| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.66 | While shameful hate sleeps out the afternoon. | While shamefull hate sleepes out the afternoone. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.28 | be married to three kings in a forenoon and widow them | be married to three Kings in a forenoone, and Widdow them |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.20 | To reel the streets at noon, and stand the buffet | To reele the streets at noone, and stand the Buffet |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.47 | But till this afternoon his passion | But till this afternoone his passion |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.259 | Which he treads on at noon. But I do wonder | which he treads on at noone, but I do wonder, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.71 | play the idle housewife with me this afternoon. | play the idle Huswife with me this afternoone. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.65 | You wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a | you weare out a good wholesome Forenoone, in hearing a |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.222 | shall have the drum struck up this afternoon. 'Tis as it | shall haue the Drum strooke vp this afternoone: 'Tis as it |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.31 | At the sixth hour of morn, at noon, at midnight, | At the sixt houre of Morne, at Noone, at Midnight, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.60 | My custom always of the afternoon, | My custome alwayes in the afternoone; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.4 | upon benches after noon, that thou hast forgotten to | vpon Benches in the afternoone, that thou hast forgotten to |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.197 | At two o'clock in the afternoon. | At two a clocke in the afternoone, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.189 | in the afternoon, with a white head, and something a | with a white head, & somthing a |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.53 | Born to eclipse thy life this afternoon. | Borne to eclipse thy Life this afternoone: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.34 | And made an evening at the noontide prick. | And made an Euening at the Noone-tide Prick. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.27 | Even at noon-day, upon the market-place, | Euen at Noone-day, vpon the Market place, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.148 | My love shall brave the eye of heaven at noon, | My loue shallbraue the ey of heauen at noon, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.34 | And made at noon a night unnatural | And made at noone a night vnnaturall, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.151 | That, ere the next Ascension Day at noon, | That ere the next Ascension day at noone, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.156 | And on that day at noon whereon he says | And on that day at noone, whereon he sayes |
| King John | KJ V.i.26 | Say that before Ascension Day at noon | Say, that before Ascension day at noone, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.94 | If you think meet, this afternoon will post | If you thinke meete, this afternoone will poast |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.132 | There shall he sit till noon. | there shall he sit till Noone. |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.133 | Till noon? Till night, my lord, and all night too. | Till noone? till night my Lord, and all night too. |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.83 | And I'll go to bed at noon. | And Ile go to bed at noone. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.152 | This afternoon. | O this after-noone. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.158 | It must be done this afternoon. | It must be done this after-noone, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.352 | Of his fair mistress. In the afternoon | Of his faire Mistresse, in the afternoone |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.85 | call the afternoon. | call the after-noone. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.88 | afternoon. The word is well culled, choice, sweet, and | after-noone: the word is well culd, chose, sweet, and |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.19.1 | Ride you this afternoon? | Ride you this afternoone? |
| Macbeth | Mac III.v.22 | Great business must be wrought ere noon. | Great businesse must be wrought ere Noone. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.160.2 | At any time 'forenoon. | At any time 'fore-noone. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.119 | in the afternoon, Barnardine. For my better satisfaction, | in the afternoone Bernardine: For my better satisfaction, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.126 | th' afternoon? | th' afternoone? |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.81 | But Barnardine must die this afternoon, | But Barnardine must die this afternoone, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.82 | most vilely in the afternoon when he is drunk. When he | most vildely in the afternoone when hee is drunke: when he |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.26 | on Ash Wednesday was four year in th' afternoon. | on ashwensday was foure yeere in th' afternoone. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.55 | Her brother's noontide with the Antipodes. | Her brothers noonetide, with th' Antipodes. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.61 | On Tuesday noon, or night; on Wednesday morn. | On Tuesday noone, or night; on Wensday Morne. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.77 | Makes the night morning and the noontide night. | Makes the Night Morning, and the Noon-tide night: |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.185 | Even in the afternoon of her best days, | Euen in the after-noone of her best dayes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.100 | And, Montague, come you this afternoon, | And Mountague come you this afternoone, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.110 | the dial is now upon the prick of noon. | the Dyall is now vpon the pricke of Noone. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.177 | Some means to come to shrift this afternoon, | some meanes to come to shrift this afternoone, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.182 | This afternoon, sir? Well, she shall be there. | This afternoone sir? well she shall be there. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.273 | Please ye we may contrive this afternoon, | Please ye we may contriue this afternoone, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.96 | afternoon as she went to the garden for parsley to stuff a | afternoone as shee went to the Garden for Parseley to stuffe a |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.89 | I'th' afternoon to sleep. There thou mayst brain him, | I'th afternoone to sleepe: there thou maist braine him, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.42 | The noontide sun, called forth the mutinous winds, | The Noone-tide Sun, call'd forth the mutenous windes, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.145 | Than love that would seem hid: love's night is noon. | Then loue that would seeme hid: Loues night, is noone. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.47 | This afternoon to ride; but 'tis a rough one. | This after noone to ride, but tis a rough one. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.290 | Hours minutes? Noon midnight? And all eyes | Houres, Minutes? Noone, Mid-night? and all Eyes |