| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xii.37 | For poor'st diminutives, for doits, and let | For poor'st Diminitiues, for Dolts, and let |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.10 | The most diminutive of birds, will fight, | (The most diminitiue of Birds) will fight, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.31 | With spans and inches so diminutive | With spannes and inches so diminutiue, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.31 | waterflies, diminutives of nature! | water-flies, diminutiues of Nature. |