| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.142 | by some indirect means or other: for, I assure thee – | by some indirect meanes or other: for I assure thee, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.66 | By indirections find directions out. | By indirections finde directions out: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.65 | I answered indirectly, as I said, | Made me to answer indirectly (as I said.) |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.105 | Too indirect for long continuance. | Too indirect, for long continuance. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.184 | By what by-paths and indirect crooked ways | By what by-pathes, and indirect crook'd-wayes |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.94 | Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held | Your Crowne and Kingdome, indirectly held |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.75 | By any indirection. I did send | By any indirection. I did send |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.37 | And John of Valois indirectly climbs. | And Iohn of Valoys, in directly climbes, |
| King John | KJ II.i.49 | That hot rash haste so indirectly shed. | That hot rash haste so indirectly shedde. |
| King John | KJ III.i.275 | Is to mistake again; though indirect, | Is to mistake again, though indirect, |
| King John | KJ III.i.276 | Yet indirection thereby grows direct, | Yet indirection thereby growes direct, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.vi.1 | To speak so indirectly I am loath. | To speake so indirectly I am loath, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.39 | indirectly to the Jew's house. | indirectlie to the Iewes house. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.347 | That by direct or indirect attempts | That by direct, or indirect attempts |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.356 | That indirectly, and directly too, | That indirectly, and directly to, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.111 | Did you by indirect and forced courses | Did you, by indirect, and forced courses |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.221 | He needs no indirect or lawless course | He needs no indirect, or lawlesse course, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.31 | Fie, what an indirect and peevish course | Fie, what an indirect and peeuish course |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.226 | Thy head, all indirectly, gave direction. | Thy head (all indirectly) gaue direction. |