| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.24 | world I will hold a long distance. My duty to you. | world, I will hold a long distance. My duty to you. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.212 | She knew her distance and did angle for me, | She knew her distance, and did angle for mee, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.224 | To meet his grace just distance 'tween our armies? | To meet his Grace, iust distance 'tweene our Armies? |
| Henry V | H5 II.chorus.32 | Th' abuse of distance, force a play. | Th' abuse of distance; force a play: |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.1.6 | some small distance, follows a Gentleman bearing the | some small distance, followes a Gentleman bearing the |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.1.15 | judges. The Queen takes place some distance from the | Iudges. The Queene takes place some distance from the |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.65 | A distance from her, while her grace sat down | A distance from her; while her Grace sate downe |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.115 | So is he mine, and in such bloody distance | So is he mine: and in such bloody distance, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.44 | Advise him to a caution to hold what distance | Aduise him to a Caution, t' hold what distance |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.54 | His givings-out were of an infinite distance | His giuing-out, were of an infinite distance |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.98 | distance. | distance. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.207 | times you stand on distance, your passes, stoccadoes, | times you stand on distance: your Passes, Stoccado's, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.23 | pass thy punto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy distance, | passe thy puncto, thy stock, thy reuerse, thy distance, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.52 | That hold their honours in a wary distance, | (That hold their Honours in a wary distance, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.13.1 | Than in a politic distance. | Then in a politique distance. |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.10 | Nor yet the other's distance comfort me. | Nor yet the others distance comfort me, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.21 | you sing pricksong: keeps time, distance, and proportion. | you sing pricksong, keeps time, distance, and proportion, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.15 | Enter Miranda, and Prospero at a distance, unseen | Enter Miranda and Prospero. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.6.1 | Enter Troilus and Ulysses at a distance; after them, | Enter Troylus and Vlisses. |