| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.225.2 | This was your motive | This was your motiue |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iv.20 | As it hath fated her to be my motive | As it hath fated her to be my motiue |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.215 | Are motives of more fancy; and in fine | Are motiues of more fancie, and in fine, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.100 | For which myself, the ignorant motive, do | For which my selfe, the ignorant motiue, do |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.268.1 | You had a motive for't. | You had a motiue for't. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.389 | And your three motives to the battle, with | And your three motiues to the Battaile? with |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.105 | Is the main motive of our preparations, | Is the maine Motiue of our Preparations, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.76 | Without more motive, into every brain | |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.558 | Had he the motive and the cue for passion | Had he the Motiue and the Cue for passion |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.16 | I could not but by her. The other motive | I could not but by her. The other Motiue, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.239 | Whose motive in this case should stir me most | Whose motiue in this case should stirre me most |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.156 | Although I did admit it as a motive | Although I did admit it as a motiue, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.116 | If these be motives weak, break off betimes, | If these be Motiues weake, breake off betimes, |
| King John | KJ III.i.313 | Now shall I see thy love! What motive may | Now shall I see thy loue, what motiue may |
| King Lear | KL I.i.157.1 | Thy safety being motive. | Thy safety being motiue. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.27 | Those precious motives, those strong knots of love, | Those precious Motiues, those strong knots of Loue, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.14 | Was the first motive that I wooed thee, Anne; | Was the first motiue that I woo'd thee (Anne:) |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.42 | Am I the motive of these tears my lord? | Am I the motiue of these teares my Lord? |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.193 | The slavish motive of recanting fear | The slauish motiue of recanting feare, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.27 | Who were the motives that you first went out; | Who were the motiues that you first went out, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.57 | At every joint and motive of her body. | At euery ioynt, and motiue of her body: |