| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.iv.32 | On more mechanic compliment. I'll leave thee | On more Mechanicke Complement, Ile leaue thee. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.23 | but that they call ‘ compliment ’ is like th' encounter of | but that they cal complement is like th'encounter of |
| King John | KJ I.i.201 | Saving in dialogue of compliment, | Sauing in Dialogue of Complement, |
| King John | KJ V.vi.16 | Come, come! Sans compliment, what news abroad? | Come, come: sans complement, What newes abroad? |
| King Lear | KL I.i.301 | There is further compliment of leave-taking | There is further complement of leaue-taking |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.231 | The time will not allow the compliment | The time will not allow the complement |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.141 | compliment; I forgive thy duty. Adieu. | complement, I forgiue thy duetie, adue. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.314 | is melted into curtsies, valour into compliment, and | is melted into cursies, valour into complement, and |
| Othello | Oth I.i.64 | In compliment extern, 'tis not long after | In Complement externe, 'tis not long after |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.89 | What I have spoke. But farewell compliment! | What I haue spoke, but farewell Complement, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.96 | Since lowly feigning was called compliment. | Since lowly feigning was call'd complement: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.371 | With customary compliment, when he, | With customarie complement, when hee |