| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.39 | give. Wherefore, what's the instance? Tongue, I must | giue, wherefore what's the instance. Tongue, I must |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.157 | Full of wise saws and modern instances, | Full of wise sawes, and moderne instances, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.49 | Instance, briefly; come, instance. | Instance, briefly: come, instance. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.54 | sweat of a man? Shallow, shallow. A better instance, I | sweat of a man? Shallow, shallow: A better instance I |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.58 | again. A more sounder instance; come. | agen: a more sounder instance, come. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.65 | very uncleanly flux of a cat. Mend the instance, shepherd. | verie vncleanly fluxe of a Cat. Mend the instance Shepheard. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.65 | Gave any tragic instance of our harm. | Gaue any Tragicke Instance of our harme: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.87 | Besides this present instance of his rage, | Besides this present instance of his rage, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.192 | The instances that second marriage move | The instances that second Marriage moue, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.164 | It sends some precious instance of itself | It sends some precious instance of it selfe |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.56.1 | Give then such instances of loss? | Giue then such instances of Losse? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.99 | A certain instance that Glendower is dead. | A certaine instance, that Glendour is dead. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.83 | Of every minute's instance, present now, | Of euery Minutes instance (present now) |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.119 | Gave thee no instance why thou shouldst do treason, | Gaue thee no instance why thou shouldst do treason, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.159 | What instance gives Lord Warwick for his vow? | What instance giues Lord Warwicke for his vow. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.ii.16 | But not with such familiar instances, | But not with such familiar instances, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.802 | I will be thine; and, till that instance, shut | I will be thine: and till that instant shut |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.128 | Gives me this instance. Already he hath carried | Giues me this instance: Already he hath carried |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.236 | my hand, my desires had instance and argument to | my hand; my desires had instance and argument to |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.38 | instances, which shall bear no less likelihood than to | instances which shall beare no lesse likelihood, than to |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.69 | An old, an old instance, Beatrice, that lived in | An old, an old instance Beatrice, that liu'd in |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.25 | Tell him his fears are shallow, without instance; | Tell him his Feares are shallow, without instance. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.77 | But for these instances: | But for these instances. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.156 | Instance, O instance, strong as Pluto's gates! | Instance, O instance! strong as Plutoes gates: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.158 | Instance, O instance, strong as heaven itself! | Instance, O instance, strong as heauen it selfe: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.40 | loathed? What verse for it? What instance for it? – Let | loath'd? What Verse for it? what instance for it? let |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.iii.12 | So far exceed all instance, all discourse, | So farre exceed all instance, all discourse, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.16 | What instance of the contrary? | What instance of the contrary? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.70 | And instances of infinite of love, | And instances of infinite of Loue, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.590 | The scene you play were mine. For instance, sir, | The Scene you play, were mine. For instance Sir, |