| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.43 | Bequeathed down from many ancestors, | Bequeathed downe from manie Ancestors, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.47 | Bequeathed down from many ancestors, | Bequeathed downe from many Ancestors, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.196 | Of six preceding ancestors, that gem | Of sixe preceding Ancestors that Iemme |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xii.44 | Alcides, thou mine ancestor, thy rage. | Alcides, thou mine Ancestor, thy rage. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.244.1 | Was his great ancestor. | Was his great Ancestor. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.18 | The kings your ancestors, together with | The Kings your Ancestors, together with |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.55 | Our ancestor was that Mulmutius which | Our Ancestor was that Mulmutius, which |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.48.1 | Good ancestors. | Good Ancestors. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.31 | Quite from the flight of all thy ancestors. | Quite from the flight of all thy ancestors. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.11 | Will have a wild trick of his ancestors. | Will haue a wilde tricke of his Ancestors: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.61 | When I am sleeping with my ancestors. | When I am sleeping with my Ancestors. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.102 | Look back into your mighty ancestors. | Looke back into your mightie Ancestors: |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.135 | Bring in to any of your ancestors. | Bring in to any of your Ancestors. |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.92 | From his most famed of famous ancestors, | From his most fam'd, of famous Ancestors, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.112 | I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor, | I (as Aneas, our great Ancestor, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.81 | Have thews and limbs like to their ancestors; | Haue Thewes, and Limbes, like to their Ancestors; |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.53 | My ancestors did from the streets of Rome | My Ancestors did from the streetes of Rome |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.50 | Give him a statue with his ancestors. | Giue him a Statue with his Ancestors. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.14 | and all his ancestors that come after him may. They may | and all his Ancestors (that come after him) may: they may |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.69 | And she lies buried with her ancestors – | And she lies buried with her ancestors: |
| Pericles | Per V.i.89 | My derivation was from ancestors | my deriuation was from ancestors, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.254 | That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows. | That which his Ancestors atchieu'd with blowes: |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.118 | The sceptred office of your ancestors, | The Sceptred Office of your Ancestors, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.41 | Of all my buried ancestors are packed; | Of all my buried Auncestors are packt, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.87 | With burial amongst their ancestors. | With buriall amongst their Auncestors. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.79 | (To Lucius) Speak, Rome's dear friend, as erst our ancestor | Speake Romes deere friend, as 'erst our Auncestor, |