| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.84 | Bear him ashore. – I'll pledge it for him, Pompey. | Beare him ashore, / Ile pledge it for him Pompey. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.34 | | [Q1 replaces this scene with the following] Enter Horatio and the Queene. HOR. Madame, your sonne is safe arriv'de in Denmarke, This letter I euen now receiv'd of him, Whereas he writes how he escap't the danger, And subtle treason that the king had plotted, Being crossed by the contention of the windes, He found the Packet sent to the king of England, Wherein he saw himselfe betray'd to death, As at his next conuersion with your grace, He will relate the circumstance at full. QUEENE. Then I perceiue there's treason in his lookes That seem'd to sugar o're his villanie: But I will soothe and please him for a time, For murderous mindes are alwayes jealous, But know not you Horatio where he is? HOR. Yes Madame, and he hath appoynted me To meete him on the east side of the Cittie To morrow morning. QUEENE. O faile not, good Horatio, and withall, commend me A mothers care to him, bid him a while Be wary of his presence, lest that he Faile in that he goes about. HOR. Madam, neuer make doubt of that: I thinke by this the news be come to court: He is arriv'de, obserue the king, and you shall Quickely finde, Hamlet being here, Things fell not to his minde. QUEENE. But what became of Gilderstone and Rossencraft? HOR. He being set ashore, they went for England, And in the Packet there writ down that doome To be perform'd on them poynted for him: And by great chance he had his fathers Seale, So all was done without discouerie. QUEENE. Thankes be to heauen for blessing of the prince, Horatio once againe I take my leaue, With thowsand mothers blessings to my sonne. HORAT. Madam adue. |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.26 | As send precepts to the leviathan | As send Precepts to the Leuiathan, to come ashore. |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.27 | To come ashore. Therefore, you men of Harfleur, | Therefore, you men of Harflew, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.61 | Or hacked a-pieces when thou comest ashore. | Or hackt a peeces when thou comest a shore. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.60 | with so many tuns of oil in his belly, ashore at Windsor? | (with so many Tuns of oyle in his belly) a'shoare at Windsor? |
| Othello | Oth II.i.275 | must fetch his necessaries ashore. Farewell. | must fetch his Necessaries a Shore. Farewell. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.II.38 | Threw him ashore, to give him glad. | Threw him a shore, to giue him glad: |
| Pericles | Per V.i.258 | With all my heart; and when you come ashore, | with all my heart, and when you come a shore, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.439 | Of Buckingham to welcome them ashore. | Of Buckingham, to welcome them ashore. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.42 | If, Biondello, thou wert come ashore, | If Biondello thou wert come ashore, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.228 | For in a quarrel since I came ashore | For in a quarrell since I came a shore, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.158.2 | How came we ashore? | How came we a shore? |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.42 | Here shall I die ashore. | here shall I dye ashore. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.121 | tree, with mine own hands, since I was cast ashore. | Tree, with mine owne hands, since I was cast a'shore. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.125 | Swum ashore, man, like a duck. I can swim | Swom ashore (man) like a Ducke: I can swim |