| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.11 | to hang by th' wall, if renown made it not stir – | to hang by th' wall, if renowne made it not stirre, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.212 | Should patch a wall t' expel the winter's flaw! | Should patch a Wall, t'expell the winters flaw. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.141 | Shall be a wall sufficient to defend | Shall be a Wall sufficient to defend |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.2 | Or close the wall up with our English dead! | Or close the Wall vp with our English dead: |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.44.1 | Enter the Governor on the wall | Enter Gouernour. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.2 | Summon their general unto the wall. | Summon their Generall vnto the Wall. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.24 | To wall thee from the liberty of flight; | To wall thee from the liberty of Flight; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.6 | I could stay no longer. Wherefore, on a brick wall have | I could stay no longer. Wherefore on a Bricke wall haue |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iv.4 | Wert thou environed with a brazen wall. | Wer't thou inuiron'd with a Brazen wall. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.17 | See how the surly Warwick mans the wall! | See how the surly Warwicke mans the Wall. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.16 | Comes to the wall; I'll closely step aside, | Comes to the wall, Ile closely step aside, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.124 | Being at the wall, enter our homely gate. | Being at the wall, enter our homely gate. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.143 | More happy do not make our outward wall | More happie do not make our outward wall, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.34 | Breathes from the wall an angel's note from heaven | Breathes from the wall, an Angels note from Heauen: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.76 | Thy glory shaketh like a tottering wall. | Thy glory shaketh like a tottering wall. |
| King John | KJ III.iii.20 | We owe thee much! Within this wall of flesh | We owe thee much: within this wall of flesh |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.1 | The wall is high, and yet will I leap down. | The Wall is high, and yet will I leape downe. |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.64 | villain into mortar and daub the wall of a jakes with him. | villaine into morter, and daube the wall of a Iakes with him. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.901 | When icicles hang by the wall, | When Isicles hang by the wall, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.166 | Which have, like unscoured armour, hung by th' wall | Which haue (like vn-scowr'd Armor) hung by th' wall |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.29 | Builds in the weather on the outward wall, | Builds in the weather on the outward wall, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.56 | thing. We must have a wall in the Great Chamber; for | thing, we must haue a wall in the great Chamber; for |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.58 | chink of a wall. | chinke of a wall. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.59 | You can never bring in a wall. What say you, | You can neuer bring in a wall. What say you |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.61 | Some man or other must present Wall; and let | Some man or other must present wall, and let |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.63 | about him to signify Wall; and let him hold his fingers | about him, to signifie wall; or let him hold his fingers |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.126.2 | Wall, Starveling as Moonshine, and Snug as Lion; | Enter Pyramus and Thisby, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.126.3 | a trumpeter before them | Wall, Moone-shine, and Lyon. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.131 | Wall – that vile wall which did these lovers sunder; | Wall, that vile wall, which did these louers sunder: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.149 | Let Lion, Moonshine, Wall, and lovers twain | Let Lyon, Moone-shine, Wall, and Louers twaine, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.150 | Exeunt Quince, Bottom, Flute, Snug, and Starveling | Exit all but Wall. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.154 | That I – one Snout by name – present a wall. | That I, one Snowt (by name) present a wall: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.155 | And such a wall as I would have you think | And such a wall, as I would haue you thinke, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.160 | That I am that same wall; the truth is so. | That I am that same Wall; the truth is so. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.166 | Pyramus draws near the wall. Silence! | Pyramus drawes neere the Wall, silence. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.171 | And thou, O wall, O sweet, O lovely wall, | And thou ô wall, thou sweet and louely wall, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.173 | Thou wall, O wall, O sweet and lovely wall, | Thou wall, ô wall, o sweet and louely wall, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.175.1 | Wall holds up his fingers | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.175 | Thanks, courteous wall; Jove shield thee well for this. | Thankes courteous wall. Ioue shield thee well for this. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.177 | O wicked wall, through whom I see no bliss: | O wicked wall, through whom I see no blisse, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.179 | The wall, methinks, being sensible, should curse | The wall me-thinkes being sensible, should curse |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.183 | through the wall. You shall see – it will fall pat as I told | through the wall. You shall see it will fall. / Pat as I told |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.185 | O wall, full often hast thou heard my moans | O wall, full often hast thou heard my mones, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.197 | O kiss me through the hole of this vile wall! | O kisse me through the hole of this vile wall. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.201 | Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; | Thus haue I Wall, my part discharged so; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.202 | And, being done, thus Wall away doth go. | And being done, thus Wall away doth go. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.341 | Ay, and Wall too. | I, and Wall too. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.342 | No, I assure you, the wall is down | No, I assure you, the wall is downe, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.47 | Which serves it in the office of a wall, | Which serues it in the office of a wall, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.170 | Bores through his castle wall, and – farewell, king! | Bores through his Castle Walls, and farwell King. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.11 | will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's. | will take the wall of any Man or Maid of Mountagues. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.13 | goes to the wall. | goes to the wall. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.15 | weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the wall. Therefore I | weaker Vessels, are euer thrust to the wall: therefore I |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.16 | will push Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his | will push Mountagues men from the wall, and thrust his |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.17 | maids to the wall. | Maides to the wall. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.28 | Sitting in the sun under the dovehouse wall. | sitting in the Sunne vnder the Douehouse wall, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.i.5 | He ran this way and leapt this orchard wall. | He ran this way and leapt this Orchard wall. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.183 | And stay, good Nurse, behind the abbey wall. | And stay thou good Nurse behind the Abbey wall, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.89 | He hath raised the wall, and houses too. | He hath rais'd the wall, and houses too. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.1 | Let me look back upon thee. O thou wall | Let me looke backe vpon thee. O thou Wall |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.38 | Th' Athenians both within and out that wall. | Th'Athenians both within and out that Wall: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.351 | How has the ass broke the wall, that thou art out | How ha's the Asse broke the wall, that thou art out |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.24 | I heard a child cry underneath a wall. | I heard a childe cry vnderneath a wall: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.114 | I pried me through the crevice of a wall | I pried me through the Creuice of a Wall, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.206 | So that the ram that batters down the wall, | So that the Ramme that batters downe the wall, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.ii.49 | And though that nature with a beauteous wall | And though that nature, with a beauteous wall |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.i.9 | Out at the postern by the abbey wall; | Out at the Posterne by the Abbey wall; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.785 | against a brick wall, the sun looking with a southward | against a Brick-wall, (the Sunne looking with a South-ward |