| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.70 | The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good | The webbe of our life, is of a mingled yarne, good |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.43 | And the ebbed man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love, | And the ebb'd man, / Ne're lou'd, till ne're worth loue, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.21 | The more it promises; as it ebbs, the seedsman | The more it promises: as it ebbes, the Seedsman |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.177 | I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, | I will be trebble-sinewed, hearted, breath'd, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.73 | Till that the weary very means do ebb? | Till that the wearie verie meanes do ebbe. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.163 | Turning again toward childish treble, pipes | Turning againe toward childish trebble pipes, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.58 | Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach | Then let the Pibbles on the hungry beach |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.227 | Shards, flints, and pebbles should be thrown on her. | Shardes, Flints, and Peebles, should be throwne on her: |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.243 | Fall ten times double on that cursed head | Fall ten times trebble, on that cursed head |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.31 | the fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and | the fortune of vs that are the Moones men, doeth ebbe and |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.36 | and spent with crying ‘ Bring in!’, now in as low an ebb | and spent with crying, Bring in: now, in as low an ebbe |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.19 | for it is a low ebb of linen with thee when thou keepest | for it is a low ebbe of Linnen with thee, when thou kept'st |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.125 | The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between, | The Riuer hath thrice flow'd, no ebbe betweene: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.129 | England shall double gild his treble guilt; | England, shall double gill'd, his trebble guilt. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.131 | Now doth it turn, and ebb back to the sea, | Now doth it turne, and ebbe backe to the Sea, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.80 | Have filled their pockets full of pebble-stones | Haue fill'd their Pockets full of peeble stones; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.56 | And swell so much the higher by their ebb. | And swell so much the higher, by their ebbe. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.56 | shot, delivered such a shower of pebbles that I was fain | shot, deliuer'd such a showre of Pibbles, that I was faine |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.52 | The spoil of whom will be a treble gain. | The spoyle of whome wiil be a trebble game, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.21 | That on th' unnumbered idle pebble chafes | That on th'vnnumbred idle Pebble chafes |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.19.1 | That ebb and flow by the moon. | That ebbe and flow by th'Moone. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.214 | The sea will ebb and flow, heaven show his face; | The Sea will ebbe and flow, heauen will shew his face: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.120 | That twofold balls and treble sceptres carry. | That two-fold Balles, and trebble Scepters carry. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.184 | Double and treble admonition, and still forfeit | Double, and trebble admonition, and still forfeite |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.257 | Twice treble shame on Angelo, | Twice trebble shame on Angelo, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.32 | A pebble. | A Peeble. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.452 | Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on | Neu'r keepes retyring ebbe, but keepes due on |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.455 | Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, | Shall neu'r looke backe, neu'r ebbe to humble Loue, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.11 | Why, our battalia trebles that account; | Why our Battalia trebbles that account: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.133 | Do ebb and flow with tears. The bark thy body is, | Do ebbe and flow with teares, the Barke thy body is |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.436 | Who with mine eyes, never since at ebb, beheld | Who, with mine eyes (neuer since at ebbe) beheld |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.225.1 | Trebles thee o'er. | Trebbles thee o're. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.226.2 | Do so. To ebb | Do so: to ebbe |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.230 | You more invest it! Ebbing men, indeed, | You more inuest it: ebbing men, indeed |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.35 | Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him | Doe chase the ebbing-Neptune, and doe flie him |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.270 | That could control the moon, make flows and ebbs, | That could controle the Moone; make flowes, and ebs, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.146 | Prompted you in the ebb of your estate | Prompted you in the ebbe of your estate, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.129 | His pettish lunes, his ebbs, his flows, as if | His pettish lines, his ebs, his flowes, as if |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.9 | cur shed one tear. He is a stone, a very pebble-stone, | Curre shedde one teare: he is a stone, a very pibble stone, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.112 | Like wrinkled pebbles in a glassy stream, | Like wrinckled peobles in a glasse streame |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.163 | See what our general of ebbs and flows | See what our Generall of Ebbs and Flowes |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.102 | Flowed with her beauty once. 'Tis shrewdly ebbed | Flow'd with her Beautie once; 'tis shrewdly ebb'd, |