| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.52 | The ostentation of our love; which, left unshown, | The ostentation of our loue; which left vnshewne, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.86 | Make good this ostentation, and you shall | Make good this ostentation, and you shall |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.215 | No noble rite nor formal ostentation – | No Noble rite, nor formall ostentation, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.47 | taken from me all ostentation of sorrow. | taken from me, all ostentation of sorrow. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.106 | delightful ostentation, or show, or pageant, or antic, or | delightfull ostentation, or show, or pageant, or anticke, or |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.409 | Have blown me full of maggot ostentation. | Haue blowne me full of maggot ostentation. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.203 | Maintain a mourning ostentation, | Maintaine a mourning ostentation, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.94 | And ostentation of despised arms? | And ostentation of despised Armes? |