| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.40 | Why, then you should discover a brace of unmeriting, | Why then you should discouer a brace of vnmeriting, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.60 | And keep their teeth clean. So, here comes a brace. | And keepe their teeth cleane: So, heere comes a brace, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.243 | Take up a brace o'th' best of them; yea, the two Tribunes. | take vp a Brace o'th' best of them, yea, the two Tribunes. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.87 | ring may be stolen too: so your brace of unprizable | Ring may be stolne too, so your brace of vnprizeable |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.129 | Edward and Richard, like a brace of greyhounds | Edward and Richard like a brace of Grey-hounds, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.97 | Hubert, the utterance of a brace of tongues | Hubert, the vtterance of a brace of tongues, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.521 | royal sweet breath as will utter a brace of words. | royall sweet breath, as will vtter a brace of words. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.24 | For that it stands not in such warlike brace, | For that it stands not in such Warrelike brace, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.27 | I have a stoup of wine; and here without are a brace of | I haue a stope of Wine, and heere without are a brace of |
| Pericles | Per II.i.128 | 'Twixt me and death,’ and pointed to this brace, | Twixt me and death, and poynted to this brayse, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.32 | A brace of draymen bid God speed him well, | A brace of Dray-men bid God speed him well, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.73 | Not dallying with a brace of courtesans, | Not dallying with a Brace of Curtizans, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.295 | Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished. | Haue lost a brace of Kinsmen: All are punish'd. |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.126 | But you, my brace of lords, were I so minded, | But you, my brace of Lords, were I so minded |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.188 | two brace of greyhounds. | two brace of Grey-hounds. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.80 | As thine is now, held with a brace of harlots. | As thine is now, held with a brace of Harlots. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.175 | You brace of warlike brothers, welcome hither. | You brace of warlike Brothers, welcome hither. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.20 | A brace of horses; two such steeds might well | A brace of horses, two such Steeds might well |