| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.44 | Sluttery, to such neat excellence opposed | Sluttery to such neate Excellence, oppos'd |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.130 | We'll put on those shall praise your excellence | Wee'l put on those shall praise your excellence, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.135 | You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes | Sir, you are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.138 | with him in excellence. But to know a man well were to | |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.113 | Hath got the voice in hell for excellence. | Hath got the voyce in hell for excellence: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.4 | They humbly sue unto your excellence | They humbly sue vnto your Excellence, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.94 | Lord Regent, I do greet your excellence | Lord Regent, I do greete your Excellence |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.3 | As procurator to your excellence, | As Procurator to your Excellence, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.159 | ‘ Jesu maintain your royal excellence!’ | Iesu maintaine your Royall Excellence, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.117 | To be Protector of his excellence? | To be Protector of his Excellence? |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.32 | Of her that loves him with that excellence | Of her that loues him with that excellence, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.103 | When they excelled this excellence they have, | When they exceld this excellence they haue, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.6 | Gobin de Grace, if please your excellence. | Gobin de Graie if please your excellence, |
| King John | KJ II.i.439 | And she a fair divided excellence, | And she a faire diuided excellence, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.66 | And breathing to this breathless excellence | And breathing to his breathlesse Excellence |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.293 | And abstinence engenders maladies. | And abstinence ingenders maladies. / And where that you haue vow'd to studie (Lords) / In that each of you haue forsworne his Booke. / Can you still dreame and pore, and thereon looke. / For when would you my Lord, or you, or you, / Haue found the ground of studies excellence, / Without the beauty of a womans face; / From womens eyes this doctrine I deriue, / They are the Ground, the Bookes, the Achadems, / From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire. / Why, vniuersall plodding poysons vp / The nimble spirits in the arteries, / As motion and long during action tyres / The sinnowy vigour of the trauailer. / Now for not looking on a womans face, / You haue in that forsworne the vse of eyes: / And studie too, the causer of your vow. / For where is any Author in the world, / Teaches such beauty as a womans eye: / Learning is but an adiunct to our selfe, / And where we are, our Learning likewise is. / Then when our selues we see in Ladies eyes, / With our selues. / Doe we not likewise see our learning there? |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.37 | The smallest scruple of her excellence | The smallest scruple of her excellence, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.99 | His excellence did earn it ere he had it. | His excellence did earne it ere he had it: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.113 | What is thy excellence in a galliard, knight? | What is thy excellence in a galliard, knight? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.30 | So much the more our carver's excellence, | So much the more our Caruers excellence, |