| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.134 | Whiles a wedlock-hymn we sing, | Whiles a Wedlocke Hymne we sing, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.22 | Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, | Who chaunts a dolefull hymne to his owne death, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.66 | Come ho, and wake Diana with a hymn, | Come hoe, and wake Diana with a hymne, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.73 | Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. | Chanting faint hymnes to the cold fruitlesse Moone, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.102 | No night is now with hymn or carol blessed. | No night is now with hymne or caroll blest; |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iii.11 | Now, music, sound, and sing your solemn hymn. | Now musick sound & sing your solemn hymne |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.88 | Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change; | Our solemne Hymnes, to sullen Dyrges change: |