| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.75 | With sprightly fire and motion; whose simple touch | With sprightly fire and motion, whose simple touch |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.vii.16 | Once for thy sprightly comfort, and tenfold | Once for thy sprightly comfort, and ten-fold |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.52 | And with our sprightly port make the ghosts gaze: | And with our sprightly Port make the Ghostes gaze: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.199 | We talk with goblins, owls, and sprites. | We talke with Goblins, Owles and Sprights; |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.229 | peace as far as day does night. It's spritely walking, | peace as farre as day do's night: It's sprightly walking, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.138.2 | I am sprited with a fool, | I am sprighted with a Foole, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.47.1 | Be sprightly, for you fall 'mongst friends. | Be sprightly, for you fall 'mongst Friends. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.429 | Appeared to me, with other spritely shows | Appear'd to me, with other sprightly shewes |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.335 | Mortimer, and old Northumberland, and that sprightly | Mortimer, and old Northumberland, and the sprightly |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.177 | Spoke like a sprightful noble gentleman! | Spoke like a sprightfull Noble Gentleman. |
| King Lear | KL II.iii.16 | Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary; | Pins, Wodden-prickes, Nayles, Sprigs of Rosemarie: |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.76 | As from your graves rise up and walk like sprites | As from your Graues rise vp, and walke like Sprights, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.v.27 | Shall raise such artificial sprites | Shall raise such Artificiall Sprights, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.126 | Come, sisters, cheer we up his sprites | Come Sisters, cheere we vp his sprights, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.23 | A softly-sprighted man, is he not? | A softly-sprighted man, is he not? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.371 | Every one lets forth his sprite | Euery one lets forth his spright, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.383 | Every elf and fairy sprite | Euerie Elfe and Fairie spright, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.3 | The Duke of Norfolk, sprightfully and bold, | The Duke of Norfolke, sprightfully and bold, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.380 | And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. | and sweete Sprights beare the burthen. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.114 | These be fine things, an if they be not sprites. | These be fine things, and if they be not sprights: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.30 | Of all this sprightly sharpness not a smile. | Of all this sprightly sharpenes, not a smile; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.26.1 | Of sprites and goblins. | of Sprights, and Goblins. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.28 | To fright me with your sprites. You're powerful at it. | To fright me with your Sprights: you're powrefull at it. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.53 | Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, | Addresse your selfe to entertaine them sprightly, |