| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.231 | poor doing eternal; for doing I am past, as I will by | poore doing eternall: for doing I am past, as I will by |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.22 | the ‘ not ’ eternal. You shall hear I am run away; know it | the not eternall. You shall heare I am runne away, know it |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.66 | Would be eternal in our triumph. Go, | Would be eternall in our Triumph: Go, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.21 | But this eternal blazon must not be | But this eternall blason must not be |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.359 | What feast is toward in thine eternal cell | What feast is toward in thine eternall Cell. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.v.10 | Shame, and eternal shame, nothing but shame! | Shame, and eternall shame, nothing but shame, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.48 | I kiss these fingers for eternal peace, | I kisse these fingers for eternall peace, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.24 | By the eternal God, whose name and power | by the eternall God, / Whose name and power |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.263 | The mortal worm might make the sleep eternal; | The mortall Worme might make the sleepe eternall. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.iii.19 | O thou eternal mover of the heavens, | Oh thou eternall mouer of the heauens, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.124 | That this his love was an eternal plant, | That this his Loue was an externall Plant, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.90 | They promised me eternal happiness, | They promis'd me eternall Happinesse, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.159 | Th' eternal devil to keep his state in Rome | Th'eternall Diuell to keepe his State in Rome, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.96 | Give me an armour of eternal steel! | Giue me an Armor of eternall steele, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.108 | Or, luckless, cursed, receive eternal shame! | Or luckles curst, receue eternall shame. |
| King John | KJ III.iv.18 | Holding th' eternal spirit, against her will, | Holding th'eternall spirit against her will, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.155 | Stands in attainder of eternal shame. | Stands in attainder of eternall shame. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.67 | Only for them; and mine eternal jewel | Onely for them, and mine eternall Iewell |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.104 | And an eternal curse fall on you! Let me know. | And an eternall Curse fall on you: Let me know. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.45 | If I would but go to hell for an eternal | If I would but goe to hell, for an eternall |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.94 | give eternal food to his jealousy. | giue eternall food to his iealousie. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.358 | Or by the worth of mine eternal soul, | Or by the worth of mine eternall Soule, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.129 | I will be hanged if some eternal villain, | I will be hang'd, if some eternall Villaine, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.268 | Hath in eternal darkness folded up. | Hath in eternall darknesse folded vp. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.62 | Into the blind cave of eternal night. | Into the blinde Caue of eternall night. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.70 | But heaven keeps his part in eternal life. | But heauen keepes his part in eternall life: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.158 | No noise, but silence and eternal sleep. | No noyse, but silence and Eternall sleepe, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.171 | And fame's eternal date for virtue's praise. | And Fames eternall date for vertues praise. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.15 | That I may slumber an eternal sleep. | That I may slumber in eternall sleepe. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.21 | And keep eternal springtime on thy face, | And keepe erernall springtime on thy face, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.169 | With so eternal and so fixed a soul. | With so eternall, and so fixt a soule. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.154 | A contract of eternal bond of love, | A Contract of eternall bond of loue, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.65.1 | And to be boy eternal. | And to be Boy eternall. |