| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.47 | Her head's declined, and death will seize her but | Her head's declin'd, and death will cease her, but |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.27 | And answer me declined, sword against sword, | And answer me declin'd, Sword against Sword, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.44 | Far more, far more to you do I decline. | Farre more, farre more, to you doe I decline: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.191 | Who thrives and who declines; side factions and give out | Who thriues, & who declines: Side factions, & giue out |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.154 | Which, being advanced, declines, and then men die. | Which being aduanc'd, declines, and then men dye. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.50 | I made to her in marriage; and to decline | I made to her in Marriage; and to decline |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.145.5 | takes her up, and declines his head upon her neck. He | takes her vp, and dcclines his head vpon her neck. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.375 | A great man should decline? Nay, an you weep | A great man should decline. Nay, and you weep |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.215 | We, at the height, are ready to decline. | We at the height, are readie to decline. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.104 | That now her dim decline hath power to draw | That now her dym declyne hath power to draw, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.74 | declined, the father should be as ward to the son, and | declin'd, the Father should bee as Ward to the Son, and |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.22 | Decline your head; this kiss, if it durst speak, | Decline your head. This kisse, if it durst speake |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.38 | thus declined: Singulariter, nominativo, hic, haec, hoc. | thus declined. Singulariter nominatiuo hic haec, hoc. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.262 | That chamberers have; or for I am declined | That Chamberers haue: Or for I am declin'd |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.97 | Decline all this, and see what now thou art: | Decline all this, and see what now thou art. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.20 | Decline to your confounding contraries, | Decline to your confounding contraries. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.51 | I'll decline the whole question. | Ile declin the whole question: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.76 | Must fall out with men too. What the declined is, | Must fall out with men too: what the declin'd is, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.189 | Not letting it decline on the declined, | Not letting it decline, on the declined: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.14 | He straight declined, drooped, took it deeply, | He straight declin'd, droop'd, tooke it deeply, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.72 | Paulina! She had one eye declined for the loss of her | Paulina. Shee had one Eye declin'd for the losse of her |