| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.38 | Have shown to thee such a declining day | Haue shewne to thee such a declining day, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.142 | embellished with rubies, carbuncles, sapphires, declining | embellished with Rubies, Carbuncles, Saphires, declining |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.476 | Which was declining on the milky head | Which was declining on the Milkie head |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.37 | Than one, to comfort our declining age. | Then one to comfort our declyning age. |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.240 | Of noble blood in this declining land. | Of noble blood in this declining Land; |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.117 | And with declining head into his bosom, | And with declining head into his bosome |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.91 | Not one accompanying his declining foot. | Not one accompanying his declining foot. |