| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.72 | Who shuns thy love shuns all his love in me. | Who shuns thy loue, shuns all his loue in mee. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.35 | Who doth ambition shun, | Who doth ambition shunne, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.32 | As children from a bear, the Volsces shunning him. | (As children from a Beare) the Volces shunning him: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.44 | The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budge | The Mouse ne're shunn'd the Cat, as they did budge |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.110 | With shunless destiny; aidless came off, | With shunlesse destinie: aydelesse came off, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.42 | rather shunned to go even with what I heard than in | rather shun'd to go euen with what I heard, then in |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.27 | Like beasts which you shun beastly, and may save | Like beasts, which you shun beastly, and may saue |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.163 | Nor, as we are, we say we will not shun it. | Nor as we are, we say we will not shun it: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.34 | Let him shun castles; | Let him shun Castles, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.66 | Let him shun castles; | Let him shunne Castles, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.24 | And were I strong, I would not shun their fury. | And were I strong, I would not shunne their furie. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.13 | And weak we are and cannot shun pursuit. | And weake we are, and cannot shun pursuite. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.114 | That I advise your shunning. | That I aduice your shunning. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.143 | If we do fear, how can we shun it? | If we do feare, how can we shun it? |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.158 | Nor half a halfpenny to shun grim death, | Nor halfe a halfepenie to shun grim death, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.9 | The lesser is scarce felt. Thou'dst shun a bear; | The lesser is scarce felt. Thou'dst shun a Beare, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.21 | O, that way madness lies; let me shun that; | O that way madnesse lies, let me shun that: |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.208 | Shunned my abhorred society; but then finding | |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.12 | For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun, | For him thou labourst by thy flight to shun, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.57 | unshunned consequence, it must be so. Art going to | vnshun'd consequence, it must be so. Art going to |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.14 | father and mother. Thus when I shun Scylla your father, | father and mother: thus when I shun Scilla your father, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.220 | Since therein she doth evitate and shun | Since therein she doth euitate and shun |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.142 | If not, shun me, and I will spare your haunts. | If not, shun me and I will spare your haunts. |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.67 | So opposite to marriage that she shunned | So opposite to Marriage, that she shun'd |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.272 | 'Tis destiny unshunnable, like death: | 'Tis destiny vnshunnable, like death: |
| Pericles | Per I.i.137 | Will shun no course to keep them from the light. | Will shew no course to keepe them from the light: |
| Pericles | Per I.i.143 | By flight I'll shun the danger which I fear. | By flight, Ile shun the danger which I feare. |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.6 | Here pleasures court mine eyes, and mine eyes shun them, | Here pleasures court mine eies, and mine eies shun them, |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.121 | Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both. | Who shuns not to breake one, will cracke both. |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.18 | To shun the danger that his soul divines. | To shun the danger that his Soule diuines. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.154 | Unmeritable shuns your high request. | Vnmeritable, shunnes your high request. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.130 | And gladly shunned who gladly fled from me. | And gladly shunn'd, who gladly fled from me. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.27 | Hence comes it that your kindred shuns your house, | Hence comes it, that your kindred shuns your house |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.116 | Scarcity and want shall shun you, | Scarcity and want shall shun you, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.ii.14 | With his disease of all-shunned poverty, | With his disease, of all shunn'd pouerty, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.144 | You cannot shun yourself. | You cannot shun your selfe. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.78 | Thus have I shunned the fire for fear of burning, | Thus haue I shund the fire, for feare of burning, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.30 | A rashness that I ever yet have shunned – | (A rashnesse that I euer yet haue shun'd) |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.10.1 | With dread sights it may shun. | With dread sights, it may shun. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.422 | Where I arrive, and my approach be shunned, | Where I arriue, and my approch be shun'd, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.105 | You hear my spell is lawful. (To Leontes) Do not shun her | You heare my Spell is lawfull: doe not shun her, |