| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.1.1 | Enter Adriana, wife of Antipholus of Ephesus, with |
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Enter Adriana, wife to Antipholis Sereptus, with |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.19 | He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere; |
He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.324 | are tickle o'th' sere; and the lady shall say her mind | are tickled a'th' sere: and the Lady shall say her minde |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iv.12 | O, prenez miséricorde! Ayez pitié de | O prennes miserecordie aye pitez de |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.41 | serenissima – | serenissima. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.151 | Seems barren, sere, unfertile, fruitless, dry; | Seemes barrayne, sere, vnfertill, fructles dry, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.169 | Until their empty veins be dry and sere. | Vntill their emptie vaines be drie and sere |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.23 | Is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf; | Is falne into the Seare, the yellow Leafe, |