| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.52 | The ostentation of our love; which, left unshown, | The ostentation of our loue; which left vnshewne, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.86 | Make good this ostentation, and you shall | Make good this ostentation, and you shall |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.215 | No noble rite nor formal ostentation – | No Noble rite, nor formall ostentation, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.47 | taken from me all ostentation of sorrow. | taken from me, all ostentation of sorrow. |
| Henry V | H5 V.chorus.21 | Giving full trophy, signal, and ostent | Giuing full Trophee, Signall, and Ostent, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.15 | facere, as it were, replication, or, rather, ostentare, to | facere: as it were replication, or rather ostentare, to |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.106 | delightful ostentation, or show, or pageant, or antic, or | delightfull ostentation, or show, or pageant, or anticke, or |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.409 | Have blown me full of maggot ostentation. | Haue blowne me full of maggot ostentation. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.183 | Like one well studied in a sad ostent | Like one well studied in a sad ostent |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.viii.44 | To courtship and such fair ostents of love | To courtship, and such faire ostents of loue |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.203 | Maintain a mourning ostentation, | Maintaine a mourning ostentation, |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.25 | And with the ostent of war will look so huge | And with the stint of warre will looke so huge, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.94 | And ostentation of despised arms? | And ostentation of despised Armes? |