| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.48 | Was theme for you You were the word of war. | Was Theame for you, you were the word of warre. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.190 | To me she speaks; she moves me for her theme. | To mee shee speakes, shee moues mee for her theame; |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.65 | Alone, it was the subject of my theme; | Alone, it was the subiect of my Theame: |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.55.1 | The theme of our assembly. | the Theame of our Assembly. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.i.39 | Big of this gentleman – our theme – deceased | Bigge of this Gentleman (our Theame) deceast |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.4 | Be theme and hearing ever – was in this Britain | Be Theame, and hearing euer) was in this Britain, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.59 | And when a soldier was the theme, my name | And when a Souldier was the Theame, my name |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.103 | To reason most absurd, whose common theme | To Reason most absurd, whose common Theame |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.262 | Why, I will fight with him upon this theme | Why I will fight with him vppon this Theme. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.264 | O my son, what theme? | Oh my Sonne, what Theame? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.80 | A son who is the theme of honour's tongue, | A Sonne, who is the Theame of Honors tongue; |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.22 | For in a theme so bloody-faced as this, | For in a Theame so bloody fac'd, as this, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.32 | deserved praise on my palfrey. It is a theme as fluent as | deserued prayse on my Palfray: it is a Theame as fluent as |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.93.2 | With your theme I could | With your Theame, I could |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.128 | Of the imperial theme. – I thank you, gentlemen. | Of the Imperiall Theame. I thanke you Gentlemen: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.159 | Well, I am your theme. You have the start of | Well, I am your Theame: you haue the start of |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.417 | And this weak and idle theme, | And this weake and idle theame, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.64 | Marry, that ‘ marry ’ is the very theme | Marry that marry is the very theame |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.6 | Have just our theme of woe. But for the miracle, | Haue iust our Theame of woe: But for the miracle, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.29 | O, handle not the theme, to talk of hands, | O handle not the theame, to talke of hands, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.80 | See, here he comes, and I must ply my theme. | See heere he comes, and I must play my theame. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.200 | She is a theme of honour and renown, | She is a theame of honour and renowne, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.30 | O deadly gall, and theme of all our scorns, | Oh deadly gall, and theame of all our scornes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.181 | Name her not now, sir; she's a deadly theme. | Name her not now sir, she's a deadly Theame. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.134 | To stubborn critics, apt, without a theme | To stubborne Criticks, apt without a theame |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.121.2 | Ay, that's the theme. | I that's the Theame, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.215 | More bigger-looked. (To Hippolyta) Since that our theme is haste, | More bigger look't; since that our Theame is haste |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.459 | The gracious Queen, part of his theme, but nothing | The gracious Queene, part of his Theame; but nothing |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.100 | Is colder than that theme – she had not been, | Is colder then that Theame: she had not beene, |