| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.153 | We, poising us in her defective scale, | We poizing vs in her defectiue scale, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.59 | By laying defects of judgement to me, but | by laying defects of iudgement to me: but |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.236 | That she did make defect perfection, | That she did make defect, perfection, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.48 | Rather our state's defective for requital | Rather our states defectiue for requitall, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vii.39 | The happy man; whether defect of judgement, | The happy man; whether detect of iudgement, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.111 | Of roaring terrors: for the defect of judgement | Of roaring terrors: For defect of iudgement |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.31 | Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, | |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.102 | Or rather say, the cause of this defect, | Or rather say, the cause of this defect; |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.103 | For this effect defective comes by cause. | For this effect defectiue, comes by cause, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.178 | Defect of manners, want of government, | Defect of Manners, want of Gouernment, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.55 | Defective in their natures, grow to wildness, | Defectiue in their natures, grow to wildnesse. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.188 | Argue in thee defective discipline. | Argue in thee defectiue discipline, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.84 | And in the end thy foul defects be seen. | And in the end thy fowle defects be seene, |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.20 | Our means secure us, and our mere defects | Our meanes secure vs, and our meere defects |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.18 | Our will became the servant to defect, | Our will became the seruant to defect, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.132 | That is the very defect of the matter, sir. | That is the verie defect of the matter sir. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.35 | must speak through, saying thus, or to the same defect: | must speake through, saying thus, or to the same defect; |
| Othello | Oth II.i.224 | which the Moor is defective in. Now for want of these | which the Moore is defectiue in. Now for want of these |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.159 | So mighty and so many my defects, | So mightie, and so manie my defects, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.122 | For those defects I have before rehearsed, | For those defects I haue before rehearst, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.44 | With so full soul but some defect in her | With so full soule, but some defect in her |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.172 | And then, forsooth, the faint defects of age | And then (forsooth) the faint defects of Age |