| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.396 | tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, | Tragedie, Comedie, Historie, Pastorall: Pastoricall-Comicall- |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.301 | For if the King like not the comedy, | For if the King like not the Comedie, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.133 | pat he comes, like the catastrophe of the old comedy. | Pat: he comes like the Catastrophe of the old Comedie: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.462 | To dash it like a Christmas comedy. | To dash it like a Christmas Comedie. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.865 | Might well have made our sport a comedy. | Might wel haue made our sport a Comedie. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.69 | and, as it were, spoke the prologue of our comedy; and | & (as it were) spoke the prologue of our Comedy: and |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.11 | Marry, our play is The most lamentable comedy | Marry our play is the most lamentable Comedy, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.8 | There are things in this comedy of Pyramus and | There are things in this Comedy of Piramus and |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.ii.39 | not doubt but to hear them say it is a sweet comedy. No | not doubt but to heare them say, it is a sweet Comedy. No |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.128 | Are come to play a pleasant comedy; | Are come to play a pleasant Comedie, |