| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.119 | Would quite confound distinction, yet stands off | Would quite confound distinction: yet stands off |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.40 | To make distinction. Provide this messenger. | To make distinction: prouide this Messenger: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.24 | Your distinction? | Your distinction. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.102 | That knows the tinct and multiplying medicine, | That knowes the tinct and multiplying med'cine, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.37 | With his tinct gilded thee. | With his Tinct gilded thee. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.I.29 | Grants scarce distinction. Thou wilt write to Antony? | graunts scarce distinction: thou wilt write to Anthony. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.10 | The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, | the Racke dislimes, and makes it indistinct |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.205 | And bury all which yet distinctly ranges | And burie all, which yet distinctly raunges |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.321 | He throws without distinction. Give me leave, | He throwes without distinction. Giue me leaue, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iii.40 | charges distinctly billeted, already in th' entertainment, | charges distinctly billetted already in th' entertainment, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.35 | Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand | Be such a Gosling to obey instinct; but stand |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.23 | With blue of heaven's own tinct. But my design. | With Blew of Heauens owne tinct. But my designe. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.177 | That an invisible instinct should frame them | That an inuisible instinct should frame them |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.248 | That angel of the world – doth make distinction | (That Angell of the world) doth make distinction |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.382.2 | O rare instinct! | O rare instinct! |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.385 | Distinction should be rich in. Where? How lived you? | Distinction should be rich in. Where? how liu'd you? |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.118 | Giving more light than heat, extinct in both | Giuing more light then heate; extinct in both, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.92.1 | As will not leave their tinct. | As will not leaue their Tinct. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.265 | beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. | beware Instinct, the Lion will not touch the true Prince: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.266 | Instinct is a great matter; I was now a coward on | Instinct is a great matter. I was a Coward on |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.267 | instinct. I shall think the better of myself, and thee, | Instinct: I shall thinke the better of my selfe, and thee, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.293 | ran away upon instinct, you will not touch the true | ranne away vpon instinct: you will not touch the true |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.311 | instinct hadst thou for it? | instinct hadst thou for it? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.348 | Yes, Jack, upon instinct. | Yes Iacke, vpon instinct. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.349 | I grant ye, upon instinct. Well, he is there too, | I grant ye, vpon instinct: Well, hee is there too, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.365 | instinct. | instinct. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.480 | instinct. | in-stinct. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.86 | Hath by instinct knowledge from others' eyes | Hath by Instinct, knowledge from others Eyes, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.250 | And mere instinct of love and loyalty, | And meere instinct of Loue and Loyaltie, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.45.1 | Distinctly his full function. | Distinctly his full Function: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.89 | For tinctures, stains, relics, and cognizance. | For Tinctures, Staines, Reliques, and Cognisance. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.61 | To offend and judge are distinct offices, | To offend and iudge are distinct offices, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.154 | But not intentively. I did consent, | But not instinctiuely: I did consent, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.40.1 | An indistinct regard. | An indistinct regard. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.81 | Give renewed fire to our extincted spirits | Giue renew'd fire to our extincted Spirits. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.280 | I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; | I remember a masse of things, but nothing distinctly: |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.233 | Distinctly speak of her, though I may fear | Distinctly speake of her, though I may feare |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.222 | Shall be extinct with age and endless night. | Shall be extinct with age, and endlesse night: |
| Richard III | R3 II.iii.42 | By a divine instinct men's minds mistrust | By a diuine instinct, mens mindes mistrust |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.148 | Instinctively have quit it. There they hoist us, | Instinctiuely haue quit it: There they hoyst vs |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.200 | The yards, and boresprit would I flame distinctly, | The Yards and Bore-spritt, would I flame distinctly, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.221.2 | Thou dost snore distinctly. | Thou do'st snore distinctly, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.27 | Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan, | Distinction with a lowd and powrefull fan, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.25 | That I shall lose distinction in my joys, | That I shall loose distinction in my ioyes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.44 | With distinct breath and consigned kisses to them, | With distinct breath, and consign'd kisses to them, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.245 | And make distinct the very breach whereout | And make distinct the very breach, where-out |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.154 | distinction of our hands. | distinction of our hands. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.152 | And pinched the lily-tincture of her face, | And pinch'd the lilly-tincture of her face, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.70 | Today extinct; our argument is love, | To daie extinct; our argument is love, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.20.2 | I am extinct. | I am extinct, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.203 | Tincture or lustre in her lip, her eye, | Tincture, or lustre in her lip, her eye |