| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.24 | From son to son some four or five descents | From sonne to sonne, some foure or fiue discents, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.10 | My powers are crescent, and my auguring hope | My powers are Cressent, and my Auguring hope |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.24 | and his ascent is not by such easy degrees as those | and his assent is not by such easie degrees as those, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.66 | The mutable, rank-scented meiny, let them | the mutable ranke-sented Meynie, / Let them |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.2 | of a crescent note, expected to prove so worthy as | of a Cressent note, expected to proue so woorthy, as |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.308 | By tasting of our wrath? How of descent | By tasting of our wrath? How of descent |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.11 | For nature crescent does not grow alone | For nature cressant does not grow alone, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.58 | But soft, methinks I scent the morning air. | But soft, me thinkes I sent the Mornings Ayre; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.66 | Of Edward king, the third of that descent; | Of Edward King, the Third of that Descent. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.168 | From whence you spring by lineal descent. | From whence you spring, by Lineall Descent. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.21 | First note that he is near you in descent, | First note, that he is neere you in discent, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.48 | Yet by reputing of his high descent, | Yet by reputing of his high discent, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.72 | And made a preachment of your high descent? | And made a Preachment of your high Descent? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.92 | Show thy descent by gazing 'gainst the sun: | Shew thy descent by gazing 'gainst the Sunne: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.70 | That I was not ignoble of descent; | That I was not ignoble of Descent, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.48 | And will approve fair Isabel's descent, | And will approue faire Issabells discent, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.135 | Judge then, conspirators, by this descent, | Iudge then conspiratours by this descent, |
| King John | KJ V.i.22 | On this Ascension Day, remember well, | On this Ascention day, remember well, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.135 | To the descent and dust below thy foot, | To the discent and dust below thy foote, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.235 | He is no crescent, and his horns are invisible | Hee is no crescent, and his hornes are inuisible, |
| Pericles | Per II.v.61 | That never relished of a base descent. | That neuer relisht of a base discent: |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.107 | And, by the glorious worth of my descent, | And by the glorious worth of my discent, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.135 | To my inheritance of free descent. | To my Inheritance of free Discent. |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.54 | To bar my master's heirs in true descent – | To barre my Masters Heires in true Descent, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.218 | And know their spring, their head, their true descent. | And know their spring, their head, their true descent, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.22 | And twice today picked out the dullest scent. | And twice to day pick'd out the dullest sent, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.13 | O, that a mighty man of such descent, | Oh that a mightie man of such discent, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.178 | In his descent than shall my prompted sword | In his discent; then shall my prompted sword, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.119 | O, ay, make up that. He is now at a cold scent. | O I, make vp that, he is now at a cold sent. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.32 | With falsehood, cowardice, and poor descent – | With falsehood, cowardize, and poore discent: |