| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.128 | To show how much thou art degenerate. | To shew how much thou art degenerate. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.2 | And makes it fearful and degenerate; | And makes it fearefull and degenerate, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.183 | Farewell, faint-hearted and degenerate King, | Farwell faint-hearted and degenerate King, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.151 | And you degenerate, you ingrate revolts, | And you degenerate, you ingrate Reuolts, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.250 | Degenerate bastard, I'll not trouble thee. | Degenerate Bastard, Ile not trouble thee; |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.43 | Most barbarous, most degenerate, have you madded. | |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.144 | A recreant and most degenerate traitor, | A recreant, and most degenerate Traitor, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.262 | His noble kinsman! – most degenerate King! | His noble Kinsman, most degenerate King: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.66 | Or Bassianus so degenerate, | Or Bassianus so degenerate, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.155 | That so degenerate a strain as this | That so degenerate a straine as this, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.137 | The more degenerate and base art thou | The more degenerate and base art thou |