| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.38 | I hear there is an overture of peace. | I heare there is an ouerture of peace. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.99 | As she had made the overture, she ceased | As she had made the ouerture, she ceast |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.46 | An overture for th' wars. No more, I say. | an Ouerture for th' Warres: / No more I say, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.ii.13 | And now what rests but, in night's coverture, | And now, what rests? but in Nights Couerture, |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.88 | That made the overture of thy treasons to us; | That made the ouerture of thy Treasons to vs: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.30 | Is couched in the woodbine coverture. | Is couched in the wood-bine couerture, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.201 | It alone concerns your ear. I bring no overture of | It alone concernes your eare: I bring no ouerture of |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.172.1 | Without more overture. | Without more ouerture. |