| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.34 | Obscured in the circle of this forest. | Obscured in the circle of this Forrest. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.67 | For what obscured light the heavens did grant | For what obscured light the heauens did grant, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.213 | His means of death, his obscure funeral – | His meanes of death, his obscure buriall; |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.63 | And so the Prince obscured his contemplation | And so the Prince obscur'd his Contemplation |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.26 | And even since then hath Richard been obscured, | And euen since then, hath Richard beene obscur'd, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.22 | Of purpose to obscure my noble birth. | Of purpose, to obscure my Noble birth. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.50 | Obscure and lousy swain, King Henry's blood, | Obscure and lowsie Swaine, King Henries blood. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.316 | That Rome holds of his name; wherein obscurely | That Rome holds of his Name: wherein obscurely |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.19 | The French obscured your mother's privilege, | The French obscurd your mothers Priuiledge, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.166 | Of my obscured course, and ‘ shall find time | Of my obscured course. And shall finde time |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.81 | Some obscure precedence that hath tofore been sain. | Some obscure precedence that hath tofore bin faine. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.71 | base and obscure vulgar! – videlicet, he came, see, and | base and obscure vulgar; videliset, He came, See, and |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.56 | New-hatched to the woeful time. The obscure bird | New hatch'd toth' wofull time. / The obscure Bird |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.387 | And you may marvel why I obscured myself, | And you may maruaile, why I obscur'd my selfe, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.44.1 | And I should be obscured. | And I should be obscur'd. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.51 | To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave. | To rib her searecloath in the obscure graue: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.77 | Obscures the show of evil? In religion, | Obscures the show of euill? In Religion, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.iii.14 | Herne's Oak, with obscured lights, which, at the very | Hernes Oake, with obscur'd Lights; which at the very |
| Othello | Oth II.i.249 | Lechery, by this hand: an index and obscure prologue | Leacherie by this hand: an Index, and obscure prologue |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.154 | A little, little grave, an obscure grave; | A little little Graue, an obscure Graue. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.86 | And what obscured in this fair volume lies | And what obscur'd in this faire volume lies, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.77 | And wandered hither to an obscure plot, | And wandred hither to an obscure plot, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.148 | I will drop in his way some obscure epistles of | I will drop in his way some obscure Epistles of |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.8 | The gracious mark o'th' land, you have obscured | The gracious marke o'th' Land, you haue obscur'd |