| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.109 | Well may it sort that this portentous figure | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.64 | On some great sudden hest. O, what portents are these? | On some great sodaine hast. O what portents are these? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.20 | A prodigy of fear, and a portent | A prodigie of Feare, and a Portent |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.31 | For I believe, they are portentous things | For I beleeue, they are portentous things |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.80 | And these does she apply for warnings and portents | And these does she apply, for warnings and portents, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.45 | These are portents; but yet I hope, I hope | These are portents: but yet I hope, I hope, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.141 | Black and portentous must this humour prove, | Blacke and portendous must this humour proue, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.96 | What plagues and what portents, what mutiny, | What Plagues, and what portents, what mutiny? |