| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.127 | shall prove the immediate author of their variance. | shall proue the immediate Author of their variance. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.36 | As if a man were author of himself | As if a man were Author of himself, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.442 | the author of affectation, but called it an honest method, | the Author of affectation, but cal'd it an honest method. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.81 | Next, your son gone, and he most violent author | Next your Sonne gone, and he most violent Author |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 epilogue.26 | much cloyed with fat meat, our humble author will | much cloid with Fat Meate, our humble Author will |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.150 | the author of the servant's damnation. But this is not so. | the author of the Seruants damnation: but this is not so: |
| Henry V | H5 Epil.chorus.2 | Our bending author hath pursued the story, | Our bending Author hath pursu'd the Story, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.18 | He was the author, thou the instrument. | He was the Author, thou the Instrument. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.417 | But to corrupt the author of my blood | But to corrupt the author of my blood, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.293 | And abstinence engenders maladies. | And abstinence ingenders maladies. / And where that you haue vow'd to studie (Lords) / In that each of you haue forsworne his Booke. / Can you still dreame and pore, and thereon looke. / For when would you my Lord, or you, or you, / Haue found the ground of studies excellence, / Without the beauty of a womans face; / From womens eyes this doctrine I deriue, / They are the Ground, the Bookes, the Achadems, / From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire. / Why, vniuersall plodding poysons vp / The nimble spirits in the arteries, / As motion and long during action tyres / The sinnowy vigour of the trauailer. / Now for not looking on a womans face, / You haue in that forsworne the vse of eyes: / And studie too, the causer of your vow. / For where is any Author in the world, / Teaches such beauty as a womans eye: / Learning is but an adiunct to our selfe, / And where we are, our Learning likewise is. / Then when our selues we see in Ladies eyes, / With our selues. / Doe we not likewise see our learning there? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.335 | Or for men's sake, the authors of these women, | Or for Mens sake, the author of these Women: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.89 | and Don John is the author of all, who is fled and gone. | and Don Iohn is the author of all, who is fled and gone: |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.69 | O thou, the earthly author of my blood, | Oh thou the earthy author of my blood, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.438 | I should be author to dishonour you. | I should be Authour to dishonour you. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.179 | As truth's authentic author to be cited, | (As truths authenticke author to be cited) |