| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.21 | Hath well composed thee. Thy father's moral parts | Hath well compos'd thee: Thy Fathers morall parts |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.40 | With musics of all sorts, and songs composed | With Musickes of all sorts, and songs compos'd |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.15 | If we compose well here, to Parthia. | If we compose well heere, to Parthia: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.98 | And with them words of so sweet breath composed | And with them words of so sweet breath compos'd, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.41 | Then did they imitate that which I composed | Then did they imitate that which I compos'd |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.73 | For thy undaunted mettle should compose | For thy vndaunted Mettle should compose |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.77 | In my most ill-composed affection such | In my most ill-composd Affection, such |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.48 | One that composed your beauties – yea, and one | One that compos'd your beauties; yea and one |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.236 | He is composed and framed of treachery, | He is compos'd and fram'd of treacherie, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.V.5 | Deep clerks she dumbs, and with her neele composes | Deepe clearks she dumb's, and with her neele compo-ses, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.9 | And he's composed of harshness. I must remove | And he's compos'd of harshnesse. I must remoue |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.76 | Their loving well composed with gifts of nature, | Their louing well compos'd, with guift of nature, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.173 | Were it a casque composed by Vulcan's skill, | Were it a Caske compos'd by Vulcans skill, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.69 | By wailful sonnets, whose composed rhymes | By walefull Sonnets, whose composed Rimes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.86 | Worth so composed a man; their single share, | Worth so composd a Man: their single share, |