| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.105 | town is beseeched, and the trumpet call us to the breach, | Town is beseech'd: and the Trumpet call vs to the breech, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.144 | Though in this place most master wear no breeches, | Though in this place most Master weare no Breeches, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.24 | And ne'er have stolen the breech from Lancaster. | And ne're haue stolne the Breech from Lancaster. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.31 | Short blistered breeches, and those types of travel, | Short blistred Breeches, and those types of Trauell; |
| King John | KJ III.i.201.2 | Your breeches best may carry them. | Your breeches best may carry them. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.170 | rod and puttest down thine own breeches, | rod, and put'st downe thine owne breeches, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.113 | Unmannerly breeched with gore. Who could refrain, | Vnmannerly breech'd with gore: who could refraine, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.85 | His breeches cost him but a crown; | His Breeches cost him but a Crowne, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.14 | What, Patchbreech, I say! | What Patch-breech, I say. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.18 | I am no breeching scholar in the schools, | Iam no breeching scholler in the schooles, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.44 | an old jerkin; a pair of old breeches thrice turned; a | an old ierkin, a paire of old breeches thrice turn'd; a |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.49 | What fashion, madam, shall I make your breeches? | What fashion (Madam) shall I make your breeches? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.47.1 | Blow wind i'th' breech on's! | blow wind i'th breech on's, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.110 | The birch upon the breeches of the small ones, | The Birch upon the breeches of the small ones, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.155 | Twenty-three years, and saw myself unbreeched, | Twentie three yeeres, and saw my selfe vn-breech'd, |