| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.24 | Thy substance, valued at the highest rate, | Thy substance, valued at the highest rate, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.37 | Doth all the noble substance of a doubt, | |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.257 | For the very substance of the ambitious is merely the | for the very substance of the Ambitious, is meerely the |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.11 | All of one nature, of one substance bred, | All of one Nature, of one Substance bred, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.73 | put all my substance into that fat belly of his – but I | put all my substance into that fat belly of his: but I |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.131 | father's substance! | Fathers substance. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.9 | Their cold intent, tenor, and substance, thus: | Their cold intent, tenure, and substance thus. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.32 | The substance of my speech. If that rebellion | The substance of my Speech. If that Rebellion |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.37 | But now the substance shall endure the like, | But now the substance shall endure the like, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.48 | Then have I substance too. | Then haue I substance too. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.50 | You are deceived. My substance is not here; | You are deceiu'd, my substance is not here; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.62 | These are his substance, sinews, arms, and strength, | These are his substance, sinewes, armes, and strength, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.135 | And yet, in substance and authority, | And yet in substance and authority, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.13 | To your most gracious hands, that are the substance | To your most gracious hands, that are the Substance |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.58 | The sixth part of his substance, to be levied | The sixt part of his Substance, to be leuied |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.326 | Then, that you have sent innumerable substance – | Then, That you haue sent inumerable substance, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.438 | Presents a greater substance than it is; | Presents agreater substaunce then it is: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.26 | The substance of that very fear indeed | the substance of that verie feare in deed, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.198 | If aught within that little-seeming substance, | If ought within that little seeming substance, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.52 | Hast heavy substance, bleed'st not, speak'st, art sound. | Hast heauy substance, bleed'st not, speak'st, art sound, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.47 | Wherever, in your sightless substances, | Where-euer, in your sightlesse substances, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.127 | The substance of my praise doth wrong this shadow | The substance of my praise doth wrong this shadow |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.129 | Doth limp behind the substance. Here's the scroll, | Doth limpe behinde the substance. Here's the scroule, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.325 | As makes it light or heavy in the substance | As makes it light or heauy in the substance, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.34 | I ken the wight. He is of substance good. | I ken the wight: he is of substance good. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.201 | ‘ Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues, | "Loue like a shadow flies, when substance Loue pursues, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.69 | the finger of my substance. If he take her, let him take | the finger of my substance: if he take her, let him take |
| Pericles | Per II.i.3 | Is but a substance that must yield to you, | Is but a substaunce that must yeeld to you: |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.14 | Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows | Each substance of a greefe hath twenty shadows |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.35 | Grows strong and great in substance and in power. | Growes strong and great, in substance and in friends. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.298 | There lies the substance; and I thank thee, King, | There lyes the substance: and I thanke thee King |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.219 | Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers | Then can the substance of ten thousand Souldiers |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.99 | Which is as thin of substance as the air, | Which is as thin of substance as the ayre, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.31 | Brags of his substance, not of ornament. | Brags of his substance, not of Ornament: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.77 | Despised substance of divinest show! | Dispised substance of Diuinest show: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.377 | Dear father, soul and substance of us all – | Deare Father, soule and substance of vs all. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.80 | He takes false shadows for true substances. | He takes false shadowes, for true substances. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.324 | True. The purpose is perspicuous even as substance | The purpose is perspicuous euen as substance, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.15 | You take the sum and substance that I have. | You take the sum and substance that I haue. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.120 | For since the substance of your perfect self | For since the substance of your perfect selfe |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.123 | If 'twere a substance, you would sure deceive it | If 'twere a substance you would sure deceiue it, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.198 | My substance should be statue in thy stead. | My substance should be statue in thy stead. |