| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.23 | poor, decayed, ingenious, foolish, rascally knave. I do | poore decayed, ingenious, foolish, rascally knaue. I doe |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.4 | Whiles we are suitors to their throne, decays | Whiles we are sutors to their Throne, decayes |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.98 | Of my defeatures. My decayed fair | Of my defeatures. My decayed faire, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.25 | rests them; he, sir, that takes pity on decayed men and | rests them: he sir, that takes pittie on decaied men, and |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.78 | Coin words till their decay against those measles | Coine words till their decay, against those Meazels |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.43 | a decayed dotant as you seem to be? Can you think to | a decay'd Dotant as you seeme to be? Can you think to |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.56 | And every day that comes comes to decay | And euery day that comes, comes to decay |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.169 | water is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body. | water, is a sore Decayer of your horson dead body. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.165 | To stormy passion, must perforce decay. | To stormy Passion, must perforce decay. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.66 | Towards fronting peril and opposed decay! | Towards fronting Perill, and oppos'd Decay? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.34 | His thread of life had not so soon decayed. | His thred of Life had not so soone decay'd. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.1 | Kind keepers of my weak decaying age, | Kind Keepers of my weake decaying Age, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.194 | For, good King Henry, thy decay I fear. | For good King Henry, thy decay I feare. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.16 | Till then fair hope must hinder life's decay; | Till then, faire hope must hinder liues decay: |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.ii.20 | When love begins to sicken and decay, | When Loue begins to sicken and decay |
| King John | KJ I.i.28 | And sullen presage of your own decay. | And sullen presage of your owne decay: |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.154 | The imminent decay of wrested pomp. | The iminent decay of wrested pompe. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.286 | That from your first of difference and decay, | That from your first of difference and decay, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.295 | What comfort to this great decay may come | What comfort to this great decay may come, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.64 | But whilst this muddy vesture of decay | But whilst this muddy vesture of decay |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.143 | enough to be the decay of lust and late-walking through | enough to be the decay of lust and late-walking through |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.102 | Cry woe, destruction, ruin, and decay. | Cry Woe, Destruction, Ruine, Losse, Decay, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.409 | Death, desolation, ruin, and decay. | Death, Desolation, Ruine, and Decay: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.462 | Full of decay and failing? O monument | Full of decay and fayling? Oh Monument |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.161 | That doth renew swifter than blood decays! | That doth renew swifter then blood decaies: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.71 | him. Infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the | him: Infirmity that decaies the wise, doth euer make the |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.29 | As if you met decays of many kinds; | As if you met decaies of many kindes: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.32 | Decays where'er I find them, but such most | Decaies where ere I finde them, but such most |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.111.1 | A love that grows as you decay. | A love that growes, as you decay; |