| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.114 | This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it | This was sometime a Paradox, but now the time giues it |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.252 | O paradox! Black is the badge of hell, | O paradoxe, Blacke is the badge of hell, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.24 | You undergo too strict a paradox, | You vndergo too strict a Paradox, |