| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.75 | She is too subtle for thee, and her smoothness, | She is too subtile for thee, and her smoothnes; |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.x.17 | Bolder, though not so subtle. My valour's poisoned | Bolder, though not so subtle: my valors poison'd, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.20 | Like to a bowl upon a subtle ground, | Like to a Bowle vpon a subtle ground |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.40 | We are beastly: subtle as the fox for prey, | We are beastly; subtle as the Fox for prey, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.167 | Wherein you range under this subtle King! | Wherein you range vnder this subtill King. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.103 | A subtle knave! But yet it shall not serve. | A subtill Knaue, but yet it shall not serue: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.191 | A subtle traitor needs no sophister. | A subtle Traitor needs no Sophister. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.33 | For Warwick is a subtle orator, | For Warwicke is a subtle Orator: |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.160 | As he is subtle, and as prone to mischief | As he is subtile, and as prone to mischiefe, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.175 | And let our hearts, as subtle masters do, | And let our Hearts, as subtle Masters do, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.318 | Subtle as Sphinx; as sweet and musical | Subtill as Sphinx, as sweet and musicall, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.95 | Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, | Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.93 | politic? Am I subtle? Am I a Machiavel? Shall I lose | politicke? Am I subtle? Am I a Machiuell? Shall I loose |
| Othello | Oth II.i.235 | – a slipper and subtle knave, a finder-out of occasions; | A slipper, and subtle knaue, a finder of occasion: |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.20 | That cannot say as much. This is a subtle whore, | That cannot say as much. This is a subtile Whore: |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.37 | As I am subtle, false, and treacherous, | As I am Subtle, False, and Treacherous, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.152 | Was not incensed by his subtle mother | Was not incensed by his subtile Mother, |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.36 | We live to tell it, that the subtle traitor | We liue to tell it, that the subtill Traytor |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.172 | Thy age confirmed, proud, subtle, sly, and bloody, | Thy Age confirm'd, proud, subtle, slye, and bloody, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.44 | It must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate | It must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.47 | Ay, and a subtle, as he most learnedly | I, and a subtle, as he most learnedly |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.431 | Here's gold. Go, suck the subtle blood o'th' grape | Heere's Gold. Go, sucke the subtle blood o'th'Grape, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.511 | Is not thy kindness subtle-covetous, | Is not thy kindnesse subtle, couetous, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.395 | How comes it that the subtle Queen of Goths | How comes it that the subtile Queene of Gothes, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.198 | What, art thou fallen? What subtle hole is this, | What art thou fallen? / What subtile Hole is this, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.83 | When subtle Greeks surprised King Priam's Troy. | When subtilGreekes surpriz'd King Priams Troy: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.86 | Nor play at subtle games – fair virtues all, | Nor play at subtill games; faire vertues all; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.154 | Admits no orifex for a point as subtle | Admits no Orifex for a point as subtle, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.286 | With an invisible and subtle stealth, | With an inuisible, and subtle stealth |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.92 | Thou subtle, perjured, false, disloyal man, | Thou subtile, periur'd, false, disloyall man: |