| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.41 | Crack thy frail case! Apace, Eros, apace! | Cracke thy fraile Case. Apace Eros, apace; |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.15 | A greater crack. The round world | A greater cracke. The round World |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.309 | Hast thou so cracked and splitted my poor tongue | Hast thou so crack'd and splitted my poore tongue |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.68 | The way it takes, cracking ten thousand curbs | The way it takes: cracking ten thousand Curbes |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.69 | A crack, madam. | A Cracke Madam. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.v.5 | At a cracked drachma. Cushions, leaden spoons, | At a crack'd Drachme: Cushions, Leaden Spoones, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.9 | Whom with a cracked heart I have sent to Rome, | Whom with a crack'd heart I haue sent to Rome, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.17 | I would have broke mine eye-strings, cracked them, but | I would haue broke mine eye-strings; |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.18 | To look upon him, till the diminution | Crack'd them, but to looke vpon him, till the diminution |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.29 | Like eggshells moved upon their surges, cracked | Like Egge-shels mou'd vpon their Surges, crack'd |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.236 | Have got the mannish crack, sing him to th' ground, | Haue got the mannish cracke, sing him to'th'ground |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iv.50 | My cracked one to more care. Have with you, boys! | My crack'd one to more care. Haue with you Boyes: |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.207 | But think her bond of chastity quite cracked, | But thinke her bond of Chastity quite crack'd, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.108 | Or – not to crack the wind of the poor phrase, | Or not to crack the winde of the poore Phrase, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.427 | gold, be not cracked within the ring. – Masters, you are | Gold be not crack'd within the ring. Masters, you are |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.353 | Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet Prince, | Now cracke a Noble heart: / Goodnight sweet Prince, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.96 | We must have bloody noses, and cracked crowns, | We must haue bloodie Noses, and crack'd Crownes, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.30 | crack, not thus high; and the very same day did I fight | Crack, not thus high: and the very same day did I fight |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.61 | By the mass, you'll crack a quart together – ha! | You'l cracke a quart together? Ha, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.11 | And from my shoulders crack my arms asunder, | And from my shoulders crack my Armes asunder, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.23 | And with what zeal! For, now he has cracked the league | And with what zeale? For now he has crackt the League |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.193 | Though all the world should crack their duty to you, | (Though all the world should cracke their duty to you, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.123 | Cracked and dissevered, my renowned lord. | Crackt and disseuered my renowned Lord: |
| King John | KJ II.i.146 | Or lay on that shall make your shoulders crack. | Or lay on that shall make your shoulders cracke. |
| King John | KJ II.i.147 | What cracker is this same that deafs our ears | What cracker is this same that deafes our eares |
| King John | KJ V.vii.52 | The tackle of my heart is cracked and burnt, | The tackle of my heart, is crack'd and burnt, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.108 | discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt | discord; in Pallaces, Treason; and the Bond crack'd, 'twixt |
| King Lear | KL II.i.89 | O madam, my old heart is cracked; it's cracked. | O Madam, my old heart is crack'd, it's crack'd. |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.1 | Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! | Blow windes, & crack your cheeks; Rage, blow |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.8 | Crack Nature's moulds, all germens spill at once | Cracke Natures moulds, all germaines spill at once |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.215 | Began to crack. Twice then the trumpets sounded, | |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.257 | That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever. | That Heauens vault should crack: she's gone for euer. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.266 | And Ethiops of their sweet complexion crack. | And Athiops of their sweet complexion crake. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.415 | My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw. | My loue to thee is sound, sans cracke or flaw. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.37 | As cannons overcharged with double cracks; | As Cannons ouer-charg'd with double Cracks, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.116 | What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom? | What will the Line stretch out to'th' cracke of Doome? |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.103 | cracking the stones of the foresaid prunes – | cracking the stones of the foresaid prewyns. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.274 | is ready to crack with impatience. Who says this is | is ready to cracke with impatience: who saies this is |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.99 | I'll tell thee what, Prince; a college of wit-crackers | Ile tell thee what Prince: a Colledge of witte-crackers |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.315 | naming, this crack of your love shall grow stronger than | naming, this cracke of your Loue, shall grow stronger, then |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.121 | Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both. | Who shuns not to breake one, will cracke both. |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.75 | That ever cracks for woe. This chanced tonight. | That euer cracks for woe, this chaunc'd to night. |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.140 | Crack the glass of her virginity, and make the rest | crack the glasse of her virginitie, and make the rest |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.19 | Is cracked, and all the precious liquor spilt; | Is crack'd, and all the precious liquor spilt; |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.234 | And cracking the strong warrant of an oath, | And cracking the strong Warrant of an Oath, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.288 | For there it is, cracked in a hundred shivers. | For there it is, crackt in an hundred shiuers. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.52 | Are cracked in pieces by malignant death, | Are crack'd in pieces, by malignant death, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.19 | with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but | with a man for cracking Nuts, hauing no other reason, but |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.95 | As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack. | As thunder, when the clouds in Autumne cracke. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.40 | Come hither, crack-hemp. | Come hither crackhempe. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.203 | And sight-outrunning were not. The fire and cracks | And sight out-running were not; the fire, and cracks |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.26 | I had rather crack my sinews, break my back, | I had rather cracke my sinewes, breake my backe, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.2 | My charms crack not, my spirits obey, and time | My charmes cracke not: my Spirits obey, and Time |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.154 | And mar men's spurring. Crack the lawyer's voice, | And marre mens spurring. Cracke the Lawyers voyce, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.3 | Secure of thunder's crack or lightning flash, | Secure of Thunders cracke or lightning flash, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.99 | Divert and crack, rend and deracinate | Diuert, and cracke, rend and deracinate |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.101 | were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel. | were as good cracke a fustie nut with no kernell. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.107 | Crack my clear voice with sobs, and break my heart | Cracke my cleere voyce with sobs, and breake my heart |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.7 | Now crack thy lungs, and split thy brazen pipe; | Now cracke thy lungs, and split thy brasen pipe: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.23 | have our livers perished, cracked to pieces with love, | have our Lyvers, perish'd, crakt to peeces with / Love, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.74 | When neither curb would crack, girth break, nor differing plunges | When neither Curb would cracke, girth breake nor diffring plunges |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.322 | Believe this crack to be in my dread mistress, | Beleeue this Crack to be in my dread Mistresse |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.44 | How he hath drunk, he cracks his gorge, his sides, | How he hath drunke, he cracks his gorge, his sides |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.171 | O cut my lace, lest my heart, cracking it, | O cut my Lace, least my heart (cracking it) |