| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.231 | manifold linguist, and the armipotent soldier. | manifold Linguist, and the army-potent souldier. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.95 | And gives his potent regiment to a trull | And giues his potent Regiment to a Trull |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.166 | A land itself at large, a potent dukedom. | A land it selfe at large, a potent Dukedome. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.84 | and potent injuries. | and potent iniuries: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.29 | Who, impotent and bedrid, scarcely hears | Who Impotent and Bedrid, scarsely heares |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.202 | powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not | powerfully, and potently beleeue; yet I holde it not |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.600 | As he is very potent with such spirits, | As he is very potent with such Spirits, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.347 | The potent poison quite o'ercrows my spirit. | The potent poyson quite ore-crowes my spirit, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.109 | omnipotent villain that ever cried ‘ Stand!’ to a true man. | omnipotent Villaine, that euer cryed, Stand, to a true man. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.11 | No man so potent breathes upon the ground | No man so potent breathes vpon the ground, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.136 | But kings and mightiest potentates must die, | But Kings and mightiest Potentates must die, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.76 | Induced by potent circumstances, that | (Induc'd by potent Circumstances) that |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.134 | You are potently opposed, and with a malice | You are Potently oppos'd, and with a Malice |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.124 | Whom should they follow, aged impotent, | Whom should they follow, aged impotent, |
| King John | KJ II.i.358 | You equal potents, fiery-kindled spirits! | You equall Potents, fierie kindled spirits, |
| King Lear | KL II.i.75 | Were very pregnant and potential spurs | Were very pregnant and potentiall spirits |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.642 | The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty, | The Armipotent Mars, of Launces the almighty, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.649 | The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty, | The Armipotent Mars of Launces the almighty, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.675 | Dost thou infamonize me among potentates? | Dost thou infamonize me among Potentates? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.843 | To enforce the pained impotent to smile. | To enforce the pained impotent to smile. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.75 | More potent than the first. | More potent then the first. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.87 | Potent at court. He, none but he, shall have her, | Potent at Court: he, none but he shall haue her, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.7 | Leda. O omnipotent love, how near the god drew to the | Leda: O omnipotent Loue, how nere the God drew to the |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.13 | And hath in his effect a voice potential | And hath in his effect a voice potentiall |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.76 | Most potent, grave and reverend signors, | Most Potent, Graue, and Reueren'd Signiors, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.158 | O, most lame and impotent conclusion! | Oh most lame and impotent conclusion. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.72 | potent in potting. Your Dane, your German, and your | potent in Potting. Your Dane, your Germaine, and your |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.61 | O you most potent gods, what's here? A corse? | Oh you most potent Gods! what's here, a Corse? |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.85 | Yet know, my master, God omnipotent, | Yet know, my Master, God Omnipotent, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.53 | Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary. | Delay leds impotent and Snaile-pac'd Beggery: |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.275 | By help of her more potent ministers, | By helpe of her more potent Ministers, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.34 | What would my potent master? Here I am. | What would my potent master? here I am. |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.50 | By my so potent art. But this rough magic | By my so potent Art. But this rough Magicke |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.22 | Your potent and infectious fevers heap | Your potent and infectious Feauors, heape |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.22 | Too subtle-potent, tuned too sharp in sweetness, | Too subtile, potent, and too sharpe in sweetnesse, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.192 | The reasons are more potent and heroical. | The reasons are more potent and heroycall: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.129 | Bounds in my father's ’ – by Jove multipotent, | Bounds in my fathers: by Ioue multipotent, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.200 | But such a headstrong, potent fault it is, | But such a head-strong potent fault it is, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.77 | With commendation from great potentates, | With Commendation from great Potentates, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.54 | With hand armipotent from forth blue clouds | With hand armenypotent from forth blew clowdes, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.51 | As potent as a lord's. Will you go yet? | As potent as a Lords. Will you goe yet? |