| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.30.1 | Solemn music. Enter (as in an apparition) Sicilius Leonatus, father | Solemne Musicke. Enter (as in an Apparation) Sicillius Leonatus, Father |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.28 | That, if again this apparition come, | That if againe this Apparition come, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.211 | The apparition comes. I knew your father. | The Apparition comes. I knew your Father: |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.275 | That shapes this monstrous apparition. | That shapes this monstrous Apparition. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.67 | Thunder. First Apparition, an Armed Head | Thunder. 1. Apparation, an Armed Head |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.75 | Thunder. Second Apparition, a Bloody Child | Thunder. 2 Apparition, a Bloody Childe |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.85.1 | Thunder. Third Apparition, a Child crowned, with a | Thunder 3 Apparation, a Childe Crowned, with a |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.317 | Fine apparition! My quaint Ariel, | Fine apparision: my queint Ariel, |