| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.138 | Seeming to bear it lightly. Take me up. | Seeming to beare it lightly. Take me vp, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.5 | And will not lightly trust the messenger | And will not lightly trust the Messenger, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.29 | Believe't not lightly – though I go alone, | Beleeu't not lightly, though I go alone |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.10 | Some mortally, some slightly touched, some falling | Some mortally, some slightly touch'd, some falling |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.22 | Too slightly timbered for so loud a wind, | Too slightly timbred for so loud a Winde, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.146 | With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly, | With this contagion, that if I gall him slightly, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.89 | Hath, for a few light crowns, lightly conspired, | Hath for a few light Crownes, lightly conspir'd |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.54 | Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro | Was euer Feather so lightly blowne too & fro, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.112 | Gone slightly o'er low steps, and now are mounted | Gone slightly o're lowe steppes, and now are mounted |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.144 | That he, so slightly valued in his messenger, | That he so slightly valued in his Messenger, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.146 | they are but lightly rewarded. | they are but lightly rewarded. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.167 | To part so slightly with your wife's first gift, | To part so slightly with your wiues first gift, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.266 | guards are but slightly basted on neither. Ere you flout | guardes are but slightly basted on neither, ere you flout |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.45 | By holy Paul, they love his grace but lightly | By holy Paul, they loue his Grace but lightly, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.94 | (aside) Short summers lightly have a forward spring. | Short Summers lightly haue a forward Spring. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.121 | I weigh it lightly, were it heavier. | I weigh it lightly, were it heauier. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.19 | Untouched, or slightly handled in discourse; | Vntoucht, or sleightly handled in discourse. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.3 | My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne, | My bosomes L. sits lightly in his throne: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.289 | I beg this boon, with tears not lightly shed, | I beg this boone, with teares, not lightly shed, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.166 | That slightly shakes his parting guest by th' hand, | That slightly shakes his parting Guest by th'hand; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.142 | O, could their master come and go as lightly, | Oh, could their Master come, and goe as lightly, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.28 | Though craving seriousness and skill, passed slightly | Though craving seriousnes, and skill, past slightly |