| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.274 | Marry, sir, I think, if you handled her privately, | Marry sir, I thinke, if you handled her priuately |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.20 | I will not fail her. Speak it privately. | I will not faile her, speake it priuately: |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.272 | Be it as you shall privately determine, | Be it as you shall priuately determine, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.57 | We'll pass the business privately and well. | Weele passe the businesse priuately and well: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.249 | He hears naught privately that comes from Troy. | He heares nought priuatly / That comes from Troy. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.46 | The Duke himself came privately in the night, | The Duke himselfe came privately in the night, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.103 | matter there in hand, for she hath privately, twice or | matter there in hand, for shee hath priuately, twice or |