| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.19 | oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust, are | oathes, tokens, and all these engines of lust, are |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.19 | like an engine, and the ground shrinks before his treading. | like an Engine, and the ground shrinkes before his Treading. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.207 | For 'tis the sport to have the enginer | |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.265 | Which, like an engine, wrenched my frame of nature | Which like an Engine, wrencht my frame of Nature |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.352 | And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats | And O you mortall Engines, whose rude throates |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.216 | this world with treachery, and devise engines for my life. | this world with Treacherie, and deuise Engines for my life. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.164 | Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine | Sword, Pike, Knife, Gun, or neede of any Engine |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.123 | And she shall file our engines with advice | And she shall file our engines with aduise, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.82 | O, that delightful engine of her thoughts, | O that delightfull engine of her thoughts, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.85 | Or who hath brought the fatal engine in | Or who hath brought the fatall engine in, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.208 | They place before his hand that made the engine, | They place before his hand that made the Engine, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.8 | engineer. If Troy be not taken till these two undermine | Enginer. If Troy be not taken till these two vndermine |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.133 | We'll none of him; but let him, like an engine | Weele none of him; but let him, like an Engin |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.138 | And here an engine fit for my proceeding. | And heere an Engine fit for my proceeding, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.42 | Is like an engine bent or a sharp weapon | Is like an Engyn bent, or a sharpe weapon |