| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.44 | Far more, far more to you do I decline. | Farre more, farre more, to you doe I decline: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.50 | I made to her in marriage; and to decline | I made to her in Marriage; and to decline |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.375 | A great man should decline? Nay, an you weep | A great man should decline. Nay, and you weep |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.215 | We, at the height, are ready to decline. | We at the height, are readie to decline. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.104 | That now her dim decline hath power to draw | That now her dym declyne hath power to draw, |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.22 | Decline your head; this kiss, if it durst speak, | Decline your head. This kisse, if it durst speake |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.97 | Decline all this, and see what now thou art: | Decline all this, and see what now thou art. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.20 | Decline to your confounding contraries, | Decline to your confounding contraries. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.51 | I'll decline the whole question. | Ile declin the whole question: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.189 | Not letting it decline on the declined, | Not letting it decline, on the declined: |