| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.26 | To lay his gay comparisons apart, | To lay his gay Comparisons a-part, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.68 | comparison – had been something too fair, and too good | comparison, had beene something too faire, and too good |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.245 | and when thou hast tired thyself in base comparisons | and when thou hasttyr'd thy selfe in base comparisons, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.23 | 'orld, I warrant you sall find, in the comparisons between | Orld, I warrant you sall finde in the comparisons betweene |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.42 | speak but in the figures and comparisons of it. As | speak but in the figures, and comparisons of it: as |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.150 | Standest thou aloof upon comparison? | Stand'st thou aloofe vpon Comparison. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.80 | the comparison, thou the beggar, for so witnesseth thy | the comparison) thou the Begger, for so witnesseth thy |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.833 | Full of comparisons and wounding flouts, | Full of comparisons, and wounding floutes: |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.57 | Confronted him with self-comparisons, | Confronted him with selfe-comparisons, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.45 | Fading in music. That the comparison | Fading in musique. That the comparison |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.132 | Do, do; he'll but break a comparison or two | Do, do, hee'l but breake a comparison or two |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.v.15 | Comparisons are odorous; palabras, neighbour | Comparisons are odorous, palabras, neighbour |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.44 | Helen's – well, go to, there were no more comparison | Helens, well go too, there were no more comparison |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.57 | In whose comparison all whites are ink | (In whose comparison, all whites are Inke) |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.62 | O Jupiter, there's no comparison. | Oh Iupiter; there's no comparison. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.194 | To match us in comparisons with dirt, | To match vs in comparisons with durt, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.178 | Yet, after all comparisons of truth, | Yet after all comparisons of truth, |