| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.27 | by the operation of your sun; so is your crocodile. | by the operation of your Sun: so is your Crocodile. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.26 | Edge, sting, or operation, I am safe. | Edge, sting, or operation. I am safe: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.95 | A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It | A good Sherris-Sack hath a two-fold operation in it: it |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.404 | And make it lose his operation? | And make it loose his operation: |
| King Lear | KL I.i.111 | By all the operation of the orbs | By all the operation of the Orbes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.8 | and by the operation of the second cup draws him on the | and by the operation of the second cup, drawes him on the |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.203 | Which hath an operation more divine | Which hath an operation more diuine, |