| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.151 | Here's a strange alteration! | Heere's a strange alteration? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.52 | And changes fill the cup of alteration | And Changes fill the Cuppe of Alteration |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.54 | Pretend some alteration in good will? | Pretend some alteration in good will? |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.16 | But changing and alteration of the state. | But changing and alteration of the state, |
| King Lear | KL V.i.3 | To change the course. (To Regan) He's full of alteration | To change the course, he's full of alteration, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.102.1 | Should yawn at alteration. | Did yawne at Alteration. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.464 | What an alteration of honour | What an alteration of Honor |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.383 | A party in this alteration, finding | A partie in this alteration, finding |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.522 | May suffer alteration, on mine honour, | May suffer alteration. On mine honor, |