| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL V.i.42 | other; for all your writers do consent that ‘ ipse ’ is he. | other. For all your Writers do consent, that ipse is hee: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.349 | writers do them wrong to make them exclaim against | Writers do them wrong, to make them exclaim against |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.405 | the name of pitch. This pitch – as ancient writers do report – | the Name of Pitch: this Pitch (as ancient Writers doe report) |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.137 | I'll haste the writer, and withal | Ile haste the Writer; and withall, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.64 | Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say, | Eight hundred fiue. Besides, their Writers say, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.v.58 | the learned writer to set down our excommunication, | the learned writer to set downe our excommunication, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.42 | Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud | Yet Writers say; as in the sweetest Bud, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.45 | And writers say, as the most forward bud | And Writers say; as the most forward Bud |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.19 | From me the witless chaff of such a writer | From me the witles chaffe of such a wrighter |