| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.117 | I can build up. Strange is it that our bloods, | I can build vp: strange is it that our bloods |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.142 | Lady, 'a must build churches then, or else shall 'a suffer | byrlady he must builde Churches then: or else shall he suffer |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.41 | That frosts will bite them. When we mean to build, | That Frosts will bite them. When we meane to build, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.48 | To build at all? Much more, in this great work – | To builde at all? Much more, in this great worke, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.59 | Beyond his power to build it, who, half-through, | Beyond his power to builde it; who (halfe through) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.108 | To build a grief on. Were you not restored | To build a Griefe on: were you not restor'd |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.55 | A pretty plot, well chosen to build upon! | A pretty Plot, well chosen to build vpon. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.100 | For in thy shoulder do I build my seat, | For in thy shoulder do I builde my Seate; |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.67 | Nor build their evils on the graves of great men, | Nor build their euils on the graues of great men; |
| King Lear | KL III.i.35 | If on my credit you dare build so far | |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.92 | And bawds and whores do churches build – | And Baudes, and whores, do Churches build, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.165 | continency. Sparrows must not build in his house-eaves | Continencie. Sparrowes must not build in his house-eeues, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.38 | So did I mine, to build upon a foolish woman's | So did I mine, to build vpon a foolish Womans |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.42 | Will it serve for any model to build mischief | Will it serue for any Modell to build mischiefe |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.149 | Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble | Would take no notice, nor build your selfe a trouble |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.205 | this instant do build on thee a better opinion than ever | this instant do build on thee a better opinion then euer |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.II.14 | Build his statue to make him glorious. | Build his Statue to make him glorious: |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.69 | Did Julius Caesar build that place, my lord? | Did Iulius Casar build that place, my Lord? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.147 | To build his fortune I will strain a little, | To build his Fortune, I will straine a little, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.529 | But thus conditioned: thou shalt build from men, | But thus condition'd: Thou shalt build from men: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.58 | O, why should nature build so foul a den, | O why should nature build so foule a den, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.49 | now, a kiss in fee-farm! Build there, carpenter, the air | now, a kisse in fee-farme? build there Carpenter, the ayre |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.31 | Why then, build me thy fortunes upon the basis | Why then build me thy fortunes vpon the basis |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.101 | In those foundations which I build upon, | In those Foundations which I build vpon, |