| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.50 | If idle talk will once be necessary – | If idle talke will once be necessary |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.47 | though? Courage! As horns are odious, they are necessary. | though? Courage. As hornes are odious, they are necessarie. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.77 | giber for the table than a necessary bencher in the | gyber for the Table, then a necessary Bencher in the |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.41 | in the meantime some necessary question of the play be | in the meane time, some necessary Question of the Play be |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.202 | Most necessary 'tis that we forget | Most necessary 'tis, that we forget |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.190 | necessary and meet me tomorrow night in Eastcheap. | necessary, and meete me to morrow night in Eastcheape, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.83 | And by the necessary form of this | And by the necessarie forme of this, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.25 | Who in unnecessary action swarm | Who in vnnecessarie action swarme |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.135 | devil is, as Lucifer and Belzebub himself, it is necessary, | diuel is, as Lucifer and Belzebub himselfe, it is necessary |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.261 | It were but necessary you were waked, | It were but necessarie you were wak't: |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.77 | Our necessary actions in the fear | Our necessary actions, in the feare |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.178 | Our purpose necessary, and not envious; | Our purpose Necessary, and not Enuious. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.36 | Seeing that death, a necessary end, | Seeing that death, a necessary end |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.7 | To lay aside unnecessary soothing, | To lay aside vnnecessary soothing, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.62 | Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter! My | Thou whoreson Zed, thou vnnecessary letter: my |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.150 | Age is unnecessary; on my knees I beg | Age is vnnecessary: on my knees I begge, |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.6 | personal return was most required and necessary. | |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.23 | Of necessary fitness? | Of necessary fitnesse? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.55 | Why he a harmless necessary cat, | Why he a harmlesse necessarie Cat? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.2 | 'Tis necessary he should die; | 'Tis necessary he should dye: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.230 | Omission to do what is necessary | Omission to doe what is necessary, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.667 | an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand is necessary | an open eare, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.772 | necessary. An old sheep-whistling rogue, a ram-tender, | necessarie. An old Sheepe-whistling Rogue, a Ram-tender, |