| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.90 | The element they lived in. In his livery | The Element they liu'd in: In his Liuery |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.180 | Unto that element. But long it could not be | Vnto that Element: but long it could not be, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.52 | element, which show like pins' heads to her, believe not | Element (which shew like Pinnes-heads to her) beleeue not |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.101 | element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have | Element shewes to him, as it doth to me; all his Sences haue |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.48 | One, certes, that promises no element | One certes, that promises no Element |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.128 | And the complexion of the element | And the Complexion of the Element |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.166 | this is beyond our element – we know nothing. Come | this is, beyond our Element: wee know nothing. Come |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.317 | There's little of the melancholy element in her, | There's little of the melancholy element in her |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.27 | The element itself, till seven years' heat, | The Element it selfe, till seuen yeares heate, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.57 | ‘ element,’ but the word is overworn. | Element, but the word is ouer-worne. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.123 | things; I am not of your element. You shall know more | things, I am not of your element, you shall knowe more |