| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.202 | Thy will by my performance shall be served. | Thy will by my performance shall be seru'd: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.i.27.1 | Should my performance perish. | Should my performance perish. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.150 | And that our drift look through our bad performance, | And that our drift looke through our bad performance, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.256 | outlive performance? | out-liue performance? |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.35 | And eke out our performance with your mind. | And eech out our performance with your mind. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.2 | performance of your promises. | performance of your promises. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.208 | His father by as much as a performance | His Father, by as much as a performance |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.42 | But his performance as he is now, nothing. | But his performance, as he is now, Nothing: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.135 | To think that or our cause or our performance | To thinke, that or our Cause, or our Performance |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.305 | That fair performance cannot follow promise? | That faire performance cannot follow promise, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.28 | the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore | the desire, but it takes away the performance. Therefore |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.59 | Performance shall follow. | Performance shall follow. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.23 | o'th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance | o'th'Time; / It opens the eyes of Expectation. / Performance, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.27 | Performance is a kind of will or testament which argues | Performance, is a kinde of Will or Testament / Which argues |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.197 | Than the performance of our heaving spleens, | Then the performance of our heauing spleenes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.52 | of your performance. – Nell, he is full of harmony. | of your performance. Nel, he is full of harmony. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.82 | They say, all lovers swear more performance | They say all Louers sweare more performance |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.39 | endeavour be so desired, and the performance so | indeuour be so desir'd, and the performance so |