| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.24 | Keep his brain fuming. Epicurean cooks | Keepe his Braine fuming. Epicurean Cookes, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.97 | It's monstrous labour when I wash my brain | it's monstrous labour when I wash my braine, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.11 | Take from his heart, take from his brain, from's time, | Take from his heart, take from his Braine, from's time, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.197 | A diminution in our captain's brain | A diminution in our Captaines braine, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.viii.21 | A brain that nourishes our nerves, and can | A Braine that nourishes our Nerues, and can |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.38 | They have the gift to know it: and in his brain, | They haue the gift to know it: and in his braiue, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.3 | I warrant you, with pure love and troubled brain | I warrant you, with pure loue, & troubled brain, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.34 | Like Turk to Christian; women's gentle brain | Like Turke to Christian: womens gentle braine |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.134 | Even to the court, the heart, to th' seat o'th' brain; | Euen to the Court, the Heart, to th' seate o'th' Braine, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.89 | conversation would infect my brain, being the herdsmen | conuersation would infect my Braine, being the Heardsmen |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.30 | But yet a brain that leads my use of anger | But yet a braine, that leades my vse of Anger |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iii.28 | brain go not together. She's a good sign, but I have | Braine go not together. Shee's a good signe, but I haue |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.i.53 | Bears all down with her brain, and this her son | Beares all downe with her Braine, and this her Sonne, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.301 | Which the brain makes of fumes. Our very eyes | Which the Braine makes of Fumes. Our very eyes, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.65 | To taint his nobler heart and brain | To taint his Nobler hart & braine, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.147 | Tongue, and brain not: either both, or nothing, | Tongue, and braine not: either both, or nothing, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.164 | that you are paid too much: purse and brain, both | that you are payed too much: Purse and Braine, both |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.165 | empty: the brain the heavier for being too light; the | empty: the Brain the heauier, for being too light; the |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.14 | To you, the liver, heart, and brain of Britain, | To you (the Liuer, Heart, and Braine of Britaine) |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.196 | Of hope, not longing, mine Italian brain | Of hope, not longing; mine Italian braine, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.76 | Without more motive, into every brain | |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.103 | Within the book and volume of my brain, | Within the Booke and Volume of my Braine, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.46 | And I do think – or else this brain of mine | And I do thinke, or else this braine of mine |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.237.2 | Sleep rock thy brain, | Sleepe rocke thy Braine, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.138 | This is the very coinage of your brain. | This is the very coynage of your Braine, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.24 | rascal I could brain him with his lady's fan. Is there not | Rascall, I could braine him with his Ladies Fan. Is there not |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.7 | brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able | braine of this foolish compounded Clay-man, is not able |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.117 | and perturbation of the brain. I have read the cause of | and perturbation of the braine. I haue read the cause of |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.96 | ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the foolish | ascends me into the Braine, dryes me there all the foolish, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.110 | And now my sight fails, and my brain is giddy. | And now my Sight fayles, and my Braine is giddie. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.275 | Enjoys it, but in gross brain little wots | Enioyes it; but in grosse braine little wots, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.99 | And buzz these conjurations in her brain. | And buzze these Coniurations in her brayne. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.339 | My brain, more busy than the labouring spider, | My Brayne, more busie then the laboring Spider, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.113 | Is in his brain; he bites his lip, and starts, | Is in his braine: He bites his lip, and starts, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.187 | Your brain and every function of your power, | Your Braine, and euery Function of your power, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.188 | Wherewith the chamber of thy brain is fenced, | Wherewith the chamber of this braine is fenst, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.2 | Is touched corruptibly, and his pure brain, | Is touch'd, corruptibly: and his pure braine |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.57 | write this? a heart and brain to breed it in? When came | write this? A heart and braine to breede it in? When came |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.23 | Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight | Least my braine turne, and the deficient sight |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.163 | That hath a mint of phrases in his brain; | That hath a mint of phrases in his braine: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.300 | Other slow arts entirely keep the brain, | Other slow Arts intirely keepe the braine: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.304 | Lives not alone immured in the brain, | Liues not alone emured in the braine: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.836 | To weed this wormwood from your fruitful brain, | To weed this Wormewood from your fruitfull braine, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.149 | Give me your favour. My dull brain was wrought | Giue me your fauour: / My dull Braine was wrought |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.65 | That memory, the warder of the brain, | That Memorie, the Warder of the Braine, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.39 | Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? | Proceeding from the heat-oppressed Braine? |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.42 | Raze out the written troubles of the brain, | Raze out the written troubles of the Braine, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.17 | mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the | mine owne teaching: the braine may deuise lawes for the |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.149 | No, nor nowhere else but in your brain. | No, nor no where else but in your braine. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.134 | Have I laid my brain in the sun and dried it, | Haue I laid my braine in the Sun, and dri'de it, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.233 | and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a | and sentences, and these paper bullets of the braine awe a |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.87 | A halting sonnet of his own pure brain, | A halting sonnet of his owne pure braine, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.113 | As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain | As if thou then hadd'st shut vp in thy Braine |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.271 | Are his wits safe? Is he not light of brain? | Are his wits safe? Is he not light of Braine? |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.6 | My brain I'll prove the female to my soul, | My Braine, Ile proue the Female to my Soule, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.30 | Nay, I do bear a brain. But, as I said, | nay I doe beare a braine. But as I said, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.97 | Which are the children of an idle brain, | Which are the children of an idle braine, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.33 | But where unbruised youth with unstuffed brain | But where vnbrused youth with vnstuft braine |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.89 | I'th' afternoon to sleep. There thou mayst brain him, | I'th afternoone to sleepe: there thou maist braine him, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.159 | Bear with my weakness; my old brain is troubled. | Beare with my weakenesse, my old braine is troubled: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.312 | I have a young conception in my brain; | I haue a young conception in my braine, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.327 | But that Achilles, were his brain as barren | But that Achilles, were his braine as barren |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.43 | hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows; an | hast no more braine then I haue in mine elbows: An |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.69 | his brain more than he has beat my bones. I will buy | his Braine more then he has beate my bones: I will buy |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.251 | As green as Ajax', and your brain so tempered, | As greene as Aiax, and your braine so temper'd, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.253 | no arithmetic but her brain to set down her reckoning; | no Arithmatique but her braine to set downe her reckoning: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.45 | With too much blood and too little brain, | With too much bloud, and too little Brain, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.46 | these two may run mad; but if with too much brain and | these two may run mad: but if with too much braine, and |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.49 | one that loves quails, but he has not so much brain as | one that loues Quailes, but he has not so much Braine as |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.38 | That live in her; when liver, brain, and heart, | That liue in her. When Liuer, Braine, and Heart, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.52 | motley in my brain. Good madonna, give me leave to | motley in my braine: good Madona, giue mee leaue to |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.80 | ordinary fool that has no more brain than a stone. Look | ordinary foole, that has no more braine then a stone. Looke |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.39 | How her brain coins! | How her braine coynes? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.6 | And level of my brain, plot-proof; but she | And leuell of my braine: plot-proofe: but shee, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.679 | Aside, aside! Here is more matter for a hot brain. Every | Aside, aside, here is more matter for a hot braine: Euery |