| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.15 | honey bag break not, I would be loath to have you overflown | hony bag breake not, I would be loth to haue yon ouer-flowne |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.25 | A kind overflow of kindness; there are no faces | A kinde ouerflow of kindnesse, there are no faces |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.24 | And now at length they overflow their banks. | And now at length they ouer-flow their bankes. |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.63 | Thy overflow of good converts to bad, | Thy ouerflow of good, conuerts to bad, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.228 | Become a deluge, overflowed and drowned. | Become a deluge: ouerflow'd and drown'd: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.4 | Excess and overflow of power, an't might be, | Exces, and overflow of power, and't might be |