| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.27 | For smoke and dusky vapours of the night, | For smoake, and duskie vapours of the night, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.122 | Here dies the dusky torch of Mortimer, | Here dyes the duskie Torch of Mortimer, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.104 | And when the dusky sky began to rob | And when the duskie sky, began to rob |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.112 | And called them blind and dusky spectacles | And call'd them blinde and duskie Spectacles, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.70 | Untimely smothered in their dusky graves. | Vntimely smother'd in their dusky Graues. |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.89 | The means that dusky Dis my daughter got, | The meanes, that duskie Dis, my daughter got, |