| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iii.42 | Hath he seen majesty? Isis else defend, | Hath he seene Maiestie? Isis else defend: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.213 | Five tribunes to defend their vulgar wisdoms, | Fiue Tribunes to defend their vulgar wisdoms |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.94 | You make strong party, or defend yourself | You make strong partie, or defend your selfe |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.39 | Angels and ministers of grace defend us! | Angels and Ministers of Grace defend vs: |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.23 | Why, then the Polack never will defend it. | |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.318 | O, yet defend me, friends. I am but hurt. | O yet defend me Friends, I am but hurt. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.38 | And God defend but still I should stand so, | And Heauen defend, but still I should stand so, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.33 | I will assay thee, and defend thyself. | I will assay thee: so defend thy selfe. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.137 | But lay down our proportions to defend | But lay downe our proportions, to defend |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.141 | Shall be a wall sufficient to defend | Shall be a Wall sufficient to defend |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.219 | Cannot defend our own doors from the dog, | Cannot defend our owne doores from the dogge, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.55 | Here let them end it, and God defend the right! | Here let them end it, and God defend the right. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.v.5 | from the Tower to defend the city from the rebels. | from the Tower / To defend the City from the Rebels. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.45 | And with their helps only defend ourselves; | And with their helpes, onely defend our selues: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iii.22 | But to defend his person from night-foes? | But to defend his Person from Night-foes? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vii.38 | For Edward will defend the town and thee, | For Edward will defend the Towne, and thee, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.iii.7 | way to conspiracy. The mighty gods defend thee! | way to Conspiracie. The mighty Gods defend thee. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iv.23 | The gods defend him from so great a shame! | The Gods defend him from so great a shame, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.119 | When they defend their younglings in their caves. | When they defend their younglings in their Caues: |
| King John | KJ I.i.242 | That for thine own gain shouldst defend mine honour? | That for thine owne gaine shouldst defend mine honor? |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.88 | Not for my life; but yet I dare defend | Not for my life: But yet I dare defend |
| King Lear | KL II.i.30 | Draw! Seem to defend yourself! Now quit you well. | Draw, seeme to defend your selfe, / Now quit you well. |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.31 | Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you | Your lop'd, and window'd raggednesse defend you |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.92 | With thine and all that offer to defend him, | With thine, and all that offer to defend him, |
| King Lear | KL V.i.69 | Stands on me to defend, not to debate. | Stands on me to defend, not to debate. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.254 | The gods defend her. Bear him hence awhile. | The Gods defend her, beare him hence awhile. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.211 | defend the right! | defend the right. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.50 | God defend me from these two! | God defend me from these two. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.111 | senses to you, defend your reputation, or bid farewell to | senses to you, defend your reputation, or bid farwell to |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.81 | Heavens defend me from that Welsh fairy, | Heauens defend me from that Welsh Fairy, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.84 | When I like your favour; for God defend the lute | When I like your fauour, for God defend the Lute |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.75 | O God defend me! How am I beset! | O God defend me how am I beset, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.19 | and write God first, for God defend but God should go | |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.263 | And heaven defend your good souls that you think | And Heauen defend your good soules, that you thinke |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.197 | And to defend ourselves it be a sin | And to defend our selues, it be a sinne |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.173 | Good God, the souls of all my tribe defend | Good Heauen, the Soules of all my Tribe defend |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.370.2 | O grace! O heaven defend me! | O Grace! O Heauen forgiue me! |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.31 | Which fence the roots they grow by and defend them, | Which fence the rootes they grow by and defend them, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.130 | The which the gods protect thee from, may't defend thee.’ | The which the Gods protect thee, Fame may defend thee: |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.84 | The gods defend me! | The Gods defend me. |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.85 | If it please the gods to defend you by men, then | If it please the Gods to defend you by men, then |
| Pericles | Per V.i.44 | And make a battery through his deafened ports, | and make a battrie through his defend parts, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.67 | Meantime, let this defend my loyalty: | Meane time, let this defend my loyaltie, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.145 | Which in myself I boldly will defend, | Which in my selfe I boldly will defend, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.187 | O God defend my soul from such deep sin! | Oh heauen defend my soule from such foule sin. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.15 | As so defend thee heaven and thy valour! | As so defend thee heauen, and thy valour. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.18 | Which God defend a knight should violate! – | (Which heauen defend a knight should violate) |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.19 | Both to defend my loyalty and truth | Both to defend my loyalty and truth, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.25 | And as I truly fight, defend me heaven! | And as I truly fight, defend me heauen. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.34 | Speak like a true knight, so defend thee heaven! | Speake like a true Knight, so defend thee heauen. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.41 | And as I truly fight, defend me heaven! | And as I truly fight, defend me heauen. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.101 | Receive thy lance; and God defend the right. | Receiue thy Launce, and heauen defend thy right. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.112 | Both to defend himself and to approve | Both to defend himselfe, and to approue |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.113 | And duty bids defend. T'other again | And dutie bids defend: th'other againe |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.113 | warrant can defend me. | Warrant can defend me. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.211 | Whom thou wast sworn to cherish and defend. | Whom thou was't sworne to cherish and defend. |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.19 | Look back! Defend thee! Here are enemies! | Looke back, defend thee, here are Enemies. |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.20 | God and our innocence defend and guard us! | God and our Innocencie defend, and guard vs. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.80 | Marry, God defend his grace should say us nay! | Marry God defend his Grace should say vs nay. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.172 | Which God defend that I should wring from him! | Which God defend that I should wring from him. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.118 | Sleeping and waking, O defend me still! | Sleeping, and waking, oh defend me still. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.87 | he is drowned, and these are devils. O, defend me! | hee is dround; and these are diuels; O defend me. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.154 | What shall defend the interim? And at length | What shall defend the interim, and at length |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.55 | Descend, and open your uncharged ports. | Defend and open your vncharged Ports, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.2 | Defend the justice of my cause with arms. | Defend the iustice of my Cause with Armes. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.260 | Upon my back to defend my belly; upon my | Vpon my backe, to defend my belly; vpon my |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.261 | wit to defend my wiles; upon my secrecy to defend | wit, to defend my wiles; vppon my secrecy, to defend |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.262 | mine honesty; my mask to defend my beauty, and you | mine honesty; my Maske, to defend my beauty, and you |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.263 | to defend all these: and at all these wards I lie, at a | to defend all these: and at all these wardes I lye at, at a |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.59 | And you as well to keep her, that defend her, | And you as well to keepe her, that defend her, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.293 | Pray God defend me! A little thing would | Pray God defend me: a little thing would |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.83 | Drew to defend him when he was beset; | Drew to defend him, when he was beset: |