| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.34 | | [Q1 replaces this scene with the following] Enter Horatio and the Queene. HOR. Madame, your sonne is safe arriv'de in Denmarke, This letter I euen now receiv'd of him, Whereas he writes how he escap't the danger, And subtle treason that the king had plotted, Being crossed by the contention of the windes, He found the Packet sent to the king of England, Wherein he saw himselfe betray'd to death, As at his next conuersion with your grace, He will relate the circumstance at full. QUEENE. Then I perceiue there's treason in his lookes That seem'd to sugar o're his villanie: But I will soothe and please him for a time, For murderous mindes are alwayes jealous, But know not you Horatio where he is? HOR. Yes Madame, and he hath appoynted me To meete him on the east side of the Cittie To morrow morning. QUEENE. O faile not, good Horatio, and withall, commend me A mothers care to him, bid him a while Be wary of his presence, lest that he Faile in that he goes about. HOR. Madam, neuer make doubt of that: I thinke by this the news be come to court: He is arriv'de, obserue the king, and you shall Quickely finde, Hamlet being here, Things fell not to his minde. QUEENE. But what became of Gilderstone and Rossencraft? HOR. He being set ashore, they went for England, And in the Packet there writ down that doome To be perform'd on them poynted for him: And by great chance he had his fathers Seale, So all was done without discouerie. QUEENE. Thankes be to heauen for blessing of the prince, Horatio once againe I take my leaue, With thowsand mothers blessings to my sonne. HORAT. Madam adue. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.268 | Is ruminated, plotted, and set down, | Is ruminated, plotted, and set downe, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.24 | That plotted thus our glory's overthrow? | That plotted thus our Glories ouerthrow? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iv.3 | Too rashly plotted. All our general force | Too rashly plotted. All our generall force, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.153 | Will not conclude their plotted tragedy. | Will not conclude their plotted Tragedie. |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.96 | Complotted and contrived in this land | Complotted, and contriued in this Land, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.10 | In that dead time when Gloucester's death was plotted | In that dead time, when Glousters death was plotted, |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.37 | This day had plotted, in the Council House, | This day had plotted, in the Councell-House, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.185 | Ay, marry, am I, sir – and now 'tis plotted. | I marry am I sir, and now 'tis plotted. |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.273 | For he's a bastard one – had plotted with them | (For he's a bastard one) had plotted with them |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.47 | And give the King this fatal-plotted scroll. | And giue the King this fatall plotted Scrowle, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.181 | Plotted and 'greed on for my happiness. | Plotted, and 'greed on for my happinesse. |