| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.56 | Thirty fathom. | Thirty fadome. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.191 | didst know how many fathom deep I am in love! But it | didst know how many fathome deepe I am in loue: but it |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.77 | That looks so many fathoms to the sea | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.202 | Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, | Where Fadome-line could neuer touch the ground, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.51 | Wish him ten fathom deep. This Duke as much | Wish him ten faddom deepe: This Duke as much |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.37 | Fathom and half, fathom and half! Poor Tom! | Fathom, and halfe, Fathom and halfe; poore Tom. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.50 | So many fathom down precipitating, | (So many fathome downe precipitating) |
| Othello | Oth I.i.153 | Another of his fathom they have none | Another of his Fadome, they haue none, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.85 | Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon | Of Healths fiue Fadome deepe, and then anon |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.397 | Full fathom five thy father lies, | Full fadom fiue thy Father lies, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.55 | Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, | Bury it certaine fadomes in the earth, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.51 | Reply not in how many fathoms deep | Reply not in how many Fadomes deepe |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.30 | And buckle in a waist most fathomless | And buckle in a waste most fathomlesse, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.275 | forty thousand fathom above water, and sung this ballad | fortie thousand fadom aboue water, & sung this ballad |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.488 | In unknown fathoms, will I break my oath | In vnknowne fadomes, will I breake my oath |