| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.140 | nature. Virginity breeds mites, much like a cheese, consumes | Nature. Virginitie breedes mites, much like a Cheese, consumes |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.162 | Dissolve my life! The next Caesarion smite, | Dissolue my life, the next Casarian smile, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.104 | By the rebound of yours, a grief that smites | By the rebound of yours, a greefe that suites |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.171 | With one that I have bred? The gods! It smites me | With one that I haue bred: The Gods! it smites me |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.398 | scene individable, or poem unlimited. | Scene indiuidible: or Poem vnlimited. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.57 | dozen of such bearded hermits' staves as Master Shallow. | dozen of such bearded Hermites staues, as Master Shallow. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.117 | And like a hermit overpassed thy days. | And like a Hermite ouer-past thy dayes. |
| King John | KJ V.ii.123 | And warrant limited unto my tongue. | And warrant limited vnto my tongue. |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.7 | Smite flat the thick rotundity o'the world, | Strike flat the thicke Rotundity o'th'world, |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.3 | Crowned with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, | Crown'd with ranke Fenitar, and furrow weeds, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.240 | A withered hermit, fivescore winters worn, | A withered Hermite, fiuescore winters worne, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vi.20.1 | We rest your hermits. | we rest your Ermites. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.49 | For 'tis my limited service. | for 'tis my limitted seruice. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.161 | Alack, how may I do it, having the hour limited, | Alacke, how may I do it? Hauing the houre limited, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.114 | Well, I will smite his noddles. Pray you follow. | Well, I will smite his noddles: pray you follow. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.33 | The Ottomites, reverend and gracious, | The Ottamites. Reueren'd, and Gracious, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.232 | This present war against the Ottomites. | This present Warres against the Ottamites. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.165 | Which heaven hath forbid the Ottomites? | Which Heauen hath forbid the Ottamittes. |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.71 | Made to write ‘ whore ’ upon? What committed! | Made to write Whore vpon? What commited, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.75 | Did I but speak thy deeds. What committed? | Did I but speake thy deedes. What commited? |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.79 | And will not hear it. What committed? | And will not hear't. What commited? |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.II.8 | Losing a mite, a mountain gain. | Loosing a Mite, a Mountaine gaine: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.430 | In limited professions. Rascal thieves, | In limited Professions. Rascall Theeues |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.30.1 | The heavenly limiter pleases. | The heavenly Lymiter pleases. |