| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.59 | My wife, not meanly proud of two such boys, | My wife, not meanely prowd of two such boyes, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.82 | They think they are mine, and though trained up thus meanly, | They thinke they are mine, / And though train'd vp thus meanely |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.328 | A mean most meanly; and in ushering | A meane most meanly, and in Vshering |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.37 | His daughter meanly have I matched in marriage, | His daughter meanly haue I matcht in marriage, |