| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.32 | Open as day for melting charity; | Open (as Day) for melting Charitie: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.174 | And that will quickly dry thy melting tears. | And that will quickly drie thy melting Teares. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.170 | Have wrought the easy-melting King like wax. | Haue wrought the easie-melting King, like Wax. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.41 | Successful fortune, steel thy melting heart | Successefull Fortune steele thy melting heart, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.122 | The melting spirits of women, then, countrymen, | The melting Spirits of women. Then Countrymen, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.345 | Albeit unused to the melting mood, | Albeit vn-vsed to the melting moode, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.7 | Melting with tenderness and mild compassion, | Melted with tendernesse, and milde compassion, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.66 | Melting the darkness, so their rising senses | (Melting the darkenesse) so their rising sences |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.212 | When they do hug him in their melting bosoms. | When they do hug him in their melting bosomes. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.224 | A sea of melting pearl, which some call tears; | A Sea of melting pearle, which some call teares; |