| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.86 | favour and for a week escape a great deal of discoveries, | fauour, and for a weeke escape a great deale of discoueries, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.94 | Why, there then! Thus I do escape the sorrow | Why there then: / Thus I do escape the sorrow |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.148 | Anon, I wot not by what strong escape, | Anon I wot not, by what strong escape |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.137 | thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery. | thou shalt not escape Calumny. Get thee to a Nunnery. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.160 | If he by chance escape your venomed stuck, | If he by chance escape your venom'd stuck, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.10 | And I'll direct thee how thou shalt escape | And Ile direct thee how thou shalt escape |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.7 | The happy tidings of his good escape. | The happy tidings of his good escape. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.38 | No, 'tis impossible he should escape; | No, 'tis impossible he should escape: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.80 | Unsavoury news! But how made he escape? | Vnsauorie newes: but how made he escape? |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.139 | That, night approaching, they might escape unfought. | That night approching, they might escape vnfought. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.9 | In which, for haste to make a safe escape, | In which for hast to make a safe escape, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.39.1 | Oswald tries to escape | |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.181 | The bloody proclamation to escape | The bloody proclamation to escape |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.145 | liberty of the prison. Give him leave to escape hence, he | liberty of the prison: giue him leaue to escape hence, hee |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.155 | So; now escape. | so, now vncape. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.67 | put on a hat, a muffler, and a kerchief, and so escape. | put on a hat, a muffler, and a kerchiefe, and so escape. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.195 | For thy escape would teach me tyranny | For thy escape would teach me Tirranie |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.227 | And I for my escape have put on his. | And I for my escape haue put on his: |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.2 | So have we all – of joy; for our escape | (So haue we all) of ioy; for our escape |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.112 | Rome will despise her for this foul escape. | Rome will despise her for this foule escape. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.ii.19 | Mine own escape unfoldeth to my hope, | Mine owne escape vnfoldeth to my hope, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.ii.22 | My father's to be hanged for his escape, | My Father's to be hang'd for his escape, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.2 | Concerning the escape of Palamon? | Concerning the escape of Palamon? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.95.1 | To this their late escape. | To this their late escape. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.659 | Of this escape and whither they are bound; | Of this escape, and whither they are bound; |