| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.40 | The Black Prince, sir, alias the prince of darkness, | The blacke prince sir, alias the prince of darkenesse, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.11 | Evils enow to darken all his goodness. | euils enow to darken all his goodnesse: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.i.24 | Than gain which darkens him. | Then gaine, which darkens him. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.181 | And send to darkness all that stop me. Come, | And send to darkenesse all that stop me. Come, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.251.1 | Shall darken him for ever. | Shall darken him for euer. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vii.5 | And you are darkened in this action, sir, | And you are darkned in this action Sir, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.37 | utter darkness. When thou rannest up Gad's Hill in the | vtter Darkenesse. When thou ran'st vp Gads-Hill in the |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.226 | By darkening my clear sun. My lord, farewell. | By Darkning my cleere Sunne. My Lords farewell. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.156 | And darkness did as well enclose the quick | And darkenes did aswel inclose the quicke, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.43 | To darkness, consummation, dust, and worms. | To darkenes consummation, dust and Wormes. |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.84 | my mistress' heart and did the act of darkness with her, | my Mistris heart, and did the acte of darkenesse with her. |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.136 | The prince of darkness is a gentleman; Modo he's | The Prince of Darkenesse is a Gentleman. Modo he's |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.128 | There's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous | There's hell, there's darkenes,there is the sulphurous |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.78 | So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, | So ere you finde where light in darkenesse lies, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.140 | darkened in your malice. | darkned in your malice. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.376 | Following darkness like a dream, | Following darkenesse like a dreame, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.28 | May the two latter darken and expend, | may the two latter darken and expend; |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.87 | And flaky darkness breaks within the east. | And flakie darkenesse breakes within the East. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.130 | The gates of Milan; and, i'th' dead of darkness, | The gates of Millaine, and ith' dead of darkenesse |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.66 | Melting the darkness, so their rising senses | (Melting the darkenesse) so their rising sences |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.275 | Must know and own. This thing of darkness I | Must know, and owne, this Thing of darkenesse, I |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.56 | Fare thee well; remain thou still in darkness. Thou | Fare thee well: remaine thou still in darkenesse, thou |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.92 | darkness, send ministers to me – asses! – and do all they | darkenesse, send Ministers to me, Asses, and doe all they |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.151 | To keep in darkness what occasion now | To keepe in darkenesse, what occasion now |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.301 | know it. Though you have put me into darkness and given | know it: Though you haue put mee into darkenesse, and giuen |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.v.2 | Vapours, sighs, darken the day; | Vapours, sighes, darken the day; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.ii.4 | And darkness lord o'th' world. Hark; 'tis a wolf! | And darkenes Lord o'th world, Harke tis a woolfe: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.22 | The one the other; darkness, which ever was | The one the other: darkenes which ever was |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.41 | With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not | With these forc'd thoughts, I prethee darken not |