| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.88 | Must I be comforted, not in his sphere. | Must I be comforted, not in his sphere; |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.14 | To be called into a huge sphere, and | To be call'd into a huge Sphere, and |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.10 | Burn the great sphere thou mov'st in; darkling stand | Burne the great Sphere thou mou'st in, darkling stand |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.84 | As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends; | As all the tuned Spheres, and that to Friends: |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.6 | We shall have shortly discord in the spheres. | We shall haue shortly discord in the Spheares: |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.3 | With thy chaste eye, from thy pale sphere above, | With thy chaste eye, from thy pale spheare aboue |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.17 | Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, | Make thy two eyes like Starres, start from their Spheres, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.15 | That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, | That as the Starre moues not but in his Sphere, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.64 | Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere, | Two Starres keepe not their motion in one Sphere, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.74 | Now, now, you stars that move in your right spheres, | Now, now you Starres, that moue in your right spheres, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.7 | Swifter than the moon's sphere, | swifter then ye Moons sphere; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.153 | And certain stars shot madly from their spheres | And certaine starres shot madly from their Spheares, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.61 | As yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere. | As yonder Venus in her glimmering spheare. |
| Pericles | Per V.i.229 | The music of the spheres! List, my Marina! | the Musicke of the Spheres, list my Marina. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.17 | To twinkle in their spheres till they return. | To twinckle in their Spheres till they returne. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.186 | lift the moon out of her sphere, if she would continue in | lift the Moone out of her spheare, if she would continue in |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.69 | That labour on the bosom of this sphere | That labour on the bosome of this Sphere, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.90 | In noble eminence enthroned and sphered | In noble eminence, enthron'd and sphear'd |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.8 | Blow, villain, till thy sphered bias cheek | Blow villaine, till thy sphered Bias cheeke |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.107.1 | Than music from the spheres. | Then Musicke from the spheares. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.114 | Had almost drawn their spheres, that what was life | Had almost drawne their spheeres, that what was life |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.48 | Though you would seek t' unsphere the stars with oaths, | Though you would seek t'vnsphere the Stars with Oaths, |