| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.86 | There was a fourth man, in a silly habit, | There was a fourth man, in a silly habit, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.21 | Alas, this is a child, a silly dwarf! | Alas, this is a Child, a silly Dwarfe: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.72 | Here's a silly stately style indeed! | Heere's a silly stately stile indeede: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.223 | While as the silly owner of the goods | While as the silly Owner of the goods |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.243 | Had I been there, which am a silly woman, | Had I beene there, which am a silly Woman, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.43 | To shepherds looking on their silly sheep | To Shepheards, looking on their silly Sheepe, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.93 | Of threescore-and-two years – a silly time | Of threescore and two yeeres, a silly time |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.137 | But silly ladies with thy threat'ning arms? | But silly Ladies with thy threatning armes: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.18 | If she looked pale, 'twas silly woman's fear, | If she lookt pale, twas silly womans feare, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.29 | Poor silly men, much wronged, and more distressed! | Poore silly men, much wrongd, and more distrest, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.55 | This little business of a silly fraud. | This litle busines of a silly fraude. |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.101 | Than twenty silly-ducking observants | Then twenty silly-ducking obseruants, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.73 | By virtue, thou enforcest laughter; thy silly | By vertue thou inforcest laughter, thy sillie |
| 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 |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.46 | Neighing in likeness of a filly foal; | Neighing in likenesse of a silly foale, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.304 | silly gentleman! | silly Gentleman? |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.305 | It is silliness to live, when to live is torment; | It is sillynesse to liue, when to liue is torment: |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.25 | Nor shall not be the last; like seely beggars, | Nor shall not be the last. Like silly Beggars, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.123 | Till I be brought to such a silly pass! | Till I be brought to such a sillie passe. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.46 | Do use to chant it. It is silly sooth, | Do vse to chaunt it: it is silly sooth, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.81 | A silly answer, and fitting well a sheep. | A silly answere, and fitting well a Sheepe. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.72 | On silly women or poor passengers. | On silly women, or poore passengers. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.27 | this caparison, and my revenue is the silly cheat. | this Caparison, and my Reuennew is the silly Cheate. |