| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.23 | Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls, | Of more preheminence then fish and fowles, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.29 | Affected eminence, wealth, sovereignty; | Affected Eminence, Wealth, Soueraignty; |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.75 | The least pre-eminence that I had won. | The least preheminence that I had won. |
| King Lear | KL I.i.131 | Pre-eminence, and all the large effects | Preheminence, and all the large effects |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.129 | Maugre thy strength, place, youth, and eminence, | Maugre thy strength, place, youth, and eminence, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.31 | Present him eminence both with eye and tongue. | Present him Eminence, both with Eye and Tongue: |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.163 | Or in his eminence that fills it up, | Or in his Eminence that fills it vp |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.90 | In noble eminence enthroned and sphered | In noble eminence, enthron'd and sphear'd |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.252 | You should not have the eminence of him, | You should not haue the eminence of him, |