| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.84 | You look on me: what wreck discern you in me | You looke on me: what wrack discerne you in me |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.76 | and I could discern no part of his face from the window. | and I could discerne no part of his face from the window: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.26 | Myself, as far as I could well discern | My selfe, as farre as I could well discerne, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.24 | Which, once discerned, shows that her meaning is: | Which once discern'd, shewes that her meaning is, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.32 | 'Twas said they saw but one, and no discerner | 'Twas said they saw but one, and no Discerner |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.59 | Turned but aside, I likewise might discern | I tourned but a side I like wise might disserne. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.151 | Discern the difference 'twixt the friend and foe, | Discerne the difference twixt the friend and fo, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.224 | Either his notion weakens, his discernings | Either his Notion weakens, his Discernings |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.144 | By some discretion that discerns your state | By some discretion, that discernes your state |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.52 | Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning | Who hast not in thy browes an eye-discerning |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.15 | You may deserve of him, through me; and wisdom | You may discerne of him through me, and wisedome |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.365 | To think I can be undiscernible, | To thinke I can be vndiscerneable, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.1 | What from the cape can you discern at sea? | What from the Cape, can you discerne at Sea? |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.101 | Indeed? Ay, indeed. Discern'st thou aught in that? | Indeed? I indeed. Discern'st thou ought in that? |
| Pericles | Per V.i.115.1 | You may discern the place. | you may discerne the place. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.126 | To grubs and eyeless skulls? As I discern, | To grubs, and eyelesse Sculles? As I discerne, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.128 | That's a good deed. If thou mayest discern by | That's a good deed: if thou mayest discerne by |