| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.72 | Could reach them. I have seen a medicine | could reach them: I haue seen a medicine |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.64 | And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, | And thus doe we of wisedome and of reach |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.129 | What may the King's whole battle reach unto? | What may the Kings whole Battaile reach vnto? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.11 | Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold. | Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious Gold. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.46 | Above the reach or compass of thy thought? | Aboue the reach or compasse of thy thought? |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.87 | Who can be angry now? What envy reach you? | Who can be angry now? What Enuy reach you? |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.3 | Willing to leave their burden. Reach a chair. | Willing to leaue their burthen: Reach a Chaire, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.126 | To me you cannot reach. You play the spaniel, | To me you cannot reach. You play the Spaniell, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.53 | And like a mountain cedar reach his branches | And like a Mountaine Cedar, reach his branches, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.59 | To reach at our imperial diadem | To reach at our imperiall dyadem, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.117 | Beyond the infinite and boundless reach | Beyond the infinite and boundlesse reach of mercie, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.137 | No, lad; teach me. | No Lad, reach me. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.10 | Out of his envy's reach, I do oppose | Out of his enuies reach, I do oppose |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.298 | But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes. | But that my nailes can reach vnto thine eyes. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.217 | To grosser issues, nor to larger reach | To grosser issues, nor to larger reach, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.34 | Presumes to reach, all the whole heap must die. | Presumes to reach, all the whole heape must die: |
| Pericles | Per III.i.75 | Alter thy course for Tyre. When canst thou reach it? | Alter thy course for Tyre: When canst thou reach it? |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.72 | To reach at victory above my head, | To reach at victory aboue my head, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.106 | From forth thy reach he would have laid thy shame, | From forth thy reach he would haue laid thy shame, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.159 | By marrying her which I must reach unto. | By marrying her, which I must reach vnto. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.42 | And live with Richmond, from the reach of hell. | And liue with Richmond, from the reach of Hell. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.85 | Ay, madam, from the reach of these my hands. | I Madam from the reach of these my hands: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.16 | That is, one may reach deep enough and yet | that is: One may reach deepe enough, and yet |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.4 | Advanced above pale envy's threat'ning reach. | Aduanc'd about pale enuies threatning reach: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.237 | Reach me thy hand, that I may help thee out, | Reach me thy hand, that I may helpe thee out, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.107 | Is ‘ plain and true;’ there's all the reach of it. | Is plaine and true, ther's all the reach of it. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.87.2 | I cannot reach so high. | I cannot reach so high. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.156 | Wilt thou reach stars, because they shine on thee? | Wilt thou reach stars, because they shine on thee? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.43 | Hath set a mark which nature could not reach to | Hath set a marke which nature could not reach too |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.28 | they stand a grece above the reach of report. | they / Stand a greise above the reach of report. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.80 | Nor could my wishes reach you; yet a little | Nor could my wishes reach you; yet a little |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.91 | And with her all the world's joy; reach thy hand. | And with her, all the worlds joy: Reach thy hand, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.25 | They should not laugh if I could reach them, nor | They should not laugh, if I could reach them, nor |