| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.17 | Whom I myself embrace to set him free. | Whom I my selfe embrace, to set him free. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.33.1 | What it is worth embraced. | what it is worth imbrac'd |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.56 | He knows that you embraced not Antony | He knowes that you embrace not Anthony |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.166 | you for your own sake to embrace your own safety, and | you for your owne sake to embrace your own safetie, and |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.44 | Drew me from kind embracements of my spouse, | Drew me from kinde embracements of my spouse; |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.70 | Which though myself would gladly have embraced, | Which though my selfe would gladly haue imbrac'd, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.414 | Embrace thy brother there, rejoice with him. | Embrace thy brother there, reioyce with him. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.4 | honour than in the embracements of his bed where he | Honor, then in the embracements of his Bed, where he |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.40 | Why, then you should discover a brace of unmeriting, | Why then you should discouer a brace of vnmeriting, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.60 | And keep their teeth clean. So, here comes a brace. | And keepe their teeth cleane: So, heere comes a brace, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.243 | Take up a brace o'th' best of them; yea, the two Tribunes. | take vp a Brace o'th' best of them, yea, the two Tribunes. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vii.10 | When first I did embrace him. Yet his nature | When first I did embrace him. Yet his Nature |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.7 | You'll see your Rome embraced with fire before | You'l see your Rome embrac'd with fire, before |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.47 | And sear up my embracements from a next | And seare vp my embracements from a next, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.54 | (putting a bracelet on her arm) | |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.87 | ring may be stolen too: so your brace of unprizable | Ring may be stolne too, so your brace of vnprizeable |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.153 | I embrace these conditions, let us have articles betwixt | I embrace these Conditions, let vs haue Articles betwixt |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.34.1 | (taking off her bracelet) | |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.96.1 | Showing the bracelet | |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.178 | With joy he will embrace you: for he's honourable, | With ioy he will imbrace you: for hee's Honourable, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.139 | unknown, without seeking find, and be embraced | vnknown, without seeking finde, and bee embrac'd |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.204 | Of chamber-hanging, pictures, this her bracelet – | Of Chamber-hanging, Pictures, this her Bracelet |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.417 | And here the bracelet of the truest princess | And heere the Bracelet of the truest Princesse |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.437 | unknown, without seeking find, and be embraced | vnknown, without seeking finde, and bee embrac'd |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.78 | Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced, | Lord Hamlet with his doublet all vnbrac'd, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.246.2 | I embrace it freely, | I do embrace it freely, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.382 | For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune. | For me, with sorrow, I embrace my Fortune, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.73 | I will embrace him with a soldier's arm, | I will imbrace him with a Souldiers arme, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.98 | And by that music let us all embrace, | And by that Musicke, let vs all imbrace: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.100.1 | Here they embrace, the trumpets sound. | They embrace, the trumpets sound, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.v.12 | And I embrace this fortune patiently, | And I embrace this fortune patiently, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.63 | Let's drink together friendly and embrace, | Let's drinke together friendly, and embrace, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.201 | I embrace it. | I embrace it. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.13 | Embrace we then this opportunity, | Embrace we then this opportunitie, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.37 | Direct mine arms I may embrace his neck | Direct mine Armes, I may embrace his Neck, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.82 | And, lords, accept this hearty kind embrace. | And Lords accept this heartie kind embrace. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.171 | I do embrace thee as I would embrace | I do embrace thee, as I would embrace |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.354 | Embrace and kiss and take ten thousand leaves, | Embrace, and kisse, and take ten thousand leaues, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.6 | But where's the body that I should embrace? | But where's the body that I should imbrace? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.13 | Who loves the King and will embrace his pardon, | Who loues the King, and will imbrace his pardon, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.202 | Long live King Henry! Plantagenet, embrace him. | Long liue King Henry: Plantagenet embrace him. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.29 | See, see! They join, embrace, and seem to kiss, | See, see, they ioyne, embrace, and seeme to kisse, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.45 | Let me embrace thee in my weary arms. | Let me imbrace thee in my weary armes: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.129 | Edward and Richard, like a brace of greyhounds | Edward and Richard like a brace of Grey-hounds, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.24 | Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, | Let me embrace the sower Aduersaries, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.10 | In their embracement, as they grew together; | In their Embracement, as they grew together, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.158 | Make me no more ado, but all embrace him; | Make me no more adoe, but all embrace him; |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.171.1 | Embrace and love this man. | Embrace, and loue this man. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.48 | And, thus unbraced, Casca, as you see, | And thus vnbraced, Caska, as you see, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.259 | He would embrace the means to come by it. | He would embrace the meanes to come by it. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.262 | To walk unbraced and suck up the humours | To walke vnbraced, and sucke vp the humours |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.38 | What then should subjects but embrace their king? | What then should subiects but imbrace their King, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.290 | Why, so she is; for when I would embrace her, | Why so she is, for when I would embrace her, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.359 | If she remember to embrace the King; | If she remember to embrace the king, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.57 | Or hang him in the braces of his drum, | Or hang him in the braces of his drum, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.113 | Than to embrace in an unlawful bed | Then to embrace in an vnlawfull bed, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.28 | Against the kind embracement of thy friends? | Agaynst the kind imbracement of thy friends, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.74 | Enter Prince Edward in triumph, bearing in his hand his shivered lance, and the body of the King of Bohemia borne before, wrapped in the colours. They run and embrace him | Enter Prince Edward in tryumph, bearing in his hande his shiuered Launce, and the King of Boheme, borne before, wrapt in the Coullours: They runne and imbrace him. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.50 | Hereafter I'll embrace thee as myself. | Heereafter Ile embrace thee as my selfe, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.1 | Audley, the arms of death embrace us round, | Audley the armes of death embrace vs round, |
| King John | KJ II.i.11 | Embrace him, love him, give him welcome hither. | Embrace him, loue him, giue him welcome hether. |
| King John | KJ IV.i.97 | Hubert, the utterance of a brace of tongues | Hubert, the vtterance of a brace of tongues, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.12 | It is our safety, and we must embrace | It is our safetie, and we must embrace |
| King John | KJ V.ii.169 | And even at hand a drum is ready braced | And euen at hand, a drumme is readie brac'd, |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.7 | Thou unsubstantial air that I embrace! | Thou vnsubstantiall ayre that I embrace: |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.22 | (He embraces her) | |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.174 | A royal nobleness. I must embrace thee. | A Royall Noblenesse: I must embrace thee, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.212 | Sweet lords, sweet lovers, O, let us embrace! | Sweet Lords, sweet Louers, O let vs imbrace, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.521 | royal sweet breath as will utter a brace of words. | royall sweet breath, as will vtter a brace of words. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.136 | Than is his father's, must embrace the fate | Then is his Fathers, must embrace the fate |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.40 | Your brother and his lover have embraced. | Your brother, and his louer haue embrac'd; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.64 | And you embrace th' occasion to depart. | And you embrace th' occasion to depart. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.16 | Hugged and embraced by the strumpet wind. | Hudg'd and embraced by the strumpet winde: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.viii.52 | And quicken his embraced heaviness | And quicken his embraced heauinesse |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.109 | As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair, | As doubtfull thoughts, and rash imbrac'd despaire: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.68 | encounter, after we had embraced, kissed, protested, | encounter, after we had embrast, kist, protested, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.22 | He embraces her | |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.229 | What cannot be eschewed must be embraced. | ioy, what cannot be eschew'd, must be embrac'd. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.33 | With bracelets of thy hair, rings, gauds, conceits, | With bracelets of thy haire, rings, gawdes, conceits, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.96 | You embrace your charge too willingly. I | You embrace your charge too willingly: I |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.47 | You will say she did embrace me as a husband, | You will say, she did imbrace me as a husband, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.281 | I do embrace your offer, and dispose | I do embrace your offer, and dispose |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.24 | For that it stands not in such warlike brace, | For that it stands not in such Warrelike brace, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.251 | so near with their lips that their breaths embraced | so neere with their lippes, that their breathes embrac'd |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.27 | I have a stoup of wine; and here without are a brace of | I haue a stope of Wine, and heere without are a brace of |
| Pericles | Per I.i.8 | For the embracements even of Jove himself, | For embracements euen of Ioue himselfe; |
| Pericles | Per II.i.128 | 'Twixt me and death,’ and pointed to this brace, | Twixt me and death, and poynted to this brayse, |
| Pericles | Per III.iii.37.2 | I will embrace | I will imbrace |
| Pericles | Per V.i.222.2 | I embrace you. | I embrace you, |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.55 | Embrace him, dear Thaisa, this is he. | imbrace him deere Thaisa, this is hee, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.89 | Cast off his chains of bondage and embrace | Cast off his chaines of bondage, and embrace |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.184 | Embrace each other's love in banishment, | Embrace each others loue in banishment, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.32 | A brace of draymen bid God speed him well, | A brace of Dray-men bid God speed him well, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.29 | The means that heavens yield must be embraced | |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.25 | Dorset, embrace him; Hastings, love Lord Marquess. | Dorset, imbrace him: / Hastings, loue Lord Marquesse. |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.30 | With thy embracements to my wife's allies, | With thy embracements to my wiues Allies, |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.41.1 | Embrace | Embrace |
| Richard III | R3 III.iii.24 | Come, Grey; come, Vaughan; let us here embrace. | Come Grey, come Vaughan, let vs here embrace. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.73 | Not dallying with a brace of courtesans, | Not dallying with a Brace of Curtizans, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.16 | Enter Juliet somewhat fast. She embraces Romeo | Enter Iuliet. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.113 | Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you | Armes take your last embrace: And lips, O you |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.295 | Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished. | Haue lost a brace of Kinsmen: All are punish'd. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.116 | And then with kind embracements, tempting kisses, | And then with kinde embracements, tempting kisses, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.58 | With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery. | With Amber Bracelets, Beades, and all this knau'ry. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.v.34 | Sweet Kate, embrace her for her beauty's sake. | Sweete Kate embrace her for her beauties sake. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.v.68 | Let me embrace with old Vincentio, | Let me imbrace with old Vincentio, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.109 | Does now speak to thee, I embrace thy body, | Do's now speake to thee, I embrace thy body, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.121 | Let me embrace thine age, whose honour cannot | Let me embrace thine age, whose honor cannot |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.126 | But you, my brace of lords, were I so minded, | But you, my brace of Lords, were I so minded |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.214 | Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart | Let griefe and sorrow still embrace his heart, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.45 | Whom this beneath world doth embrace and hug | Whom this beneath world doth embrace and hugge |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.188 | two brace of greyhounds. | two brace of Grey-hounds. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.i.27 | would embrace no counsel, take no warning by my | wold embrace no counsell, take no warning by my |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.ii.30.1 | Flavius and the Servants embrace each other | Embrace and part seuerall wayes. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.80 | As thine is now, held with a brace of harlots. | As thine is now, held with a brace of Harlots. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.68 | And if one arm's embracement will content thee, | And if one armes imbracement will content thee, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.69 | I will embrace thee in it by and by. | I will imbrace thee in it by and by. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.107 | And oped their arms to embrace me as a friend. | And op'd their armes to imbrace me as a Friend: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.297 | And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn; | And in my Vantbrace put this wither'd brawne, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.33 | Even such a passion doth embrace my bosom. | Euen such a passion doth imbrace my bosome: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.15 | The one and other Diomed embraces. | The one and other Diomed embraces, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.14 | embrace too. ‘ O heart,’ as the goodly saying is – | embrace too: oh hart, as the goodly saying is; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.135 | Be drained! Let me embrace thee, Ajax: | Be drained. Let me embrace thee Aiax: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.148 | The issue is embracement. Ajax, farewell. | The issue is embracement: Aiax, farewell. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.175 | You brace of warlike brothers, welcome hither. | You brace of warlike Brothers, welcome hither. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.199 | Never like thee. Let an old man embrace thee; | Neuer like thee. Let an oldman embrace thee, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.202 | Let me embrace thee, good old chronicle, | Let me embrace thee good old Chronicle, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.143 | spirit embrace them; and to inure thyself to what thou art | spirit embrace them, and to invre thy selfe to what thou art |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.248 | Do not embrace me, till each circumstance | Do not embrace me, till each circumstance, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.317 | Madam, I am most apt t' embrace your offer. | Madam, I am most apt t'embrace your offer: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.129 | Now kiss, embrace, contend, do what you will. | Now kisse, embrace, contend, doe what you will. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.127 | Thurio, give back, or else embrace thy death; | Thurio giue backe; or else embrace thy death: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.84 | The sweet embraces of a loving wife, | The sweete embraces of a loving wife |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.v.8 | His iron bracelets are not off. O love, | His yron bracelets are not off. O Love |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.20 | A brace of horses; two such steeds might well | A brace of horses, two such Steeds might well |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.93 | I do embrace you and your offer – for | I doe embrace you, and your offer, for |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.22 | A beneficial foe, that my embraces | A beneficiall foe, that my embraces |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.300.2 | I embrace ye. | I embrace ye. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.31 | Before I turn, let me embrace thee, cousin; | Before I turne, Let me embrace thee Cosen |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.32 | They embrace | |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.i.30 | and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed | and embrac'd as it were from the ends of opposed |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.224 | Bugle-bracelet, necklace-amber; | Bugle-bracelet, Necke-lace Amber, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.436 | Or hoop his body more with thy embraces, | Or hope his body more, with thy embraces, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.520 | Your gracious self, embrace but my direction. | Your gracious selfe; embrace but my direction, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.596 | glove, shoe-tie, bracelet, horn-ring, to keep my pack | Gloue, Shooe-tye, Bracelet, Horne-Ring, to keepe my Pack |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.114.1 | Bring them to our embracement. | Bring them to our embracement. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.51 | asks Bohemia forgiveness; then embraces his son-in-law; | askes Bohemia forgiuenesse, then embraces his Sonne-in-Law: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.111.2 | She embraces him. | She embraces him. |