| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.2 | Have fought with equal fortune, and continue | Haue fought with equall fortune, and continue |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.i.17.1 | I shall continue thankful. | I shall continue thankefull. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.vi.29 | Continues still a Jove. | Continues still a Ioue. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.50.1 | Alarum continues | Alarum continues |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.v.4.1 | Alarum continues still afar off | Alarum continues still a-farre off. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.236 | How long continued, and what stock he springs of – | How long continued, and what stock he springs of, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.ii.30 | I would he had continued to his country | I would he had continued to his Country |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.54 | Continue where he is: to shift his being | Continue where he is: To shift his being, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.56 | Continues well my lord? His health, beseech you? | Continues well my Lord? / His health beseech you? |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.138 | And will continue fast to your affection, | And will continue fast to your Affection, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.49.1 | Must not continue friends. | Must not continue Friends. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.ii.11.1 | The battle continues, the Britons fly, Cymbeline is taken: then enter | The Battaile continues, the Britaines fly, Cymbeline is taken: Then enter |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.381 | Continued so, until we thought he died. | Continew'd so, vntill we thought he dyed. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 epilogue.27 | continue the story, with Sir John in it, and make you | continue the Story (with Sir Iohn in it) and make you |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.120 | More than three hours the fight continued, | More then three houres the fight continued: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.161 | So let us still continue peace and love. | So let vs still continue peace, and loue. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ix.17 | Continue still in this so good a mind, | Continue still in this so good a minde, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.82.1 | But this cannot continue. | But this cannot continue. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.33 | Continue in my liking, nay, gave notice | Continue in my Liking? Nay, gaue notice |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.395 | But he's a learned man. May he continue | But he's a Learned man. May he continue |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.83.17 | music continues | Musicke continues. |
| King John | KJ III.i.252 | To do your pleasure and continue friends. | To doe your pleasure, and continue friends. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.854 | Will hear your idle scorns, continue then, | Will heare your idle scornes; continue then, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vi.30 | And shall continue our graces towards him. | And shall continue, our Graces towards him. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.29 | seem thus washing her hands. I have known her continue | seeme thus washing her hands: I haue knowne her continue |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.10 | Alarums continued | Alarums continued. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.179 | continue in his courses till thou know'st what they are. | continue in his courses, till thou knowst what they are. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.182 | art to continue now, thou varlet, thou art to continue. | art to continue now thou Varlet, thou art to continue. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.250 | had continued in it some time. You say, seven years | had continued in it some time: you say seauen yeares |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.82 | And how shall we continue Claudio, | And how shall we continue Claudio, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.75 | That men shall swear I have discontinued school | That men shall sweare I haue discontinued schoole |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.134 | and so good a continuer. But keep your way a' God's | and so good a continuer, but keepe your way a Gods |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.182 | many courtesies I thank you; I must discontinue your | manie courtesies I thank you, I must discontinue your |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.339 | long continue her love to the Moor – put money in thy | continue her loue to the Moore. Put Money in thy |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.283 | And mark how he continues. | And marke how he continues. |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.2 | You peers, continue this united league. | You Peeres, continue this vnited League: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.105 | Thou shalt continue two-and-forty hours, | Thou shalt continue two and forty houres, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.27 | Glad that you thus continue your resolve | Glad that you thus continue your resolue, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.83 | I will continue that I broached in jest. | I will continue that I broach'd in iest, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.182 | to you; so you may continue, and laugh at nothing still. | to you: so you may continue, and laugh at nothing still. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.186 | lift the moon out of her sphere, if she would continue in | lift the Moone out of her spheare, if she would continue in |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.5 | Of what is to continue. Never mind | Of what is to continue: neuer minde, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.262 | Who in this dull and long-continued truce | Who in this dull and long-continew'd Truce |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iv.1 | If the Duke continue these favours towards | If the Duke continue these fauours towards |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.48 | She shall not long continue love to him. | She shall not long continue loue to him: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.97 | Against your faith, yet I continue mine. | against your faith, / Yet I continew mine. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.47 | How she continues this fancy! 'Tis not an | How she continues this fancie? Tis not an |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.162 | Continue in thy band. | Continue in thy Band. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.i.31 | winds. The heavens continue their loves! | Winds. The Heauens continue their Loues. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.85 | You did continue fault, and that you slipped not | You did continue fault; and that you slipt not |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.430 | Is piled upon his faith, and will continue | Is pyl'd vpon his Faith, and will continue |