| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.66 | While shameful hate sleeps out the afternoon. | While shamefull hate sleepes out the afternoone. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.47 | But till this afternoon his passion | But till this afternoone his passion |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.71 | play the idle housewife with me this afternoon. | play the idle Huswife with me this afternoone. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.222 | shall have the drum struck up this afternoon. 'Tis as it | shall haue the Drum strooke vp this afternoone: 'Tis as it |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.60 | My custom always of the afternoon, | My custome alwayes in the afternoone; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.197 | At two o'clock in the afternoon. | At two a clocke in the afternoone, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.189 | in the afternoon, with a white head, and something a | with a white head, & somthing a |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.53 | Born to eclipse thy life this afternoon. | Borne to eclipse thy Life this afternoone: |
| King John | KJ V.vii.94 | If you think meet, this afternoon will post | If you thinke meete, this afternoone will poast |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.152 | This afternoon. | O this after-noone. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.158 | It must be done this afternoon. | It must be done this after-noone, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.352 | Of his fair mistress. In the afternoon | Of his faire Mistresse, in the afternoone |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.85 | call the afternoon. | call the after-noone. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.88 | afternoon. The word is well culled, choice, sweet, and | after-noone: the word is well culd, chose, sweet, and |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.19.1 | Ride you this afternoon? | Ride you this afternoone? |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.119 | in the afternoon, Barnardine. For my better satisfaction, | in the afternoone Bernardine: For my better satisfaction, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.126 | th' afternoon? | th' afternoone? |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.81 | But Barnardine must die this afternoon, | But Barnardine must die this afternoone, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.82 | most vilely in the afternoon when he is drunk. When he | most vildely in the afternoone when hee is drunke: when he |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.26 | on Ash Wednesday was four year in th' afternoon. | on ashwensday was foure yeere in th' afternoone. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.185 | Even in the afternoon of her best days, | Euen in the after-noone of her best dayes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.100 | And, Montague, come you this afternoon, | And Mountague come you this afternoone, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.177 | Some means to come to shrift this afternoon, | some meanes to come to shrift this afternoone, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.182 | This afternoon, sir? Well, she shall be there. | This afternoone sir? well she shall be there. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.273 | Please ye we may contrive this afternoon, | Please ye we may contriue this afternoone, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.96 | afternoon as she went to the garden for parsley to stuff a | afternoone as shee went to the Garden for Parseley to stuffe a |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.89 | I'th' afternoon to sleep. There thou mayst brain him, | I'th afternoone to sleepe: there thou maist braine him, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.47 | This afternoon to ride; but 'tis a rough one. | This after noone to ride, but tis a rough one. |