| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.170 | What is the course and drift of your compact? | What is the course and drift of your compact? |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.116.2 | We know your drift. Speak what? | We know your drift. Speake what? |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.10 | By this encompassment and drift of question | By this encompassement and drift of question, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.37.2 | Marry, sir, here's my drift, | Marry Sir, heere's my drift, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.1 | And can you by no drift of conference | And can you by no drift of circumstance |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.150 | And that our drift look through our bad performance, | And that our drift looke through our bad performance, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.46 | And yet the King not privy to my drift, | And yet the King not priuie to my Drift, |
| King John | KJ II.i.412 | Shall rain their drift of bullets on this town. | Shall raine their drift of bullets on this Towne. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.v.4 | And hold you ever to our special drift, | And hold you euer to our speciall drift, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.232 | O, understand my drift. She dwells so securely on | O, vnderstand my drift: she dwells so securely on |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.359 | drift. | drift. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.51 | Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift. | Be plaine good Son, rest homely in thy drift, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.114 | Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift. | In the meane time against thou shalt awake, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.115 | And hither shall he come. And he and I | Shall Romeo by my Letters know our drift, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.29 | The sole drift of my purpose doth extend | The sole drift of my purpose doth extend |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.46 | With amplest entertainment. My free drift | With amplest entertainment: My free drift |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.113 | It is familiar – but at the author's drift, | It is familiar; but at the Authors drift, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vi.43 | As thou hast lent me wit to plot this drift! | As thou hast lent me wit, to plot this drift. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.18 | To cross my friend in his intended drift | To crosse my friend in his intended drift, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.80 | That you shall say my cunning drift excels. | That you shall say, my cunning drift excels. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.100 | That drift winds force to raging. I did think | That drift windes, force to raging: I did thinke |