.181 | King Lewis, I here protest in sight of heaven, | King Lewis, I heere protest in sight of heauen, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.238 | What Antony shall speak, I will protest | What Antony shall speake, I will protest |
| King John | KJ II.i.501 | I do protest I never loved myself | I do protest I neuer lou'd my selfe |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.128 | My oath, and my profession. I protest, | My oath, and my profession. I protest, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.173 | But I protest I love to hear him lie, | But I protest I loue to heare him lie, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.158 | I do protest I never heard of it; | I doe protest I neuer heard of it, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.352 | As the unsullied lily, I protest, | As the vnsallied Lilly, I protest, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.410 | I do forswear them; and I here protest | I do forsweare them, and I heere protest, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.526 | for, I protest, the schoolmaster is exceeding fantastical; | For I protest, the Schoolmaster is exceeding fantasticall: |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.104 | If trembling I inhabit then, protest me | If trembling I inhabit then, protest mee |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.11.1 | Protest their first of manhood. | Protest their first of Manhood. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.338 | I protest I love the Duke as I love myself. | I protest, I loue the Duke, as I loue my selfe. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.287 | I have a wife who I protest I love; | I haue a wife whom I protest I loue, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.69 | I protest mine never shall. I warrant he hath a thousand | I protest mine neuer shall: I warrant he hath a thousand |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.197 | None, I protest. But I'll give you a pottle of burnt | None, I protest: but Ile giue you a pottle of burn'd |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.188 | I have long loved her, and, I protest to you, | I haue long lou'd her, and I protest to you, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.89 | Or on Diana's altar to protest | Or on Dianaes Altar to protest |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.275 | With no sauce that can be devised to it; I protest | With no sawce that can be deuised to it, I protest |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.280 | about to protest I loved you. | about to protest I loued you. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.283 | is left to protest. | is left to protest. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.144 | and when you dare. Do me right, or I will protest your | and when you dare: do me right, or I will protest your |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.318 | I protest in the sincerity of love and honest | I protest in the sinceritie of Loue, and honest |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.202 | Ay, and said nothing but what I protest | I: and said nothing but what I protest |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.207 | against me a most just exception; but yet I protest I have | against me a most iust exception: but yet I protest I haue |
| Pericles | Per II.v.27 | Protest my ears were never better fed | I do protest, my eares were neuer better fedde |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.84 | more serious wooing. But I protest to thee, pretty one, | more serious wooing, but I protest to thee prettie one, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.11 | Which I protest hath very much beguiled | Which I protest hath very much beguild |
| Richard II | R2 V.vi.45 | Lords, I protest, my soul is full of woe | Lords, I protest my soule is full of woe, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.52 | Yea, Richard, when I know; for I protest | Yea Richard, when I know: but I protest |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.26 | This interchange of love, I here protest, | This interchange of loue, I heere protest |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.78 | And never in my days, I do protest, | And neuer in my dayes, I doe protest, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.169 | protest unto thee – | protest vnto thee. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.174 | I will tell her, sir, that you do protest, which, as I | I will tell her sir, that you do protest, which as I |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.67 | I do protest I never injured thee, | I do protest I neuer iniur'd thee, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.81 | To mark me for his friend. Yet I protest, | To marke me for his Friend. Yet I protest, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.436 | Do villainy, do, since you protest to do't, | Do Villaine do, since you protest to doo't. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.480 | That on mine honour here I do protest. | That on mine honour heere I do protest. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.139 | This quarrel would excite? Yet I protest, | This quarrell would excite? Yet I protest, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.173 | Full of protest, of oath, and big compare, | Full of protest, of oath and big compare; |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.82 | and minister occasion to him, he is gagged. I protest I | and minister occasion to him, he is gag'd. I protest I |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.168.1 | My lord, I do protest – | My Lord, I do protest. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.7 | When I protest true loyalty to her, | When I protest true loyalty to her, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.141 | To think upon her woes, I do protest | To thinke vpon her woes, I doe protest |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.90 | Which I protest against – I am assisted | (Which I protest against) I am assisted |