| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iv.33 | taught to find me? The search, sir, was profitable; and | taught to finde me? The search sir was profitable, and |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.133 | How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable | How weary, stale, flat, and vnprofitable |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.59 | Come, come, no more of this unprofitable chat. | Come, come, no more of this vnprofitable Chat. |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.31 | Some petty and unprofitable dukedoms. | Some petty and vnprofitable Dukedomes. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.270 | With profitable labour to his grave: | With profitable labour to his Graue: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.745 | Is not by much so wholesome-profitable | Is not by much so wholsome profitable, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.452 | Your suit's unprofitable. Stand up, I say. | Your suite's vnprofitable: stand vp I say: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.163 | Is not so estimable, profitable neither, | Is not so estimable, profitable neither |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.25 | Changed with this unprofitable woe! | Changd with this vnprofitable woe: |