| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.195 | Yet never know how that desert should be. | Yet neuer know how that desert should be: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.152 | My love and her desert; that canst not dream | My loue, and her desert: that canst not dreame, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.23 | Being native burghers of this desert city, | Being natiue Burgers of this desert City, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.69 | Can in this desert place buy entertainment, | Can in this desert place buy entertainment, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vi.16 | for lack of a dinner, if there live anything in this desert. | For lacke of a dinner, / If there liue any thing in this Desert. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.111 | That in this desert inaccessible, | That in this desert inaccessible, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.121 | Why should this a desert be? | Why should this Desert bee, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.142 | As how I came into that desert place – | As how I came into that Desert place. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.112 | My wife – but, I protest, without desert – | My wife (but I protest without desert) |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.63 | Mine own desert. | Mine owne desert. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.64 | Your own desert? | Your owne desert. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.73 | That set thee on to this desert, am bound | That set thee on to this desert, am bound |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.526 | desert. | desart. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.528 | man after his desert, and who shall 'scape whipping? | man after his desart, and who should scape whipping: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.54 | let desert mount. | let desert mount. |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.34 | Sooner than quittance of desert and merit | Sooner then quittance of desert and merit, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.76 | Would I were able to load him with his desert! | Would I were able to loade him with his desert. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.153 | And not of any challenge of desert, | And not of any challenge of Desert, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.132 | When I have heard your king's desert recounted, | When I haue heard your Kings desert recounted, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.192 | Shame on himself! For my desert is honour; | Shame on himselfe, for my Desert is Honor. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.72 | But my desert and public law of arms. | But my desert and publike law at armes. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.134 | You less know how to value her desert | You lesse know how to value her desert, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.103 | And dare me to the desert with thy sword: | And dare me to the Desart with thy Sword: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.194 | That would be howled out in the desert air, | That would be howl'd out in the desert ayre, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.9 | O, your desert speaks loud, and I should wrong it | Oh your desert speaks loud, & I should wrong it |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.51 | I will assume desert. Give me a key for this, | I will assume desert; giue me a key for this, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.218 | And the ill counsel of a desert place | And the ill counsell of a desert place, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.32 | Her countless glory, which desert must gain; | Her countlesse glory; which desert must gaine: |
| Pericles | Per I.i.33 | And which without desert because thine eye | And which without desert, because thine eye |
| Pericles | Per II.v.30.1 | Not my desert. | Not my desert. |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.44 | To more approved service and desert. | To more approued seruice, and desert. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.96 | And lay those honours on your high desert. | And lay those Honors on your high desert. |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.68 | That, all without desert, have frowned on me; | That all without desert haue frown'd on me: |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.153 | Your love deserves my thanks, but my desert | Your loue deserues my thankes, but my desert |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.37 | Though this island seem to be desert – | Though this Island seeme to be desert. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.16 | But let desert in pure election shine, | But let Desert in pure Election shine; |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.170 | O, none of both but are of high desert. | Oh none of both but are of high desert: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.91 | have a praise in present. We will not name desert | haue a praise in present: wee will not name desert |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.172 | High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, | High birth, vigor of bone, desert in seruice, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.55 | And not without desert so well reputed. | And not without desert so well reputed. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.159 | And think my patience, more than thy desert, | And thinke my patience, (more then thy desert) |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.18 | For thou hast shown some sign of good desert – | (For thou hast showne some signe of good desert) |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.2 | This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, | This shadowy desart, vnfrequented woods |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.175 | To some remote and desert place, quite out | To some remote and desart place, quite out |