| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.127 | His form and cause conjoined, preaching to stones, | His forme and cause conioyn'd, preaching to stones, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.75 | Great men have reaching hands: oft have I struck | Great men haue reaching hands: oft haue I struck |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.135 | that it wants matter to prevent so gross o'erreaching as | that it wants matter to preuent so grosse ore-reaching as |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.20 | Is a black Ethiop reaching at the sun. | Is a blacke Ethyope reaching at the Sunne: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.31 | High-reaching Buckingham grows circumspect. | High-reaching Buckingham growes circumspect. |