| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.213.1 | Enter the King and Queen, Laertes, and the corpse of | Enter King, Queene, Laertes, and a Coffin, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.43 | To bring a slovenly unhandsome corpse | To bring a slouenly vnhandsome Coarse |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.123 | Meet and ne'er part till one drop down a corpse. | Meete, and ne're part, till one drop downe a Coarse? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.192 | My lord, your son had only but the corpse, | My Lord (your Sonne) had onely but the Corpes, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.13 | A tomb, wherein his corpse shall be interred; | A Tombe, wherein his Corps shall be interr'd: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.132 | Enter his chamber, view his breathless corpse, | Enter his Chamber, view his breathlesse Corpes, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.58 | Do grace to Caesar's corpse, and grace his speech | Do grace to Casars Corpes, and grace his Speech |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.159 | Then make a ring about the corpse of Caesar, | Then make a Ring about the Corpes of Casar, |
| Pericles | Per III.i.63 | And humming water must o'erwhelm thy corpse, | And humming Water must orewelme thy corpes, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.267 | Shall be this cold corpse on the earth's cold face; | Shall be this cold Corpes on the earth's cold face. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.105 | Where the dead corpse of Bassianus lay; | Where the dead Corps of Bassianus lay: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.31 | says thou art a fair corpse, I'll be sworn and sworn | sayes thou art a faire coarse, Ile be sworne and sworne |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.61 | My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown. | My poore corpes, where my bones shall be throwne: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.58 | Again possess her corpse, and on this stage, | Againe possesse her Corps, and on this Stage |