| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.14 | your old ling and your Isbels o'th' court. The brains of | your old Ling and your Isbels a'th Court: the brains of |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.187 | I know his brains are forfeit to the next tile that falls. | I know his braines are forfeite to the next tile that fals. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.88 | love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed out with a | loue cause: Troilous had his braines dash'd out with a |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.115 | Could have knocked out his brains, for he had none: | Could haue knock'd out his Braines, for he had none: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.358 | of brains. | of Braines. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.586 | About, my brains. Hum – I have heard | About my Braine. / I haue heard, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.175 | Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus | Whereon his Braines still beating, puts him thus |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.156 | O heat, dry up my brains! Tears seven times salt | Oh heate drie vp my Braines, teares seuen times salt, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.56 | Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for | Cudgell thy braines no more about it; for |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.30 | Or I could make a prologue to my brains | Ere I could make a Prologue to my braines, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.19 | Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains | Seale vp the Ship-boyes Eyes, and rock his Braines, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.71 | Their brains with care, their bones with industry; | Their braines with care, their bones with industry. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.109 | And make a quagmire of your mingled brains. | And make a Quagmire of your mingled braines. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.83 | That many have their giddy brains knocked out. | That many haue their giddy braynes knockt out: |
| Henry VIII | H8 prologue.20 | Our own brains, and the opinion that we bring | Our owne Braines, and the Opinion that we bring |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.217 | No new device to beat this from his brains? | No new deuice to beate this from his Braines? |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.232 | Which busy care draws in the brains of men; | Which busie care drawes, in the braines of men; |
| King Lear | KL I.v.8 | If a man's brains were in's heels, were't not in | If a mans braines were in's heeles, wert not in |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.194.1 | I am cut to the brains. | I am cut to'th'Braines. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.58 | And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you | And dasht the Braines out, had I so sworne / As you |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.78 | That, when the brains were out, the man would die, | That when the Braines were out, the man would dye, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.53 | shall beat out my brains with billets. I will not consent | shall beat out my braines with billets: I will not consent |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.27 | Has Page any brains? Hath he any eyes? Hath he | Has Page any braines? Hath he any eies? Hath he |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.6 | if I be served such another trick, I'll have my brains | if I be seru'd such another tricke, Ile haue my braines |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.204 | the figures out of your husband's brains. If they can | the figures out of your husbands braines: if they can |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.4 | Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, | Louers and mad men haue such seething braines, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.102 | be beaten with brains, 'a shall wear nothing handsome | be beaten with braines, a shall weare nothing handsome |
| Othello | Oth II.i.126 | It plucks out brains and all. But my muse labours, | it pluckes out Braines and all. But my Muse labours, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.31 | unhappy brains for drinking. I could well wish courtesy | vnhappie Braines for drinking. I could well wish Curtesie |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.283 | their brains! That we should with joy, pleasance, revel | their Braines? that we should with ioy, pleasance, reuell |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.229 | knocking out his brains. | knocking out his braines. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.60 | Were red-hot steel, to sear me to the brains! | Were red hot Steele, to seare me to the Braines, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.71 | Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love; | through Louers braines: and then they dreame of Loue. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.54 | As with a club dash out my desperate brains? | As (with a club) dash out my desperate braines. |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.59 | To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains, | To an vnsetled fancie, Cure thy braines |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.194 | To knock out an honest Athenian's brains. | To knocke out an honest Athenians braines. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.15 | With it beat out his brains. Piety and fear, | With it, beate out his Braines, Piety, and Feare, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.76 | Scornedst our brains' flow and those our droplets which | Scornd'st our Braines flow, and those our droplets, which |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.100 | great catch if he knock out either of your brains: he | great catch, if he knocke out either of your braines, he |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.302 | will be in him when Hector has knocked out his brains, | will be in him when Hector has knockt out his braines, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.38 | drink to my niece till his brains turn o'the toe like a | drinke to my Neece. till his braines turne o'th toe, like a |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.108 | son should be a fool; whose skull Jove cram with brains, | sonne should be a foole: whose scull, Ioue cramme with braines, |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.118 | brains. I will fetch you light, and paper, and ink. | brains / I will fetch you light, and paper, and inke. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.275.1 | To knock thy brains out with my shackles. | To knocke thy braines out with my Shackles. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.145 | And that to the infection of my brains | (And that to the infection of my Braines, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.139 | The bastard brains with these my proper hands | The Bastard-braynes with these my proper hands |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.63 | brains of nineteen and two-and-twenty hunt this | braines of nineteene, and two and twenty hunt this |