| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.172 | To put an antic disposition on – | To put an Anticke disposition on:) |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.60 | the rusty curb of old Father Antic the law? Do not thou | the rustie curbe of old Father Anticke the Law? Doe not thou |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.18 | Thou antic Death, which laughest us here to scorn, | Thou antique Death, which laugh'st vs here to scorn, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.106 | delightful ostentation, or show, or pageant, or antic, or | delightfull ostentation, or show, or pageant, or anticke, or |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.140 | We will have, if this fadge not, an antic. I | We will haue, if this fadge not, an Antique. I |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.129 | While you perform your antic round, | While you performe your Antique round: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.63 | If black, why, Nature, drawing of an antic, | If blacke, why Nature drawing of an anticke, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.162 | Keeps death his court; and there the antic sits, | Keepes Death his Court, and there the Antique sits |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.56 | Come hither, covered with an antic face, | Come hither couer'd with an antique face, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.28 | The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting | The Pox of such antique lisping affecting |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.99 | Were he the veriest antic in the world. | Were he the veriest anticke in the world. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.75 | And all we'll dance an antic 'fore the Duke, | And all wee'l daunce an Antique fore the Duke, |