| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.65 | syllable of your worthiness. | syllable of your worthinesse. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.56 | syllables. And though I must be content to bear with | syllables. And though I must be content to beare with |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.56 | Your tongue, though but bastards and syllables | your Tongue; / Though but Bastards, and Syllables |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.195.2 | No, not a syllable: | No, not a sillable: |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.39.1 | One syllable against him? | One syllable against him? |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.22 | syllable of thy addition. | sillable of thy addition. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.8.1 | Like syllable of dolour. | Like Syllable of Dolour. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.21 | To the last syllable of recorded time; | To the last Syllable of Recorded time: |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.125 | By every syllable a faithful verity. | By euery sillable a faithful veritie. |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.5 | Each syllable that breath made up between them. | Each syllable that breath made vp betweene them. |
| Pericles | Per II.v.71 | To any syllable that made love to you. | To any sillable that made loue to you? |
| Pericles | Per V.i.168 | By the syllable of what you shall deliver. | by the syllable of what you shall deliuer, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.501.2 | To th' syllable. | To th' syllable. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.119 | Of every syllable that here was spoke. | Of euery syllable that here was spoke: |