| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.ii.26 | He'd make an end of thy posterity. | Hee'ld make an end of thy posterity |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.48 | Posterity, await for wretched years, | Posteritie await for wretched yeeres, |
| King John | KJ II.i.6 | And for amends to his posterity, | And for amends to his posteritie, |
| King John | KJ II.i.96 | Cut off the sequence of posterity, | Cut off the sequence of posterity, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.4 | It should not stand in thy posterity | It should not stand in thy Posterity, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.89 | And bless it to all fair prosperity. | And blesse it to all faire posterity. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.77 | As 'twere retailed to all posterity, | As 'twere retayl'd to all posteritie, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.220 | Cuts beauty off from all posterity. | Cuts beauty off from all posteritie. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.406 | But fair posterity, should hold some counsel | But faire posterity) should hold some counsaile |