| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.256 | For this description of thine honesty? A pox | For this description of thine honestie? A pox |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.203 | It beggared all description. She did lie | It beggerd all discription, she did lye |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.50 | Will this description satisfy him? | Will this description satisfie him? |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.85 | Then should I know you by description. | Then should I know you by description, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.93 | Be given to your remembrance – the description | Be giuen to your remembrance) the description |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.i.24 | This is the very description of their meeting-place, | This is the very description of their meeting place |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.177 | Were craked of kitchen-trulls, or his description | Were crak'd of Kitchin-Trulles, or his description |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.36 | good truth, the poet makes a most excellent description | good truth, the Poet makes a most excellent description |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.51 | Description cannot suit itself in words | Description cannot sute it selfe in words, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.1 | Your wondrous rare description, noble Earl, | Your wondrous rare description (noble Earle) |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.519 | A right description of our sport, my lord. | A right description of our sport my Lord. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.35 | them I will describe them and, according to my description | them, I will describe them, and according to my description |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.301 | Before a friend of this description | Before a friend of this description |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.200 | description the matter to you, if you be capacity of it. | description the matter to you, if you be capacity of it. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.62 | That paragons description and wild fame; | That paragons description, and wilde Fame: |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.96 | very description. | verie description. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.412 | 'Tis his description. | 'Tis his description. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iii.1 | By all description this should be the place. | By all description this should be the place. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.56 | report to follow it and undoes description to do it. | Report to follow it, and vndo's description to doe it. |