| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iv.9 | When the best hint was given him, he not took't, | When the best hint was giuen him: he not look't, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.18 | Nor make replies of loathness; take the hint | Nor make replyes of loathnesse, take the hint |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.23 | Make them be strong, and ready for this hint, | Make them be strong, and ready for this hint |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.172 | That had a royal lover, took his hint, | That had a Royall Louer, tooke his hint, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.141 | It was my hint to speak – such was the process: | It was my hint to speake. Such was my Processe, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.165 | And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake: | And that would wooe her. Vpon this hint I spake, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.134 | Will cry it o'er again. It is a hint | Will cry it ore againe: it is a hint |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.3 | Is much beyond our loss. Our hint of woe | Is much beyond our losse; our hint of woe |