| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.viii.5 | For doughty-handed are you, and have fought | For doughty handed are you, and haue fought |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.5 | As poisonous tongued as handed – hath prevailed | (As poysonous tongu'd, as handed) hath preuail'd |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.9 | The deadly-handed Clifford slew my steed; | The deadly handed Clifford slew my Steed: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.230 | White-handed mistress, one sweet word with thee. | White handed Mistris, one sweet word with thee. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.10 | To plague the inventor. This even-handed justice | To plague th' Inuenter, this euen-handed Iustice |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.72 | Hard-handed men that work in Athens here, | Hard handed men, that worke in Athens heere, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.11 | Large-handed robbers your grave masters are, | Large-handed Robbers your graue Masters are, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.345 | And handed love as you do, I was wont | And handed loue, as you do; I was wont |