| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.101 | Faith, there's a dozen of 'em with delicate fine | 'Faith there's a dozen of em, with delicate fine |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.209 | To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, | To gloue the delicate cheekes which they did coole, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.106.1 | In soft and delicate Lethe. | In soft and delicate Lethe. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.136 | Of that most delicate lodging. By my life, | Of that most delicate Lodging. By my life |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.47.2 | O most delicate fiend! | O most delicate Fiend! |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.48 | Led by a delicate and tender prince, | |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.150 | delicate carriages, and of very liberal conceit. | delicate carriages, and of very liberall conceit. |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.40 | That shall first spring and be most delicate. | That shall first spring, and be most delicate. |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.12 | The body's delicate; this tempest in my mind | The bodies delicate: the tempest in my mind, |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.13 | Her delicate cheek. It seemed she was a queen | |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.185 | It were a delicate stratagem to shoe | It were a delicate stratagem to shoo |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vi.10.1 | The air is delicate. | The ayre is delicate. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.282 | Come thronging soft and delicate desires, | Come thronging soft and delicate desires, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.226 | More moving, delicate, and full of life, | More mouing delicate, and ful of life, |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.74 | Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals | Abus'd her delicate Youth, with Drugs or Minerals, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.349 | delicate way than drowning. Make all the money thou | delicate way then drowning. Make all the Money thou |
| Othello | Oth II.i.225 | required conveniences, her delicate tenderness will find | requir'd Conueniences, her delicate tendernesse wil finde |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.20 | Indeed, she is a most fresh and delicate creature. | Indeed shes a most fresh and delicate creature. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.266 | That we can call these delicate creatures ours | That we can call these delicate Creatures ours, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.186 | Hang her! I do but say what she is: so delicate | Hang her, I do but say what she is: so delicate |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.59.2 | A delicate odour. | A delicate Odour. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.272 | And for thou wast a spirit too delicate | And for thou wast a Spirit too delicate |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.442 | They have changed eyes. Delicate Ariel, | They haue chang'd eyes: Delicate Ariel, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.44 | It must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate | It must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.46 | Temperance was a delicate wench. | Temperance was a delicate wench. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.88 | Four legs and two voices – a most delicate | Foure legges and two voyces; a most delicate |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.49 | Dearly, my delicate Ariel. Do not approach | Dearely, my delicate Ariell: doe not approach |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.386 | Thou ever young, fresh, loved, and delicate wooer, | Thou euer, yong, fresh, loued, and delicate wooer, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.i.1 | The climate's delicate, the air most sweet, | The Clymat's delicate, the Ayre most sweet, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.196 | which is strange; with such delicate burdens of dildos | (which is strange,) with such delicate burthens of Dildo's |