| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.22.1 | Which thus she hath prevented. | Which thus she hath preuented. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.48 | himself could not have prevented if he had been there to | him selfe could not haue preuented, if he had beene there to |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.51 | A market maid to Rome, and have prevented | A Market-maid to Rome, and haue preuented |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xii.42 | Might have prevented many. Eros, ho! | Might haue preuented many. Eros, hoa? |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.55 | fortune, and prevents the slander of his wife. | fortune, and preuents the slander of his wife. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.36 | The gods have well prevented it, and Rome | The Gods haue well preuented it, and Rome |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.46 | But that her flight prevented it – she had | (But that her flight preuented it) she had |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.294 | prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the King | preuent your discouery of your secricie to the King |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.168 | Will be some danger; which for to prevent, | Will be some danger, which to preuent |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iv.35 | And to prevent the worst, Sir Michael, speed. | And to preuent the worst, Sir Michell speed; |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.234 | degrees prevent my curses. Boy! | Degrees preuent my curses. Boy? |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.21 | But what prevention? | But what preuention? |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.158 | But God be thanked for prevention, | But God be thanked for preuention, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.164 | Prevented from a damned enterprise. | Preuented from a damned enterprize; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.71 | Content, my liege? Yes; but that I am prevented, | Content, my Liege? Yes: But yt I am preuented, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.57 | Nor never seek prevention of thy foes. | Nor neuer seeke preuention of thy foes. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.29 | But to prevent the tyrant's violence – | But to preuent the Tyrants violence, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.96 | Therefore, Lord Oxford, to prevent the worst, | Therefore, Lord Oxford, to preuent the worst, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.28 | Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel | Then least he may, preuent. And since the Quarrell |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.85 | To hide thee from prevention. | To hide thee from preuention. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.160 | As to annoy us all; which to prevent, | As to annoy vs all: which to preuent, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.19 | Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention. | Caska be sodaine, for we feare preuention. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.35.2 | I must prevent thee, Cimber; | I must preuent thee Cymber: |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.104 | For fear of what might fall, so to prevent | For feare of what might fall, so to preuent |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.179 | Than thy prevention can be in my rescue; | Then thy preuention can be in my rescue, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.161 | Had been prevented of this mortal grief! | Had been preuented of this mortall griefe. |
| King John | KJ I.i.35 | This might have been prevented and made whole | This might haue beene preuented, and made whole |
| King Lear | KL I.i.45 | May be prevented now. The princes, France and Burgundy, | May be preuented now. The Princes, France & Burgundy, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.152 | How to prevent the fiend and to kill vermin. | How to preuent the Fiend, and to kill Vermine. |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.82 | Lest it see more, prevent it. Out, vile jelly! | Lest it see more, preuent it; Out vilde gelly: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.61 | If worthier friends had not prevented me. | If worthier friends had not preuented me. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.110 | With liver burning hot. Prevent. Or go thou | With liuer, burning hot: preuent: / Or goe thou |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.294 | jealousy! Eleven o'clock the hour. I will prevent this, | iealousie: eleuen o'clocke the howre, I will preuent this, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.135 | that it wants matter to prevent so gross o'erreaching as | that it wants matter to preuent so grosse ore-reaching as |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.121 | O plague right well prevented! So will you say | O plague right well preuented! so will you say, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.I.35 | Which to prevent he made a law, | Which to preuent, he made a Law, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.62 | I am prevented. | I am preuented. |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.167 | Nor the prevention of poor Bolingbroke | Nor the preuention of poore Bullingbrooke, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.179 | But presently prevent the ways to wail. | But presently preuent the wayes to waile: |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.148 | Prevent it; resist it; let it not be so, | Preuent it, resist it, and let it not be so, |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.55 | If God prevent not, I purpose so. | If God preuent not, I purpose so. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.131 | In my opinion, ought to be prevented. | In my opinion, ought to be preuented. |
| Richard III | R3 II.iii.26 | Will touch us all too near, if God prevent not. | Will touch vs all too neere, if God preuent not. |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.81 | For I, too fond, might have prevented this. | For I, too fond, might haue preuented this: |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.54 | Somewhat against our meaning, have prevented; | Something against our meanings, haue preuented; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.205 | O God! – O Nurse, how shall this be prevented? | O God! / O Nurse, how shall this be preuented? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.51 | Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it. | Vnlesse thou tell me how I may preuent it: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.70 | As that is desperate which we would prevent. | As that is desperate which we would preuent. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.49 | She hath prevented me. Here, Signor Tranio, | She hath preuented me, here signior Tranio, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.350 | Thou didst prevent me. I had peopled else | Thou didst preuent me, I had peopel'd else |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.201 | I'll teach them to prevent wild Alcibiades' wrath. | Ile teach them to preuent wilde Alcibiades wrath. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.181 | Achievements, plots, orders, preventions, | Atchieuments, plots, orders, preuentions, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.35 | Of all rejoindure, forcibly prevents | Of all reioyndure: forcibly preuents |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.18 | Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage; | Many a good hanging, preuents a bad marriage: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.81 | But we are prevented. (To Olivia) Most excellent, | but we are preuented. Most excellent |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.40 | Not like a woman, for I would prevent | Not like a woman, for I would preuent |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.21 | Being unprevented, to your timeless grave. | (Being vnpreuented) to your timelesse graue. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.6 | Have their good wishes. We prevent | Have their good wishes, we prevent |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.405 | Which way to be prevented, if to be; | Which way to be preuented, if to be: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.26.2 | Lords, and the Servant, who try to prevent her | |