| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.85 | month's length apiece, By an abstract of success: I have | moneths length a peece, by an abstract of successe: I haue |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.9 | A man who is the abstract of all faults | a man, who is th' abstracts of all faults, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.61 | Being an obstruct 'tween his lust and him. | Being an abstract 'tweene his Lust, and him. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.522 | they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time. | they are the Abstracts and breefe Chronicles of the time. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.82 | Whose body is an abstract or a brief, | Whose bodie is an abstract or a breefe, |
| King John | KJ II.i.101 | This little abstract doth contain that large | This little abstract doth containe that large, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.58 | abstract for the remembrance of such places, and goes | abstract for the remembrance of such places, and goes |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.28 | Brief abstract and record of tedious days, | Breefe abstract and record of tedious dayes, |