| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.28 | And thereby hangs a tale.’ When I did hear | And thereby hangs a tale. When I did heare |
| As You Like It | AYL V.i.33 | his lips when he put it into his mouth, meaning thereby | his lips when he put it into his mouth, meaning thereby, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.133 | To save the Romans, thereby to destroy | To saue the Romanes, thereby to destroy |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.143 | Which thou shalt thereby reap is such a name | Which thou shalt thereby reape, is such a name |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.116 | a man. But to counterfeit dying, when a man thereby | a man: But to counterfeit dying, when a man thereby |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.115 | As little shall the Frenchmen gain thereby. | As little shall the Frenchmen gaine thereby. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.182 | Heaping confusion on their own heads thereby! | Heaping confusion on their owne heads thereby. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.218 | Quitting thee thereby of ten thousand shames, | Quitting thee thereby of ten thousand shames, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.153 | And good reason; for thereby is England mained and | And good reason: for thereby is England main'd / And |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.25 | Thereby to see the minutes how they run: | Thereby to see the Minutes how they runne: |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.114 | However thereby I have purchased war. | How euer thereby I haue purchast war. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.5 | As that thereby my ransom will be quit. | As that thereby my ransome will be quit, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.231 | Might thereby be inflamed with such resolve, | Might thereby be inflamd with such resolue, |
| King John | KJ III.i.276 | Yet indirection thereby grows direct, | Yet indirection thereby growes direct, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.281 | O, nothing so sure, and thereby all forsworn. | O nothing so sure, and thereby all forsworne. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iv.5 | And bear't before him; thereby shall we shadow | And bear't before him, thereby shall we shadow |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.6 | Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life: | Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.144 | Well, thereby hangs a tale. Good | Wel, thereby hangs a tale: good |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.156 | Thereby to have defeated you and me – | Thereby to haue defeated you and me: |
| Othello | Oth III.i.8 | O, thereby hangs a tail. | Oh, thereby hangs a tale. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.218 | But little vantage shall I reap thereby; | But little vantage shall I reape thereby. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.50 | Out of their saddles into the dirt, and thereby | Out of their saddles into the durt, and thereby |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.207 | That he thereby may have a likely guess | That he thereby may haue a likely gesse, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.84 | And is not careful what they mean thereby, | And is not carefull what they meane thereby, |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.55 | This ruffian hath botched up, that thou thereby | This Ruffian hath botch'd vp, that thou thereby |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.31 | I gave him gentle looks, thereby to find | I gaue him gentle lookes, thereby to finde |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.41 | And a broad beech – and thereby hangs a tale – | And a broade Beech: and thereby hangs a tale: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.337 | Even for your son's sake, and thereby for sealing | Euen for your Sonnes sake, and thereby for sealing |