| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.171 | Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms | Of pretty fond adoptious christendomes |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.140 | Adoption strives with nature, and choice breeds | Adoption striues with nature, and choise breedes |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.222 | To be adopted heir to Frederick. | To be adopted heire to Fredricke. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.48 | You adopt your policy, how is it less or worse | You adopt your policy: How is it lesse or worse |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.56 | Her son into th' adoption of the crown: | Her Sonne into th'adoption of the Crowne: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.62 | Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, | The friends thou hast, and their adoption tride, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.18 | And an adopted name of privilege – | And an adopted name of Priuiledge, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.135 | Tell me, may not a king adopt an heir? | Tell me, may not a King adopt an Heire? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.98 | And this is he was his adopted heir. | And this is he was his adopted Heire. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.88 | I was adopted heir by his consent; | I was adopted Heire by his consent. |
| King Lear | KL I.i.203 | Unfriended, new-adopted to our hate, | Vnfriended, new adopted to our hate, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.47 | Adoptedly, as school-maids change their names | Adoptedly, as schoole-maids change their names |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.280 | wrong, but stand under the adoption of abominable | wrong, but stand vnder the adoption of abhominable |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.189 | I had rather to adopt a child than get it. | I had rather to adopt a Child, then get it. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.109 | Adopts thee heir, and his high sceptre yields | Adopts thee Heire, and his high Scepter yeelds |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.466 | A Roman now adopted happily, | A Roman now adopted happily. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.124 | Whom I adopt my friends. A day or two | Whom I adopt my Frinds. A day or two |