| 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. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.64 | Of a detesting lord. | Of a detesting Lord. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.57 | Detest my baseness. I, that with my sword | Detest my basenesse. I, that with my Sword, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.184 | Detest them, curse them: yet 'tis greater skill | Detest them, curse them: yet 'tis greater Skill |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.160 | And for his sake wear the detested blot | And for his sake, wore the detested blot |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.39 | A man that more detests, more stirs against, | A man that more detests, more stirres against, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.348 | O doting King! O detestable office! | O doting King, or detestable office, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.29 | And I will kiss thy detestable bones | And I will kisse thy detestable bones, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.77 | letter! Abhorred villain! Unnatural, detested, brutish | Letter. Abhorred Villaine, vnnaturall, detested, brutish |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.259 | Detested kite, thou liest! | Detested Kite, thou lyest. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.212.1 | To this detested groom. | To this detested groome. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.31 | Glory grows guilty of detested crimes, | Glory growes guiltie of detested crimes, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.66 | My wife, sir, whom I detest before heaven and | My wife Sir? whom I detest before heauen, and |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.71 | Dost thou detest her therefore? | Do'st thou detest her therefore? |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.72 | I say, sir, I will detest myself also, as well as she, | I say sir, I will detest my selfe also, as well as she, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.145 | faith, it is such another Nan – but, I detest, an honest | faith, it is such another Nan; (but (I detest) an honest |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.434 | From these that my poor company detest. | From these that my poore companie detest; |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.108 | In gross rebellion and detested treason. | In grosse Rebellion, and detested Treason: |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.44 | Then murders, treasons, and detested sins – | Then Murthers, Treasons, and detested sinnes |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.232 | Thou rag of honour! Thou detested – | Thou Ragge of Honor, thou detested--- |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.56 | Most detestable Death, by thee beguiled, | Most detestable death, by thee beguil'd, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.45 | Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, | Thou detestable mawe, thou wombe of death, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.94 | Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, | Most smiling, smooth, detested Parasites, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.33 | But nakedness, thou detestable town. | But nakednesse, thou detestable Towne, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.74 | Spotted, detested, and abominable. | Spotted, detested, and abhominable. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.93 | A barren detested vale, you see it is: | A barren, detested vale you see it is. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.224 | In this detested, dark, blood-drinking pit. | In this detested, darke, blood-drinking pit. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.246 | And yet detested life not shrink thereat! | And yet detested life not shrinke thereat: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.94 | O detestable villain, call'st thou that trimming? | Oh detestable villaine! / Call'st thou that Trimming? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.37 | Where bloody murder or detested rape | Where bloody Murther or detested Rape, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.193 | a fashion she detests; and he will smile upon | a fashion shee detests: and hee will smile vpon |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.137 | Ay me, detested! How am I beguiled! | Aye me detested, how am I beguil'd? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.73 | No, we detest such vile base practices. | No, we detest such vile base practises. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.39 | I do detest false perjured Proteus. | I doe detest false periur'd Protheus: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.61 | apparel ta'en from me, and these detestable things put | apparrell tane from me, and these detestable things put |