| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.200 | safety. But the composition that your valour and fear | safetie: / But the composition that your valour and feare |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.17 | made in the unchaste composition. | made in the vnchaste composition. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.58 | I crave our composition may be written, | I craue our composion may be written |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.3 | Our swifter composition. | Our swifter Composition. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.8 | to remember so weak a composition. | to remember so weake a Composition. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.74 | The outward composition of his body. | The outward composition of his body. |
| King John | KJ I.i.88 | In the large composition of this man? | In the large composition of this man? |
| King John | KJ II.i.561 | Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition! | Mad world, mad kings, mad composition: |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.12 | More composition and fierce quality | More composition, and fierce qualitie, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.19 | composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and | composition of a Knaue, Begger, Coward, Pandar, and |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.62 | Craves composition; | Craues composition: |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.2 | composition with the King of Hungary, why then all the | composition with the King of Hungary, why then all the |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.218 | Came short of composition, but in chief | Came short of Composition: But in chiefe |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.1 | There is no composition in these news | There's no composition in this Newes, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.73 | O, how that name befits my composition! | Oh how that name befits my composition: |