| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.126 | Where great additions swell's, and virtue none, | Where great additions swell's, and vertue none, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.215 | Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, | Swell with the touches of those Flower-soft hands, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.20 | Or foison follow. The higher Nilus swells, | Or Foizon follow. The higher Nilus swels, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.49 | That stands upon the swell at the full of tide, | That stands vpon the Swell at the full of Tide: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.344 | By external swelling: but she looks like sleep, | By externall swelling: but she lookes like sleepe, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.71 | And Cydnus swelled above the banks, or for | And Sidnus swell'd aboue the Bankes, or for |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.50 | Which swelled so much that it did almost stretch | Which swell'd so much, that it did almost stretch |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.162 | For beauty, that made barren the swelled boast | For Beauty, that made barren the swell'd boast |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.195 | Which thou pourest down from these swelling heavens | Which thou powr'st down from these swelling Heauens, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.63 | As with the tide swelled up unto his height, | As with the Tyde, swell'd vp vnto his height, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.171 | Or swell my thoughts to any strain of pride, | Or swell my Thoughts, to any straine of Pride, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.53 | So surfeit-swelled, so old, and so profane, | So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so prophane: |
| Henry V | H5 I.chorus.4 | And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! | And Monarchs to behold the swelling Scene. |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.89 | Let floods o'erswell, and fiends for food howl on! | Let floods ore-swell, and fiends for food howle on. |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.14 | Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock. | Why heere hee comes, swelling like a Turky-cock. |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.15 | 'Tis no matter for his swellings nor his turkey-cocks. | 'Tis no matter for his swellings, nor his Turky-cocks. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.26 | From envious malice of thy swelling heart. | From enuious mallice of thy swelling heart. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.42 | My mildness hath allayed their swelling griefs, | My mildnesse hath allay'd their swelling griefes, |
| 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 III.i.164 | They swell, and grow as terrible as storms. | They swell and grow, as terrible as stormes. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.7 | Th' ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam, | Th'ambitious Ocean swell, and rage, and foame, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.159 | Fill, Lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup; | Fill Lucius, till the Wine ore-swell the Cup: |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.67 | Why now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! | Why now blow winde, swell Billow, / And swimme Barke: |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.51 | As well can master our affections | Aswell can master our affections, |
| King John | KJ II.i.74 | Did never float upon the swelling tide | Did neuer flote vpon the swelling tide, |
| King John | KJ II.i.337 | Shall leave his native channel and o'erswell, | Shall leaue his natiue channell, and ore-swell |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.147 | The unowed interest of proud-swelling state. | The vn-owed interest of proud swelling State: |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.54 | O, how this mother swells up toward my heart! | Oh how this Mother swels vp toward my heart! |
| King Lear | KL III.i.6 | Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main, | Or swell the curled Waters 'boue the Maine, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.34 | Do but behold the tears that swell in me, | Do but behold the teares that swell in me, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.28 | Discomfort swells. Mark, King of Scotland, mark! | Discomfort swells: Marke King of Scotland, marke, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.127 | As happy prologues to the swelling Act | As happy Prologues to the swelling Act |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.186 | I pray she may, as well for the encouragement of the | I pray shee may; aswell for the encouragement of the |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.6 | And in my heart the strong and swelling evil | And in my heart the strong and swelling euill |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.124 | By something showing a more swelling port | By something shewing a more swelling port |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.14 | death that I abhor, for the water swells a man, and what | a death that I abhorre: for the water swelles a man; and what |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.15 | a thing should I have been when I had been swelled! | a thing should I haue beene, when I had beene swel'd? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.53 | Was wont to swell, like round and orient pearls, | Was wont to swell like round and orient pearles; |
| Othello | Oth II.i.78 | And swell his sail with thine own powerful breath, | And swell his Saile with thine owne powrefull breath, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.51 | Three else of Cyprus, noble swelling spirits – | Three else of Cyprus, Noble swelling Spirites, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.446 | To tyrannous hate! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, | To tyrannous Hate. Swell bosome with thy fraught, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.201 | The swelling difference of your settled hate. | The swelling difference of your setled hate: |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.109 | So high above his limits swells the rage | So high, aboue his Limits, swells the Rage |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.140 | Swellest thou, proud heart? I'll give thee scope to beat, | Swell'st thou prowd heart? Ile giue thee scope to beat, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.297 | That swells with silence in the tortured soul. | That swells with silence in the tortur'd Soule. |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.52 | Between these swelling, wrong-incensed peers. | Betweene these swelling wrong incensed Peeres. |
| Richard III | R3 II.iii.44 | The water swell before a boisterous storm. | The Water swell before a boyst'rous storme: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.73 | As are the swelling Adriatic seas. | As are the swelling Adriaticke seas. |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.80 | Begins to swell, and the approaching tide | Begins to swell, and the approching tide |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.103 | And, not to swell our spirit, | And not to swell our Spirit, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.82 | Why, thy verse swells with stuff so fine and smooth | Why thy Verse swels with stuffe so fine and smooth, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.156 | Here lurks no treason, here no envy swells, | Heere lurks no Treason, heere no enuie swels, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.101 | Ten thousand swelling toads, as many urchins, | Ten thousand swelling Toades, as many Vrchins, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.138 | The ocean, swells not so as Aaron storms. | The Ocean swells not so at Aaron stormes: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.13 | The venomous malice of my swelling heart. | The Venemous Mallice of my swelling heart. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.269 | blow – unless it swell past hiding, and then it's past | blow, vnlesse it swell past hiding, and then it's past |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.77 | And flowing o'er with arts and exercise. | Flawing and swelling ore with Arts and exercise: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.9 | Outswell the colic of puffed Aquilon. | Out-swell the collicke of puft Aquilon: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.160 | Disdain to root the summer-swelling flower | Disdaine to roote the Sommer-swelling flowre, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.68 | To swell about the blossom – she would long | To swell about the blossome) she would long |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.128 | Gently they swell, like women new-conceived, | Gently they swell, like women new conceav'd, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.4 | In hallowed clouds commend their swelling incense | In hallowed clouds commend their swelling Incense |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.62.1 | Has made thee swell thus. | Ha's made thee swell thus. |