| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.89 | has spied us. | has spyed vs. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.231 | Pre-occupied with what you rather must do | pre-occupy'd with what you rather must do, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.21 | To see th' enclosed lights, now canopied | To see th'inclosed Lights, now Canopied |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.101 | That youth and observation copied there, | That youth and obseruation coppied there; |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.77 | At last I spied his eyes, and methought he had made | at last I spy'd his eyes, and me thought he had made |
| Henry V | H5 III.iv.46 | Comment appelez-vous le pied et la robe? | coment ap-pelle vous les pied & de roba. |
| King John | KJ V.ii.1 | My Lord Melun, let this be copied out, | My Lord Melloone, let this be coppied out, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.101 | Spied a blossom passing fair | Spied a blossome passing faire, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.883 | When daisies pied and violets blue | When Dasies pied, and Violets blew, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.76 | That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied | That all the eanelings which were streakt and pied |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.251 | Quite overcanopied with luscious woodbine, | Quite ouer-cannoped with luscious woodbine, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.313 | She hath spied him already, with those sweet | She hath spyed him already, with those sweete |
| Othello | Oth I.i.78 | Is spied in populous cities. | Is spied in populus Citties. |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.186 | As like enough it will – I'd have it copied. | (As like enough it will) I would haue it coppied: |
| Richard II | R2 III.i.10 | By you unhappied and disfigured clean. | By you vnhappied, and disfigur'd cleane: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.60 | That I'm dog-weary, but at last I spied | That I am dogge-wearie, but at last I spied |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.63 | What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy patch! | What a py'de Ninnie's this? Thou scuruy patch: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.48 | Now question me no more, we are espied. | Now question me no more, we are espied, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.194 | Where I espied the panther fast asleep. | Where I espied the Panther fast asleepe. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.151 | Marry, at the white hair that Helen spied on | Marry at the white haire that Hellen spied on |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.42 | Love thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers. | Loue-thoughts lye rich, when canopy'd with bowres. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.87 | There is an art which in their piedness shares | There is an Art, which in their pidenesse shares |