| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.40 | The Black Prince, sir, alias the prince of darkness, | The blacke prince sir, alias the prince of darkenesse, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.181 | And send to darkness all that stop me. Come, | And send to darkenesse all that stop me. Come, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.54 | And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight. | And to thy state of darknesse hie thee straight, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.25 | To darkness fleet souls that fly backwards; stand, | To darknesse fleete soules that flye backwards; stand, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.167 | sons of darkness. | sonnes of darknesse. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.37 | utter darkness. When thou rannest up Gad's Hill in the | vtter Darkenesse. When thou ran'st vp Gads-Hill in the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.160 | And darkness be the burier of the dead! | And darknesse be the burier of the dead. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.7 | Constrained to watch in darkness, rain, and cold. | Constrain'd to watch in darknesse, raine, and cold. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.89 | But darkness and the gloomy shade of death | But darknesse, and the gloomy shade of death |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.38 | Descend to darkness and the burning lake! | Discend to Darknesse, and the burning Lake: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.65 | Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair! | Giues Light in Darknesse, Comfort in Despaire. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.7 | Breathe foul contagious darkness in the air. | Breath foule contagious darknesse in the ayre: |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.44 | When heaven shall call her from this cloud of darkness – | (When Heauen shal call her from this clowd of darknes) |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.278.1 | Even from darkness. | Euen from darknesse. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.156 | And darkness did as well enclose the quick | And darkenes did aswel inclose the quicke, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.1 | A sudden darkness hath defaced the sky, | A sodaine darknes hath defast the skie, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.43 | To darkness, consummation, dust, and worms. | To darkenes consummation, dust and Wormes. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.248.2 | Darkness and devils! | Darknesse, and Diuels. |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.84 | my mistress' heart and did the act of darkness with her, | my Mistris heart, and did the acte of darkenesse with her. |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.136 | The prince of darkness is a gentleman; Modo he's | The Prince of Darkenesse is a Gentleman. Modo he's |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.7 | in the lake of darkness. Pray, innocent, and beware the | in the Lake of Darknesse: pray Innocent, and beware the |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.128 | There's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous | There's hell, there's darkenes,there is the sulphurous |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.78 | So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, | So ere you finde where light in darkenesse lies, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.123 | The instruments of darkness tell us truths; | The Instruments of Darknesse tell vs Truths, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iv.9 | That darkness does the face of earth entomb | That Darknesse does the face of Earth intombe, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.87 | I will encounter darkness as a bride, | I will encounter darknesse as a bride, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.148 | The jaws of darkness do devour it up. | The iawes of darkness do deuoure it vp: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.376 | Following darkness like a dream, | Following darkenesse like a dreame, |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.44 | The which hath fire in darkness, none in light; | The which hath Fire in darknesse, none in light: |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.27 | If she'd do the deeds of darkness, thou | If shee'd doe the deedes of darknes thou |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.268 | Hath in eternal darkness folded up. | Hath in eternall darknesse folded vp. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.326 | Clarence, whom I indeed have laid in darkness, | Clarence, who I indeede haue cast in darknesse, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.87 | And flaky darkness breaks within the east. | And flakie darkenesse breakes within the East. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.190 | And darkness fleckled like a drunkard reels | And darknesse fleckel'd like a drunkard reeles, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.130 | The gates of Milan; and, i'th' dead of darkness, | The gates of Millaine, and ith' dead of darkenesse |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.66 | Melting the darkness, so their rising senses | (Melting the darkenesse) so their rising sences |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.275 | Must know and own. This thing of darkness I | Must know, and owne, this Thing of darkenesse, I |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.30 | me here in hideous darkness – | mee heere in hideous darknesse. |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.42 | Madman, thou errest. I say there is no darkness but | Madman thou errest: I say there is no darknesse but |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.56 | Fare thee well; remain thou still in darkness. Thou | Fare thee well: remaine thou still in darkenesse, thou |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.92 | darkness, send ministers to me – asses! – and do all they | darkenesse, send Ministers to me, Asses, and doe all they |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.151 | To keep in darkness what occasion now | To keepe in darkenesse, what occasion now |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.301 | know it. Though you have put me into darkness and given | know it: Though you haue put mee into darkenesse, and giuen |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.ii.4 | And darkness lord o'th' world. Hark; 'tis a wolf! | And darkenes Lord o'th world, Harke tis a woolfe: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.22 | The one the other; darkness, which ever was | The one the other: darkenes which ever was |