| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.i.1 | But this exceeding posting day and night | But this exceeding posting day and night, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.335 | With strife to please you, day exceeding day. | With strife to please you, day exceeding day: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.viii.4 | Till we have done at sea. Do not exceed | Till we haue done at Sea. Do not exceede |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.vii.3 | Exceeds what we expected. | Exceeds what we expected. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.232 | But justly as you have exceeded all promise, | But iustly as you haue exceeded all promise, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.57 | Those, for their parents were exceeding poor, | Those, for their parents were exceeding poore, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.32 | Will or exceed the common or be caught | Will or exceed the Common, or be caught |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.ii.39 | As far as doth the Capitol exceed | As farre as doth the Capitoll exceede |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.ii.42 | Whom you have banished does exceed you all. | Whom you haue banish'd, does exceed you all. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.228 | Let me have war, say I. It exceeds | Let me haue Warre say I, it exceeds |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.141 | My mistress exceeds in goodness the hugeness of | My Mistris exceedes in goodnesse, the hugenesse of |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.59 | Exceeding pleasant: none a stranger there, | Exceeding pleasant: none a stranger there, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.ii.9 | This lout, as he exceeds our lords, the odds | This Lowt, as he exceeds our Lords, the oddes |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.100 | Exceedingly, my lord. It is very sultry, as 'twere | Exceedingly, my Lord, it is very soultry, as 'twere |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.163 | passes between yourself and him he shall not exceed you | passes betweene you and him, hee shall not exceed you |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.276 | In faith it is exceedingly well aimed. | Infaith it is exceedingly well aym'd. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.160 | Exceedingly well read, and profited | Exceeding well read, and profited, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.67 | exceeding poor and bare, too beggarly. | exceeding poore and bare, too beggarly. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.28 | The number of the King exceedeth ours. | The number of the King exceedeth ours: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.1 | Before God, I am exceeding weary. | Trust me, I am exceeding weary. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.75 | word, and a word of exceeding good command, by | Word, and a Word of exceeding good Command. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.266 | Go to, very good! Exceeding good! O, give me always | go-too, very good, exceeding good. O, giue me alwayes |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.12 | Exceeding ill. | Exceeding ill. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.3 | Exceeding well; his cares are now all ended. | Exceeding well: his Cares / Are now, all ended. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.15 | What should I say? His deeds exceed all speech; | What should I say? his Deeds exceed all speech: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.56 | Exceeding the nine sibyls of old Rome: | Exceeding the nine Sibyls of old Rome: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.90 | And thou shalt find that I exceed my sex. | And thou shalt finde that I exceed my Sex. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.41 | To work exceeding miracles on earth. | To worke exceeding myracles on earth. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.131 | Upon offenders hath exceeded law, | Vpon Offendors, hath exceeded Law, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.75 | Let not her penance exceed the King's commission. | Let not her Penance exceede the Kings Commission. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.70 | That living wrought me such exceeding trouble. | That liuing wrought me such exceeding trouble. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iii.48 | My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel. | My minde exceedes the compasse of her Wheele. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.28 | O, very mad, exceeding mad, in love too; | O very mad, exceeding mad, in loue too; |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.52 | Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; | Exceeding wise, faire spoken, and perswading: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.90 | Ten times ten thousand more the worth exceeds | Ten tymes ten thousand more thy worth exceeds, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.10 | That he's exceeding strongly fortified; | That hees exceeding strongly fortified, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.67 | Exceeding store of treasure, pearl, and coin. | Exceding store of treasure, perle, and coyne, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.84 | Thy word, nor no man's, may exceed his power, | Thy word nor no mans may exceed his power, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.141 | My good knave Costard, exceedingly well met. | O my good knaue Costard, exceedingly well met. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.526 | for, I protest, the schoolmaster is exceeding fantastical; | For I protest, the Schoolmaster is exceeding fantasticall: |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.6 | Exceeds, in that, the lists of all advice | Exceedes (in that) the lists of all aduice |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.67 | You grow exceeding strange. Must it be so? | You grow exceeding strange: must it be so? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.47 | though I say't, is an honest exceeding poor man and, | though I say't is an honest exceeding poore man, and |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.157 | Exceed account; but the full sum of me | Exceed account: but the full summe of me |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.179 | with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the | with a furie, exceedes her as much in beautie, as the |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.162 | And she is exceeding wise. | And she is exceeding wise. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.16 | O, that exceeds, they say. | O that exceedes they say. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.22 | God give me joy to wear it, for my heart is exceedingly | God giue mee ioy to weare it, for my heart is exceeding |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.47 | were ready. By my troth, I am exceeding ill; heigh-ho! | were ready, by my troth I am exceeding ill, hey ho. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.113 | question thou wilt be, if my cousin do not look exceeding | questiõ thou wilt be, if my Cousin do not looke exceeding |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.355 | almost spent; I have been tonight exceedingly well | almost spent; I haue bin to night exceedingly well |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.63 | Exceed three days. In faith, he's penitent: | Exceed three dayes. Infaith hee's penitent: |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.255 | This fellow's of exceeding honesty, | This Fellow's of exceeding honesty, |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.16 | To make some good, but others to exceed, | To make some good, but others to exceed, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.217 | Exceeding those that I can wish upon thee, | Exceeding those that I can wish vpon thee, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.284 | But breeds the giver a return exceeding | But breeds the giuer a returne: exceeding |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.203 | Than such that do e'en enemies exceed. | Then such that do e'ne Enemies exceede. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.155 | Exceeds man's might – that dwells with gods above. | Exceedes mans might, that dwels with gods aboue. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.156 | Very brief, and to exceeding good sense – (aside) | Very breefe, and to exceeding good sence- |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.iii.12 | So far exceed all instance, all discourse, | So farre exceed all instance, all discourse, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.89 | O excellent motion! O exceeding puppet! | Oh excellent motion; oh exceeding Puppet: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.166 | By heaven, my wrath shall far exceed the love | By heauen, my wrath shall farre exceed the loue |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.30 | Exceed the wine of others. All our surgeons | Exceede the wine of others: all our Surgions |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.12 | That Nature ne'er exceeded, nor ne'er shall. | That nature nev'r exceeded, nor nev'r shall: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.46 | Wilt thou exceed in all, or dost thou do't | Wilt thou exceede in all, or do'st thou doe it |