| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.383 | When shall I hear all through? This fierce abridgement | When shall I heare all through? This fierce abridgment, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.419 | For look where my abridgement comes. | For looke where my Abridgements come. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.192 | Then death rock me asleep, abridge my doleful days! | then Death rocke me asleepe, abridge my dolefull dayes: |
| Henry V | H5 V.chorus.44 | Then brook abridgement, and your eyes advance, | Then brooke abridgement, and your eyes aduance, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.104 | So are we Caesar's friends, that have abridged | So are we Casars Friends, that haue abridg'd |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.126 | Nor do I now make moan to be abridged | Nor do I now make mone to be abridg'd |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.39 | Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? | Say, what abridgement haue you for this euening? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.245 | Besides, thy staying will abridge thy life. | Besides, thy staying will abridge thy life: |