| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.144 | Where hope is coldest and despair most fits. | Where hope is coldest, and despaire most shifts. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.36 | You have made shift to run into't, boots and spurs | You haue made shift to run into't, bootes and spurres |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.63 | And palter in the shifts of lowness, who | And palter in the shifts of lownes, who |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.152 | And should we shift estates, yours would be mine. | And should we shift estates, yours would be mine. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.158 | And so he plays his part; the sixth age shifts | And so he playes his part. The sixt age shifts |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.70 | cleanliest shift is to kiss. | cleanliest shift is to kisse. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.190 | I see a man here needs not live by shifts, | I see a man heere needs not liue by shifts, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.168 | O mistress, mistress, shift and save yourself! | Oh Mistris, Mistris, shift and saue your selfe, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iii.1 | Sir, I would advise you to shift a shirt; the | Sir, I would aduise you to shift a Shirt; the |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iii.5 | If my shirt were bloody, then to shift it. Have I hurt | If my Shirt were bloody, then to shift it. / Haue I hurt |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.54 | Continue where he is: to shift his being | Continue where he is: To shift his being, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.156 | Hic et ubique? Then we'll shift our ground. | Hic & vbique? Then wee'l shift for grownd, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.155 | Let it alone; I'll make other shift – you'll be a | Let it alone, Ile make other shift: you'l be a |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.21 | because the rest of thy low countries have made a shift | because the rest of thy Low Countries, haue made a shift |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.22 | shift me – | shift me. |
| Henry V | H5 II.chorus.42 | Unto Southampton do we shift our scene. | Vnto Southampton do we shift our Scene. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.75 | And now there rests no other shift but this: | And now there rests no other shift but this, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.107 | My shame will not be shifted with my sheet. | My shame will not be shifted with my Sheet: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.30 | make shift for one, and so God's curse light upon you | make shift for one, and so Gods Cursse light vppon you |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.108 | When he was made a shriver, 'twas for shift. | When hee was made a Shriuer, 'twas for shift. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.76 | His lame unpolished shifts are come to light; | His lame vnpolisht shifts are come to light, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.172 | All shifts were tried, both for defence and hurt; | All shifts were tried both for defence and hurt, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.23 | And, like a shifted wind unto a sail, | And like a shifted winde vnto a saile, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.7 | I'll find a thousand shifts to get away. | Ile finde a thousand shifts to get away; |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.184 | Rather than die at once – taught me to shift | Rather then die at once) taught me to shift |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.38 | made a shift to cast him. | made a Shift to cast him. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.142 | But shift away. There's warrant in that theft | But shift away: there's warrant in that Theft, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.24 | For thy complexion shifts to strange effects, | For thy complexion shifts to strange effects, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.85 | that ever fell, I hope I shall make shift to go without him. | that euer fell, I hope I shall make shift to goe without him. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.31 | shift. | shift. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.416 | I followed fast, but faster he did fly, | I followed fast, but faster he did flye; shifting places. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.423 | Thou runnest before me, shifting every place, | Thou runst before me, shifting euery place, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.79 | for a shift. | for a shift. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.137 | giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast shifted out | giddie with the fashion too that thou hast shifted out |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.78 | Cassio came hither. I shifted him away | Cassio came hither. I shifted him away, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.2 | to take away? He shift a trencher? He scrape a trencher! | to take away? He shift a Trencher? he scrape a Trencher? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.124 | An onion will do well for such a shift, | An Onion wil do well for such a shift, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.46 | Am I your bird? I mean to shift my bush, | Am I your Bird, I meane to shift my bush, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.256 | Every man shift for all the rest, and let no | Euery man shift for all the rest, and let / No |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.87 | When Fortune in her shift and change of mood | When Fortune in her shift and change of mood |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.71 | Cursed be that heart that forced us to this shift! | Curst be that hart that forc'st vs to that shift: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.175 | For it is you that puts us to our shifts. | For it is you that puts vs to our shifts: |