| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.6 | most capricious poet, honest Ovid, was among the | most capricious Poet honest Ouid was among the |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.23 | honest; now, if thou wert a poet, I might have some hope | honest: Now if thou wert a Poet, I might haue some hope |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.354 | argument unless the poet and the player went to cuffs | argument, vnlesse the Poet and the Player went to Cuffes |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.36 | good truth, the poet makes a most excellent description | good truth, the Poet makes a most excellent description |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.iii.1.1 | Enter Cinna the Poet, and after him the Plebeians | Enter Cinna the Poet, and after him the Plebeians. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.iii.29 | I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet. | I am Cinna the Poet, I am Cinna the Poet. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.123.1 | Enter a Poet followed by Lucius; Titinius and Lucilius | Enter a Poet. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.136 | Exit Poet | Exit Poet |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.74 | Then, if thou be a poet, move thou so, | Then if thou be a Poet moue thou so, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.322 | Never durst poet touch a pen to write | Neuer durst Poet touch a pen to write, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.79 | By the sweet power of music. Therefore the poet | By the sweet power of musicke: therefore the Poet |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.7 | The lunatic, the lover, and the poet | The Lunaticke, the Louer, and the Poet, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.1.1.1 | Enter Poet and Painter, Jeweller and Merchant, at | Enter Poet, Painter, Ieweller, Merchant, and Mercer, at |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.217 | Not worth my thinking. How now, poet! | Not worth my thinking. / How now Poet? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.223 | Art not a poet? | Art not a Poet? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.353 | Yonder comes a poet and a painter. The | Yonder comes a Poet and a Painter: / The |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.1 | Enter Poet and Painter | Enter Poet, and Painter. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.81 | E'en so, sir, as I say. (To the Poet) And for thy fiction, | E'ne so sir as I say. And for thy fiction, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.108 | Come not near him. (To the Poet) If thou wouldst not reside | Come not neere him. If thou would'st not recide |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.112 | (To the Poet) You are an alchemist, make gold of that. | You are an Alcumist, make Gold of that: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.56 | Patterned by that the poet here describes, | Patern'd by that the Poet heere describes, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.50 | A learned poet says, unless by th' tail | A learned Poet sayes: unles by'th taile |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.11 | A learned, and a poet never went | A learned, and a Poet never went |