| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.114 | This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it | This was sometime a Paradox, but now the time giues it |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.252 | O paradox! Black is the badge of hell, | O paradoxe, Blacke is the badge of hell, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.136 | These are old fond paradoxes to make fools | These are old fond Paradoxes, to make Fooles |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.24 | You undergo too strict a paradox, | You vndergo too strict a Paradox, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.184 | As stuff for these two to make paradoxes. | As stuffe for these two, to make paradoxes. |