| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.17 | mother now than an eight-year-old horse. The tartness | Mother now, then an eight yeare old horse. The tartnesse |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.62 | Did look no better to that weighty charge. | Did looke no better to that weightie Charge. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.168 | This weighty business will not brook delay; | This weighty businesse will not brooke delay, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.86 | With thy confederates in this weighty cause. | With thy Confederates in this weightie cause. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.289 | What counsel give you in this weighty cause? | What counsaile giue you in this weightie cause? |
| Henry VIII | H8 prologue.2 | That bear a weighty and a serious brow, | That beare a Weighty, and a Serious Brow, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.144 | This secret is so weighty, 'twill require | This Secret is so weighty, 'twill require |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.138 | There ye shall meet about this weighty business. | There ye shall meete about this waighty busines. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.58 | How you stand minded in the weighty difference | How you stand minded in the waighty difference |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.234.1 | Authority so weighty. | Authority so weighty. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.125.1 | For sundry weighty reasons. | For sundry weightie Reasons. |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.148 | With lies well steeled with weighty arguments; | With Lyes well steel'd with weighty Arguments, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.95 | Eighty odd years of sorrow have I seen, | Eightie odde yeeres of sorrow haue I seene, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.245 | Sufficeth, my reasons are both good and weighty. | Sufficeth my reasons are both good and waighty. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.26 | Made me acquainted with a weighty cause | Made me acquainted with a waighty cause |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.108 | Of eighty winters – this I told them – who | Of eightie winters, this I told them, who |