| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.viii.3 | Strike not by land; keep whole: provoke not battle | Strike not by Land, / Keepe whole, prouoke not Battaile |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.293 | Were nothing prince-like; for he did provoke me | Were nothing Prince-like; for he did prouoke me |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.3 | The need we have to use you did provoke | The neede we haue to vse you, did prouoke |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.69 | Let my presumption not provoke thy wrath, | Let my presumption not prouoke thy wrath, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.288 | Since you provoke me, shall be most notorious. | Since you prouoke me, shall be most notorious. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.85 | But if thou didst it to provoke me on, | But if thou didst it to prouoke me on, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.234 | That justly would provoke fair England's ire | That iustly would prouoke faire Englands ire, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.207 | No had, my lord! Why, did you not provoke me? | No had (my Lord?) why, did you not prouoke me? |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.13 | The which he lacks; that to provoke in him | The which he lackes: that to prouoke in him |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.347 | Rebuke me not for that which you provoke. | Rebuke me not for that which you prouoke: |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.25 | provoke? | prouoke? |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.15 | To make bad good, and good provoke to harm. | To make bad, good; and good prouoake to harme. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.64 | And I will provoke him to't, or let him wag. | And I will prouoke him to't, or let him wag. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.264 | with his truncheon may strike at you: provoke him that | may strike at you, prouoke him that |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.I.26 | And her to incest did provoke. | And her to Incest did prouoke: |
| Pericles | Per I.i.138 | One sin, I know, another doth provoke. | One sinne (I know) another doth prouoke; |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.228 | Provoke us hither now to slaughter thee. | Prouoke vs hither now, to slaughter thee. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.70 | Wilt thou provoke me? Then have at thee, boy! | Wilt thou prouoke me? Then haue at thee Boy. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.111.1 | May now provoke them to. | May now prouoke them to. |