| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.38 | And such a twain can do't, in which I bind, | And such a twaine can doo't, in which I binde |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.73 | Drive him to Rome. 'Tis time we twain | Driue him to Rome, 'tis time we twaine |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.35 | Is twice the other twain. But let us rear | Is twice the other twaine: But let vs reare |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iv.30 | Your reconciler! Wars 'twixt you twain would be | You reconciler: Warres 'twixt you twaine would be, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.59 | Could not outpeer these twain. Pardon me, gods! | Could not out-peere these twaine. Pardon me Gods, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.70 | our parents and us twain, | our Parents, and vs twaine, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.238 | And never come mischance between us twain! | And neuer come mischance betweene vs twaine. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.157 | O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain. | Oh Hamlet, / Thou hast cleft my heart in twaine. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.49 | Than can yourself yourself in twain divide. | Then can your selfe, your selfe in twaine diuide: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.26 | Was broke in twain – by whom I have forgot, | Was broke in twaine: by whom, I haue forgot, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.55 | We twain will go into his highness' tent. | We twaine will go into his Highnesse Tent. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.134 | Resolve my doubt. You twain, of all the rest, | Resolue my doubt: you twaine, of all the rest, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.158 | Of which my husband and your wife are twain. | Of which my husband, and your wife are twayne. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.150 | By this, the other, that beheld these twain | By this the other that beheld these twaine, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.82 | Which of these twain is greater infamy: | Which of these twaine is greater infamie, |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.42 | Thou wilt o'ertake us hence a mile or twain, | Thou wilt ore-take vs hence a mile or twaine |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.207 | Which twain have brought her to. | Which twaine haue brought her to. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.317.2 | Friends of my soul, you twain, | Friends of my soule, you twaine, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.48.2 | Did he not send you twain? | Did he not send you twaine? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.459 | Neither of either; I remit both twain. | Neither of either, I remit both twaine. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.27.1 | For a dark hour or twain. | For a darke houre, or twaine. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.66.1 | To cleave a heart in twain. | To cleaue a heart in twaine: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.326 | Nor rest be interposer 'twixt us twain. | Nor rest be interposer twixt vs twaine. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.149 | Let Lion, Moonshine, Wall, and lovers twain | Let Lyon, Moone-shine, Wall, and Louers twaine, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.205 | Shore his old thread in twain. Did he live now, | Shore his old thred in twaine. Did he liue now, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.50 | Can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain. | Can arbitrate this cause betwixt vs twaine: |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.133 | Twice saying pardon doth not pardon twain, | Twice saying Pardon, doth not pardon twaine, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.241 | Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain. | Thou and my bosome henchforth shall be twaine: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.99 | Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain | Then with that hand that cut thy youth in twaine, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.297 | 'Tis bargained 'twixt us twain, being alone, | 'Tis bargain'd twixt vs twaine being alone, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.439.1 | And his brave son being twain. | And his braue sonne, being twaine. |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.104 | To bless this twain, that they may prosperous be, | To blesse this twaine, that they may prosperous be, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.37 | As wedged with a sigh, would rive in twain, | As wedged with a sigh, would riue in twaine, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.185 | And in the imitation of these twain, | And in the imitation of these twaine, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.242 | Let Mars divide eternity in twain, | Let Mars deuide Eternity in twaine, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.99 | twain. | twaine. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.123 | A gory emulation 'twixt us twain. | A gorie emulation 'twixt vs twaine: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.46 | Cleaving his conscience into twain and doing | Cleaving his conscience into twaine, and doing |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.50 | lower of the twain; you may perceive a part of him. | Lower of the twaine; you may perceive a part / Of him. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.143 | Give us but a tree or twain | Give us but a tree or twaine |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.656 | O Perdita, what have we twain forgot! | O Perdita: what haue we twaine forgot? |