| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.157 | With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! | With such dexterity to Incestuous sheets: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.42 | Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, | I that incestuous, that adulterate Beast |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.83 | A couch for luxury and damned incest. | A Couch for Luxury and damned Incest. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.90 | Or in th' incestuous pleasure of his bed, | Or in th'incestuous pleasure of his bed, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.319 | Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, | Heere thou incestuous, murdrous, / Damned Dane, |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.55 | That art incestuous. Caitiff, to pieces shake, | That art Incestuous. Caytiffe, to peeces shake |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.142 | Is't not a kind of incest to take life | Is't not a kinde of Incest, to take life |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.I.26 | And her to incest did provoke. | And her to Incest did prouoke: |
| Pericles | Per I.i.127 | As with foul incest to abuse your soul; | As with foule Incest to abuse your soule: |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.76 | The rest – hark in thine ear – as black as incest; | The rest harke in thine eare, as blacke as incest, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.II.2 | His child, iwis, to incest bring; | His child I'wis to incest bring: |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.2 | Antiochus from incest lived not free. | Antiochus from incest liued not free: |