| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.11 | With an auspicious and a dropping eye, | With one Auspicious, and one Dropping eye, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.69 | And curd, like eager droppings into milk, | And curd, like Aygre droppings into Milke, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.45 | Lob down their heads, dropping the hides and hips, | Lob downe their heads, dropping the hides and hips: |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.10 | Did I go through a tempest dropping fire. | Did I goe through a Tempest-dropping-fire. |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.63 | And with a dropping industry they skip | and with a dropping industrie they skip |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.103 | Turning his side to the dew-dropping South. | Turning his side to the dew dropping South. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.213.1 | Dropping upon thy head. | Dropping vpon thy head. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.1.5 | prison. Then comes, dropping after all, Apemantus, | prison. Then comes dropping after all Apemantus |