| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.94 | Wrapped in a paper which contained the name | Wrap'd in a paper, which contain'd the name |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.104 | Too great for what contains it. ‘ Boy!’ O slave! | Too great for what containes it. Boy? Oh Slaue, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.91 | Your Italy contains none so accomplished a courtier | Your Italy, containes none so accomplish'd a Courtier |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.30 | Let what is here contained relish of love, | Let what is heere contain'd, rellish of Loue, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.431 | This label on my bosom; whose containing | This Labell on my bosome; whose containing |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.88 | Last, and as much containing as all these, | Last, and as much containing as all these, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.88 | When that this body did contain a spirit, | When that this bodie did containe a spirit, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.167 | For this contains our general grievances. | For this containes our generall Grieuances: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.101 | This packet, please it you, contains at large. | This Packet (please it you) containes at large. |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.31 | T' envelop and contain celestial spirits. | T'inuelop and containe Celestiall Spirits. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.55 | Your roof were not sufficient to contain't. | Your Roofe were not sufficient to contayn't. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.66 | Is that the worst this letter doth contain? | Is that the worst this Letter doth containe? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.410 | That ever did contain a thing of worth. | That euer did containe a thing of worth, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.13 | May I be bold to ask what that contains, | May I be bold to aske what that containes, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.83 | Contains each general virtue in the world. | Containes ech generall vertue in the worlde, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.77 | This heaven that covers France contains the mercy | This heauen that couers Fraunce containes the mercy |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.14 | With fire-containing flint. Command our bows | Fire containing flint, command our bowes |
| King John | KJ II.i.101 | This little abstract doth contain that large | This little abstract doth containe that large, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.66 | But for containing fire to harm mine eye. | But for containing fire to harme mine eye: |
| King Lear | KL III.i.46 | What it contains. If you shall see Cordelia – | What it containes. If you shall see Cordelia, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.329 | That show, contain, and nourish all the world; | That shew, containe, and nourish all the world. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.11 | The one of them contains my picture, Prince. | The one of them containes my picture Prince, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.48 | One of these three contains her heavenly picture. | One of these three containes her heauenly picture. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.49 | Is't like that lead contains her? 'Twere damnation | Is't like that Lead containes her? 'twere damnation |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.5 | If you choose that wherein I am contained, | If you choose that wherein I am contain'd, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.50 | Cannot contain their urine; for affection, | Cannot containe their Vrine for affection. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.201 | Or your own honour to contain the ring, | Or your owne honour to containe the Ring, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.90 | Containing her affection unto Benedick. | Containing her affection vnto Benedicke. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.24.1 | Why, it contains no king. | Why, it containes no King? |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.25 | It doth contain a king. King Richard lies | It doth containe a King: King Richard lyes |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.233 | Containing the deposing of a king | Contayning the deposing of a King, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.83 | Was ever book containing such vile matter | Was euer booke containing such vile matter |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.98 | Fear not, my lord, we can contain ourselves, | Feare not my Lord, we can contain our selues, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.29.2 | Contain thyself, good friend. | Containe thy selfe, good Friend. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.101 | If after two days' shine Athens contain thee, | If after two dayes shine, Athens containe thee, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.183.2 | O, contain yourself; | O containe your selfe: |