| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.113 | But falsehood and corruption doth it shame. | By falshood and corruption doth it shame: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.35 | Shall in the general censure take corruption | |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.94 | Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love | Stew'd in Corruption; honying and making loue |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.149 | Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, | Whil'st ranke Corruption mining all within, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.22 | And, his corruption being taken from us, | And his corruption being tane from vs, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.73 | Shall break into corruption ’ – so went on, | Shall breake into Corruption: so went on, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.444 | Corruption wins not more than honesty. | Corruption wins not more then Honesty. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.71 | To keep mine honour from corruption, | To keepe mine Honor, from Corruption, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.15 | The name of Cassius honours this corruption, | The name of Cassius Honors this corruption, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.81 | The foul corruption of a sweet child's death. | The foule corruption of a sweet childes death. |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.54 | Arms, arms, sword, fire! Corruption in the place! | |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.234 | maid from the world! What corruption in this life, that | maid from the world? what corruption in this life, that |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.316 | Where I have seen corruption boil and bubble | Where I haue seene corruption boyle and bubble, |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.59 | Shalt break into corruption. Thou shalt think, | Shall breake into corruption: thou shalt thinke, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.121 | To the corruption of a blemished stock; | To the corruption of a blemisht Stock; |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.198 | From the corruption of abusing times | From the corruption of abusing times, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.347 | Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption | Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.74.1 | Off me with that corruption. | Off me with that corruption. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.126 | To keep us from corruption of worse men. | To keepe us from corruption of worse men, |