| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.320.1 | Drink off this potion. | Drinke off this Potion: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.55 | As all the poisonous potions in the world, | As all the poysonous Potions in the world, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.197 | As men drink potions, that their weapons only | As men drinke Potions; that their Weapons only |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.128 | patient. Your lordship may minister the potion of | Patient: your Lordship may minister the Potion of |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.406 | And give the bitter potion of reproach | And giue the bitter portion of reproch: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.94 | my doctor? No; he gives me the potions and the | my Doctor? No, hee giues me the Potions and the |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.264 | Out, loathed medicine! O hated potion, hence! | Out loathed medicine; O hated poison hence. |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.68 | That ministers a potion unto me | That ministers a potion vnto me: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.244 | A sleeping potion; which so took effect | A sleeping Potion, which so tooke effect |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.249 | Being the time the potion's force should cease. | Being the time the Potions force should cease. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.319 | I could do this, and that with no rash potion, | I could doe this, and that with no rash Potion, |