| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.127 | The opposite of itself. She's good, being gone; | The opposite of it selfe: she's good being gon, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.1 | Enter Orlando and Adam from opposite sides | Enter Orlando and Adam. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.19 | nothing undone that may fully discover him their opposite. | nothing vndone, that may fully discouer him their opposite. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.230 | Each opposite that blanks the face of joy | Each opposite that blankes the face of ioy, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.55 | To weigh against his opposite; or else | To weigh against his Opposite? Or else, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.16 | And fearful meeting of their opposite. | And fearefull meeting of their Opposite. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.251 | Free from a stubborn opposite intent, | Free from a stubborne opposite intent, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.412 | Exeunt in opposite directions | Exeunt |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.134 | Thou art as opposite to every good | Thou art as opposite to euery good, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.182 | And every grief his happy opposite: | And euery griefe his happie opposite, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.454 | The shame is treble by the opposite. | The shame is treble, by the opposite, |
| King John | KJ III.i.254 | Save what is opposite to England's love. | Saue what is opposite to Englands loue. |
| King John | KJ V.ii.124 | The Dauphin is too wilful-opposite, | The Dolphin is too wilfull opposite |
| King Lear | KL II.i.1 | Enter Edmund and Curan by opposite doors | Enter Bastard, and Curan, seuerally. |
| King Lear | KL II.i.48 | Seeing how loathly opposite I stood | Seeing how lothly opposite I stood |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.1.1 | Enter Kent and Oswald by opposite doors | Enter Kent, aad Steward seuerally. |
| King Lear | KL III.i.1.1 | Storm still. Enter Kent and a Gentleman by opposite | Storme still. Enter Kent, and a Gentleman, |
| King Lear | KL III.i.55 | Exeunt by opposite doors | Exeunt. |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.106 | Exeunt by opposite doors | Exeunt, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.151 | An unknown opposite. Thou art not vanquished, | An vnknowne opposite: thou art not vanquish'd, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.156 | imagine me too unhurtful an opposite. But indeed I can | imagine me to vnhurtfull an opposite: but indeed I can |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.67 | So opposite to marriage that she shunned | So opposite to Marriage, that she shun'd |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.90 | That have the office opposite to Saint Peter | That haue the office opposite to Saint Peter, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.94 | Much more to be thus opposite with heaven | Much more to be thus opposite with heauen, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.216 | Lo, at their births good stars were opposite. | Loe at their Birth, good starres were opposite. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.402 | Be opposite all planets of good luck | Be opposite all Planets of good lucke |
| Richard III | R3 V.iv.3 | Daring an opposite to every danger. | Daring an opposite to euery danger: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.78 | Just opposite to what thou justly seemest – | Iust opposite to what thou iustly seem'st, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.277 | He's opposite to humanity. | Hee's opposite to humanity. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.145 | opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants. Let thy | opposite with a kinsman, surly with seruants: Let thy |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.61 | And his opposite the youth bears in his visage no | And his opposit the youth beares in his visage no |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.70 | opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants, let thy | opposite with a Kinsman, surly with seruants, let thy |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.227 | your guard; for your opposite hath in him what youth, | your gard: for your opposite hath in him what youth, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.261 | and fatal opposite that you could possibly have found in | & fatall opposite that you could possibly haue found in |