| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.51 | Extended or contracted all proportions | Extended or contracted all proportions |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.5 | Proportioned to our cause, must be as great | Proportion'd to our cause, must be as great |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.32 | The lists, and full proportions are all made | The Lists, and full proportions are all made |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.60 | Nor any unproportioned thought his act. | Nor any vnproportion'd thought his Act: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iv.15 | Whose power was in the first proportion, | Whose Power was in the first proportion; |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.23 | The just proportion that we gave them out. | The iust proportion that we gaue them out. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.137 | But lay down our proportions to defend | But lay downe our proportions, to defend |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.305 | Therefore let our proportions for these wars | Therefore let our proportions for these Warres |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.109 | But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in | But thou (gainst all proportion) didst bring in |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.45 | So the proportions of defence are filled; | So the proportions of defence are fill'd: |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.124 | of his ransom, which must proportion the losses we | of his ransome, which must proportion the losses we |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.141 | to it, who to disobey were against all proportion of | to it; who to disobey, were against all proportion of |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.20 | And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs. | And large proportion of his strong knit Limbes. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.52 | And least proportion of humanity. | And least proportion of Humanitie: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.231 | Bear that proportion to my flesh and blood | Beare that proportion to my flesh and blood, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.52 | In courage, courtship, and proportion. | In Courage, Courtship, and Proportion: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.175 | His well-proportioned beard made rough and rugged, | His well proportion'd Beard, made ruffe and rugged, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.160 | To disproportion me in every part, | To dis-proportion me in euery part: |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.129 | Must bear the same proportion, and not ever | Must beare the same proportion, and not euer |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.104 | By the proportion of her mightiness. | By the proportion of her mightines, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iv.20 | That the proportion both of thanks and payment | That the proportion both of thanks, and payment, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.22 | In any proportion, or in any language. | In any proportion. or in any language. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.217 | Partly for that her promised proportions | Partly for that her promis'd proportions |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.14 | There must be needs a like proportion | There must be needs a like proportion |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.214 | Where there was no proportion held in love. | Where there was no proportion held in loue: |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.2.2 | Indeed they are disproportioned. | Indeed, they are disproportioned; |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.231 | Foul disproportion, thoughts unnatural. | Foule disproportions, Thoughts vnnaturall. |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.25 | a proportion to live quietly, and so give over. | a proportion to liue quietly, and so giue ouer. |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.124 | Proportionable to the enemy | Proportionable to th'enemy, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.41 | Keep law and form and due proportion, | Keepe Law and Forme, and due Proportion, |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.43 | When time is broke, and no proportion kept. | When Time is broke, and no Proportion kept? |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.18 | I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, | I, that am curtail'd of this faire Proportion, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.110 | Usurp the just proportion of my sorrow? | Vsurpe the iust proportion of my Sorrow? |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.26 | And part in just proportion our small power. | And part in iust proportion our small Power. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.21 | you sing pricksong: keeps time, distance, and proportion. | you sing pricksong, keeps time, distance, and proportion, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.183 | Proportioned as one's thought would wish a man – | Proportion'd as ones thought would wish a man, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.291 | He is as disproportioned in his manners | He is as disproportion'd in his Manners |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.106 | Well shalt thou know her by thine own proportion, | Well maist thou know her by thy owne proportion, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.87 | Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, | Insisture, course, proportion, season, forme, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.29 | The past-proportion of his infinite, | The past proportion of his infinite, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.3 | received my proportion, like the prodigious son, and am | receiu'd my proportion, like the prodigious Sonne, and am |