| 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 II.iii.37 | His cocks do win the battle still of mine | His Cocks do winne the Battaile, still of mine, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.31 | Ay, and to wage this battle at Pharsalia, | I, and to wage this Battell at Pharsalia, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.viii.3 | Strike not by land; keep whole: provoke not battle | Strike not by Land, / Keepe whole, prouoke not Battaile |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ix.2 | In eye of Caesar's battle; from which place | In eye of Casars battaile, from which place |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.29 | Yes, like enough, high-battled Caesar will | Yes like enough: hye battel'd Casar will |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.i.11 | Know that tomorrow the last of many battles | know, / That to morrow, the last of many Battailes |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ix.3 | Is shiny, and they say we shall embattle | Is shiny, and they say, we shall embattaile |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.131 | Made him give battle to the lioness, | Made him giue battell to the Lyonnesse: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.160 | Rome and her rats are at the point of battle; | Rome, and her Rats, are at the point of battell, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.11 | And given to Lartius and to Martius battle. | And giuen to Lartius and to Martius Battaile: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.51 | How lies their battle? Know you on which side | How lies their Battell? Know you on wt side |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.56 | By all the battles wherein we have fought, | By all the Battailes wherein we haue fought, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.viii.1.1 | Alarum, as in battle. Enter Martius and Aufidius at | Alarum, as in Battaile. Enter Martius and Auffidius at |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.98 | And in the brunt of seventeen battles since | And in the brunt of seuenteene Battailes since, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.116 | And to the battle came he, where he did | And to the Battaile came he, where he did |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.127 | Of wounds two dozen odd. Battles thrice six | Of Wounds, two dozen odde: Battailes thrice six |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iv.6.1 | In puny battle slay me. | In puny Battell slay me. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.ii.11.1 | The battle continues, the Britons fly, Cymbeline is taken: then enter | The Battaile continues, the Britaines fly, Cymbeline is taken: Then enter |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.14 | Close by the battle, ditched, and walled with turf – | Close by the battell, ditch'd, & wall'd with turph, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.20 | Arise my knights o'th' battle. I create you | Arise my Knights o'th' Battell, I create you |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.389 | And your three motives to the battle, with | And your three motiues to the Battaile? with |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.470 | Of yet this scarce-cold battle, at this instant | Of yet this scarse-cold-Battaile, at this instant |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.264 | Let all the battlements their ordnance fire. | Let all the Battlements their Ordinance fire, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.105 | To bloody battles, and to bruising arms. | To bloody Battailes, and to brusing Armes. |
| 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 IV.iii.13 | Let it be seen tomorrow in the battle | Let it be seene to morrow in the Battell, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.121 | Hal, if thou see me down in the battle and | Hal, if thou see me downe in the battell, / And |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.30 | The King will bid you battle presently. | The King will bid you battell presently. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iii.1 | The King enters with his power. Alarum to the battle. | the King entereth with his power, alarum vnto the battell. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iii.1 | What is thy name that in the battle thus | What is thy name, that in battel thus |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iii.4 | And I do haunt thee in the battle thus | And I do haunt thee in the Battell thus, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.153 | an enemy's battle as thou hast done in a woman's | an enemies Battaile, as thou hast done in a Womans |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.152 | Our battle is more full of names than yours, | Our Battaile is more full of Names then yours, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.177 | In sight of both our battles we may meet, | In sight of both our Battailes, wee may meete |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.44 | A fearful battle rendered you in music. | A fearefull Battaile rendred you in Musique. |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.54 | When Crécy battle fatally was struck, | When Cressy Battell fatally was strucke, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.162 | We would not seek a battle as we are, | We would not seeke a Battaile as we are, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.9 | Each battle sees the other's umbered face. | Each Battaile sees the others vmber'd face. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.48 | And so our scene must to the battle fly; | And so our Scene must to the Battaile flye: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.132 | and arms, and heads, chopped off in a battle, shall join | and Armes, and Heads, chopt off in a Battaile, shall ioyne |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.137 | I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle, | I am afear'd, there are few dye well, that dye in a Battaile: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.282 | O God of battles, steel my soldiers' hearts; | O God of Battailes, steele my Souldiers hearts, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.12 | The English are embattled, you French peers. | The English are embattail'd, you French Peeres. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.26 | About our squares of battle, were enow | About our Squares of Battaile, were enow |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.52 | To demonstrate the life of such a battle | To demonstrate the Life of such a Battaile, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.2 | The King himself is rode to view their battle. | The King himselfe is rode to view their Battaile. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.69 | The French are bravely in their battles set, | The French are brauely in their battailes set, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.75 | Without more help, could fight this royal battle! | Without more helpe, could fight this Royall battaile. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.6 | cowardly rascals that ran from the battle ha' done this | Cowardly Rascalls that ranne from the battaile ha' done this |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.108 | But in plain shock and even play of battle, | But in plaine shock, and euen play of Battaile, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.31 | The battles of the Lord of Hosts he fought; | The Battailes of the Lord of Hosts he fought: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.129 | And rushed into the bowels of the battle. | And rusht into the Bowels of the Battaile. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.78 | In thirteen battles Salisbury o'ercame; | In thirteene Battailes, Salisbury o'recame: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.19 | This dastard, at the Battle of Patay, | This Dastard,at the battell of Poictiers, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.28 | Wilt thou yet leave the battle, boy, and fly, | Wilt thou yet leaue the Battaile, Boy, and flie, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.13 | Into the clustering battle of the French; | Into the clustring Battaile of the French: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.ii.13 | And means to give you battle presently. | And meanes to giue you battell presently. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.168 | That those which fly before the battle ends | That those which flye before the battell ends, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.1 | Alarums to the battle. Enter Warwick | Enter Warwicke. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.49 | To die in ruffian battle? Even at this sight | To die in Ruffian battell? Euen at this sight, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.iii.30 | Saint Albans battle, won by famous York, | Saint Albons battell wonne by famous Yorke, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.8 | Charged our main battle's front, and, breaking in, | Charg'd our maine Battailes Front: and breaking in, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.15 | Whom I encountered as the battles joined. | Whom I encountred as the Battels ioyn'd. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.70 | And issue forth and bid them battle straight. | And issue forth, and bid them Battaile straight. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.73 | Many a battle have I won in France, | Many a Battaile haue I wonne in France, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.11 | I saw him in the battle range about, | I saw him in the Battaile range about, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.120 | Our battles joined, and both sides fiercely fought; | Our Battailes ioyn'd, and both sides fiercely fought: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.72 | Darraign your battle, for they are at hand. | Darraigne your battell, for they are at hand. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.1 | This battle fares like to the morning's war, | This battell fares like to the mornings Warre, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.17 | Have chid me from the battle, swearing both | Haue chid me from the Battell: Swearing both, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.74 | Whiles lions war and battle for their dens, | Whiles Lyons Warre, and battaile for their Dennes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.44 | See who it is; and, now the battle's ended, | See who it is. / And now the Battailes ended, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.235 | Shall cross the seas and bid false Edward battle; | Shall crosse the Seas, and bid false Edward battaile: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.4 | What! Loss of some pitched battle against Warwick? | What losse of some pitcht battell / Against Warwicke? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.63 | Will issue out again and bid us battle; | Will issue out againe, and bid vs battaile; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.77 | Of force enough to bid his brother battle; | Of force enough to bid his Brother Battaile: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.111 | And bid thee battle, Edward, if thou darest. | And bid thee Battaile, Edward, if thou dar'st. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.66 | Here pitch our battle; hence we will not budge. | Here pitch our Battaile, hence we will not budge. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.38 | Have you climbed up to walls and battlements, | Haue you climb'd vp to Walles and Battlements, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.22 | The noise of battle hurtled in the air, | The noise of Battell hurtled in the Ayre: |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.4 | It proves not so; their battles are at hand; | It proues not so: their battailes are at hand, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.14 | Their bloody sign of battle is hung out, | Their bloody signe of Battell is hung out, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.16 | Octavius, lead your battle softly on | Octauius, leade your Battaile softly on |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.23 | Mark Antony, shall we give sign of battle? | Mark Antony, shall we giue signe of Battaile? |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.75 | Upon one battle all our liberties. | Vpon one Battell all our Liberties. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.97 | If we do lose this battle, then is this | If we do lose this Battaile, then is this |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.107.2 | Then, if we lose this battle, | Then, if we loose this Battaile, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.108 | Labeo and Flavius, set our battles on. | Labio and Flauio set our Battailes on: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.186 | Lod'wick, thou know'st not how to draw a battle: | Lodwick thou knowst not how to drawe a battell, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.97 | Shall pitch your battles on the lower hand; | Shall pitch your battailes on the lower hand, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.117.1 | A table and provisions brought in; the battle heard afar off | The battell hard a farre off. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.121 | That with the sulphur battles of your rage | That with the sulphur battels of your rage, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.187 | And bid them battle ere they range too far. | And bid them battaile ere they rainge to farre, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.44 | He means to bid us battle presently. | He meanes to byd vs battaile presently, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.106 | So end the battle when we meet today: | So end the battaile when we meet to daie, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.137 | Father, range your battles, prate no more. | Father range your battailes, prate no more, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.172 | And, Ned, because this battle is the first | And Ned, because this battell is the first, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.219 | Then thus our steeled battles shall be ranged: | Then this our steelde Battailes shall be rainged, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.225 | For the main battles, I will guide myself, | For the mayne battells I will guide my selfe, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.69 | And flintstones rise and break the battle 'ray, | and flint stones rise and breake the battell ray: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.76 | Should ever rise and break the battle 'ray, | Should euer rise and breake the battaile ray, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.14 | His party stronger battled than our whole. | His partie stronger battaild then our whole: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.33 | The fatal cross-bows, and the battle there | The fatall Crosbowes, and the battaile there, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.31 | Right as our forces are embattled. | Right as our forces are imbatteled, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.136 | Here stood a battle of ten thousand horse; | Heere stood a battaile of ten tstousand horse, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.150 | The battles join, and, when we could no more | The battailes ioyne, and when we could no more, |
| King John | KJ II.i.374 | And stand securely on their battlements | And stand securely on their battelments, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.78 | Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set. | Like Heralds 'twixt two dreadfull battailes set: |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.23 | Your high-engendered battles 'gainst a head | Your high-engender'd Battailes, 'gainst a head |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.209 | Do you hear aught, sir, of a battle toward? | Do you heare ought (Sir) of a Battell toward. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.97 | Or well or ill, as this day's battle's fought. | |
| King Lear | KL V.i.18 | I had rather lose the battle than that sister | |
| King Lear | KL V.i.40 | Before you fight the battle, ope this letter. | Before you fight the Battaile, ope this Letter: |
| King Lear | KL V.i.63 | His countenance for the battle, which being done, | His countenance for the Battaile, which being done, |
| King Lear | KL V.i.67 | The battle done and they within our power, | The Battaile done, and they within our power, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.i.4 | When the battle's lost and won. | When the Battaile's lost, and wonne. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.23 | And fixed his head upon our battlements. | And fix'd his Head vpon our Battlements. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.38 | Under my battlements. Come, you spirits | Vnder my Battlements. Come you Spirits, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.4 | Lead our first battle. Worthy Macduff and we | Leade our first Battell. Worthy Macduffe, and wee |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.240 | too strongly embattled against me. What say you to't, | too strongly embattaild against me: what say you too't, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.44 | The Battle with the Centaurs, ‘ to be sung | The battell with the Centaurs to be sung |
| Othello | Oth I.i.23 | Nor the division of a battle knows | Nor the deuision of a Battaile knowes |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.87 | More than pertains to feats of broil and battle; | More then pertaines to Feats of Broiles, and Battaile, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.129 | From year to year – the battles, sieges, fortunes | From yeare to yeare: the Battaile, Sieges, Fortune, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.6 | A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements. | A fuller blast ne're shooke our Battlements: |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.92 | Besides I say, and will in battle prove | Besides I say, and will in battaile proue, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.92 | This feast of battle with mine adversary. | This Feast of Battell, with mine Aduersarie |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.52 | That from this castle's tattered battlements | That from this Castles tatter'd Battlements |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.129 | In Margaret's battle at Saint Alban's slain? | In Margarets Battaile, at Saint Albons, slaine? |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.189 | Which in the day of battle tire thee more | Which in the day of Battell tyre thee more |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.536 | A royal battle might be won and lost. | A Royall batteil might be wonne and lost: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.24 | I'll draw the form and model of our battle, | Ile draw the Forme and Modell of our Battaile, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.89 | Prepare thy battle early in the morning | Prepare thy Battell early in the Morning, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.135 | Tomorrow in the battle think on me, | To morrow in the battell thinke on me, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.139 | Good angels guard thy battle! Live, and flourish! | Good Angels guard thy battell, Liue and Flourish. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.148 | And in a bloody battle end thy days! | And in a bloody Battell end thy dayes. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.163 | Tomorrow in the battle think on me, | To morrow in the Battaile, thinke on me, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.170 | O, in the battle think on Buckingham, | O, in the Battaile think on Buckingham, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.293 | And thus my battle shall be ordered: | And thus my Battell shal be ordred. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.300 | In the main battle, whose puissance on either side | In the maine Battell, whose puissance on either side |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.347 | After the battle let George Stanley die. | After the battaile, let George Stanley dye. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.78 | From off the battlements of any tower, | From of the Battlements of any Tower, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.203 | Have I not in a pitched battle heard | Haue I not in a pitched battell heard |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.43 | Why do fond men expose themselves to battle, | Why do fond men expose themselues to Battell, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.69 | Successful in the battles that he fights, | Successefull in the Battailes that he fights, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.168 | And reared aloft the bloody battle-axe, | And rear'd aloft the bloody Battleaxe, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.3 | That find such cruel battle here within? | That finde such cruell battell here within? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.4 | To see the battle. Hector, whose patience | To see the battell: Hector whose pacience, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.34 | battle and struck him down, the disdain and shame | battell and stroke him downe, the disdaind & shame |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.26 | As doth a battle, when they charge on heaps | As doth a battaile, when they charge on heapes |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.87 | A maiden battle, then? – O, I perceive you. | A maiden battaile then? O I perceiue you. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.35 | From my great purpose in tomorrow's battle. | From my great purpose in to morrowes battell: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.1.1.1 | Cornets. A battle struck within; then a retreat. | Cornets. A Battaile strooke withim: Then a Retrait: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.29 | I heard them reported in the battle to be the | I heard them reported in the Battaile, to be the |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.308 | Yet in the field to strike a battle for her; | Yet in the Feild to strike a battle for her; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.134 | Are making battle, thus like knights appointed, | Are making Battaile, thus like Knights appointed, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.62.3 | burst of a battle, whereupon they all rise and bow to | burst of a Battaile, whereupon they all rise and bow to |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.166 | If well inspired, this battle shall confound | If well inspird, this Battaile shal confound |