| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.5 | That I might sleep out this great gap of time | That I might sleepe out this great gap of time: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.223.1 | And made a gap in nature. | And made a gap in Nature. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.24 | two dog-apes, and when a man thanks me heartily, | two dog-Apes. And when a man thankes me hartily, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.111 | May enter 'twixt the gap of both and take | May enter 'twixt the gap of Both, and take |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.63 | How we may steal from hence: and for the gap | How we may steale from hence: and for the gap |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.245 | I'll speak to it though hell itself should gape | Ile speake to it, though Hell it selfe should gape |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.77 | Which gape and rub the elbow at the news | Which gape, and rub the Elbow at the newes |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.193 | Why then, let grievous, ghastly, gaping wounds | why then let grieuous, gastly, gaping Wounds, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.56 | Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape | Leaue gourmandizing; Know the Graue doth gape |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.58 | The grave doth gape, and doting death is near: | The Graue doth gape, and doting death is neere, |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.27 | With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur. | With fatall mouthes gaping on girded Harflew. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.41 | Let gallows gape for dog; let man go free, | let Gallowes gape for Dogge, let Man goe free, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.105 | My earnest-gaping sight of thy land's view, | My earnest-gaping-sight of thy Lands view, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.161 | May that ground gape and swallow me alive, | May that ground gape, and swallow me aliue, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.36 | Stands in the gap and trade of more preferments, | Stands in the gap and Trade of moe Preferments, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.3 | your gaping. | your gaping. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.15 | Spendthrifts, and such that gape for nothing else | Spend thrifts, and such as gape for nothing else, |
| King John | KJ II.i.375 | As in a theatre, whence they gape and point | As in a Theater, whence they gape and point |
| King John | KJ III.iv.32 | And stop this gap of breath with fulsome dust, | And stop this gap of breath with fulsome dust, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.85 | make a great gap in your own honour and shake in | make a great gap in your owne Honor, and shake in |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.12 | It had been as a gap in our great feast | It had bene as a gap in our great Feast, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.265 | And every word in it a gaping wound | And euerie word in it a gaping wound |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.47 | Some men there are love not a gaping pig, | Some men there are loue not a gaping Pigge: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.54 | Why he cannot abide a gaping pig, | Why he cannot abide a gaping Pigge? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.370 | That the graves, all gaping wide, | That the graues, all gaping wide, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.392 | Would you, the supervisor, grossly gape on? | Would you the super-vision grossely gape on? |
| Pericles | Per II.i.33 | on a-th' land who never leave gaping till they swallowed | on, a'th land, Who neuer leaue gaping, till they swallow'd |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.8 | To learn of me, who stand i'th' gaps to teach you | To learne of me who stand with gappes / To teach you. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.65 | Or earth gape open wide and eat him quick, | Or Earth gape open wide, and eate him quicke, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.75 | Earth gapes, hell burns, fiends roar, saints pray, | Earth gapes, Hell burnes, Fiends roare, Saints pray, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.chorus.2 | And young affection gapes to be his heir. | And yong affection gapes to be his Heire, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.58 | And gape at wid'st to glut him. | And gape at widst to glut him. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.292 | When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape | When I arriu'd, and heard thee, that made gape |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.249 | Into this gaping hollow of the earth? | Into this gaping hollow of the earth? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.8 | With treble ceremony; rather than a gap | With treble Ceremonie, rather then a gap |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.i.7 | Of that wide gap, since it is in my power | Of that wide gap, since it is in my powre |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.199 | and break a foul gap into the matter, he makes the | and breake a fowle gap into the Matter, hee makes the |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.154 | Performed in this wide gap of time since first | Perform'd in this wide gap of Time, since first |