| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.86 | Perchance he's hurt i'th' battle. | Perchance he's hurt i'th battaile. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.20 | Fulvia perchance is angry; or who knows | Fuluia perchance is angry: Or who knowes, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.25 | Perchance? Nay, and most like. | Perchance? Nay, and most like: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ii.27 | A mangled shadow. Perchance tomorrow | A mangled shadow. Perchance to morrow, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.86 | Perchance you will not bear them patiently. | Perchance you will not beare them patiently. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.39 | Perchance I will be there as soon as you. | Perchance I will be there as soone as you. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.38 | Which first, perchance, she'll prove on cats and dogs, | Which first (perchance) shee'l proue on Cats and Dogs, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.167 | Or less; at first? Perchance he spoke not, but | Or lesse; at first? Perchance he spoke not, but |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.243.1 | Perchance 'twill walk again. | perchance 'twill wake a-(gaine. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.171 | As I perchance hereafter shall think meet | (As I perchance heereafter shall thinke meet |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.59 | There falling out at tennis;’ or perchance | There falling out at Tennis; or perchance, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.65 | To sleep – perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub. | To sleepe, perchance to Dreame; I, there's the rub, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.131 | Will want true colour – tears perchance for blood. | Will want true colour; teares perchance for blood. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.80 | Two mighty eagles fell, and there they perched, | Two mighty Eagles fell, and there they pearch'd, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.114 | Nay, it perchance will sparkle in your eyes, | Nay, it perchance will sparkle in your eyes: |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.213 | Of dangerous majesty, when perchance it frowns | Of dangerous Maiesty, when perchance it frownes |
| King John | KJ V.i.74 | Perchance the Cardinal cannot make your peace; | Perchance the Cardinall cannot make your peace; |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.89 | No more perchance does mine, nor his, nor hers. | No more perchance do's mine, nor his, nor hers. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.137 | Would fail her obligation. If, sir, perchance, | Would faile her Obligation. If Sir perchance |
| King Lear | KL III.i.29 | Whereof, perchance, these are but furnishings – | Whereof (perchance) these are but furnishings. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.198 | And shall perchance do good. But speak you on; | And shall perchance do good, but speake you on, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.185 | Perchance light in the light. I desire her name. | Perchance light in the light: I desire her name. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.11 | What you have spoke, it may be so perchance. | What you haue spoke, it may be so perchance. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.25 | Perchance even there where I did find my doubts. | Perchance euen there / Where I did finde my doubts. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.4.1 | Their perch and not their terror. | Their pearch, and not their terror. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.194 | receives letters of strange tenor, perchance of the Duke's | receiues letters of strange tenor, perchance of the Dukes |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.195 | death, perchance entering into some monastery, but by | death, perchance entering into some Monasterie, but by |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.275 | she would sooner confess. Perchance publicly she'll be | She would sooner confesse, perchance publikely she'll be |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.75 | If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, | If they but heare perchance a trumpet sound, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.139 | Perchance till after Theseus' wedding-day. | Perchance till after Theseus wedding day. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.126 | Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show; | Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.217 | May now, perchance, both quake and tremble here, | May now perchance, both quake and tremble heere, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.73 | meaning; I meant plain holy-thistle. You may think perchance | meaning, I meant plaine holy thissell, you may thinke perchance |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.144 | Though I perchance am vicious in my guess – | Though I perchance am vicious in my guesse |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.196 | Perchance, Iago, I will ne'er go home. | Perchance Iago, I will ne're go home. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.15 | By many a dern and painful perch | By many a dearne and painefull pearch |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.70 | That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. | That Wrens make prey, where Eagles dare not pearch. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.66 | With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls. | With Loues light wings / Did I ore-perch these Walls, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.3 | Perchance she cannot meet him. That's not so. | Perchance she cannot meete him: that's not so: |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.17 | Perchance he will not mind me. | Perchance he will not minde me. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.134 | Perchance some single vantages you took | Perchance some single vantages you tooke, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.114 | Perchance she weeps because they killed her husband, | Perchance she weepes because they kil'd her husband, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.115 | Perchance because she knows them innocent. | Perchance because she knowes him innocent. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.360 | And think perchance they'll sell; if not, | And thinke perchance they'l sell: If not, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.80 | Let him be told so, lest perchance he think | Let him be told of, so perchance he thinke |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.151 | Perchance, my lord, I show more craft than love, | Perchance my Lord, I shew more craft then loue, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.ii.5 | Perchance he is not drowned. What think you, sailors? | Perchance he is not drown'd: What thinke you saylors? |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.ii.6 | It is perchance that you yourself were saved. | It is perchance that you your selfe were saued. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.ii.7 | O, my poor brother! and so perchance may he be. | O my poore brother, and so perchance may he be. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.270 | Unless, perchance, you come to me again | Vnlesse (perchance) you come to me againe, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.58 | make out for him. I frown the while, and perchance | make out for him: I frowne the while, and perchance |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.106 | Perchance you think too much of so much pains? | Perchance you think too much of so much pains? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.22 | May on our bridehouse perch or sing, | May on our Bridehouse pearch or sing, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.228 | Perchance are to this business purblind? Say. | Perchance are to this Businesse purblind? say. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.110 | Perchance shall dry your pities: but I have | Perchance shall dry your pitties: but I haue |