| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.124 | with the breach yourselves made you lose your city. It | with the breach your selues made, you lose your Citty. It |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.72 | Could reach them. I have seen a medicine | could reach them: I haue seen a medicine |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.140 | against thee by poison, entrap thee by some treacherous | against thee by poyson, entrap thee by some treacherous |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.63 | To think my poverty is treacherous. | To thinke my pouertie is treacherous. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.49 | Your breach of promise to the Porpentine. | Your breach of promise to the Porpentine, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.174 | My master preaches patience to him, and the while | My Mr preaches patience to him, and the while |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.27 | breach of hers; let thine own hands take away | breach of hers; let thine owne hands take away |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.10 | Stick to your journal course: the breach of custom | Sticke to your Iournall course: the breach of Custome, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.11 | Is breach of all. I am ill, but your being by me | Is breach of all. I am ill, but your being by me |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.317 | Be henceforth treacherous! Damned Pisanio | Be henceforth treacherous. Damn'd Pisanio, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.16 | More honoured in the breach than the observance. | More honour'd in the breach, then the obseruance. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.56 | With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? | With thoughts beyond thee; reaches of our Soules, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.64 | And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, | And thus doe we of wisedome and of reach |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.578 | Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain! | Remorselesse, Treacherous, Letcherous, kindles villaine! |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.127 | His form and cause conjoined, preaching to stones, | His forme and cause conioyn'd, preaching to stones, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.78 | the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'erreaches; | the Pate of a Polititian which this Asse o're Offices: |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.301 | I am justly killed with mine own treachery. | I am iustly kill'd with mine owne Treacherie. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.306 | Treachery! Seek it out. | Treacherie, seeke it out. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.310 | The treacherous instrument is in thy hand, | The Treacherous Instrument is in thy hand, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.129 | What may the King's whole battle reach unto? | What may the Kings whole Battaile reach vnto? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.56 | And saved the treacherous labour of your son. | And sau'd the Treacherous labour of your Sonne. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.50 | off the breach, with his pike bent bravely; and to | off the Breach, with his Pike bent brauely, and to |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.149 | Came pouring, like the tide into a breach, | Came pouring like the Tyde into a breach, |
| Henry V | H5 II.chorus.22 | With treacherous crowns; and three corrupted men – | With treacherous Crownes, and three corrupted men: |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.11 | His sovereign's life to death and treachery! | His Soueraignes life to death and treachery. |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.1 | Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, | Once more vnto the Breach, / Deare friends, once more; |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.1 | On, on, on, on, on! To the breach, to the | On, on, on, on, on, to the breach, to the |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.2 | breach! | breach. |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.20 | Up to the breach, you dogs! Avaunt, you | Vp to the breach, you Dogges; auaunt you |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.105 | town is beseeched, and the trumpet call us to the breach, | Town is beseech'd: and the Trumpet call vs to the breech, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.71 | and such a sconce, at such a breach, at such a convoy; | and such a Sconce, at such a Breach, at such a Conuoy: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.9 | And preachers to us all, admonishing | And Preachers to vs all; admonishing, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.165 | vengeance; so that here men are punished for before-breach | Vengeance: so that here men are punisht, for before breach |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.68 | How were they lost? What treachery was used? | How were they lost? what trecherie was vs'd? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.69 | No treachery, but want of men and money. | No trecherie, but want of Men and Money. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.35 | But, O, the treacherous Falstaff wounds my heart; | But O, the trecherous Falstaffe wounds my heart, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.30 | Sheep run not half so treacherous from the wolf, | Sheepe run not halfe so trecherous from the Wolfe, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.74 | But weakly guarded, where the breach was made. | But weakely guarded, where the breach was made: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.16 | The treacherous manner of his mournful death, | The trecherous manner of his mournefull death, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.21 | And for thy treachery, what's more manifest, | And for thy Trecherie, what's more manifest? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.128 | Fie, uncle Beaufort, I have heard you preach | Fie Vnckle Beauford, I haue heard you preach, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.2 | Through which our policy must make a breach. | Through which our Pollicy must make a breach. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.37 | If Talbot but survive thy treachery. | If Talbot but suruiue thy Trecherie. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.61 | O, monstrous treachery! Can this be so? | O monstrous Treachery: Can this be so? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.109 | By treason, falsehood, and by treachery, | By Treason, Falshood, and by Treacherie, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.11 | Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold. | Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious Gold. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.46 | Above the reach or compass of thy thought? | Aboue the reach or compasse of thy thought? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.47 | And wilt thou still be hammering treachery, | And wilt thou still be hammering Treachery, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.66 | But I in danger for the breach of law. | But I in danger for the breach of Law. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.158 | And dogged York, that reaches at the moon, | And dogged Yorke, that reaches at the Moone, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.288 | A breach that craves a quick expedient stop! | A Breach that craues a quick expedient stoppe. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.75 | Great men have reaching hands: oft have I struck | Great men haue reaching hands: oft haue I struck |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.82 | And where this breach now in our fortunes made | And where this breach now in our Fortunes made |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.72 | And made a preachment of your high descent? | And made a Preachment of your high Descent? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.72 | And treacherously hast thou vanquished him, | And trecherously hast thou vanquisht him, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.114 | Ay, like a dastard and a treacherous coward, | I like a Dastard, and a treacherous Coward, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.45 | To kings that fear their subjects' treachery? | To Kings, that feare their Subiects treacherie? |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.94.1 | The sudden breach on't. | The sodaine breach on't. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.111 | It reaches far, and where 'twill not extend, | It reaches farre, and where 'twill not extend, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.67 | Malice ne'er meant. Our breach of duty this way | Malice ne're meant: Our breach of Duty this way, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.87 | Who can be angry now? What envy reach you? | Who can be angry now? What Enuy reach you? |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.106 | However, yet there is no great breach. When it comes, | How euer, yet there is no great breach, when it comes |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.3 | Willing to leave their burden. Reach a chair. | Willing to leaue their burthen: Reach a Chaire, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.126 | To me you cannot reach. You play the spaniel, | To me you cannot reach. You play the Spaniell, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.53 | And like a mountain cedar reach his branches | And like a Mountaine Cedar, reach his branches, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.124 | The treacherous King no sooner was informed | The treacherous King no sooner was informde, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.357 | Of all the virtue I have preached to her. | Of all the vertue I haue preacht to her, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.59 | To reach at our imperial diadem | To reach at our imperiall dyadem, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.87 | The breach of faith dwells in the soul's consent, | The breach of faith dwels in the soules consent, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.89 | Thou art not charged with the breach of faith. | Thou art not charged with the breach of faith, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.45 | To yield her city for one little breach, | To yeeld her Citie for one little breach, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.26 | No, no, you cannot overreach us thus. | No no ye cannot ouerreach vs thus, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.51 | Preach some philosophy to make me mad, | Preach some Philosophy to make me mad, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.32 | As patches set upon a little breach | As patches set vpon a little breach, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.117 | Beyond the infinite and boundless reach | Beyond the infinite and boundlesse reach of mercie, |
| King John | KJ V.iv.37 | Paying the fine of rated treachery | Paying the fine of rated Treachery, |
| King John | KJ V.iv.38 | Even with a treacherous fine of all your lives, | Euen with a treacherous fine of all your liues: |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.113 | treachery, and all ruinous disorders follow us disquietly | treacherie, and all ruinous disorders follow vs disquietly |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.123 | treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, | Treachers by Sphericall predominance. Drunkards, Lyars, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.147 | dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not | |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.137 | No, lad; teach me. | No Lad, reach me. |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.86.2 | Out, treacherous villain! | Out treacherous Villaine, |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.6 | His answer was ‘The worse.' Of Gloucester's treachery | His answer was, the worse. Of Glosters Treachery, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.181 | We wawl and cry. I will preach to thee – Mark! | We wawle, and cry. I will preach to thee: Marke. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.15 | Cure this great breach in his abused nature! | Cure this great breach in his abused Nature, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.170 | As honour, without breach of honour, may | As honour, without breach of Honour may |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.110 | And his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature | And his gash'd Stabs, look'd like a Breach in Nature, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iii.17 | O treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! | O, Trecherie! |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.84.1 | Young fry of treachery! | Yong fry of Treachery? |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.18.1 | I am not treacherous. | I am not treacherous. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.18 | Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach. | Now minutely Reuolts vpbraid his Faith-breach: |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.402 | Of sacred chastity, and of promise-breach, | Of sacred Chastitie, and of promise-breach, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.10 | Out of his envy's reach, I do oppose | Out of his enuies reach, I do oppose |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.iii.22 | Those that betray them do no treachery. | Those that betray them, do no treachery. |
| 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 |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.298 | But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes. | But that my nailes can reach vnto thine eyes. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.28 | And greedily devour the treacherous bait; | And greedily deuoure the treacherous baite: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.236 | He is composed and framed of treachery, | He is compos'd and fram'd of treacherie, |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.24 | As this that I have reached. For know, Iago, | As this that I haue reach'd. For know Iago, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.135 | Of hair-breadth scapes i'th' imminent deadly breach, | Of haire-breadth scapes i'th'imminent deadly breach; |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.217 | To grosser issues, nor to larger reach | To grosser issues, nor to larger reach, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.224 | An unkind breach; but you shall make all well. | An vnkind breach: but you shall make all well. |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.216 | this world with treachery, and devise engines for my life. | this world with Treacherie, and deuise Engines for my life. |
| Othello | Oth V.i.58.2 | O treacherous villains! | Oh treacherous Villaines: |
| Pericles | Per I.i.34 | Presumes to reach, all the whole heap must die. | Presumes to reach, all the whole heape must die: |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.20 | Is a black Ethiop reaching at the sun. | Is a blacke Ethyope reaching at the Sunne: |
| Pericles | Per III.i.75 | Alter thy course for Tyre. When canst thou reach it? | Alter thy course for Tyre: When canst thou reach it? |
| Pericles | Per IV.v.4 | But to have divinity preached there! | But to haue diuinitie preach't there, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.11 | On some known ground of treachery in him? | On some knowne ground of treacherie in him. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.72 | To reach at victory above my head, | To reach at victory aboue my head, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.106 | From forth thy reach he would have laid thy shame, | From forth thy reach he would haue laid thy shame, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.16 | Doing annoyance to the treacherous feet | Doing annoyance to the trecherous feete, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.12 | That reacheth from the restful English court | That reacheth from the restfull English Court |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.54 | As may be hollowed in thy treacherous ear | |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.75 | God for his mercy! What treachery is here! | Heauen for his mercy: what treachery is heere? |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.59 | O loyal father of a treacherous son, | O loyall Father of a treacherous Sonne: |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.37 | As I am subtle, false, and treacherous, | As I am Subtle, False, and Treacherous, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.159 | By marrying her which I must reach unto. | By marrying her, which I must reach vnto. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.209 | Didst break that vow, and with thy treacherous blade | Did'st breake that Vow, and with thy treacherous blade, |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.38 | Deep, hollow, treacherous, and full of guile | Deepe, hollow, treacherous, and full of guile, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.136 | To no apparent likelihood of breach, | To no apparant likely-hood of breach, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.42 | And live with Richmond, from the reach of hell. | And liue with Richmond, from the reach of Hell. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.31 | High-reaching Buckingham grows circumspect. | High-reaching Buckingham growes circumspect. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.84 | Of breaches, ambuscados, Spanish blades, | of Breaches, Ambuscados, Spanish Blades: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.85 | Ay, madam, from the reach of these my hands. | I Madam from the reach of these my hands: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.58 | Or my true heart with treacherous revolt | Or my true heart with trecherous reuolt, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.144 | We'll overreach the greybeard Gremio, | Wee'll ouer-reach the grey-beard Gremio, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.128 | A treacherous army levied, one midnight | A treacherous Armie leuied, one mid-night |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.16 | That is, one may reach deep enough and yet | that is: One may reach deepe enough, and yet |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.4 | Advanced above pale envy's threat'ning reach. | Aduanc'd about pale enuies threatning reach: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.237 | Reach me thy hand, that I may help thee out, | Reach me thy hand, that I may helpe thee out, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.116 | Fie, treacherous hue, that will betray with blushing | Fie trecherous hue, that will betray with blushing |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.143 | And will o'erreach them in their own devices, | And will ore-reach them in their owne deuises, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.107 | Is ‘ plain and true;’ there's all the reach of it. | Is plaine and true, ther's all the reach of it. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.92 | Or else a breath. The combatants being kin | Or else a breach: the Combatants being kin, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.245 | And make distinct the very breach whereout | And make distinct the very breach, where-out |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.20 | from the breach of the sea was my sister drowned. | from the breach of the sea, was my sister drown'd. |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.48 | Where manners ne'er were preached, out of my sight! | Where manners nere were preach'd: out of my sight. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.87.2 | I cannot reach so high. | I cannot reach so high. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vi.32 | Without some treachery used to Valentine. | Without some treachery vs'd to Valentine. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.156 | Wilt thou reach stars, because they shine on thee? | Wilt thou reach stars, because they shine on thee? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.28 | Without false vantage or base treachery. | Without false vantage, or base treachery. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.63 | For such is a friend now; treacherous man, | For such is a friend now: treacherous man, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.43 | Hath set a mark which nature could not reach to | Hath set a marke which nature could not reach too |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.28 | they stand a grece above the reach of report. | they / Stand a greise above the reach of report. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.285 | Why should a friend be treacherous? If that | Why should a friend be treacherous? If that |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.67 | Men lose when they incline to treachery, | Men loose when they encline to trecherie, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.80 | Nor could my wishes reach you; yet a little | Nor could my wishes reach you; yet a little |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.150 | This treachery, like a most trusty lover, | This treacherie like a most trusty Lover, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.91 | And with her all the world's joy; reach thy hand. | And with her, all the worlds joy: Reach thy hand, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.93 | Yet never treacherous; forgive me, cousin. | Yet never treacherous: Forgive me Cosen: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.195 | Lest that the treachery of the two fled hence | Least that the treachery of the two, fled hence, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.25 | They should not laugh if I could reach them, nor | They should not laugh, if I could reach them, nor |