| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.11 | one good quality worthy your lordship's entertainment. | one good qualitie, worthy your Lordships entertainment. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.4 | In your fine frame hath love no quality? | In your fine frame hath loue no qualitie? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.192 | For the main soldier; whose quality, going on, | For the maine Souldier. Whose quality going on, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.33 | Do draw the inward quality after them | Do draw the inward quality after them |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.63 | The quality of her passion shall require, | The quality of her passion shall require; |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.21 | taking a beggar without less quality. But how comes | taking a Begger without lesse quality. But how comes |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.28 | to a stranger of his quality. | to a Stranger of his quality. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.261 | light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow. | light a quality, that it is but a shadowes shadow. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.345 | How are they escoted? Will they pursue the quality no | How are they escoted? Will they pursue the Quality no |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.430 | give us a taste of your quality. Come, a passionate | giue vs a tast of your quality: come, a passionate |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.71 | And that in Hamlet's hearing, for a quality | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.61 | The quality and hair of our attempt | The qualitie and Heire of our Attempt |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.36 | Because you are not of our quality, | Because you are not of our qualitie, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.36 | Yes, if this present quality of war, | Yes, if this present quality of warre, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.11 | As might hold sortance with his quality, | As might hold sortance with his Qualitie, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.87 | Concurring both in name and quality. | Concurring both in Name and Qualitie. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.34 | Which swims against your stream of quality. | Which swimmes against your streame of Quality. |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.62 | Neighboured by fruit of baser quality: | Neighbour'd by Fruit of baser qualitie: |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.135 | What is thy name? I know thy quality. | What is thy name? I know thy qualitie. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.89 | And gentlemen of blood and quality. | And Gentlemen of bloud and qualitie. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.19 | Have lost their quality, and that this day | Haue lost their qualitie, and that this day |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.84 | Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up | Hitting a grosser quality, is cride vp |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.64 | Why birds and beasts from quality and kind, | Why Birds and Beasts, from qualitie and kinde, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.68 | To monstrous quality, why, you shall find | To monstrous qualitie; why you shall finde, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.41 | That will be thawed from the true quality | That will be thaw'd from the true quality |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.61 | Of whose true-fixed and resting quality | Of whose true fixt, and resting quality, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.118 | Besides, he knows not my sins' quality, | Besides, he knows not my sinnes qualitie, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.8 | It would allay the burning quality | It would allay the burning qualitie |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.12 | More composition and fierce quality | More composition, and fierce qualitie, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.34 | of it into your pocket? The quality of nothing | of it into your Pocket? The quality of nothing, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.88 | You know the fiery quality of the Duke, | You know the fiery quality of the Duke, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.91 | ‘ Fiery ’? What ‘ quality ’? Why, Gloucester, Gloucester, | Fiery? What quality? Why Gloster, Gloster, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.132 | With how depraved a quality – O Regan! | With how deprau'd a quality. Oh Regan. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.109 | If any man of quality or degree within the | If any man of qualitie or degree, within the |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.118 | Your name, your quality, and why you answer | Your name, your quality, and why you answer |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.57 | Go to. What quality are they of? Elbow is your | Goe to: What quality are they of? Elbow is your |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.6 | Hate counsels not in such a quality. | Hate counsailes not in such a quallitie; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.181 | The quality of mercy is not strained, | The quality of mercy is not strain'd, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.208 | Of what quality was your love, then? | Of what qualitie was your loue then? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.40 | Attend your office and your quality. | Attend your office, and your quality. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.248 | Even to the very quality of my lord. | Euen to the very quality of my Lord; |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.279 | With such things else of quality and respect | And such things else of qualitie and respect |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.102 | nor any man of quality – I hope to be saved. | nor any man of qualitie: I hope to be saued. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.350 | The royal banner and all quality, | The Royall Banner, and all Qualitie, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.193.1 | Ariel and all his quality. | Ariel, and all his Qualitie. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.203.1 | It is the quality o'th' climate. | It is the quality o'th' Clymate. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.56 | Of grave and austere quality, tender down | Of Graue and austere qualitie, tender downe |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.107 | Know you the quality of Lord Timon's fury? | Know you the quality of Lord Timons fury? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.157 | That scolds against the quality of flesh | That scold'st against the quality of flesh, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.45 | With the whole quality whereof. I fear | With the whole quality whereof, I feare |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.75 | The Grecian youths are full of quality; | The Grecian youths are full of qualitie, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.61 | The quality of persons, and the time, | The quality of persons, and the time: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iii.32 | Albeit the quality of the time and quarrel | Albeit the quality of the time, and quarrell |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.58 | As we do in our quality much want – | As we doe in our quality much want. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.79.1 | In blood unless in quality. | In blood, unlesse in quality. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.14.2 | Men of great quality, as may be judged | Men of great quality, as may be judgd |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.161 | The file and quality I hold I may | The fyle and qualitie I hold, I may |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.48 | The quality of his thoughts; long time his eye | The quallity of his thoughts; long time his eye |