| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.111 | poor knight surprised without rescue in the first assault | poore Knight surpris'd without rescue in the first assault |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.48 | Your comfort makes the rescue. | Your comfort makes the rescue. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.109.1 | To make a rescue? | to make a rescue? |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.275.1 | Have holp to make this rescue? | haue holpe / To make this rescue? |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.ii.11.2 | to his rescue, Belarius, Guiderius, and Arviragus | to his rescue, Bellarius, Guiderius, and Aruiragus. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.ii.14.1 | Enter Posthumus, and seconds the Britons. They rescue Cymbeline | Enter Posthumus, and seconds the Britaines. They Rescue Cymbeline, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.49 | In this fair rescue thou hast brought to me. | In this faire rescue thou hast brought to mee. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.53 | A rescue! A rescue! | A rescu, a rescu. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.54 | Good people, bring a rescue or two. Thou wot, | Good people bring a rescu. Thou wilt not? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.19 | Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot, | Spurre to the rescue of the Noble Talbot, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iv.19 | And, in advantage lingering, looks for rescue, | And in aduantage lingring lookes for rescue, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iv.42 | Too late comes rescue. He is ta'en or slain; | Too late comes rescue, he is tane or slaine, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.26 | Came in strong rescue. Speak, thy father's care; | Came in strong rescue. Speake thy Fathers care: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.33 | Had York and Somerset brought rescue in, | Had Yorke and Somerset brought rescue in, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.64 | Wouldst have me rescue thee from this reproach? | Would'st haue me rescue thee from this reproach? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.215 | Unless thou rescue him from foul despair? | Vnlesse thou rescue him from foule dispaire? |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.179 | Than thy prevention can be in my rescue; | Then thy preuention can be in my rescue, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.23 | Rescue, King Edward, rescue for thy son! | Rescue king Edward, rescue, for thy sonne, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.24 | Rescue, Artois? What, is he prisoner, | Rescue Artoys, what is he prisoner? |
| King John | KJ II.i.419 | Rescue those breathing lives to die in beds | Rescue those breathing liues to dye in beds, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.18 | Where honourable rescue and defence | Where honourable rescue, and defence |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.191 | No rescue? What, a prisoner? I am even | No rescue? What, a Prisoner? I am euen |
| Richard III | R3 V.iv.1 | Rescue, my Lord of Norfolk, rescue, rescue! | Rescue my Lord of Norfolke, / Rescue, Rescue: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iv.6 | Rescue, fair lord, or else the day is lost! | Rescue faire Lord, or else the day is lost. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.236 | Rescue thy mistress if thou be a man. | Rescue thy Mistresse if thou be a man: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.420 | That in the rescue of Lavinia | That in the rescue of Lauinia, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.49 | To rescue my two brothers from their death, | To rescue my two brothers from their death, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.47 | Here comes the man, sir, that did rescue me. | Here comes the man sir, that did rescue mee. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.21 | To hazard life, and rescue you from him | To hazard life, and reskew you from him, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.35 | Rather than have false Proteus rescue me. | Rather then haue false Protheus reskue me: |