| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.35 | give him not John Drum's entertainment your inclining | giue him not Iohn drummes entertainement, your inclining |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.38 | Have shown to thee such a declining day | Haue shewne to thee such a declining day, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.142 | embellished with rubies, carbuncles, sapphires, declining | embellished with Rubies, Carbuncles, Saphires, declining |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.275 | own inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come, come, deal | owne inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come, deale |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.476 | Which was declining on the milky head | Which was declining on the Milkie head |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.414 | think, his age some fifty, or by'r lady inclining to three score. | thinke, his age some fiftie, or (byrlady) inclining to threescore; |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.37 | Than one, to comfort our declining age. | Then one to comfort our declyning age. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.776 | As bombast and as lining to the time. | As bumbast and as lining to the time: |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.82 | Both you of my inclining and the rest. | Both you of my inclining, and the rest. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.330 | Th' inclining Desdemona to subdue | Th'inclyning Desdemona to subdue |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.61 | The lining of his coffers shall make coats | The lining of his coffers shall make Coates |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.240 | Of noble blood in this declining land. | Of noble blood in this declining Land; |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.117 | And with declining head into his bosom, | And with declining head into his bosome |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.91 | Not one accompanying his declining foot. | Not one accompanying his declining foot. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.32 | Her mood inclining that way that I spoke of, | Her moode inclining that way that I spoke of |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.304 | Inclining to them both. Were my wife's liver | Inclining to them both: were my Wiues Liuer |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.51 | That way inclining, hardened be the hearts | That way enclining, hardned be the hearts |