| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.16 | The bravest questant shrinks, find what you seek, | The brauest questant shrinkes: finde what you seeke, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.9 | Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say | Euen till I shrinke with cold, I smile, and say |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.19 | like an engine, and the ground shrinks before his treading. | like an Engine, and the ground shrinkes before his Treading. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iv.30.1 | The shrinking slaves of Winter. | The shrinking Slaues of Winter. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.74 | That he shall shrink under my courtesy. | That he shall shrinke vnder my curtesie. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.37 | Not fearing death nor shrinking for distress, | Not fearing Death, nor shrinking for Distresse, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.31 | If the first hour I shrink and run away. | If the first howre I shrinke and run away: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.5 | When he perceived me shrink and on my knee, | When he perceiu'd me shrinke, and on my Knee, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.156 | To shrink mine arm up like a withered shrub; | To shrinke mine Arme vp like a wither'd Shrub, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.107 | Cranmer will find a friend will not shrink from him. | Cranmer will finde a Friend will not shrinke from him. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.138 | But I will make you shrink your snaily horns. | But I will make you shrinke your snailie hornes, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.34.1 | Do I shrink up. | Do I shrinke vp. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.81 | In the unshrinking station where he fought | In the vnshrinking station where he fought, |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.32 | Makes me with heavy nothing faint and shrink. | Makes me with heauy nothing faint and shrinke. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.223 | To see if any mean to shrink from me. | To heare if any meane to shrinke from me. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.7 | estate shrinks from him. | estate shrinkes from him. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.246 | And yet detested life not shrink thereat! | And yet detested life not shrinke thereat: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.141 | And great Troy shrinking. | And great Troy shrinking. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.2 | If there be ten, shrink not, but down with 'em. | If there be ten, shrinke not, but down with 'em. |