| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.316 | My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left, | My wasting lampes some fading glimmer left; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.61 | I will, if that my fading breath permit | I will, if that my fading breath permit, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.147 | But like a fading taper, dim and dead? | But like a fading taper dym and dead. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.45 | Fading in music. That the comparison | Fading in musique. That the comparison |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.30 | Coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth, | Coy looks, with hart-sore sighes: one fading moments mirth, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.197 | and fadings, jump her and thump her; and where some | and Fadings: Iump-her, and thump-her; and where some |