| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.41 | May these same instruments which you profane | May these same Instruments, which you prophane, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.x.20 | Being naked, sick, nor fane nor Capitol, | Being naked, sicke; nor Phane, nor Capitoll, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.123.2 | Profane fellow | Prophane Fellow: |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.242.1 | Than priests and fanes that lie. | Then Priests, and Phanes that lye. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.30 | profanely, that, neither having th' accent of Christians | prophanely) that neyther hauing the accent of Christians, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.232 | We should profane the service of the dead | We should prophane the seruice of the dead, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.64 | Had his great name profaned with their scorns, | Had his great Name prophaned with their Scornes, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.357 | So idly to profane the precious time | So idly to prophane the precious time, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.93 | Hear your own dignity so much profaned, | Heare your owne dignity so much prophan'd, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.53 | So surfeit-swelled, so old, and so profane, | So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so prophane: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.251 | You would profane the holy name of love. | You would prophane the holie name of loue, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.354 | Were to profane the idol than confound it. | Were to prophaine the Idoll then confound it, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.212 | These hallowed gifts of yours when I profane, | These hallowed giftes of yours when I prophane, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.85 | profane my lips on thy foot, my eyes on thy picture, and | prophane my lips on thy foote, my eyes on thy picture, and |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.82 | O most profane coxcomb! | O most prophane coxcombe. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.59.1 | In shape profane. | In shape prophane. |
| Othello | Oth I.i.115 | What profane wretch art thou? | What prophane wretch art thou? |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.378 | For I mine own gained knowledge should profane | For I mine owne gain'd knowledge should prophane |
| Othello | Oth II.i.160 | How say you, Cassio, is he not a most profane and | How say you (Cassio) is he not a most prophane, and |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.59 | O, let no noble eye profane a tear | Oh let no noble eye prophane a teare |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.13 | Should so profane the word, that taught me craft | Should so prophane the word, that taught me craft |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.88 | In an ungracious mouth is but profane. | In an vngracious mouth, is but prophane. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.81 | Unless he do profane, steal, or usurp. | Vnlesse he doe prophane, steale, or vsurpe. |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.25 | Which our profane hours here have thrown down. | Which our prophane houres here haue stricken downe. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.367 | Profaned, dishonoured, and the third usurped. | Prophan'd, dishonor'd, and the third vsurpt. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.369 | The George, profaned, hath lost his lordly honour; | Thy George prophan'd, hath lost his Lordly Honor; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.82 | Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel, – | Prophaners of this Neighbor-stained Steele, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.93 | If I profane with my unworthiest hand | If I prophane with my vnworthiest hand, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.133 | Though his false finger have profaned the ring, | Though his false finger haue prophan'd the Ring, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.152 | My great profaneness 'gainst thine oracle! | My great prophanenesse 'gainst thine Oracle. |