| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.150 | Upon a fearful summons. I have heard | Vpon a fearfull Summons. I haue heard, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.219 | To make this present summons. Unsolicited | To make this present Summons vnsolicited. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.119.1 | This present summons? | This present Summons? |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.6 | A heavy summons lies like lead upon me | A heauie Summons lyes like Lead vpon me, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.64 | That summons thee to heaven or to hell. | That summons thee to Heauen, or to Hell. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.41 | His cloistered flight, ere to black Hecat's summons | His Cloyster'd flight, ere to black Heccats summons |
| Othello | Oth I.i.83 | What is the reason of this terrible summons? | What is the reason of this terrible / Summons? |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.4 | Stays but the summons of the appellant's trumpet. | Stayes but the summons of the Appealants Trumpet. |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.131 | Answer your summons; Juno does command. | Answere your summons, Iuno do's command. |