| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.215 | Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, | Swell with the touches of those Flower-soft hands, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.49 | That stands upon the swell at the full of tide, | That stands vpon the Swell at the full of Tide: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.171 | Or swell my thoughts to any strain of pride, | Or swell my Thoughts, to any straine of Pride, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.56 | And swell so much the higher by their ebb. | And swell so much the higher, by their ebbe. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.164 | They swell, and grow as terrible as storms. | They swell and grow, as terrible as stormes. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.7 | Th' ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam, | Th'ambitious Ocean swell, and rage, and foame, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.67 | Why now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! | Why now blow winde, swell Billow, / And swimme Barke: |
| King Lear | KL III.i.6 | Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main, | Or swell the curled Waters 'boue the Maine, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.34 | Do but behold the tears that swell in me, | Do but behold the teares that swell in me, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.53 | Was wont to swell, like round and orient pearls, | Was wont to swell like round and orient pearles; |
| Othello | Oth II.i.78 | And swell his sail with thine own powerful breath, | And swell his Saile with thine owne powrefull breath, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.446 | To tyrannous hate! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, | To tyrannous Hate. Swell bosome with thy fraught, |
| Richard III | R3 II.iii.44 | The water swell before a boisterous storm. | The Water swell before a boyst'rous storme: |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.80 | Begins to swell, and the approaching tide | Begins to swell, and the approching tide |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.103 | And, not to swell our spirit, | And not to swell our Spirit, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.269 | blow – unless it swell past hiding, and then it's past | blow, vnlesse it swell past hiding, and then it's past |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.68 | To swell about the blossom – she would long | To swell about the blossome) she would long |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.128 | Gently they swell, like women new-conceived, | Gently they swell, like women new conceav'd, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.62.1 | Has made thee swell thus. | Ha's made thee swell thus. |