| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.376 | Of accidental judgements, casual slaughters, | Of accidentall iudgements, casuall slaughters |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.144 | If you give place to accidental evils. | If you giue place to accidentall euils. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.152 | Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade. | Thy sinn's not accidentall, but a Trade; |
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| The Rape of Lucrece | Luc.326 | He takes for accidental things of trial; | He takes for accidentall things of triall. |
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| accidental | happening by chance, fortuitous |
| casual | accidental, subject to mischance |
| squandering | random, stray, accidental |
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