| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.162 | When she, poor hen, fond of no second brood, | When she (poore Hen) fond of no second brood, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.166 | O'er which his melancholy sits on brood, | O're which his Melancholly sits on brood, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.15.2 | No, by the Rood, not so! | No by the Rood, not so: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.52 | On Holy-rood day, the gallant Hotspur there, | On Holy-roode day, the gallant Hotspurre there, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.82 | Such things become the hatch and brood of time, | Such things become the Hatch and Brood of Time; |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.3 | the rood! And how doth my good cousin Silence? | the Rood. And how doth my good Cousin Silence? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.141 | Why, what a brood of traitors have we here! | Why what a brood of Traitors haue we heere? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.18 | And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood. | And Doues will pecke in safegard of their Brood. |
| King John | KJ III.iii.52 | Then, in despite of brooded watchful day, | Then, in despight of brooded watchfull day, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.912 | And birds sit brooding in the snow, | And birds sit brooding in the snow, |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.75 | You may jest on, but, by the Holy Rood, | You may ieast on, but by the holy Rood, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.166 | No, by the Holy Rood, thou know'st it well, | No by the holy Rood, thou know'st it well, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.37 | For then she could stand high-lone. Nay, by th' rood, | for then she could stand alone, nay bi'th' roode |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.106 | And bring thee forth brave brood. | And bring thee forth braue brood. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.93 | With all his threat'ning band of Typhon's brood, | With all his threatning band of Typhons broode, |