| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.216 | You know my father left me some prescriptions | You know my Father left me some prescriptions |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.256 | For this description of thine honesty? A pox | For this description of thine honestie? A pox |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.203 | It beggared all description. She did lie | It beggerd all discription, she did lye |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.50 | Will this description satisfy him? | Will this description satisfie him? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.viii.5 | The prescript of this scroll. Our fortune lies | The Prescript of this Scroule: Our fortune lyes |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.158 | scrip and scrippage. | scrip and scrippage. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.85 | Then should I know you by description. | Then should I know you by description, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.111 | The most sovereign prescription in Galen is but | The most soueraigne Prescription in Galen, is but |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.93 | Be given to your remembrance – the description | Be giuen to your remembrance) the description |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.82 | The scriptures of the loyal Leonatus, | The Scriptures of the Loyall Leonatus, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.i.24 | This is the very description of their meeting-place, | This is the very description of their meeting place |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.177 | Were craked of kitchen-trulls, or his description | Were crak'd of Kitchin-Trulles, or his description |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.142 | This must not be.’ And then I prescripts gave her, | This must not be: and then, I Precepts gaue her, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.51 | And in a postscript here, he says ‘ alone.’ | and in a Post- script here he sayes alone: |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.36 | understand the Scripture? The Scripture says Adam | vnderstand the Scripture? the Scripture sayes Adam |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.130 | should be your patient to follow your prescriptions, the | should bee your Patient, to follow your prescriptions, the |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.36 | good truth, the poet makes a most excellent description | good truth, the Poet makes a most excellent description |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.44 | Me well, which is the prescript praise and | Me well, which is the prescript prayse and |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.51 | Description cannot suit itself in words | Description cannot sute it selfe in words, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.53 | Or doth this churlish superscription | Or doth this churlish Superscription |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.1 | Your wondrous rare description, noble Earl, | Your wondrous rare description (noble Earle) |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.94 | To make prescription for a kingdom's worth. | To make prescription for a Kingdomes worth. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.151 | By your prescription; but this top-proud fellow – | By your prescription: but this top-proud fellow, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.i.17 | In our black sentence and proscription. | In our blacke Sentence and Proscription. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.171 | That by proscription and bills of outlawry | That by proscription, and billes of Outlarie, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.176 | By their proscriptions, Cicero being one. | By their proscriptions, Cicero being one. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.178 | And by that order of proscription. | and by that order of proscription |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.18 | You owe me no subscription; then let fall | You owe me no subscription. Then let fall |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.60.2 | superscript | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.130 | I will overglance the superscript: (reading) | I will ouerglance the superscript. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.519 | A right description of our sport, my lord. | A right description of our sport my Lord. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.35 | them I will describe them and, according to my description | them, I will describe them, and according to my description |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.95 | The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. | The diuell can cite Scripture for his purpose, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.4 | The first, of gold, who this inscription bears, | The first of gold, who this inscription beares, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.14 | I will survey th' inscriptions back again. | I will suruay the inscriptions, backe againe: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.301 | Before a friend of this description | Before a friend of this description |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.200 | description the matter to you, if you be capacity of it. | description the matter to you, if you be capacity of it. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.3 | man, according to the scrip. | man according to the scrip. |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.27 | Put into circumscription and confine | Put into Circumscription, and Confine, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.306 | and then we have a prescription to die, when death is | and then haue we a prescription to dye, when death is |
| Othello | Oth II.i.62 | That paragons description and wild fame; | That paragons description, and wilde Fame: |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.96 | very description. | verie description. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.333 | But then I sigh, and, with a piece of Scripture, | But then I sigh, and with a peece of Scripture, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.81 | Prithee, Apemantus, read me the superscription of | Prythee Apemantus reade me the superscription of |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.412 | 'Tis his description. | 'Tis his description. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iii.1 | By all description this should be the place. | By all description this should be the place. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.166 | my stars be praised! Here is yet a postscript. | my starres be praised. Heere is yet a postscript. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.56 | report to follow it and undoes description to do it. | Report to follow it, and vndo's description to doe it. |