| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.ii.26 | He'd make an end of thy posterity. | Hee'ld make an end of thy posterity |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.112 | That wrought upon thee so preposterously | That wrought vpon thee so preposterously, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.48 | Posterity, await for wretched years, | Posteritie await for wretched yeeres, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.5 | And both preposterous; therefore, not ‘ good lord.’ | And both preposterous: therefore, not Good Lord. |
| King John | KJ II.i.6 | And for amends to his posterity, | And for amends to his posteritie, |
| King John | KJ II.i.96 | Cut off the sequence of posterity, | Cut off the sequence of posterity, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.236 | encounter that obscene and most preposterous event that | encounter that obscene and most preposterous euent that |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.84 | the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude | the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.86 | The posterior of the day, most generous | The posterior of the day, most generous |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.113 | of time, some show in the posterior of this day, | of time, some show in the posterior of this day, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.32 | Posters of the sea and land, | Posters of the Sea and Land, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.4 | It should not stand in thy posterity | It should not stand in thy Posterity, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.86 | That wounds th' unsisting postern with these strokes. | That wounds th' vnsisting Posterne with these strokes. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.231 | Methinks you prescribe to yourself very preposterously. | Methinkes you prescribe to your selfe very preposterously. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.121 | That befall preposterously. | That befall preposterously. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.89 | And bless it to all fair prosperity. | And blesse it to all faire posterity. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.62 | For nature so preposterously to err, | For Nature, so prepostrously to erre, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.326 | preposterous conclusions. But we have reason to cool | prepostrous Conclusions. But we haue Reason to coole |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.17 | To thread the postern of a small needle's eye.’ | To thred the posterne of a Needles eye. |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.63 | Blood to blood, self against self. O preposterous | Blood to blood, selfe against selfe: O prepostorous |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.77 | As 'twere retailed to all posterity, | As 'twere retayl'd to all posteritie, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.220 | Cuts beauty off from all posterity. | Cuts beauty off from all posteritie. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.9 | Preposterous ass, that never read so far | Preposterous Asse that neuer read so farre, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.20 | the like, take and take again such preposterous | the like, take and take againe, such prepostrous |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.i.9 | Out at the postern by the abbey wall; | Out at the Posterne by the Abbey wall; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.438 | And will by twos and threes, at several posterns, | And will by twoes, and threes, at seuerall Posternes, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.464 | The keys of all the posterns. Please your highness | The Keyes of all the Posternes: Please your Highnesse |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.52 | For them to play at will. How came the posterns | For them to play at will: how came the Posternes |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.406 | But fair posterity, should hold some counsel | But faire posterity) should hold some counsaile |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.144 | preposterous estate as we are. | preposterous estate as we are. |