| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.112 | O, misery on't! – the wise gods seel our eyes, | (Oh misery on't) the wise Gods seele our eyes |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.146 | I had rather seel my lips than to my peril | I had rather seele my lippes, / Then to my perill |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.48 | Ba, most silly sheep with a horn. You hear his | Ba most seely Sheepe, with a horne: you heare |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.46 | Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night, | Till thou applaud the deed: Come, seeling Night, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.266 | Of feathered Cupid seel with wanton dullness | Of feather'd Cupid, seele with wanton dulnesse |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.208 | To seel her father's eyes up close as oak – | To seele her Fathers eyes vp, close as Oake, |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.25 | Nor shall not be the last; like seely beggars, | Nor shall not be the last. Like silly Beggars, |
| Richard II | R2 V.vi.14 | The heads of Brocas and Sir Bennet Seely, | The heads of Broccas, and Sir Bennet Seely, |