| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.74 | Quicken a rock, and make you dance canary | Quicken a rocke, and make you dance Canari |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.69 | That quickens Nilus' slime, I go from hence | That quickens Nylus slime, I go from hence |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.39 | Quicken with kissing. Had my lips that power, | Quicken with kissing: had my lippes that power, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.115 | Requickened what in flesh was fatigate, | Requickned what in flesh was fatigate, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.20 | And when the mind is quickened, out of doubt | And when the Mind is quickned, out of doubt |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.13 | Quickened with youthful spleen and warlike rage, | Quicken'd with Youthfull Spleene, and Warlike Rage, |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.39 | Will quicken and accuse thee. I am your host; | Will quicken and accuse thee. I am your Host, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.492 | Methinks I see a quickening in his eye. | Methinkes I see a quickning in his eye: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.viii.52 | And quicken his embraced heaviness | And quicken his embraced heauinesse |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.274 | When we do quicken. Desdemona comes: | When we do quicken. Looke where she comes: |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.66 | That quicken even with blowing, O, thou weed, | That quicken euen with blowing. Oh thou weed: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.124 | My words are dull. O, quicken them with thine! | My words are dull, O quicken them with thine. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.297 | To quicken your increase I will beget | To quicken your encrease, I will beget |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.36 | Music and poesy use to quicken you, | Musicke and Poesie vse, to quicken you, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.6 | The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead, | The Mistris which I serue, quickens what's dead, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.185 | Whereon Hyperion's quickening fire doth shine – | Whereon Hyperions quickning fire doth shine: |