| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.33.1 | What it is worth embraced. | what it is worth imbrac'd |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.56 | He knows that you embraced not Antony | He knowes that you embrace not Anthony |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.70 | Which though myself would gladly have embraced, | Which though my selfe would gladly haue imbrac'd, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.7 | You'll see your Rome embraced with fire before | You'l see your Rome embrac'd with fire, before |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.139 | unknown, without seeking find, and be embraced | vnknown, without seeking finde, and bee embrac'd |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.437 | unknown, without seeking find, and be embraced | vnknown, without seeking finde, and bee embrac'd |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.78 | Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced, | Lord Hamlet with his doublet all vnbrac'd, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.48 | And, thus unbraced, Casca, as you see, | And thus vnbraced, Caska, as you see, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.262 | To walk unbraced and suck up the humours | To walke vnbraced, and sucke vp the humours |
| King John | KJ V.ii.169 | And even at hand a drum is ready braced | And euen at hand, a drumme is readie brac'd, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.40 | Your brother and his lover have embraced. | Your brother, and his louer haue embrac'd; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.16 | Hugged and embraced by the strumpet wind. | Hudg'd and embraced by the strumpet winde: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.viii.52 | And quicken his embraced heaviness | And quicken his embraced heauinesse |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.109 | As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair, | As doubtfull thoughts, and rash imbrac'd despaire: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.68 | encounter, after we had embraced, kissed, protested, | encounter, after we had embrast, kist, protested, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.229 | What cannot be eschewed must be embraced. | ioy, what cannot be eschew'd, must be embrac'd. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.251 | so near with their lips that their breaths embraced | so neere with their lippes, that their breathes embrac'd |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.29 | The means that heavens yield must be embraced | |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.i.30 | and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed | and embrac'd as it were from the ends of opposed |