| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.296 | detect the lazy foot of Time as well as a clock. | detect the lazie foot of time, as wel as a clocke. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vii.39 | The happy man; whether defect of judgement, | The happy man; whether detect of iudgement, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.143 | To let thy tongue detect thy base-born heart? | To let thy tongue detect thy base-borne heart. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.295 | detect my wife, be revenged on Falstaff, and laugh at | detect my wife, bee reueng'd on Falstaffe, and laugh at |
| Pericles | Per II.i.51 | All that may men approve or men detect! – | All that may men approue, or men detect. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.27 | And, lest thou shouldst detect him, cut thy tongue. | And least thou should'st detect them, cut thy tongue. |