| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.76 | Was yours by accident: had it gone with us, | Was yours by accident: had it gone with vs, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.278 | It was my instant death. By accident, | It was my instant death. By accident, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.30 | That he, as 'twere by accident, may here | That he, as 'twere by accident, may there |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.209 | Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident. | Greefe ioyes, Ioy greeues on slender accident. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.67.1 | And call it accident. | And call it accident: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.1 | Dismay not, princes, at this accident, | Dismay not (Princes) at this accident, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.75 | O, 'tis an accident that heaven provides. | Oh, 'tis an accident that heauen prouides: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.278 | You shall not know by what strange accident | You shall not know by what strange accident |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.166 | This is an accident of hourly proof, | This is an accident of hourely proofe, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.143 | This accident is not unlike my dream: | This Accident is not vnlike my dreame, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.269 | The shot of accident nor dart of chance | The shot of Accident, nor dart of Chance |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.225 | here by some accident: wherein none can be so determinate | heere by some accident. Wherein none can be so determinate, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.213 | But by some unlooked accident cut off! | But by some vnlook'd accident cut off. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.251 | Was stayed by accident and yesternight | Was stay'd by accident; and yesternight |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.178 | By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune, | By accident most strange, bountifull Fortune |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.83 | Prizes of accident as oft as merit – | Prizes of accident, as oft as merit: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.262 | Till accident or purpose bring you to't. | Till accident, or purpose bring you too't. |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.iii.11 | Yet doth this accident and flood of fortune | Yet doth this accident and flood of Fortune, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.19 | To think your father by some accident | To thinke your Father, by some accident |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.535 | But as th' unthought-on accident is guilty | But as th' vnthought-on accident is guiltie |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.92.1 | By need and accident. What train? | By need, and accident. What Trayne? |