| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.230.1 | Haply been absent then. | Happily beene absent then. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.181 | Expecting absent friends. As thou lovest her | Expecting absent friends. As thou lou'st her, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.34 | Herself most chastely absent. After, | Her selfe most chastly absent: after |
| As You Like It | AYL II.ii.18 | If he be absent, bring his brother to me; | If he be absent, bring his Brother to me, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.i.3 | I should not seek an absent argument | I should not seeke an absent argument |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.108 | For my being absent? Whereunto I never | For my being absent? whereunto I neuer |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.341 | Absent thee from felicity awhile, | Absent thee from felicitie awhile, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.86 | Of all the favourites that the absent King | Of all the Fauorites, that the absent King |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.49 | What with our help, what with the absent King, | What with our helpe, what with the absent King. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.74 | The Queen hath best success when you are absent. | The Queene hath best successe when you are absent. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.231 | The Queen being absent, 'tis a needful fitness | The Queene being absent, 'tis a needfull fitnesse, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.154 | And, her attendants absent, swallowed fire. | And (her Attendants absent) swallow'd fire. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.42 | Your highness being absent from the realm, | Your highnes being absent from the Realme, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.93 | Grief fills the room up of my absent child, | Greefe fils the roome vp of my absent childe: |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iv.14.1 | Whose hearts are absent too. | Whose hearts are absent too. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.205 | absent Duke, if peradventure he shall ever return to | absent Duke, if peraduenture he shall euer returne to |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.110 | Would the Duke that is absent have done this? Ere he | Would the Duke that is absent haue done this? Ere he |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.115 | I never heard the absent Duke much detected for | I neuer heard the absent Duke much detected for |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.129 | How came it that the absent Duke had not either | How came it, that the absent Duke had not either |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.144 | And shall be absent. Wend you with this letter. | And shall be absent. Wend you with this Letter : |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.120 | No note at all of our being absent hence, | No note at all of our being absent hence, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.285 | When I am absent, then lie with my wife. | When I am absent, then lie with my wife. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.43 | Hero shall be absent – and there shall appear such seeming | Hero shall be absent, and there shall appeare such seeming |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.17 | That I being absent and my place supplied, | That I being absent, and my place supply'd, |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.170 | Eightscore-eight hours? And lovers' absent hours | Eight score eight houres? And Louers absent howres |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.259 | Joy absent, grief is present for that time. | Ioy absent, greefe is present for that time. |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.79 | To take advantage of the absent time | To take aduantage of the absent time, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.122 | That I should yet absent me from your bed. | That I should yet absent me from your bed: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.15 | Yet you will be hanged for being so long absent; | Yet you will be hang'd for being so long absent, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.18 | Is absent hence; | Is absent hence. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.i.29 | together, though absent; shook hands as over a vast; | together, though absent: shooke hands, as ouer a Vast; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.198 | They have been absent. 'Tis good speed; foretells | They haue beene absent: 'tis good speed: fore-tells |