| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.242 | Avoid, and leave him. | Auoid, and leaue him. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.23 | how to avoid it. | how to auoid it. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.31 | And I have been all this day to avoid him. He is | And I haue bin all this day to auoid him: / He is |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.94 | avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may avoid that too, | auoyd, but the Lye direct : and you may auoide that too, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.48 | Satan, avoid! I charge thee, tempt me not! | Sathan auoide, I charge thee tempt me not. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.65 | Avoid then, fiend. What tellest thou me of supping? | Auoid then fiend, what tel'st thou me of supping? |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.25 | Pray you avoid the house. | Pray you auoid the house. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.33 | avoid. Come. | auoid: Come. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.85 | I would have 'voided thee; but in mere spite, | I would haue voided thee. But in meere spight |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.56 | Thou basest thing, avoid hence, from my sight! | Thou basest thing, auoyd hence, from my sight: |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.71 | And did avoid a puttock. | And did auoyd a Puttocke. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.135 | Which happily foreknowing may avoid, | (Which happily foreknowing may auoyd) |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.14 | Herod. Pray you avoid it. | Herod. Pray you auoid it. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.151 | Repent what's past. Avoid what is to come; | Repent what's past, auoyd what is to come, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.v.13 | Since not to be avoided it falls on me. | Since not to be auoyded, it fals on mee. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.208 | To be again displaced; which to avoid, | To be againe displac'd. Which to auoyd, |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.42 | What say you? Will you yield, and this avoid? | What say you? Will you yeeld, and this auoyd? |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.52 | The Alps doth spit and void his rheum upon! | The Alpes doth spit, and void his rhewme vpon. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.57 | Or void the field: they do offend our sight. | Or voyde the field: they do offend our sight. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.8 | A terrible and unavoided danger. | A terrible and vnauoyded danger: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.39 | False fiend, avoid! | False Fiend auoide. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.61 | How in our voiding lobby hast thou stood | How in our voyding Lobby hast thou stood, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.59 | Which makes me hope you are not void of pity. | Which makes me hope you are not void of pitty. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.137 | Marked by the destinies to be avoided, | Mark'd by the Destinies to be auoided, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.66 | Because he would avoid such bitter taunts | Because he would auoid such bitter taunts |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.142 | By this alliance to make void my suit; | By this alliance to make void my suit: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.28 | By spying and avoiding Fortune's malice, | By spying and auoiding Fortunes malice, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.37 | Why, courage then! What cannot be avoided | Why courage then, what cannot be auoided, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.86.1 | Avoid the gallery. | Auoyd the Gallery. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.1.4 | a seat being left void above him, as for Canterbury's | A Seate being left void aboue him, as for Canterburies. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.199 | I do not know the man I should avoid | I do not know the man I should auoyd |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.26.2 | What can be avoided | What can be auoyded |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.iv.37 | I'll get me to a place more void, and there | Ile get me to a place more voyd, and there |
| King John | KJ I.i.215 | Yet to avoid deceit I mean to learn; | Yet to auoid deceit I meane to learne; |
| King Lear | KL I.i.124 | On her kind nursery. (To Cordelia) Hence and avoid my sight! – | On her kind nursery. Hence and avoid my sight: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.262 | And therefore red, that would avoid dispraise, | And therefore red that would auoyd dispraise, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.140 | Is to avoid the aim. Therefore to horse, | Is to auoid the ayme. Therefore to Horse, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.43 | Of all men else I have avoided thee. | Of all men else I haue auoyded thee: |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.54 | void of all profanation in the world that good Christians | void of all prophanation in the world, that good Christians |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.198 | now stands, he will avoid your accusation; he made trial | now stands, he will auoid your accusation: he made triall |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.114 | You, that did void your rheum upon my beard | You that did voide your rume vpon my beard, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.5 | Uncapable of pity, void and empty | Vncapable of pitty, voyd, and empty |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.189 | Even so void is your false heart of truth. | Euen so voide is your false heart of truth. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.263 | I would you knew Ford, sir, that you might avoid | I would you knew Ford, sir, that you might auoid |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.137 | impossible places. Though what I am I cannot avoid, | impossible places: though what I am, I cannot auoide; |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.90 | your trouble? The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, | your trouble: the fashion of the world is to auoid cost, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.189 | avoids them with great discretion, or undertakes them | auoydes them with great discretion, or vndertakes them |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.248 | I may avoid him. Which of these is he? | I may auoide him: which of these is he? |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.241 | A partial slander sought I to avoid, | |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.264 | Yet see no shelter to avoid the storm. | Yet seeke no shelter to auoid the storme: |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.268 | And unavoided is the danger now | And vnauoyded is the danger now |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.67 | T' avoid the censures of the carping world. | T'auoid the Censures of the carping World. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.150 | Therefore – to speak, and to avoid the first, | Therefore to speake, and to auoid the first, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.55 | Whose unavoided eye is murderous. | Whose vnauoided Eye is murtherous. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.218 | All unavoided is the doom of destiny. | All vnauoyded is the doome of Destiny. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.219 | True, when avoided grace makes destiny. | True: when auoyded grace makes Destiny. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.410 | It cannot be avoided but by this; | It cannot be auoyded, but by this: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.411 | It will not be avoided but by this. | It will not be auoyded, but by this. |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.142 | Is almost come. – Well done! Avoid! No more! | Is almost come: Well done, auoid: no more. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.135 | Upon whose age we void it up again | Vpon whose Age we voyde it vp agen |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.198 | Her life was beastly and devoid of pity, | Her life was Beast-like, and deuoid of pitty, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.66 | Of will and judgement: how may I avoid, | Of Will, and Iudgement. How may I auoyde |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.299 | avoid it. But he has promised me, as he is a gentleman | auoide it: but hee has promised me, as he is a Gentleman |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.36 | That ever gently looked, the voidest of honour | That ever gently lookd the voydes of honour. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.40 | Void of appointment, that thou lie'st, and art | Void of appointment, that thou ly'st, and art |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.433 | Avoid what's grown than question how 'tis born. | Auoid what's growne, then question how 'tis borne. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.462 | Thou bear'st my life off. Hence! Let us avoid. | Thou bear'st my life off, hence: Let vs auoid. |