| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.58 | three year old, conversed with a magician, most profound | three yeare old conuerst with a Magitian, most profound |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.113 | More holy and profound, than mine own life, | More holy, and profound, then mine owne life, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.94 | He raised a sigh so piteous and profound | He rais'd a sigh, so pittious and profound, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.1 | There's matter in these sighs. These profound heaves | There's matters in these sighes. / These profound heaues |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.134 | Conscience and grace to the profoundest pit! | Conscience and Grace, to the profoundest Pit. |
| King John | KJ III.i.318 | When such profound respects do pull you on! | When such profound respects doe pull you on? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.166 | And profound Solomon to tune a jig, | And profound Salomon tuning a Iygge? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.52 | Vilely compiled, profound simplicity. | Vildly compiled, profound simplicitie. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.116 | With such a zealous laughter, so profound, | With such a zelous laughter so profound, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.v.24 | There hangs a vaporous drop profound; | There hangs a vap'rous drop, profound, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.58 | the most profound sciatica? | the most profound Ciatica? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.92 | Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit, | Of wisedome, grauity, profound conceit, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.188 | In most profound earnest; and, I'll warrant | In most profound earnest, and Ile warrant |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.79 | Why sigh you so profoundly? Where's my | Why sigh you so profoundly? wher's my |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.176 | No, my profound heart; and yet, by the very fangs | No my profound heart: and yet (by the verie phangs |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.48 | engraffed madness, but a most thick and profound | engraffed / Madnesse, but a most thicke, and profound |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.487 | The close earth wombs or the profound sea hides | The close earth wombes, or the profound seas, hides |