| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.iv.35.1 | Please you retire to your chamber? | Please you retyre to your Chamber? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.vii.1 | Retire! We have engaged ourselves too far. | Retire, we haue engag'd our selues too farre: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.vii.8.2 | They do retire. | They do retyre. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.28 | Beseech you, give me leave to retire myself. | Beseech you giue me leaue to retire my selfe. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.1.1 | Enter Cominius, as it were in retire, with Soldiers | Enter Cominius as it were in retire, with soldiers. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.3 | Nor cowardly in retire. Believe me, sirs, | Nor Cowardly in retyre: Beleeue me Sirs, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.50 | Retire to win our purpose. | retyre to win our purpose. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.40 | A stop i'th' chaser; a retire: anon | A stop i'th'Chaser; a Retyre: Anon |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.56 | Upon our soldiers, we will retire to Calais. | Vpon our Souldiers, we will retyre to Calis. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.91 | possession of the pridge, but he is enforced to retire, | possession of the Pridge, but he is enforced to retyre, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.86 | May make a peaceful and a sweet retire | May make a peacefull and a sweet retyre |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.2 | Our English troops retire, I cannot stay them; | Our English Troupes retyre, I cannot stay them, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.33 | It will not be. Retire into your trenches. | It will not be, retyre into your Trenches: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.21 | If thou retire, the Dauphin, well-appointed, | If thou retire, the Dolphin well appointed, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.39 | My gracious lord, retire to Killingworth, | My gracious Lord, retire to Killingworth, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.14 | And when the hardiest warriors did retire, | And when the hardyest Warriors did retyre, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.149 | But ne'er till now his scandal of retire. | But ne're till now, his Scandall of Retire. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.187 | That cries ‘ Retire!’ if Warwick bid him stay. | That cries Retire, if Warwicke bid him stay. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.8 | Forced to retire by fury of the wind. | Forc'd to retyre by furie of the Winde. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.31 | Our trumpets sound dishonour and retire; | Our trumpets sound dishonor, and retire, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.235 | Might at their presence tremble and retire. | Might at their presence tremble and retire. |
| King John | KJ II.i.253 | And with a blessed and unvexed retire, | And with a blessed and vn-vext retyre, |
| King John | KJ II.i.326 | From first to last, the onset and retire | From first to last, the on-set and retyre |
| King John | KJ V.iii.13 | The French fight coldly, and retire themselves. | The French fight coldly, and retyre themselues. |
| King John | KJ V.v.4 | In faint retire! O, bravely came we off, | In faint Retire: Oh brauely came we off, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.165 | as I say, retire with me to my lodging, from whence I | as I say, retire with me to my lodging, from whence I |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.220 | Why, all his behaviours did make their retire | Why all his behauiours doe make their retire, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.590 | Keep some state in thy exit, and retire. | Keepe some state in thy exit, and vanish. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.66 | At the south entry. Retire we to our chamber. | at the South entry: / Retyre we to our Chamber: |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.57 | Duke and Provost retire | |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.102.1 | They retire | |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.80 | and not retire. Let me have your good will. | And not retire. Let me haue your good will. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.369 | Retire thee; go where thou art billeted. | Retire thee, go where thou art Billited: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.1 | I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire. | I pray thee good Mercutio lets retire, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.161 | If you be pleased, retire into my cell | If you be pleas'd, retire into my Cell, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.311 | And thence retire me to my Milan, where | And thence retire me to my Millaine, where |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.53 | Beckoning with fiery truncheon my retire; | Beckning with fierie trunchion my retire; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iv.20.2 | Thou dost miscall retire; | Thou do'st miscall retire: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.viii.15 | Hark, a retire upon our Grecian part. | Harke, a retreat vpon our Grecian part. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.109 | If we be found, we are wretched. O, retire | If we be found, we are wretched, O retire |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.645 | Come home to ye! – you must retire yourself | Come home to ye:) you must retire your selfe |