| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.173 | Cannot endure my absence. | Cannot endure my absence. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.61 | In this dull world, which in thy absence is | In this dull world, which in thy absence is |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.82 | By reason of his absence, there is nothing | By reason of his absence there is nothing |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.45 | From whom my absence was not six months old | From whom my absence was not sixe moneths olde, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.3 | I should freelier rejoice in that absence wherein he won | I should freelier reioyce in that absence wherein he wonne |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.84 | all the yarn she spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill | all the yearne she spun in Vlisses absence, did but fill |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.95 | By calmness or by absence. All's in anger. | By calmenesse, or by absence: all's in anger. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.44.1 | I'th' absence of the needer. | Ith' absence of the needer. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.58 | He hath a drug of mine: I pray his absence | He hath a Drugge of mine: I pray, his absence |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.46 | After long absence – such is yours. Most welcome! | (After long absence) such is yours. Most welcome: |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.2 | A fever with the absence of her son; | A Feauour with the absence of her Sonne; |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.57 | But, failing of her end by his strange absence, | But fayling of her end by his strange absence, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.73 | This absence of your father's draws a curtain | This absence of your Father drawes a Curtaine, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.76 | I rather of his absence make this use. | I rather of his absence make this vse: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iv.16 | And what with Owen Glendower's absence thence, | And what with Owen Glendowers absence thence, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.6 | Our substitutes in absence well invested, | Our Substitutes, in absence, well inuested, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.172 | Playing the mouse in absence of the cat, | Playing the Mouse in absence of the Cat, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.278 | My lord, your nobles, jealous of your absence, | My Lord, your Nobles iealous of your absence, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.106 | In our long absence. Pray do not deliver | In our long absence: pray doe not deliuer, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.150.2 | Impatient of my absence, | Impatient of my absence, |
| King John | KJ I.i.102 | Th' advantage of his absence took the King | Th' aduantage of his absence tooke the King, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.225.1 | Your absence only. | Your absence onelie. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.135 | Whose absence is no less material to me | Whose absence is no lesse materiall to me, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.42.2 | His absence, sir, | His absence (Sir) |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.18 | Elected him our absence to supply, | Elected him our absence to supply; |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.90 | Lord Angelo dukes it well in his absence. He puts | Lord Angelo Dukes it well in his absence: he puts |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.327 | met you at the prison in the absence of the Duke. | met you at the Prison, in the absence of the Duke. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.104 | on his very absence, and I pray God grant them a fair | on his verie absence: and I wish them a faire |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.4 | In bearing thus the absence of your lord. | In bearing thus the absence of your Lord. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.128 | If you would walk in absence of the sun. | If you would walke in absence of the sunne. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.245 | 'Od's plessed will! I will not be absence at the | Od's plessed-wil: I wil not be absẽce at the |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.81 | absence from his house between ten and eleven. | absence from his house, betweene ten and eleuen. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.103 | to take an ill advantage of his absence. You are undone. | to take an ill aduantage of his absence: you are vndone. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.244 | Which death or absence soon shall remedy. | Which death or absence soone shall remedie. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.256 | By his dear absence. Let me go with him. | By his deere absence. Let me go with him. |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.175 | Strike off this score of absence. Sweet Bianca, | Strike off this score of absence. Sweet Bianca |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.178 | To the felt absence now I feel a cause. | To the felt-Absence: now I feele a Cause: |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.112 | But should he wrong my liberties in my absence? | But should he wrong my liberties in my absence? |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.46 | Further to bear the absence of your king; | To forbeare the absence of your King; |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.258 | Thy grief is but thy absence for a time. | Thy greefe is but thy absence for a time. |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.219 | And we create in absence of ourself | And we create in absence of our selfe |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.24 | My absence doth neglect no great design | My absence doth neglect no great designe, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.344 | safety were remotion, and thy defence absence. What | safety were remotion, and thy defence absence. What |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.289 | That wails her absence? | That wailes her absence? |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.3 | thy excuse. My lady will hang thee for thy absence. | thy excuse: my Lady will hang thee for thy absence. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.59 | Betideth here in absence of thy friend; | Betideth here in absence of thy Friend: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.12 | Or breed upon our absence. That may blow | Or breed vpon our absence, that may blow |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.194 | That little thinks she has been sluiced in's absence, | That little thinkes she ha's been sluyc'd in's absence, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.77 | What you have underta'en to do in's absence. | What you haue vnderta'ne to doe in's absence. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.528 | And, with my best endeavours in your absence, | And with my best endeuours, in your absence, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.109 | will be born. Our absence makes us unthrifty to our | will be borne: our Absence makes vs vnthriftie to our |