| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.55 | If the living be enemy to the grief, the excess | If the liuing be enemie to the greefe, the excesse |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.42 | it was excess of wine that set him on, | It was excesse of Wine that set him on, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.16 | Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. | Is wastefull, and ridiculous excesse. |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.69 | So distribution should undo excess | So distribution should vndoo excesse, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.73 | The blood of youth burns not with such excess | The bloud of youth burns not with such excesse, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.59 | By taking nor by giving of excess, | By taking, nor by giuing of excesse, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.112 | In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess, | In measure raine thy ioy, scant this excesse, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.99 | From the excess of laughter. Here he comes. | From the excesse of Laughter. Heere he comes. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.33 | But my true love is grown to such excess | But my true Loue is growne to such such excesse, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.28 | Shame, that they wanted cunning, in excess | (Shame that they wanted, cunning in excesse) |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.2 | Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, | Giue me excesse of it: that surfetting, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.220 | And now excess of it will make me surfeit. | And now excesse of it will make me surfet. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.4 | Excess and overflow of power, an't might be, | Exces, and overflow of power, and't might be |