| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.64 | And did you leave him in this contemplation? | And did you leaue him in this contemplation? |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.17 | the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my | the sundrie contemplation of my trauells, in which by |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.63 | And so the Prince obscured his contemplation | And so the Prince obscur'd his Contemplation |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.131 | His contemplation were above the earth | His Contemplation were aboue the earth, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.136 | In contemplation, that may master thee. – | Incontemplation that may master thee. |
| King John | KJ V.iv.48 | With contemplation and devout desires. | With contemplation, and deuout desires. |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.138 | contemplation are you in? | contemplation are you in? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.297 | In leaden contemplation have found out | In leaden contemplation haue found out |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.28 | To live in prayer and contemplation, | To liue in prayer and contemplation, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.307 | he hath devoted and given up himself to the contemplation, | he hath deuoted, and giuen vp himselfe to the Contemplation, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.93 | So sweet is zealous contemplation. | So sweet is zealous Contemplation. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.9 | Who doth molest my contemplation? | Who doth mollest my Contemplation? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.25 | thou wouldst not have slipped out of my contemplation; | thou would'st not haue slipt out of my contemplation, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.30 | O, peace! Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock | Oh peace: Contemplation makes a rare Turkey Cocke |