| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.45 | I would the cutting of my garments would | I would the cutting of my garments wold |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.81 | Hangs on the cutting short that fraudful man. | Hangs on the cutting short that fraudfull man. |
| King John | KJ V.iv.16 | By cutting off your heads. Thus hath he sworn, | By cutting off your heads: Thus hath he sworne, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.258 | Cutting a smaller hair than may be seen; | Cutting a smaller haire then may be seene, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.306 | But in the cutting it if thou dost shed | But in the cutting it, if thou dost shed |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.83 | And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, | & then dreames he of cutting Forraine throats, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.93 | Cutting the clouds towards Paphos, and her son | Cutting the clouds towards Paphos: and her Son |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.17 | cutting the web. After this, the vengeance on the whole | cutting the web: after this, the vengeance on the whole |