| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.142 | By ruffian lust should be contaminate? | By Ruffian Lust should be contaminate? |
| Henry V | H5 IV.v.16 | His fairest daughter is contaminated. | His fairest daughter is contaminated. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.21 | Bespoke him thus: ‘ Contaminated, base, | Bespoke him thus: Contaminated, base, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.24 | Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, | Contaminate our fingers, with base Bribes? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.23 | hold up – to a contaminated stale, such a one as Hero. | hold vp, to a contaminated stale, such a one as Hero. |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.207 | the bed she hath contaminated. | the bed she hath contaminated. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.72 | Of her contaminated carrion weight | Of her contaminated carrion weight, |