| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.10 | Some mortally, some slightly touched, some falling | Some mortally, some slightly touch'd, some falling |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.22 | Too slightly timbered for so loud a wind, | Too slightly timbred for so loud a Winde, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.146 | With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly, | With this contagion, that if I gall him slightly, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.112 | Gone slightly o'er low steps, and now are mounted | Gone slightly o're lowe steppes, and now are mounted |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.144 | That he, so slightly valued in his messenger, | That he so slightly valued in his Messenger, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.167 | To part so slightly with your wife's first gift, | To part so slightly with your wiues first gift, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.266 | guards are but slightly basted on neither. Ere you flout | guardes are but slightly basted on neither, ere you flout |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.19 | Untouched, or slightly handled in discourse; | Vntoucht, or sleightly handled in discourse. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.166 | That slightly shakes his parting guest by th' hand, | That slightly shakes his parting Guest by th'hand; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.28 | Though craving seriousness and skill, passed slightly | Though craving seriousnes, and skill, past slightly |