| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.3 | A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, | A vapour sometime, like a Beare, or Lyon, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.213.1 | And forced to drink their vapour. | And forc'd to drinke their vapour. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.90 | Dispersed those vapours that offended us, | Disperst those vapours that offended vs, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.303 | of vapours. What a piece of work is a man, | of vapours. What a piece of worke is a man! |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.201 | Of vapours that did seem to strangle him. | Of vapours, that did seeme to strangle him. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.359 | Borne with black vapour, doth begin to melt | Borne with black Vapour, doth begin to melt, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.97 | and dull and crudy vapours which environ it, makes it | and dull, and cruddie Vapours, which enuiron it: makes it |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.22 | The vapour of our valour will o'erturn them. | The vapour of our Valour will o're-turne them. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.27 | For smoke and dusky vapours of the night, | For smoake, and duskie vapours of the night, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iii.12 | The very beams will dry those vapours up, | Thy very Beames will dry those Vapours vp, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.58 | And as the leaking vapour in the wind | And as the leaking vapour in the wind, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.66 | Vows are but breath, and breath a vapour is; | Vowes are but breath, and breath a vapour is. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.68 | Exhalest this vapour-vow; in thee it is. | Exhalest this vapor-vow, in thee it is: |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.268 | And live upon the vapour of a dungeon | And liue vpon the vapour of a Dungeon, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.163 | And in the vapour of my glory smothered. | And in the vapour of my Glory smother'd. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.97 | Cap-and-knee slaves, vapours, and minute-jacks! | Cap and knee-Slaues, vapours, and Minute Iackes. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.v.2 | Vapours, sighs, darken the day; | Vapours, sighes, darken the day; |