| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.140 | Parolles, the gallant militarist – that was his own phrase | Parrolles the gallant militarist, that was his owne phrase |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.108 | Rail thou in Fulvia's phrase, and taunt my faults | Raile thou in Fuluia's phrase, and taunt my faults |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.108 | Or – not to crack the wind of the poor phrase, | Or not to crack the winde of the poore Phrase, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.19 | They clepe us drunkards and with swinish phrase | |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.175 | Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase, | Or by pronouncing of some doubtfull Phrase; |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.47 | According to the phrase or the addition | According to the Phrase and the Addition, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.110 | Ophelia – That's an ill phrase, a vile phrase; ‘ beautified ’ | Ophelia. / That's an ill Phrase, a vilde Phrase, beautified |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.111 | is a vile phrase. But you shall hear. Thus: | is a vilde Phrase: but you shall heare these |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.441 | savoury, nor no matter in the phrase that might indict | sauouty; nor no matter in the phrase, that might indite |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.251 | Bears such an emphasis, whose phrase of sorrow | Beares such an Emphasis? whose phrase of Sorrow |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.155 | The phrase would be more germane to the | The phrase would bee more Germaine to the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.69 | indeed is it. Good phrases are surely, and ever were, | indeede is / good phrases are surely, and euery where |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.71 | accommodo. Very good, a good phrase. | Accommodo: very good, a good Phrase. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.72 | Pardon, sir, I have heard the word – phrase | Pardon, Sir, I haue heard the word. Phrase |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.73 | call you it? By this day, I know not the phrase, but I | call you it? by this Day, I know not the Phrase: but I |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.74 | perfectly in the phrase of war, which they trick up with | perfitly in the phrase of Warre; which they tricke vp with |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.17 | are all one reckonings, save the phrase is a little | are all one reckonings, saue the phrase is a litle |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.34 | For so they phrase 'em – by their heralds challenged | (For so they phrase 'em) by their Heralds challeng'd |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.8 | In better phrase and matter than thou didst. | In better phrase, and matter then thou did'st. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.163 | That hath a mint of phrases in his brain; | That hath a mint of phrases in his braine: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.406 | Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, | Taffata phrases, silken tearmes precise, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.90 | The phrase is to the matter. | The phrase is to the matter. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.139 | The tevil and his tam! What phrase is this, ‘He | The Teuill and his Tam: what phrase is this? he |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.27 | A fico for the phrase! | a fico for the phrase. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.12 | phrase – but I say, love me. By me, | phrase; but I say, loue me: By me, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.26 | cat-a-mountain looks, your red-lattice phrases, and your | Cat-a-Mountaine-lookes, your red-lattice phrases, and your |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.82 | And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace; | And little bless'd with the soft phrase of Peace; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.37 | For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase – | For I am prouerb'd with a Grandsier Phrase, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.42 | phrase indeed. | phrase indeede. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.91 | Her very phrases! By your leave, wax. Soft! and the | Her very Phrases: By your leaue wax. Soft, and the |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.330 | Write from it if you can, in hand or phrase, | Write from it if you can, in hand, or phrase, |