| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.127 | That pitiful rumour may report my flight | That pittifull rumour may report my flight |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.iii.5 | Belike 'tis but a rumour. Good night | Belike 'tis but a Rumour, good night |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ii.11 | The people mutinous. And it is rumoured, | The people Mutinous: And it is rumour'd, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.125 | Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts; | Let euery feeble Rumor shake your hearts: |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.48 | Go see this rumourer whipped. It cannot be | Go see this Rumorer whipt, it cannot be, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.1 | INDUCTION Enter Rumour, painted full of tongues | INDVCTION Enter Rumour. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.2 | The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks? | The vent of Hearing, when loud Rumor speakes? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.11 | And who but Rumour, who but only I, | And who but Rumour, who but onely I |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.15 | And no such matter? Rumour is a pipe | And no such matter? Rumour, is a Pipe |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.22 | Among my household? Why is Rumour here? | Among my houshold? Why is Rumour heere? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.33 | This have I rumoured through the peasant towns | This haue I rumour'd through the peasant-Townes, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.39 | Than they have learnt of me. From Rumour's tongues | Then they haue learn'd of Me. From Rumours Tongues, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.93 | Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, | Rumor doth double, like the Voice, and Eccho, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.7 | Great is the rumour of this dreadful knight, | Great is the rumour of this dreadfull Knight, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.152 | To stop the rumour and allay those tongues | To stop the rumor; and allay those tongues |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.iv.18 | I heard a bustling rumour like a fray, | I heard a bussling Rumor like a Fray, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.123 | Three days before. But this from rumour's tongue | Three dayes before: but this from Rumors tongue |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.145 | Possessed with rumours, full of idle dreams, | Possest with rumors, full of idle dreames, |
| King John | KJ V.iv.45 | From forth the noise and rumour of the field, | From forth the noise and rumour of the Field; |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.19 | And do not know, ourselves; when we hold rumour | And do not know our selues: when we hold Rumor |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.182 | Which I have heavily borne, there ran a rumour | Which I haue heauily borne, there ran a Rumour |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.46 | That fill his ears with such dissentious rumours. | That fill his eares with such dissentious Rumors. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.49 | Come hither, Catesby. Rumour it abroad | Come hither Catesby, rumor it abroad, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.5 | my lord, and which I hear from common rumours: now | my Lord, and which I heare from common rumours, now |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.3 | What's to be thought of him? Does the rumour | What's to be thought of him? / Does the Rumor |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.270 | For to a vision so apparent rumour | (For to a Vision so apparant, Rumor |