| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.10 | tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, | tatters, to verie ragges, to split the eares of the Groundlings: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.30 | I stabbed your fathers' bosoms; split my breast. | I stab'd your Fathers bosomes; Split my brest. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.48 | Though it do split you; for, from this day forth, | Though it do Split you. For, from this day forth, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.169 | Then might ye see the reeling vessels split, | Then might ye see the reeling vessels split, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.175 | Let sorrow split my heart if ever I | Let sorrow split my heart, if euer I |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.26 | Ercles rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to make all split: | Ercles rarely, or a part to teare a Cat in, to make all split |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.II.32 | Should house him safe is wracked and split, | Should house him safe; is wrackt and split, |
| Pericles | Per III.i.44 | wilt thou? Blow and split thyself. | wilt thou: / Blow and split thy selfe. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.299 | When he shall split thy very heart with sorrow, | When he shall split thy very heart with sorrow: |
| Richard III | R3 V.i.26 | ‘ When he,’ quoth she, ‘ shall split thy heart with sorrow, | When he (quoth she) shall split thy heart with sorrow, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.58.2 | split, we split!’ – ‘ Farewell, my wife and children!’ | split, we split, Farewell my wife, and children, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.58.3 | – ‘ Farewell, brother!’ – ‘ We split, we split, we | Farewell brother: we split, we split, we |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.58.4 | split!’ | split. |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.223 | Which, but three glasses since, we gave out split – | Which but three glasses since, we gaue out split, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.177 | Or give me ribs of steel; I shall split all | Or, giue me ribs of Steele, I shall split all |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.7 | Now crack thy lungs, and split thy brazen pipe; | Now cracke thy lungs, and split thy brasen pipe: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.ii.9 | Assure yourself, after our ship did split, | Assure your selfe, after our ship did split, |