| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.43 | And bowed his eminent top to their low ranks, | And bow'd his eminent top to their low rankes, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.39 | Let's take the instant by the forward top; | Let's take the instant by the forward top: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.43 | In top of all design, my mate in empire, | In top of all designe; my Mate in Empire, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.106 | And high top bald with dry antiquity, | And high top, bald with drie antiquitie: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.24 | Which, to the spire and top of praises vouched, | Which to the spire, and top of prayses vouch'd, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.157 | a top. | a Top. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.47 | As hard to leave as keep: whose top to climb | As hard to leaue, as keepe: whose top to climbe |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vi.5 | When from the mountain-top Pisanio showed thee, | When from the Mountaine top, Pisanio shew'd thee, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.175 | That by the top doth take the mountain pine | That by the top doth take the Mountaine Pine, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.320 | Struck the main-top! O Posthumus, alas, | Strooke the maine top! Oh Posthumus, alas, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.354 | Without his top? The ruin speaks that sometime | Without his top? The ruine speakes, that sometime |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.228.1 | From top to toe? | From top to toe? |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.339 | that cry out on the top of question and are most tyrannically | that crye out on the top of question; and are most tyrannically |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.437 | judgements in such matters cried in the top of mine – | iudgement in such matters, cried in the top of mine) |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.473 | Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top | Seeming to feele his blow, with flaming top |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.375 | the top of my compass. And there is much music, excellent | the top of my Compasse: and there is much Musicke, excellent |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.391 | (aside) They fool me to the top of my bent. – I will | They foole me to the top of my bent. / I will |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.194 | Unpeg the basket on the house's top. | Vnpegge the Basket on the houses top: |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.249 | T' o'ertop old Pelion or the skyish head | To o're top old Pelion, or the skyish head |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.8 | He is walked up to the top of the hill. I'll | He is walk'd vp to the top of the hill, Ile |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.22 | Who take the ruffian billows by the top, | Who take the Ruffian Billowes by the top, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.48 | top on't, Colevile kissing my foot – to the which course | top of it (Colleuile kissing my foot:) To the which course, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.26 | Discourse, I prithee, on this turret's top. | Discourse I prethee on this Turrets top. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.26.1 | Enter Joan la Pucelle on the top, thrusting out a torch | Enter Pucell on the top, thrusting out a Torch |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.49 | From top of honour to disgrace's feet? | From top of Honor, to Disgraces feete? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.336 | Though standing naked on a mountain-top, | Though standing naked on a Mountaine top, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.92 | They use to write it on the top of letters. 'Twill go | They vse to writ it on the top of Letters: 'Twill go |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.205 | As on a mountain-top the cedar shows, | As on a Mountaine top, the Cedar shewes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.ii.14 | Whose top branch overpeered Jove's spreading tree | Whose top-branch ouer-peer'd Ioues spreading Tree, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.47 | The raven rooked her on the chimney's top, | The Rauen rook'd her on the Chimnies top, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.73 | And on the top gallant of the admiral, | And on the top gallant of the Admirall, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.114 | Whose top seems topless, for the embracing sky | Whose top seemes toplesse, for the imbracing skie, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.116 | Upon whose tall top, when thy foot attains, | Vpon whose tall top when thy foot attaines, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.45 | Form such another? This is the very top, | Forme such another? This is the very top, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.52 | Than had I seen the vaulty top of heaven | Then had I seene the vaultie top of heauen |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.21 | Shall top the legitimate. I grow. I prosper. | Shall to'th'Legitimate: I grow, I prosper: |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.158 | On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones, | On her ingratefull top: strike her yong bones |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.1 | When shall I come to the top of that same hill? | When shall I come to th'top of that same hill? |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.205 | And top extremity. | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.78 | charge-house on the top of the mountain? | Charg-house on the top of the Mountaine? |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.88.1 | And top of sovereignty? | And top of Soueraignty? |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.57.1 | In evils to top Macbeth. | In euils, to top Macbeth. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.76 | If He, which is the top of judgement, should | If he, which is the top of Iudgement, should |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.136 | That skins the vice o'th' top. Go to your bosom, | That skins the vice o'th top; goe to your bosome, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.28 | Vailing her high-top lower than her ribs | Vailing her high top lower then her ribs |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.i.24 | top, I knew not what 'twas to be beaten till lately. | Top, I knew not what 'twas to be beaten, till lately. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.12 | bee on the top of a thistle; and, good mounsieur, bring | Bee, on the top of a thistle; and good Mounsieur bring |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.108 | We will, fair Queen, up to the mountain's top, | We will faire Queene, vp to the Mountaines top, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.ii.13 | meant to take the present time by the top and instantly | meant to take the present time by the top, and instantly |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.137 | Cassio did top her: ask thy husband else. | Cassio did top her: Ask thy husband else. |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.42 | A withered branch that's only green at top. | A withered Branch, that's onely greene at top, |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.23 | Know that our griefs are risen to the top, | Know, that our griefes are risen to the top, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.263 | Our aery buildeth in the cedar's top | Our ayerie buildeth in the Cedars top, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.156 | He is all the mother's, from the top to toe. | Hee is all the Mothers, from the top to toe. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.186 | Which to the high topgallant of my joy | Which to the high top gallant of my ioy, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.38 | Indeed, the top of admiration, worth | Indeede the top of Admiration, worth |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.19.1 | Solemn and strange music; and Prospero on the top, | Solemne and strange Musicke: and Prosper on the top |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.89 | Which laboured after him to the mountain's top | Which labour'd after him to the Mountaines top, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.1 | Now climbeth Tamora Olympus' top, | Now climbeth Tamora Olympus toppe, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.ii.22 | And climb the highest promontory top. | And clime the highest Pomontary top. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.39 | parish top. What, wench! Castiliano, vulgo – for here | parish top. What wench? Castiliano vulgo : for here |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iv.26 | To put my breast against; I shall sleep like a top else. | to put my breast / Against. I shall sleepe like a Top else. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.147 | 'Tis up. The wind's fair; top the bowling; | tis up, the wind's faire, top the / Bowling, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.149.2 | Up to the top, boy. | Vp to the top Boy. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.48.1 | He turns ye like a top. | He turnes ye like a Top. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.103 | A schoolboy's top. Away with her to prison. | A Schoole-Boyes Top. Away with her, to Prison: |