| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.40 | Heart, once be stronger than thy continent, | Heart, once be stronger then thy Continent, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.64 | Which is not tomb enough and continent | |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.110 | For you shall find in him the continent of what part a | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.106 | Gelding the opposed continent as much | Gelding the opposed Continent as much, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.47 | Make mountains level, and the continent, | Make Mountaines leuell, and the Continent |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.163 | That's my fear. I pray you, have a continent | That's my feare, I pray you haue a continent |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.251 | proclaimed edict and continent canon, which with – O, with – | proclaymed Edict and Continet, Cannon: Which with, ô with, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.110.1 | Ay, my continent of beauty. | I my continent of beautie. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.64 | All continent impediments would o'erbear | All continent Impediments would ore-beare |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.130 | The continent and summary of my fortune: | The continent, and summarie of my fortune. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.268 | As doth that orbed continent the fire | As doth that Orbed Continent, the fire, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.33 | Hath been as continent, as chaste, as true, | Hath beene as continent, as chaste, as true, |