| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.92 | Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; | quarrelsome: the sixt, the Lye with circumstance: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.16 | With circumstance and oaths so to deny | With circumstance and oaths, so to denie |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.102 | Unsifted in such perilous circumstance. | Vnsifted in such perillous Circumstance. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.127 | And so, without more circumstance at all, | And so, without more circumstance at all, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.1 | And can you by no drift of conference | And can you by no drift of circumstance |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.86 | One scene of it comes near the circumstance, | One Scoene of it comes neere the Circumstance |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.83 | But in our circumstance and course of thought, | But in our circumstance and course of thought |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.2 | You do remember all the circumstance? | You doe remember all the Circumstance. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.69 | The circumstance considered, good my lord, | The circumstance considered, good my Lord, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.109 | The circumstance I'll tell you more at large. | The circumstance Ile tell you more at large. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.155 | An if your grace mark every circumstance, | And if your Grace marke euery circumstance, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.103 | This peroration with such circumstance? | This preroration with such circumstance: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.72 | Good fellow, tell us here the circumstance, | Good-fellow, tell vs here the circumstance, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.39 | Hath not essentially, but by circumstance, | Hath not essentially, but by circumstance |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.8 | And not to spend the time in circumstance, | And not to spend the time in circumstaunce, |
| King John | KJ II.i.77 | Cuts off more circumstance. They are at hand – | Cuts off more circumstance, they are at hand, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.102 | article of it, neither in time, matter, or other circumstance. | Article of it, / Neither in time, matter, or other circumstance. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.154 | To wind about my love with circumstance; | To winde about my loue with circumstance, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.13 | Evades them with a bombast circumstance | Euades them, with a bumbast Circumstance, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.16 | Or breed itself so out of circumstance, | Or breede it selfe so out of Circumstances, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.351 | Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war! | Pride, Pompe, and Circumstance of glorious Warre: |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.403 | If imputation and strong circumstance, | If imputation, and strong circumstances, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.77 | By circumstance but to acquit myself. | By circumstance, but to acquit my selfe. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.80 | By circumstance to accuse thy cursed self. | By circumstance, to curse thy cursed Selfe. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.36 | Say either, and I'll stay the circumstance. | Say either, and Ile stay the circustance: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.181 | We cannot without circumstance descry. | We cannot without circumstance descry. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.155 | And tell them both the circumstance of all, | And tell them both the circumstance of all, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.114 | Who in his circumstance expressly proves | Who in his circumstance, expresly proues |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.80 | obstacle, no incredulous or unsafe circumstance – what | obstacle, no incredulous or vnsafe circumstance: What |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.255 | to a mortal arbitrement, but nothing of the circumstance | to a mortall arbitrement, but nothing of the circumstance |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.248 | Do not embrace me, till each circumstance | Do not embrace me, till each circumstance, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.36 | So, by your circumstance, you call me fool? | So, by your circumstance, you call me foole. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.37 | So, by your circumstance, I fear you'll prove. | So, by your circumstance, I feare you'll proue. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.84 | Nay, that I can deny by a circumstance. | Nay, that I can deny by a circumstance. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.36 | Therefore it must with circumstance be spoken | Therefore it must with circumstance be spoken |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.90 | So out of circumstance and sudden tells us | (So out of circumstance, and suddaine) tells vs, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.31 | by circumstance. That which you hear you'll swear | by Circumstance: That which you heare, you'le sweare |