| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.168 | What great creation and what dole of honour | What great creation, and what dole of honour |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.78 | Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue | Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.75 | It is a recreation to be by | It is a Recreation to be by |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.139 | This bodiless creation ecstasy | This bodilesse Creation extasie |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.153 | true prince may – for recreation sake – prove a false | true Prince, may (for recreation sake) proue a false |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.159 | But is there no quick recreation granted? | But is there no quicke recreation granted? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.163 | their game, and we will to our recreation. | their game, and we will to our recreation. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.38 | A dagger of the mind, a false creation, | A Dagger of the Minde, a false Creation, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.127 | Women, help heaven! Men their creation mar | Women? Helpe heauen; men their creation marre |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.100 | downright way of creation. Is it true, think you? | downe-right way of Creation: is it true, thinke you? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.116 | Hath come so near creation? Move these eyes? | Hath come so neere creation? moue these eies? |
| Othello | Oth II.i.64 | And in th' essential vesture of creation | And in th'essentiall Vesture of Creation, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.67 | For your best health and recreation. | For your best health, and recreation. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.19 | That from the prime creation e'er she framed.’ | That from the prime Creation ere she framed. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.4 | Whose procreation, residence, and birth, | Whose procreation, residence, and birth, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.131 | him a common recreation, do not think I have wit | him a common recreation, do not thinke I haue witte |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.82 | Born to uphold creation in that honour | Borne to uphold Creation, in that honour |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.238 | Shall be my recreation. So long as nature | Shall be my recreation. So long as Nature |