| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iv.6 | Spoke scantly of me; when perforce he could not | spoke scantly of me, / When perforce he could not |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ii.21 | Scant not my cups, and make as much of me | Scant not my Cups, and make as much of me, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.86 | bestows on beasts, and what he hath scanted men in | bestowes on beasts, and what he hath scanted them in |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.121 | Be something scanter of your maiden presence. | Be somewhat scanter of your Maiden presence; |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.281.2 | He's fat and scant of breath. | He's fat, and scant of breath. |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.47 | Doth like a miser spoil his coat with scanting | Doth like a Miser spoyle his Coat, with scanting |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.122 | Ah, what a world of descant makes my soul | Ah what a world of descant makes my soule, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.159 | Such as, but scant them of their chines of beef, | Such as but scant them of their chines of beefe, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.278 | At Fortune's alms. You have obedience scanted, | At Fortunes almes, you haue obedience scanted, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.135.1 | Than she to scant her duty. | Then she to scant her dutie. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.170 | To bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes, | To bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes, |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.67.1 | Their scanted courtesy. | Their scanted curtesie. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.i.17 | But if my father had not scanted me, | But if my Father had not scanted me, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.112 | In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess, | In measure raine thy ioy, scant this excesse, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.141 | Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy. | Therefore I scant this breathing curtesie. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.264 | I will your serious and great business scant | I will your serious and great businesse scant |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.90 | Or scant our former having in despite – | Or scant our former hauing in despight) |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.27 | And descant on mine own deformity. | And descant on mine owne Deformity. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.48 | For on that ground I'll make a holy descant; | For on that ground Ile make a holy Descant: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.98 | And she shall scant show well that now seems best. | And she shew scant shell, well, that now shewes best. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.341 | Although particular, shall give a scantling | (Although particular) shall giue a scantling |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.46 | And scants us with a single famished kiss, | And scants vs with a single famisht kisse, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.94 | And mar the concord with too harsh a descant. | And marre the concord, with too harsh a descant: |