| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.236 | Embowelled of their doctrine, have left off | Embowel'd of their doctrine, haue left off |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.31 | A doctrine of obedience, and would gladly | A Doctrine of Obedience, and would gladly |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.60 | Sparing would show a worse sin than ill doctrine. | Sparing would shew a worse sinne, then ill Doctrine, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.293 | And abstinence engenders maladies. | And abstinence ingenders maladies. / And where that you haue vow'd to studie (Lords) / In that each of you haue forsworne his Booke. / Can you still dreame and pore, and thereon looke. / For when would you my Lord, or you, or you, / Haue found the ground of studies excellence, / Without the beauty of a womans face; / From womens eyes this doctrine I deriue, / They are the Ground, the Bookes, the Achadems, / From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire. / Why, vniuersall plodding poysons vp / The nimble spirits in the arteries, / As motion and long during action tyres / The sinnowy vigour of the trauailer. / Now for not looking on a womans face, / You haue in that forsworne the vse of eyes: / And studie too, the causer of your vow. / For where is any Author in the world, / Teaches such beauty as a womans eye: / Learning is but an adiunct to our selfe, / And where we are, our Learning likewise is. / Then when our selues we see in Ladies eyes, / With our selues. / Doe we not likewise see our learning there? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.326 | From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: | From womens eyes this doctrine I deriue. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.238 | I'll pay that doctrine, or else die in debt. | Ile pay that doctrine, or else die in debt. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.213 | A comfortable doctrine, and much may be said of | A comfortable doctrine, and much may bee saide of |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.70 | The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed | The Doctrine of ill-doing, nor dream'd |