| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.153 | We, poising us in her defective scale, | We poizing vs in her defectiue scale, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.13 | In equal scale weighing delight and dole, | In equall Scale weighing Delight and Dole |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.159 | Till our scale turn the beam. O rose of May, | Till our Scale turnes the beame. Oh Rose of May, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.27 | Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks. | Let vs resolue to scale their flinty bulwarkes. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.38.1 | The English scale the walls, cry ‘ Saint George! | Cry, S. George, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.9 | scales against either scale, who committed treason | Scales against eyther Scale, who committed Treason |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.22 | Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, | Scale of Dragon, Tooth of Wolfe, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.28 | turn the scale. | turne the Scale. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.327 | Of one poor scruple, nay, if the scale do turn | Of one poore scruple, nay if the scale doe turne |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.323 | in our wills. If the beam of our lives had not one scale | in our Wills. If the braine of our liues had not one Scale |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.85 | In your lord's scale is nothing but himself | In your Lords Scale, is nothing but himselfe, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.27 | So great as our dread father in a scale | (So great as our dread Father) in a Scale |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.119 | Would serve to scale another Hero's tower, | Would serue to scale another Hero's towre, |