| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.54 | Nor once be chastised with the sober eye | Nor once be chastic'd with the sober eye |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.66 | Speakest thou in sober meanings? | Speak'st thou in sober meanings? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.90 | Her sober virtue, years, and modesty, | Her sober vertue, yeares, and modestie, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.190 | For who that's but a queen, fair, sober, wise, | For who that's but a Queene, faire, sober, wise, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.79 | And we with sober speed will follow you. | And wee with sober speede will follow you. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.ii.40 | Brutus, this sober form of yours hides wrongs; | Brutus, this sober forme of yours, hides wrongs, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.81 | Very vilely in the morning when he is sober and | Very vildely in the morning when hee is sober, and |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.177 | If I do not put on a sober habit, | If I doe not put on a sober habite, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.35 | My sober house. By Jacob's staff I swear | My sober house. By Iacobs staffe I sweare, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.78 | What damned error but some sober brow | What damned error, but some sober brow |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.160 | No, I pray thee speak in sober judgement. | No, I pray thee speake in sober iudgement. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.45 | Why, then, let them alone till they are sober; | Why then let them alone till they are sober, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.11 | Thou sober-suited matron, all in black, | Thou sober suted Matron all in blacke, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.130 | And offer me disguised in sober robes | And offer me disguis'd in sober robes, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.64 | Sir, you seem a sober ancient gentleman by your | Sir, you seeme a sober ancient Gentleman by your |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.21 | And with such sober and unnoted passion | And with such sober and vnnoted passion |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.499 | You perpetual-sober gods! I do proclaim | You perpetuall sober Gods. I do proclaime |