| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.290 | To the dark house and the detested wife. | To the darke house, and the detected wife. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.296 | detect the lazy foot of Time as well as a clock. | detect the lazie foot of time, as wel as a clocke. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vii.39 | The happy man; whether defect of judgement, | The happy man; whether detect of iudgement, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.99 | And 'scape detecting, I will pay the theft. | And scape detecting, I will pay the Theft. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.143 | To let thy tongue detect thy base-born heart? | To let thy tongue detect thy base-borne heart. |
| King Lear | KL III.v.12 | detector. | detector. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.115 | I never heard the absent Duke much detected for | I neuer heard the absent Duke much detected for |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.235 | against. Now, could I come to her with any detection in | against. Now, could I come to her with any detection in |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.295 | detect my wife, be revenged on Falstaff, and laugh at | detect my wife, bee reueng'd on Falstaffe, and laugh at |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.100 | to be detected with a jealous rotten bell-wether; | to be detected with a iealious rotten Bell-weather: |
| Pericles | Per II.i.51 | All that may men approve or men detect! – | All that may men approue, or men detect. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.139 | with his neighbour's wife, but it detects him. 'Tis a | with his Neighbours Wife, but it detects him. 'Tis a |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.27 | And, lest thou shouldst detect him, cut thy tongue. | And least thou should'st detect them, cut thy tongue. |