| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.113 | Whoever charges on his forward breast, | Who euer charges on his forward brest |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.8 | The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper, | The Buckles on his brest, reneages all temper, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.308 | Dost thou not see my baby at my breast, | Dost thou not see my Baby at my breast, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.346.2 | Here, on her breast, | Heere on her brest, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.153 | And I think if my breast had not been made of faith, and my heart of steel, | And I thinke, if my brest had not beene made of faith, and my heart of steele, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.41 | Than gilt his trophy. The breasts of Hecuba, | Then gilt his Trophe. The brests of Hecuba |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.120.1 | To ease his breast with panting. | To ease his Brest with panting. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.257 | What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent, | What his Brest forges, that his Tongue must vent, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.102 | Drawn tuns of blood out of thy country's breast, | Drawne Tunnes of Blood out of thy Countries brest, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.81 | In Volscian breasts. That we have been familiar, | In Volcean brests. That we haue beene familiar, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.37 | To th' madding of her lord. On her left breast | To'th'madding of her Lord. On her left brest |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.134 | For further satisfying, under her breast – | For further satisfying, vnder her Breast |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.109 | This tablet lay upon his breast, wherein | This Tablet lay vpon his Brest, wherein |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.4 | Whose rags shamed gilded arms, whose naked breast | Whose ragges, sham'd gilded Armes, whose naked brest |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.188 | Such love must needs be treason in my breast: | Such Loue, must needs be Treason in my brest: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.253 | 'Tis the next way to turn tailor, or be redbreast | 'Tis the next way to turne Taylor, or be Red-brest |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.43 | You conjure from the breast of civil peace | You coniure from the Brest of Ciuill Peace, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.122 | My father from the breast of Bolingbroke, | My Father from the Breast of Bullingbrooke; |
| Henry V | H5 II.chorus.4 | Reigns solely in the breast of every man. | Reignes solely in the breast of euery man. |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.13 | Breasting the lofty surge. O, do but think | Bresting the loftie Surge. O, doe but thinke |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vi.17 | Tarry, sweet soul, for mine, then fly abreast, | Tarry (sweet soule) for mine, then flye a-brest: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.10 | My breast I'll burst with straining of my courage, | My brest Ile burst with straining of my courage, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.118 | Well, I will lock his counsel in my breast; | Well, I will locke his Councell in my Brest, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.39 | And that engenders thunder in his breast | And that engenders Thunder in his breast, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.99 | Undaunted spirit in a dying breast! | Vndaunted spirit in a dying breast, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.51 | Which thou thyself hast given her woeful breast. | Which thou thy selfe hast giuen her wofull Brest. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.87 | And doth beget new courage in our breasts. | And doth beget new Courage in our Breasts. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.28 | Thy mother gave thee when thou sucked'st her breast | Thy mother gaue thee when thou suck'st her brest, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.84 | I feel such sharp dissension in my breast, | I feele such sharpe dissention in my breast, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.344 | Who, cherished in your breasts, will sting your hearts. | Who cherisht in your breasts, will sting your hearts. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.43 | By crying comfort from a hollow breast, | By crying comfort from a hollow breast, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.232 | What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! | What stronger Brest-plate then a heart vntainted? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.5 | Here may his head lie on my throbbing breast; | Heere may his head lye on my throbbing brest: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.96 | This breast from harbouring foul deceitful thoughts. | This breast from harbouring foule deceitfull thoughts. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.7 | Lord Clifford, and Lord Stafford, all abreast, | Lord Clifford and Lord Stafford all a-brest |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.83 | Is kindling coals that fires all my breast, | Is kindling coales that fires all my brest, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.54 | This may plant courage in their quailing breasts; | This may plant courage in their quailing breasts, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.11 | Both tugging to be victors, breast to breast, | Both tugging to be Victors, brest to brest: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.117 | My sighing breast shall be thy funeral bell; | My sighing brest, shall be thy Funerall bell; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.30 | I stabbed your fathers' bosoms; split my breast. | I stab'd your Fathers bosomes; Split my brest. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.37 | Her sighs will make a battery in his breast; | Her sighes will make a batt'ry in his brest, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.41 | Infuse his breast with magnanimity, | Infuse his Breast with Magnanimitie, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.27 | My breast can better brook thy dagger's point | My brest can better brooke thy Daggers point, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.205 | Another spread on's breast, mounting his eyes, | Another spread on's breast, mounting his eyes, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.184 | The region of my breast; which forced such way | The region of my Breast, which forc'd such way, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.117 | Strikes his breast hard, and anon he casts | Strikes his brest hard, and anon, he casts |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.200 | Take notice, lords, he has a loyal breast, | Take notice Lords, he ha's a Loyall brest, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.49 | By means whereof this breast of mine hath buried | By meanes whereof, this Brest of mine hath buried |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.51 | The breast of heaven, I did present myself | The Brest of Heauen, I did present my selfe |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.100 | And here my naked breast; within, a heart | And heere my naked Breast: Within, a Heart |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.45 | Hot courage is engendered in my breast, | Hot courage is engendred in my brest, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.121 | Against my breast, and burns my heart within. | Against my brest and burnes my hart within, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.29 | How gently had we thought to touch thy breast | How gently had we thought to touch thy brest, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.180 | As with this armour I impall thy breast, | As with this armour I impall thy breast, |
| King John | KJ II.i.113 | In any breast of strong authority | In any beast of strong authoritie, |
| King John | KJ III.i.21 | What means that hand upon that breast of thine? | What meanes that hand vpon that breast of thine? |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.73 | Does show the mood of a much troubled breast, | Do shew the mood of a much troubled brest, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.152 | A yielding 'gainst some reason in my breast, | A yeelding 'gainst some reason in my brest, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.171 | And where my liege's? All about the breast. | And where my Liedges? all about the brest: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.183 | A gait, a state, a brow, a breast, a waist, | a gate, a state, a brow, a brest, a waste, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.223 | Kisses the base ground with obedient breast? | Kisses the base ground with obedient breast? |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.45 | The effect and it. Come to my woman's breasts | Th' effect, and hit. Come to my Womans Brests, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.113 | Have banished me from Scotland. O my breast, | Hath banish'd me from Scotland. O my Brest, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.197.1 | Due to some single breast? | Due to some single brest? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.249.2 | Ay, his breast, | I, his brest, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.299 | And you must cut this flesh from off his breast, | And you must cut this flesh from off his breast, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.152 | To pluck this crawling serpent from my breast! | To plucke this crawling serpent from my brest. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.146 | He bravely broached his boiling bloody breast. | He brauely broacht his boiling bloudy breast, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.336 | Come blade, my breast imbrue. | Come blade, my brest imbrue: |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.177 | Swords out, and tilting one at others' breasts | Swords out, and tilting one at others breastes, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.137 | Sometimes intrude not? Who has a breast so pure, | Sometimes intrude not? Who ha's that breast so pure, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.268 | Man but a rush against Othello's breast, | Man but a Rush against Othello's brest, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.21 | That have inflamed desire in my breast | That haue enflamde desire in my breast, |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.34 | Joy and all comfort in your sacred breast! | Ioy and all comfort in your sacred brest. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.3 | Made louder by the o'erfed breast | Made louder by the orefed breast, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.181 | Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast. | Is a bold spirit, in a loyall brest. |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.34 | Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. | Is pale cold cowardice in noble brests: |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.48 | That it may enter butcher Mowbray's breast! | That it may enter butcher Mowbrayes brest: |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.96 | Go I to fight. Truth hath a quiet breast. | Go I to fight: Truth, hath a quiet brest. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.96 | Thy sorrow in my breast. Come, ladies, go | Thy sorrow in my breast. Come Ladies goe, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.58 | I have a thousand spirits in one breast | |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.101 | His words come from his mouth, ours from our breast. | His words come from his mouth, ours from our brest. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.40 | Advance thy halberd higher than my breast, | Aduance thy Halbert higher then my brest, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.95 | The which thou once didst bend against her breast, | The which, thou once didd'st bend against her brest, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.175 | Which if thou please to hide in this true breast | Which if thou please to hide in this true brest, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.179 | He lays his breast open. She offers at it with his sword | He layes his brest open, she offers at withhis sword. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.204 | Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart. | Euen so thy Brest incloseth my poore heart: |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.3 | Why do you weep so oft, and beat your breast, | Why do weepe so oft? And beate your Brest? |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.107 | God bless thee, and put meekness in thy breast, | God blesse thee, and put meeknes in thy breast, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.186 | Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, | Griefes of mine owne lie heauie in my breast, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.110 | Of a despised life, closed in my breast, | Of a despised life clos'd in my brest: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.124 | Come to thy heart as that within my breast! | Come to thy heart, as that within my brest. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.186 | Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast! | Sleepe dwell vpon thine eyes, peace in thy brest. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.159 | With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast; | With Peircing steele at bold Mercutio's breast, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.53 | God save the mark! – here on his manly breast. | God saue the marke, here on his manly brest, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.288 | Did make wolves howl, and penetrate the breasts | Did make wolues howle, and penetrate the breasts |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.118 | Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted | Whose enmity he flung aside: and brested |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.48 | Whose heads stood in their breasts? Which now we find | Whose heads stood in their brests? which now we finde |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.179 | Whose womb unmeasurable and infinite breast | Whose wombe vnmeasureable, and infinite brest |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.514 | No, my most worthy master, in whose breast | No my most worthy Master, in whose brest |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.8 | Is left to tyrannize upon my breast, | Is left to tirranize vppon my breast. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.11 | Then thus (striking his breast) I thump it down. | Then thus I thumpe it downe. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.162 | Sung thee asleep, his loving breast thy pillow; | Sung thee asleepe, his Louing Brest, thy Pillow: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.178 | Set him breast-deep in earth and famish him; | Set him brest deepe in earth, and famish him: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.36 | Upon her patient breast, making their way | Vpon her patient brest, making their way |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.140 | As if his foot were on brave Hector's breast, | As if his foote were on braue Hectors brest, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.155 | Where one but goes abreast. Keep then the path, | Where one but goes a breast, keepe then the path: |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.18 | By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast. | By my troth the foole has an excellent breast. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.122 | Live you the marble-breasted tyrant still. | Liue you the Marble-brested Tirant still. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.19 | malcontent; to relish a love-song, like a robin-redbreast; | Male-content: to rellish a Loue-song, like a Robin-red-breast: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.7 | O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, | O thou that dost inhabit in my brest, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.67 | And put between my breasts – O, then but beginning | And put betweene my breasts, oh (then but beginning |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.46 | The circuit of my breast any gross stuff | The circuit of my breast, any grosse stuffe |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iv.26 | To put my breast against; I shall sleep like a top else. | to put my breast / Against. I shall sleepe like a Top else. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.127 | And by and by outbreasted, that the sense | And by and by out breasted, that the sence |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.98 | Starred most unluckily, is from my breast – | (Star'd most vnluckily) is from my breast |