| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.106 | Our temple was he married. Rise, and fade. | Our Temple was he married: Rise, and fade, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.158 | It faded on the crowing of the cock. | It faded on the crowing of the Cocke. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.83 | Be well assured the counterfeit will fade, | Bee well assured the counterfeit will fade, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.129 | How chance the roses there do fade so fast? | How chance the Roses there do fade so fast? |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.20 | Is hacked down, and his summer leaves all faded, | Is hackt downe, and his summer leafes all vaded |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.99 | The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade | The Roses in thy lips and cheekes shall fade |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.v.43 | This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered, | This is a man old, wrinckled, faded, withered, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.400 | Nothing of him that doth fade, | Nothing of him that doth fade, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.155 | And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, | And like this insubstantiall Pageant faded |