| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.204 | thee a vessel of too great a burden. I have now found | thee a vessell of too great a burthen. I haue now found |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.53 | No vessel can peep forth but 'tis as soon | No Vessell can peepe forth: but 'tis as soone |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.71 | Are in thy vessel. Let me cut the cable; | Are in thy vessell. Let me cut the Cable, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.6 | weaker vessel as doublet and hose ought to show itself | weaker vessell, as doublet and hose ought to show it selfe |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.104 | A vessel under sail, so men obeyed | A Vessell vnder sayle, so men obey'd, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.65 | Thou show'st a noble vessel. What's thy name? | Thou shew'st a Noble Vessell: What's thy name? |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.29.1 | To make your vessel nimble. | To make your vessell nimble. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.319 | From this most bravest vessel of the world | From this most brauest vessell of the world |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.59 | you are the weaker vessel, as they say, the emptier | you are the weaker Vessell; as they say, the emptier |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.60 | vessel. | Vessell. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.61 | Can a weak empty vessel bear such a huge full | Can a weake emptie Vessell beare such a huge full |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.44 | That the united vessel of their blood, | That the vnited Vessell of their Blood |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.3 | Fills the wide vessel of the universe. | Fills the wide Vessell of the Vniuerse. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iv.67 | heart; but the saying is true, ‘ The empty vessel makes | heart: but the saying is true, The empty vessel makes |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.79 | As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow | As rau'nous Fishes doe a Vessell follow |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.13 | Now is that noble vessel full of grief, | Now is that Noble Vessell full of griefe, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.179 | A bonnier vessel never yet spread sail; | A bonnier vessel neuer yet spred sayle, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.261 | For Jaquenetta – so is the weaker vessel called – | For Iaquenetta (so is the weaker vessell called) |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.263 | as a vessel of thy law's fury, and shall, at the least of thy | as a vessell of thy Lawes furie, and shall at the least of thy |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.66 | Put rancours in the vessel of my peace, | Put Rancours in the Vessell of my Peace |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.219 | perished vessel the dowry of his sister. But mark how | perished vessell, the dowry of his sister: but marke how |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.viii.30 | A vessel of our country richly fraught. | A vessell of our countrey richly fraught: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.270 | And not one vessel scape the dreadful touch | And not one vessell scape the dreadfull touch |
| Othello | Oth II.i.37 | As well to see the vessel that's come in, | As well to see the Vessell that's come in, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.82 | If to preserve this vessel for my lord | If to preserue this vessell for my Lord, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.44 | And so to sea. Their vessel shakes | And so to Sea; their vessell shakes, |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.30 | A tempest which his mortal vessel tears, | A Tempest which his mortall vessell teares. |
| Pericles | Per V.i.17 | Seeing this goodly vessel ride before us, | seeing this goodly vessell ride before vs, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.21 | Our vessel is of Tyre; in it the King, | our vessell is of Tyre, in it the King, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.6 | With those that I saw suffer! A brave vessel, | With those that I saw suffer: A braue vessell |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.31 | Betid to any creature in the vessel | Betid to any creature in the vessell |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.211 | Plunged in the foaming brine, and quit the vessel, | Plung'd in the foaming bryne, and quit the vessell; |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.199 | That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain | That Natures fragile Vessell doth sustaine |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.51 | A baubling vessel was he captain of, | A bawbling Vessell was he Captaine of, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.83 | But such a vessel 'tis that floats but for | But such a vessell tis, that floates but for |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.20 | I never saw a vessel of like sorrow, | I neuer saw a vessell of like sorrow |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.498 | A vessel rides fast by, but not prepared | A Vessell rides fast by, but not prepar'd |