| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.i.22 | In him that should compare. I do not think | In him, that should compare. I do not thinke, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.137 | I dare not confess that, lest I should compare | |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.161 | Compare with Caesars and with Cannibals, | compare with Caesar, and with Caniballs, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.47 | Thy leg a stick compared with this truncheon; | Thy legge a sticke compared with this Truncheon, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.27 | Was cried incomparable; and th' ensuing night | Was cry'de incompareable; and th'ensuing night |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.9 | I will hear Cassius, and compare their reasons, | I will heare Cassius, and compare their Reasons, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.156 | But, to make up my all too long compare, | But to make vp my all to long compare, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.109 | Compares his sunburnt lover when she speaks. | Compares his sunburnt louer when shee speakes, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.112 | And that, compared, is too satirical; | And that compared is to satyrical, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.144 | Compar'st thou her to the pale queen of night, | Comparest thou her to the pale queene of night, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.56 | By land, with Xerxes we compare of strength, | By land with Zerxes we compare of strength, |
| King John | KJ I.i.79 | Compare our faces and be judge yourself. | Compare our faces, and be Iudge your selfe |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.37 | I am compared to twenty thousand fairs. | I am compar'd to twenty thousand fairs. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.54 | Esteem him as a lamb, being compared | Esteeme him as a Lambe, being compar'd |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.105 | Made me compare with Hermia's sphery eyne? | Made me compare with Hermias sphery eyne? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.138 | To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? | To what my, loue, shall I compare thine eyne! |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.290 | Now I perceive that she hath made compare | Now I perceiue that she hath made compare |
| Pericles | Per II.i.29 | ones eat up the little ones. I can compare our rich | ones eate vp the little ones: I can compare our rich |
| Pericles | Per IV.iii.9 | I'th' justice of compare. O villain Leonine! | ith Iustice of compare, O villaine, Leonine |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.185 | Or else he never would compare between. | Or else he neuer would compare betweene. |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.1 | I have been studying how I may compare | I haue bin studying, how to compare |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.119 | Compare dead happiness with living woe; | Compare dead happinesse, with liuing woe: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.85 | Compare her face with some that I shall show, | Compare her face with some that I shall show, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.42 | they be not to be talked on, yet they are past compare. | they be not to be talkt on, yet they are past compare: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.239 | Which she hath praised him with above compare | Which she hath prais'd him with aboue compare, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.173 | Our strength as weak, our weakness past compare, | Our strength as weake, our weakenesse past compare, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.321 | compare to thy flatterers? | compare to thy Flatterers? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.173 | Full of protest, of oath, and big compare, | Full of protest, of oath and big compare; |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.111 | under the degree of my betters, and yet I will not compare | vnder the degree of my betters, & yet I will not compare |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.100 | And can digest as much. Make no compare | And can digest as much, make no compare |