| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.98 | sprat you shall find him; which you shall see this very | a sprat you shall finde him, which you shall see this verie |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.178 | My lord, this is a fond and desperate creature | My Lord, this is a fond and desp'rate creature, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.140 | That desperately he hurried through the street, | That desp'rately he hurried through the streete, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.54 | Then follow thou thy desperate sire of Crete, | Then follow thou thy desp'rate Syre of Creet, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.128 | And haste is needful in this desperate case. | And haste is needfull in this desp'rate case. |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.20 | As dissolute as desperate. Yet through both | As dissolute as desp'rate, yet through both, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.170 | Thy schooldays frightful, desperate, wild, and furious; | Thy School-daies frightfull, desp'rate, wilde, and furious, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.233 | And I, in such a desperate bay of death, | And I in such a desp'rate Bay of death, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.465 | Has desperate want made! | has desp'rate want made? |