| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.4 | Perhaps some merchant hath invited him, | Perhaps some Merchant hath inuited him, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.322 | Thou knowest we parted. But perhaps, my son, | Thou know'st we parted, but perhaps my sonne, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.157 | Perhaps thy childishness will move him more | Perhaps thy childishnesse will moue him more |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.136 | To bring him here alone: although perhaps | To bring him heere alone: although perhaps |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.14 | Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now, | Growes wide withall. Perhaps he loues you now, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.598 | T' assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps | T'assume a pleasing shape, yea and perhaps |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.315 | purgation would perhaps plunge him into more choler. | Purgation, would perhaps plundge him into farre more Choller. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.10 | Which may to you perhaps seem much unsinewed, | Which may to you (perhaps) seeme much vnsinnowed, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.210 | as would perhaps trouble a woman. | as would perhaps trouble a woman. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.48 | So perhaps did yours. | So perhaps did yours. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.16 | I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgement; | I haue perhaps some shallow spirit of Iudgement: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.48 | Your grace may starve, perhaps, before that time. | Your Grace may starue (perhaps) before that time. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.104 | Perhaps I shall be rescued by the French, | Perhaps I shall be rescu'd by the French, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.64 | O, would he did! And so perhaps he doth; | O would he did, and so (perhaps) he doth, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.89 | Perhaps thou wilt object my holy oath; | Perhaps thou wilt obiect my holy Oath: |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.42 | Which give some soil, perhaps, to my behaviours; | Which giue some soyle (perhaps) to my Behauiours: |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.112 | Where hast thou led me? I perhaps speak this | Where hast thou led me? I (perhaps) speake this |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.30 | Perhaps it will be thought a heinous thing | Perhaps it will be thought a heynous thing, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.58 | Perhaps he is already slain or ta'en; | Perhapps he is already slayne or tane: |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.178 | Go after him; for he perhaps shall need | Go after him: for he perhaps shall neede |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.30 | and your love perhaps a hackney. (To him) But have | and your Loue perhaps, a Hacknie: But haue |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.279.2 | Qualm, perhaps. | Qualme perhaps. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.155.1 | With child, perhaps? | With childe, perhaps? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.50 | Perhaps I will return immediately. | Perhaps I will returne immediately; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.73 | An actor too, perhaps, if I see cause. | An Actor too perhaps, if I see cause. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.303 | Let her not strike me. You perhaps may think | Let her not strike me: you perhaps may thinke, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.252 | Perhaps is but prolonged; have patience and endure. | Perhaps is but prolong'd, haue patience & endure. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.128 | Perhaps he sees it not, or his good nature | Perhaps he sees it not, or his good nature |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.449 | Patience, I say: your mind perhaps may change. | Patience I say: your minde may change. |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.101 | Perhaps they will but please themselves upon her, | perhappes they will but please themselues vpon her, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.289 | Perhaps they had ere this, but that they stay | Perhaps they had ere this, but that they stay |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.347 | For Clarence is well-spoken, and perhaps | For Clarence is well spoken, and perhappes |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.97 | A king! – Perhaps! – | A King perhaps. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.59 | Perhaps you have learned it without book. But | Perhaps you haue learn'd it without booke: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.163 | Perhaps you marked not what's the pith of all. | Perhaps you mark'd not what's the pith of all. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.32 | master so, being perhaps, for aught I see, two and thirty, | master so, being perhaps (for ought I see) two and thirty, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.109 | perhaps call him half-a-score knaves or so. Why, that's | perhaps call him halfe a score Knaues, or so: Why that's |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.155 | Yea, and perhaps with more successful words | Yea and perhaps with more successefull words |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.223 | Perhaps him and her, sir. What have you to do? | Perhaps him and her sir, what haue you to do? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.26 | Causeless perhaps. But pardon me, sweet aunt, | Causles perhaps, but pardon me sweet Aunt, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.44 | Perhaps she culled it from among the rest. | Perhahs she culd it from among the rest. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.226 | Ay, and perhaps receive much honour by him. | I, and perhaps receiue much honor by him. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.4 | over me. The malignancy of my fate might perhaps | ouer me; the malignancie of my fate, might perhaps |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.88 | Say that some lady, as perhaps there is, | Say that some Lady, as perhappes there is, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.107 | As it might be perhaps, were I a woman, | As it might be perhaps, were I a woman |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.160 | Yet come again; for thou perhaps mayst move | Yet come againe: for thou perhaps mayst moue |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.32 | If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain; | If hap'ly won, perhaps a haplesse gaine; |