| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.i.26 | Though time seem so adverse and means unfit. | Though time seeme so aduerse, and meanes vnfit: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.15 | To admit no traffic to our adverse towns. | To admit no trafficke to our aduerse townes: |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.53 | palate adversely, I make a crooked face at it. I cannot | Palat aduersly, I make a crooked face at it, I can |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.54 | Combat with adverse planets in the heavens! | Combat with aduerse Planets in the Heauens; |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.50 | The feeble handful on the adverse part. | The feeble handfull on the aduerse part. |
| King John | KJ II.i.57 | Hath put himself in arms. The adverse winds, | Hath put himselfe in Armes, the aduerse windes |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.172 | When adverse foreigners affright my towns | When aduerse Forreyners affright my Townes |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.vi.6 | He speak against me on the adverse side, | He speake against me on the aduerse side, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.46 | Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will | Grow this to what aduerse issue it can, I will |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.82 | Of thy adverse pernicious enemy! | Of thy amaz'd pernicious enemy. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.191 | My prayers on the adverse party fight, | My Prayers on the aduerse party fight, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.13 | Which they upon the adverse faction want. | Which they vpon the aduerse Faction want. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.82 | Into the danger of this adverse town; | Into the danger of this aduerse Towne, |