| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.i.65.1 | That could not trace them! | That could not trace them. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.12.1 | But no trace of him. | But no trace of him. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.200 | may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander | may not Imagination trace the Noble dust of Alexander, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.119 | trace him, his umbrage, nothing more. | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.45 | Can trace me in the tedious ways of art | Can trace me in the tedious wayes of Art, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.45.1 | Trace the conjunction! | Trace the Coniunction. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.152 | That trace him in his line. No boasting, like a fool; | That trace him in his Line. No boasting like a Foole, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.25 | Knight of his train, to trace the forests wild. | Knight of his traine, to trace the Forrests wilde. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.16 | As we do trace this alley up and down, | As we do trace this alley vp and downe, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.294 | If this poor trash of Venice, whom I leash | If this poore Trash of Venice, whom I trace |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.64 | Her traces, of the smallest spider web; | her Traces of the smallest Spiders web, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.102 | I had as lief trace this good action with you | I had as leife trace this good action with you |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.60 | That draw i'th' sequent trace. These poor slight sores | That draw i'th sequent trace: these poore sleight sores, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.21 | And sweetly, by a figure, trace and turn, boys. | and sweetly, by a figure trace, and turne Boyes. |