| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.95 | It ripens towards it. Strike the vessels, ho! | It ripen's towards it: strike the Vessells hoa. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.12 | And ripens in the sunshine of his favour, | And ripens in the Sunne-shine of his fauor, |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.61 | And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best | And holesome Berryes thriue and ripen best, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.99 | Were growing time once ripened to my will. | Were growing time once ripened to my will. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.1 | Why droops my lord like overripened corn, | Why droopes my Lord like ouer-ripen'd Corn, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.357 | His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, | His Greatnesse is a ripening, nippes his roote, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.20 | Which time shall bring to ripeness. She shall be – | Which Time shall bring to ripenesse: She shall be, |
| King Lear | KL V.ii.11.1 | Ripeness is all. Come on. | Ripenesse is all come on. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.116 | Keep me in patience, and with ripened time | Keepe me in patience, and with ripened time |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.8 | Where honeysuckles, ripened by the sun, | Where hony-suckles ripened by the sunne, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.43 | Which elder days shall ripen and confirm | Which elder dayes shall ripen, and confirme |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.48 | And as my fortune ripens with thy love | And as my Fortune ripens with thy Loue, |
| Richard III | R3 II.iii.14 | And, in his full and ripened years, himself, | And in his full and ripened yeares, himselfe |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.121 | This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, | This bud of Loue by Summers ripening breath, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.230 | And ripen justice in this commonweal. | And ripen Iustice in this Common-weale: |