| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.37 | Seeking the food he eats, | Seeking the food he eates, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.153 | Seeking the bubble reputation | Seeking the bubble Reputation |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.277 | By my troth, I was seeking for a fool when I | By my troth, I was seeking for a Foole, when I |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.186 | Would feed on one another? What's their seeking? | Would feede on one another? What's their seeking? |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.95 | Envied against the people, seeking means | Enui'd against the people; seeking meanes |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.20 | There wants no diligence in seeking him, | There wants no diligence in seeking him, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.139 | unknown, without seeking find, and be embraced | vnknown, without seeking finde, and bee embrac'd |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.437 | unknown, without seeking find, and be embraced | vnknown, without seeking finde, and bee embrac'd |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.ii.75 | 'Tis that they seek; and they, in seeking that, | 'Tis that they seeke; and they, in seeking that, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.176 | Seeking a way and straying from the way, | Seeking a way, and straying from the way, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.110 | In seeking tales and informations | In seeking tales and Informations |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.74 | Lords, I am hot with haste in seeking you. | Lords, I am hot with haste, in seeking you, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.167 | From this enormous state, seeking to give | From this enormous State, seeking to giue |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.77 | Light seeking light doth light of light beguile; | Light seeeking light, doth light of light beguile: |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.27 | In seeking to augment it, but still keep | In seeking to augment it, but still keepe |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.43 | And, seeking death, find life. Let it come on. | And seeking death, finde life: Let it come on. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.48 | Seeking sweet favours from this hateful fool, | Seeking sweet sauors for this hatefull foole, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iv.5 | Seeking for Richmond in the throat of death. | Seeking for Richmond in the throat of death: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.56 | Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body | Seeking out Romeo that did spit his body |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iii.1 | Enter a Soldier in the woods, seeking Timon | Enter a Souldier in the Woods, seeking Timon. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.89 | Seeking to hide herself, as doth the deer | Seeking to hide herselfe as doth the Deare |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.185 | I have been seeking you this hour, my lord. | I haue beene seeking you this houre my Lord: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.323 | I must obey. (To Viola) This comes with seeking you. | I must obey. This comes with seeking you: |