| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.56 | service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer, | seruice is sildome attributed to the true and exact performer, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.139 | I am possessed of. 'Tis exactly valued, | I am possest of, 'tis exactly valewed, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.75 | Could be so rarely and exactly wrought, | Could be so rarely, and exactly wrought |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.200 | Armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe, | Arm'd at all points exactly, Cap a Pe, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.19 | Ah, royal knavery! – an exact command, | Oh royall knauery: An exact command, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.46 | To set the exact wealth of all our states | to set the exact wealth of all our states |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.64 | When have I aught exacted at your hands, | When haue I ought exacted at your hands? |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.25 | Of these exactions, yet the King our master – | Of these exactions: yet the King, our Maister |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.47 | Perforce be their acquaintance. These exactions, | Perforce be their acquaintance. These exactions |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.52.2 | Still exaction! | Still Exaction: |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.54.1 | Is this exaction? | Is this Exaction? |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.262 | And in the most exact regard support | And in the most exact regard, support |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.269 | Pay with falsehood, false exacting, | Pay with falshood, false exacting, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.134.1 | Exact the penalty. | Exact the penalties. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.161 | By the exaction of the forfeiture? | By the exaction of the forfeiture? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.22 | And where thou now exacts the penalty, | And where thou now exact'st the penalty, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.140 | I did confess it, and exactly begged | I did confesse it, and exactly begg'd |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.249 | And daily new exactions are devised, | And daily new exactions are deuis'd, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.99 | But what my power might else exact, like one | But what my power might els exact. Like one |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.238 | Exactly is performed, but there's more work. | Exactly is perform'd; but there's more worke: |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.500 | As mountain winds; but then exactly do | As mountaine windes; but then exactly do |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.161 | Call me before th' exactest auditors, | Call me before th'exactest Auditors, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.180 | Severals and generals of grace exact, | Seuerals and generals of grace exact, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.232 | I have with exact view perused thee, Hector, | I haue with exact view perus'd thee Hector, |