| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.20 | Who, but for staying on our controversy, | Who but for staying on our Controuersie, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.67 | then rejourn the controversy of threepence to a second | then reiourne the Controuersie of three-pence to a second |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.72 | dismiss the controversy bleeding, the more entangled | dismisse the Controuersie bleeding, the more intangled |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.353 | controversy. There was, for a while, no money bid for | Controuersie. There was for a while, no mony bid for |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.109 | That shall be swallowed in this controversy. | That shall be swallowed in this Controuersie. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.109 | And stemming it with hearts of controversy. | And stemming it with hearts of Controuersie. |
| King John | KJ I.i.44 | My liege, here is the strangest controversy, | My Liege, here is the strangest controuersie |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.25 | controversy; as, for example, thou thyself art a wicked | controuersie: as for example; Thou thy selfe art a wicked |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.154 | him with the cause in controversy between the Jew and | him with the cause in Controuersie, betweene the Iew and |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.55 | end of this controversy. | end of this controuersie. |