| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.ii.3 | I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught. I | I will shew my selfe highly fed, and lowly taught, I |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.47 | As looks the mother on her lowly babe | As lookes the Mother on her lowly Babe, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.127 | And lowly words were ransom for their fault. | And lowly words were Ransome for their fault: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.111 | By such a lowly vassal as thyself. | By such a lowly Vassall as thy selfe. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.19 | I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, | I sweare, tis better to be lowly borne, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.36 | These couchings, and these lowly courtesies | These couchings, and these lowly courtesies |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.60 | Thou do him lowly homage for the same. | Thou do him lowly homage for the same. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.77 | Is come to France, and with a lowly mind | Is come to Fraunce, and with a lowly minde, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.181 | And, lowly at his stirrup, comes afoot | and lowly at his stirop comes a foot |
| Richard II | R2 II.iv.21 | Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west, | Thy Sunne sets weeping in the lowly West, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.133 | Or lowly factor for another's gain; | Or lowly Factor, for anothers gaine; |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.112 | With soft low tongue and lowly courtesy, | With soft lowe tongue, and lowly curtesie, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.31 | And banish hence these abject lowly dreams. | And banish hence these abiect lowlie dreames: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.96 | Since lowly feigning was called compliment. | Since lowly feigning was call'd complement: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.9 | With a swain's wearing, and me, poor lowly maid, | With a Swaines wearing: and me (poore lowly Maide) |