| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.150 | You that will be less fearful than discreet, | You that will be lesse fearefull, then discreet, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.245 | with telling of discreet stories, and such other gambol | with telling of discreete stories: and such other Gamboll |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.209 | Will call discreet proceeding. | Will call discreet proceeding. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.30 | For as it would ill become me to be vain, indiscreet, or a fool, | For as it would ill become me to be vaine, indiscreet, or a foole; |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.136 | discreetly as we can. | discreetly as we can. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.218 | will she love him still for prating? Let not thy discreet | To loue him still for prating, let not thy discreet |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.272 | indiscreet an officer. Drunk! And speak parrot! And | indiscreet an Officer. Drunke? And speake Parrat? And |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.193 | What is it else? A madness most discreet, | What is it else? a madnesse, most discreet, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.239 | You use your manners discreetly in all kind of companies. | you vse your manners discreetly in all kind of companies: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.90 | railing in a known discreet man, though he do nothing | rayling, in a knowne discreet man, though hee do nothing |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.iii.19 | With such a smooth, discreet, and stable bearing | With such a smooth, discreet, and stable bearing |