| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.61 | from point, to the full arming of the verity. | from point, to the full arming of the veritie. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.22 | but for his verity in love I do think him as | but for his verity in loue, I doe thinke him as |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.75 | In verity you did. My bones bear witness, | In veritie you did, my bones beares witnesse, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.268 | Than the severity of the public power, | Then the seuerity of the publike Power, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.18 | Of whom he's chief – with all the size that verity | (Of whom hee's cheefe) with all the size that verity |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.115 | respect of his quick sail. But, in the verity of extolment, | |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.46 | Whereon to practise your severity. | Whereon to practise your seueritie. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.159 | 'Twould prove the verity of certain words | 'Twould proue the verity of certaine words |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.25 | Albeit severity lay dead in us. | Albeit seuerity lay dead in vs, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.103 | Sir, in good faith, in sincere verity, | Sir, in good faith, in sincere verity, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.92 | As justice, verity, temperance, stableness, | As Iustice, Verity, Temp'rance, Stablenesse, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.95 | It is too general a vice, and severity must cure it. | It is too general a vice, and seueritie must cure it. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.125 | By every syllable a faithful verity. | By euery sillable a faithful veritie. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.219 | For beauty, starved with her severity, | For beauty steru'd with her seuerity, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.104 | And to say verity, and not to fable, | And to say veritie, and not to fable; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.28 | called true, is so like an old tale that the verity of it is in | call'd true) is so like an old Tale, that the veritie of it is in |