| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.43 | And bowed his eminent top to their low ranks, | And bow'd his eminent top to their low rankes, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.i.32 | How, with his banners and his well-paid ranks, | How with his Banners, and his well paid ranks, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.218 | And shrive you of a thousand idle pranks. – | And shriue you of a thousand idle prankes: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.135 | And, through the cranks and offices of man, | And through the Crankes and Offices of man, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.66 | The mutable, rank-scented meiny, let them | the mutable ranke-sented Meynie, / Let them |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.2 | Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with, | Tell him his prankes haue been too broad to beare with, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.14 | Shall now, in mutual well-beseeming ranks, | Shall now in mutuall well-beseeming rankes |
| Henry V | H5 IV.v.6.2 | Why, all our ranks are broke. | Why all our rankes are broke. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.15 | Thy lewd, pestiferous, and dissentious pranks, | Thy lewd, pestiferous, and dissentious prancks, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.10 | Our ranks are broke, and ruin follows us. | Our rankes are broke, and ruine followes vs. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.20 | In ranks and squadrons and right form of war, | In Rankes and Squadrons, and right forme of Warre |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.58 | With all endeavour sought to break our ranks | With all indeuor sought to breake our rankes, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.244 | Even at my gates, with ranks of foreign powers; | Euen at my gates, with rankes of forraigne powres; |
| King John | KJ V.ii.29 | Her enemies' ranks – I must withdraw and weep | Her Enemies rankes? I must withdraw, and weepe |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.234 | Of other your new pranks. I do beseech you | Of other your new prankes. I do beseech you |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.25.1 | Yours in the ranks of death. | Yours in the rankes of death. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.94 | He finds thee in the stout Norweyan ranks, | He findes thee in the stout Norweyan Rankes, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.54 | Stand ranks of people, and they cry ‘ A sail!’ | Stand rankes of People, and they cry, a Saile. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.140 | But does foul pranks which fair and wise ones do. | But do's foule pranks, which faire, and wise-ones do. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.200 | In Venice they do let God see the pranks | In Venice, they do let Heauen see the prankes |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.131 | When it hath blown his ranks into the air, | When it hath blowne his Rankes into the Ayre, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.101 | From forth the ranks of many thousand French, | From forth the Rankes of many thousand French: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.39 | Bring in thy ranks, but leave without thy rage. | Bring in thy rankes, but leaue without thy rage, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.185 | Through ranks of Greekish youth; and I have seen thee, | Through rankes of Greekish youth: and I haue seen thee |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.85 | That nature pranks her in, attracts my soul. | That nature prankes her in, attracts my soule. |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.54 | And hear thou there how many fruitless pranks | And heare thou there how many fruitlesse prankes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.28 | The cranks and turns of Thebes? You did begin | The Cranckes, and turnes of Thebs? you did begin |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.79 | become the pranks and friskins of her madness. Sing | become the prankes / And friskins of her madnes; Sing |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.695 | his son's pranks too; who, I may say, is no honest man, | his Sonnes prancks too; who, I may say, is no honest man, |