| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.270 | Fear no more the lightning flash. | Feare no more the Lightning flash. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.33 | The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind, | The flash and out-breake of a fiery minde, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.187 | gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that | Gambals? Your Songs? Your flashes of Merriment that |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.50 | And flashing fire will follow. | and flashing fire will follow. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.52 | Even in the aim and very flash of it. | Euen in the ayme, and very flash of it. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.451 | Dark night seems darker by the lightning flash; | Darke night seemes darker by the lightning flash, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.129 | Breaks in extremity of lightning flash, | Breakes in extremitie of lightning flash, |
| King Lear | KL I.iii.5 | He flashes into one gross crime or other | He flashes into one grosse crime, or other, |
| Pericles | Per III.i.6 | Thy nimble, sulphurous flashes! O, how, Lychorida, | Thy nimble sulphirous flashes: ô How Lychorida! |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.i.32 | Which flashes now a phoenix. Get you gone. | Which flashes now a Phoenix, get you gone. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.3 | Secure of thunder's crack or lightning flash, | Secure of Thunders cracke or lightning flash, |