| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.188 | Good my complexion! Dost thou think, | Good my complection, dost thou think |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.48 | Between the pale complexion of true love | Betweene the pale complexion of true Loue, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.116 | Is his complexion; and faster than his tongue | Is his complexion: and faster then his tongue |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.170 | in your complexion that it was a passion of earnest. | in your complexion, that it was a passion of earnest. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.104 | What complexion is she | What complexion is she |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.27 | By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, | |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.453 | Hath now this dread and black complexion smeared | Hath now this dread and blacke Complexion smear'd |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.99 | complexion. | Complexion. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.5 | the complexion of my greatness to acknowledge it. Doth | the complexion of my Greatnesse to acknowledge it. Doth |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.73 | So much complexion? Look ye, how they change! | So much complexion? Looke ye how they change: |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.17 | Do, with his smirched complexion, all fell feats | Doe with his smyrcht complexion all fell feats, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.128 | And the complexion of the element | And the Complexion of the Element |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.76 | Of what complexion? | Of what complexion? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.79 | Tell me precisely of what complexion. | Tell me precisely of what complexion? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.266 | And Ethiops of their sweet complexion crack. | And Athiops of their sweet complexion crake. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.24 | For thy complexion shifts to strange effects, | For thy complexion shifts to strange effects, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.185 | your complexion, shall keep the body of it ever fair. | your complexion, shall keepe the body of it euer faire: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.124 | and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should | and the complexion of a diuell, I had rather hee should |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.i.1 | Mislike me not for my complexion, | Mislike me not for my complexion, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.79 | Let all of his complexion choose me so. | Let all of his complexion choose me so. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.27 | fledged, and then it is the complexion of them all to | fledg'd, and then it is the complexion of them al to |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.22 | Eve's daughters, of what complexion soever, and so | Eues daughters, of what complexion soeuer; and so |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.8 | complexion of a goose! A fault done first in the form of a | complexion of a Goose: a fault done first in the forme of a |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.292 | That know love's grief by his complexion! | That know loues griefe by his complexion! |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.271 | of that jealous complexion. | of a iealous complexion. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.228 | Of her own clime, complexion, and degree, | Of her owne Clime, Complexion, and Degree, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.61 | To knot and gender in! Turn thy complexion there, | To knot and gender in. Turne thy complexion there: |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.40 | That excellent complexion which did steal | that excellent complexion, which did steale |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.54 | hair, complexion, height, her age, with warrant of her | haire, complexion, height, her age, with warrant of her |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.194 | Men judge by the complexion of the sky | Men iudge by the complexion of the Skie |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.98 | Change the complexion of her maid-pale peace | Change the complexion of her Maid-pale Peace |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.29 | he hath no drowning-mark upon him: his complexion | he hath no drowning marke vpon him, his complexion |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.99 | She praised his complexion above Paris. | She prais'd his complexion aboue Paris. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.103 | praised him above, his complexion is higher than his; | prasi'd him aboue, his complexion is higher then his, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.105 | flaming a praise for a good complexion. I had as lief | flaming a praise for a good complexion, I had as lieue |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.151 | forehead, and complexion, he shall find himself most | forehead, and complection, he shall finde himselfe most |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.26.2 | Of your complexion. | Of your complection. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.26 | of my complexion. Besides, she uses me with a more | of my complection. Besides she vses me with a more |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.43 | From this hour is complexion. Lie there, Arcite; | From this howre is Complexion: Lye there Arcite, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.78 | His very looks so say him; his complexion, | (His very lookes so say him) his complexion, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.95 | But of a face far sweeter; his complexion | But of a face far sweeter; His complexion |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.571 | Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together | Whose fresh complexion, and whose heart together, |