| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.16 | Hoo! Hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards, poets, cannot | Hoo, Hearts, Tongues, Figure, Scribes, Bards, Poets, cannot |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.6 | most capricious poet, honest Ovid, was among the | most capricious Poet honest Ouid was among the |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.14 | made thee poetical. | made thee poeticall. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.15 | I do not know what ‘ poetical ’ is. Is it honest in | I do not know what Poetical is: is it honest in |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.17 | No, truly: for the truest poetry is the most | No trulie: for the truest poetrie is the most |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.18 | feigning; and lovers are given to poetry; and what they | faining, and Louers are giuen to Poetrie: and what they |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.19 | swear in poetry may be said as lovers they do feign. | sweare in Poetrie, may be said as Louers, they do feigne. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.21 | poetical? | Poeticall? |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.23 | honest; now, if thou wert a poet, I might have some hope | honest: Now if thou wert a Poet, I might haue some hope |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.354 | argument unless the poet and the player went to cuffs | argument, vnlesse the Poet and the Player went to Cuffes |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.128 | Nothing so much as mincing poetry. | Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie; |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.36 | good truth, the poet makes a most excellent description | good truth, the Poet makes a most excellent description |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.31 | And all that poets feign of bliss and joy. | And all that Poets faine of Blisse and Ioy. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.iii.1.1 | Enter Cinna the Poet, and after him the Plebeians | Enter Cinna the Poet, and after him the Plebeians. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.iii.29 | I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet. | I am Cinna the Poet, I am Cinna the Poet. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.123.1 | Enter a Poet followed by Lucius; Titinius and Lucilius | Enter a Poet. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.136 | Exit Poet | Exit Poet |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.53 | This fellow is well read in poetry, | This fellow is well read in poetrie, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.73 | For so much moving hath a poet's pen | For so much moouing hath a Poets pen: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.74 | Then, if thou be a poet, move thou so, | Then if thou be a Poet moue thou so, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.78 | How much more shall the strains of poets' wit | How much more shall the straines of poets wit, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.128 | Fill thou the empty hollows of mine ears | With the sweete hearing of thy poetrie. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.129 | With the sweet hearing of thy poetry. | |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.393 | The poets write that great Achilles' spear | The Poets write that great Achilles speare, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.69 | That poets term the wanton warrior blind; | That Poets tearme, the wanton warriour blinde: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.157 | poetry, wit, nor invention. I beseech your society. | Poetrie, Wit, nor Inuention. I beseech your Societie. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.322 | Never durst poet touch a pen to write | Neuer durst Poet touch a pen to write, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.79 | By the sweet power of music. Therefore the poet | By the sweet power of musicke: therefore the Poet |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.149 | For all the world like cutler's poetry | For all the world like Cutlers Poetry |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.7 | The lunatic, the lover, and the poet | The Lunaticke, the Louer, and the Poet, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.12 | The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling, | The Poets eye in a fine frenzy rolling, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.15 | The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen | the forms of things / Vnknowne; the Poets pen |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.46 | With that sour ferryman which poets write of, | With that sowre Ferry-man which Poets write of, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.93 | In music, instruments, and poetry, | In Musicke, Instruments, and Poetry, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.167 | Fit for her turn, well read in poetry | Fit for her turne, well read in Poetrie |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.1.1.1 | Enter Poet and Painter, Jeweller and Merchant, at | Enter Poet, Painter, Ieweller, Merchant, and Mercer, at |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.217 | Not worth my thinking. How now, poet! | Not worth my thinking. / How now Poet? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.223 | Art not a poet? | Art not a Poet? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.353 | Yonder comes a poet and a painter. The | Yonder comes a Poet and a Painter: / The |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.1 | Enter Poet and Painter | Enter Poet, and Painter. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.81 | E'en so, sir, as I say. (To the Poet) And for thy fiction, | E'ne so sir as I say. And for thy fiction, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.108 | Come not near him. (To the Poet) If thou wouldst not reside | Come not neere him. If thou would'st not recide |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.112 | (To the Poet) You are an alchemist, make gold of that. | You are an Alcumist, make Gold of that: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.51 | As Cerberus at the Thracian poet's feet. | As Cerberus at the Thracian Poets feete. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.14 | Sweet poetry and Tully's Orator. | Sweet Poetry, and Tullies Oratour: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.56 | Patterned by that the poet here describes, | Patern'd by that the Poet heere describes, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.187 | Alas, I took great pains to study it, and 'tis poetical. | Alas, I tooke great paines to studie it, and 'tis Poeticall. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.78 | For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews, | For Orpheus Lute, was strung with Poets sinewes, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.50 | A learned poet says, unless by th' tail | A learned Poet sayes: unles by'th taile |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.11 | A learned, and a poet never went | A learned, and a Poet never went |