| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.27.1 | Even till a Lethe'd dullness – | Euen till a Lethied dulnesse--- |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.52 | for our whetstone: for always the dullness of of the fool is | for our whetstone. for alwaies the dulnesse of the foole, is |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.266 | Of feathered Cupid seel with wanton dullness | Of feather'd Cupid, seele with wanton dulnesse |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.185 | Thou art inclined to sleep. 'Tis a good dullness, | Thou art inclinde to sleepe: 'tis a good dulnesse, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.334 | the ass, thy dullness would torment thee, and still thou | the Asse, thy dulnesse would torment thee; and still thou |