| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.178 | Upon your favours swims with fins of lead | Vpon your fauours, swimmes with finnes of Leade, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.192 | If he fall in, good night, or sink, or swim! | If he fall in, good night, or sinke or swimme: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.34 | Which swims against your stream of quality. | Which swimmes against your streame of Quality. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.20 | With bootless labour swim against the tide | With bootlesse labour swimme against the Tyde, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.29 | Say you can swim; alas, 'tis but a while! | Say you can swim, alas 'tis but a while: |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.359 | Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, | Like little wanton Boyes that swim on bladders: |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.104 | And swim to yonder point?’ Upon the word, | And swim to yonder Point? Vpon the word, |
| 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 Lear | KL III.iv.107 | to swim in. Now a little fire in a wild field were like an | to swimme in. Now a little fire in a wilde Field, were like an |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.123 | Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, | Poore Tom, that eates the swimming Frog, the Toad, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.8 | As two spent swimmers, that do cling together | As two spent Swimmers, that doe cling together, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.130 | Which she with pretty and with swimming gait | Which she with pretty and with swimming gate, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.174 | Ere the leviathan can swim a league. | Ere the Leuiathan can swim a league. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.31 | swimmer, Troilus the first employer of panders, and a | swimmer, Troilous the first imploier of pandars, and a |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.191 | To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride | To swim, to diue into the fire: to ride |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.242.1 | And he that sleeps here swims. | As he that sleepes heere, swims. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.125 | Swum ashore, man, like a duck. I can swim | Swom ashore (man) like a Ducke: I can swim |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.128 | Though thou canst swim like a duck, thou art made like | Though thou canst swim like a Ducke, thou art made like |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iv.20.1 | I would swim after. | I would swim after. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.7 | As in incontinence; for not to swim | As in Incontinence; for not to swim |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.28 | Where be your ribands, maids? Swim with your bodies, | Wher be your Ribands maids? swym with your Bodies |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.24 | Weak as we are, and almost breathless swim | Weake as we are, and almost breathlesse swim |