| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.93 | His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls, | His arched browes, his hawking eie, his curles |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.33 | Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch | Let Rome in Tyber melt, and the wide Arch |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.46 | Ne'er through an arch so hurried the blown tide | Ne're through an Arch so hurried the blowne Tide, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.33 | To see this vaulted arch, and the rich crop | To see this vaulted Arch, and the rich Crop |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.5 | Are arched so high that giants may jet through | Are Arch'd so high, that Giants may iet through |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.45 | A most arch heretic, a pestilence | A most Arch-Heretique, a Pestilence |
| King Lear | KL II.i.58 | My worthy arch and patron, comes tonight. | My worthy Arch and Patron comes to night, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.52 | hast the right arched beauty of the brow that becomes | hast the right arched-beauty of the brow, that becomes |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.2 | The most arch deed of piteous massacre | The most arch deed of pittious massacre |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.71 | Whose wat'ry arch and messenger am I, | Whose watry Arch, and messenger, am I. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.106 | Yet an arch-villain keeps him company. | Yet an arch Villaine keepes him company: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.120 | Where they're extended; who like an arch reverb'rate | Where they are extended: who like an arch reuerb'rate |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.20 | Arched like the great-eyed Juno's, but far sweeter, | Arch'd like the great eyd Iuno's, but far sweeter, |