| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.88 | Must I be comforted, not in his sphere. | Must I be comforted, not in his sphere; |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.14 | To be called into a huge sphere, and | To be call'd into a huge Sphere, and |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.10 | Burn the great sphere thou mov'st in; darkling stand | Burne the great Sphere thou mou'st in, darkling stand |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.3 | With thy chaste eye, from thy pale sphere above, | With thy chaste eye, from thy pale spheare aboue |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.15 | That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, | That as the Starre moues not but in his Sphere, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.64 | Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere, | Two Starres keepe not their motion in one Sphere, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.7 | Swifter than the moon's sphere, | swifter then ye Moons sphere; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.61 | As yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere. | As yonder Venus in her glimmering spheare. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.186 | lift the moon out of her sphere, if she would continue in | lift the Moone out of her spheare, if she would continue in |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.69 | That labour on the bosom of this sphere | That labour on the bosome of this Sphere, |