| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.344 | By external swelling: but she looks like sleep, | By externall swelling: but she lookes like sleepe, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.3 | Her virtues, graced with external gifts, | Her vertues graced with externall gifts, |
| King John | KJ II.i.571 | Who, having no external thing to lose | Who hauing no externall thing to loose, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.137 | By all external warrants, show it now, | By all externall warrants) shew it now, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.295 | And these external manners of laments | And these externall manner of Laments, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.167 | Should well agree with our external parts? | Should well agree with our externall parts? |