| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.526 | desert. | desart. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.528 | man after his desert, and who shall 'scape whipping? | man after his desart, and who should scape whipping: |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.103 | And dare me to the desert with thy sword: | And dare me to the Desart with thy Sword: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.9 | First, who think you the most desartless man | First, who thinke you the most desartlesse man |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.139 | Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, | Wherein of Antars vast, and Desarts idle, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.2 | This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, | This shadowy desart, vnfrequented woods |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.175 | To some remote and desert place, quite out | To some remote and desart place, quite out |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.2.1 | The deserts of Bohemia? | The Desarts of Bohemia. |