| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.23 | A showing of a heavenly effect in an earthly actor. | A shewing of a heauenly effect in an earthly Actor. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.9 | The actor may plead pardon. I'll none now. | The Actor may pleade pardon. Ile none now, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.53 | Some monstrous malefactor. Prithee, friend, | Some monstrous Malefactor. Prythee Friend, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.10 | Chief factors for the gods: I do not know | Chiefe Factors for the Gods. I do not know, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.54 | I'll prove a busy actor in their play. | Ile proue a busie actor in their play. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.42 | To Epidamnum, till my factor's death, | To Epidamium, till my factors death, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.40.2 | Like a dull actor now | Like a dull Actor now, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.188 | Which I – the factor for the rest – have done | Which I (the Factor for the rest) haue done |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.390 | was an actor in Rome – | an Actor in Rome--- |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.391 | The actors are come hither, my lord. | The Actors are come hither my Lord. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.394 | Then came each actor on his ass – | Then can each Actor on his Asse--- |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.395 | The best actors in the world, either for | The best Actors in the world, either for |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.110 | good actor. | good Actor. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.207 | Their own enactures with themselves destroy. | Their owne ennactors with themselues destroy: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.147 | Percy is but my factor, good my lord, | Percy is but my Factor, good my Lord, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.28 | Were played in jest by counterfeiting actors? | Were plaid in iest, by counterfetting Actors. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.226 | But bear it as our Roman actors do, | But beare it as our Roman Actors do, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.430 | To be an actor in his graceless lust. | To be an actor in his gracelesse lust, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.498 | O Lord, sir, the parties themselves, the actors, | O Lord sir, the parties themselues, the actors |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.49 | honour two notorious benefactors. | honor, two notorious Benefactors. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.50 | Benefactors? Well, what benefactors are they? | Benefactors? Well: What Benefactors are they? |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.51 | Are they not malefactors? | Are they not Malefactors? |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.37 | Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it? | Condemne the fault, and not the actor of it, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.41.1 | And let go by the actor. | And let goe by the Actor: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.9 | on; then read the names of the actors; and so grow to a | on: then read the names of the Actors: and so grow on to a |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.14 | merry. Now, good Peter Quince, call forth your actors | merry. Now good Peter Quince, call forth your Actors |
| 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 IV.ii.37 | for the lion's claws. And, most dear actors, eat no onions | for the Lions clawes. And most deare Actors, eate no Onions, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.116 | The actors are at hand, and by their show | The Actors are at hand; and by their show, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.3 | Which be the malefactors? | Which be the malefactors? |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.24 | After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, | After a well grac'd Actor leaues the Stage, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.133 | Or lowly factor for another's gain; | Or lowly Factor, for anothers gaine; |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.72 | Only reserved their factor to buy souls | Onely reseru'd their Factor, to buy soules, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.148 | Our revels now are ended. These our actors, | Our Reuels now are ended: These our actors, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.71 | You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. | You great Benefactors, sprinkle our Society with Thankefulnesse. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC prologue.24 | Of author's pen or actor's voice, but suited | Of Authors pen, or Actors voyce; but suited |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.183 | Most disobedient and refractory. | Most disobedient and refracturie. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.31 | By this hand, they are scoundrels and substractors | By this hand they are scoundrels and substractors |