| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.75 | With sprightly fire and motion; whose simple touch | With sprightly fire and motion, whose simple touch |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.vii.16 | Once for thy sprightly comfort, and tenfold | Once for thy sprightly comfort, and ten-fold |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.52 | And with our sprightly port make the ghosts gaze: | And with our sprightly Port make the Ghostes gaze: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.199 | We talk with goblins, owls, and sprites. | We talke with Goblins, Owles and Sprights; |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.229 | peace as far as day does night. It's spritely walking, | peace as farre as day do's night: It's sprightly walking, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.138.2 | I am sprited with a fool, | I am sprighted with a Foole, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.47.1 | Be sprightly, for you fall 'mongst friends. | Be sprightly, for you fall 'mongst Friends. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.214 | Some upright justicer! Thou, king, send out | Some vpright Iusticer. Thou King, send out |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.429 | Appeared to me, with other spritely shows | Appear'd to me, with other sprightly shewes |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.335 | Mortimer, and old Northumberland, and that sprightly | Mortimer, and old Northumberland, and the sprightly |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.81 | Away, you whoreson upright rabbit, away! | Away, you horson vpright Rabbet, away. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.39 | If truth and upright innocency fail me, | If Troth, and vpright Innocency fayle me, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.95 | Just and upright, and for your royal birth | Iust, and vpright; and for your Royall Birth, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.365 | Him caper upright like a wild Morisco, | Him capre vpright, like a wilde Morisco, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.iii.15 | Comb down his hair; look, look, it stands upright, | Combe downe his haire; looke, looke, it stands vpright, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.78 | With whom an upright zeal to right prevails | With whom, in vpright zeale to right, preuailes |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.31 | In all things that uprightly he commands; | In all things that vprightly he commands: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.25 | That all his gilded upright pikes do seem | That all his guilded vpright pikes do seeme, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.177 | Spoke like a sprightful noble gentleman! | Spoke like a sprightfull Noble Gentleman. |
| King Lear | KL II.iii.16 | Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary; | Pins, Wodden-prickes, Nayles, Sprigs of Rosemarie: |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.27.1 | Would I not leap upright. | For all beneath the Moone would I not leape vpright. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.87.1 | As upright as the cedar. | As vpright as the Cedar. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.76 | As from your graves rise up and walk like sprites | As from your Graues rise vp, and walke like Sprights, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.v.27 | Shall raise such artificial sprites | Shall raise such Artificiall Sprights, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.126 | Come, sisters, cheer we up his sprites | Come Sisters, cheere we vp his sprights, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.202 | uprighteously do a poor wronged lady a merited benefit, | vprighteously do a poor wronged Lady a merited benefit; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.69 | The Lord Bassanio live an upright life, | The Lord Bassanio liue an vpright life |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.247 | 'Tis very true. O wise and upright judge! | 'Tis verie true: O wise and vpright Iudge, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.310 | O upright judge! Mark, Jew. O learned judge! | O vpright Iudge, / Marke Iew, ô learned Iudge. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.320 | O Jew! An upright judge, a learned judge! | O Iew, an vpright Iudge, a learned Iudge. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.23 | A softly-sprighted man, is he not? | A softly-sprighted man, is he not? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.371 | Every one lets forth his sprite | Euery one lets forth his spright, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.383 | Every elf and fairy sprite | Euerie Elfe and Fairie spright, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.121 | The unstooping firmness of my upright soul. | The vn-stooping firmenesse of my vpright soule. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.3 | The Duke of Norfolk, sprightfully and bold, | The Duke of Norfolke, sprightfully and bold, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.87 | A loyal, just, and upright gentleman. | A loyall, iust, and vpright Gentleman: |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.118 | Were enough noble to be upright judge | Were enough Noble, to be vpright Iudge |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.39 | And I believe will never stand upright | And I beleeue will neuer stand vpright, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.55 | O upright, just, and true-disposing God, | O vpright, iust, and true-disposing God, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.380 | And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. | and sweete Sprights beare the burthen. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.114 | These be fine things, an if they be not sprites. | These be fine things, and if they be not sprights: |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.3 | Goes upright with his carriage. How's the day? | Goes vpright with his carriage: how's the day? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.14 | In purity of manhood stand upright, | In puritie of Manhood stand vpright |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.51 | In thy uprightness and integrity, | In thy vprightnesse and Integrity: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.203 | Upright he held it, lords, that held it last. | Vpright he held it Lords, that held it last. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.136 | And set them upright at their dear friends' door, | And set them vpright at their deere Friends doore, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.30 | Of all this sprightly sharpness not a smile. | Of all this sprightly sharpenes, not a smile; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.26.1 | Of sprites and goblins. | of Sprights, and Goblins. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.28 | To fright me with your sprites. You're powerful at it. | To fright me with your Sprights: you're powrefull at it. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.98 | Out upon him! Prig, for my life, prig! He haunts | Out vpon him: Prig, for my life Prig: he haunts |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.53 | Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, | Addresse your selfe to entertaine them sprightly, |