| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.119 | which hung so tottering in the balance that I could | which hung so tottring in the ballance, that I could |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.175.1 | A balance more replete. | A ballance more repleat. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.67 | I have in equal balance justly weighed | I haue in equall ballance iustly weigh'd, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.103 | Therefore still bear the balance and the sword, | Therefore still beare the Ballance, and the Sword: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.9 | Except a sword or sceptre balance it. | Except a Sword or Scepter ballance it. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.98 | By cold gradation and well-balanced form, | By cold gradation, and weale-ballanc'd forme. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.252 | It is so. Are there balance here to weigh | It is so: Are there ballance heere to weigh |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.310 | A mote will turn the balance which Pyramus, | A Moth wil turne the ballance, which Piramus |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.199 | shall ne'er weigh more reasons in her balance. Nay, an | shall nere weigh more reasons in her ballance, nay, and |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.87 | But in the balance of great Bolingbroke | But in the Ballance of great Bullingbrooke, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.58 | Commit my cause in balance to be weighed. | Commit my Cause in ballance to be weigh'd. |