| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.79 | I should have found it afterwards well done, | I should haue found it afterwards well done, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.79 | us a day or two, or longer: if you seek us afterwards | vs, a day, or two, or longer: if you seek vs afterwards |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.346 | longer than they can sing? Will they not say afterwards, | longer then they can sing? Will they not say afterwards |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.164 | Like wrath in death, and envy afterwards; | Like Wrath in death, and Enuy afterwards: |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.7 | write upon't, read it, afterwards seal it, and again return | write vpon't, read it, afterwards Seale it, and againe re-turne |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.31 | executed, and sleep afterwards. | executed, and sleepe afterwards. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.135 | and we will afterwards 'ork upon the cause with as great | and we wil afterwards orke vpon the cause, with as great |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.84 | cudgel, and the devil guide his cudgel afterwards! | cudgell: and the diuell guide his cudgell afterwards. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.23 | You must hang it first, and draw it afterwards. | You must hang it first, and draw it afterwards. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.3 | duties afterwards. | duties afterwards. |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.111 | Say ‘ Pardon ’ first, and afterwards, ‘ Stand up!’ | But Pardon first, and afterwards stand vp. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.199 | Come, let us sup betimes, that afterwards | Come, let vs suppe betimes, that afterwards |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.199 | And being dead, let birds on her take pity. | And being so, shall haue like want of pitty. / See Iustice done on Aaron that damn'd Moore, / From whom, our heauy happes had their beginning: / Then afterwards, to Order well the State, / That like Euents, may ne're it Ruinate. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.111 | afterwards. | afterwards. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.272 | There in the full convive you. Afterwards, | There in the full conuiue you: Afterwards, |