| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.56 | service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer, | seruice is sildome attributed to the true and exact performer, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.19 | Ah, royal knavery! – an exact command, | Oh royall knauery: An exact command, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.46 | To set the exact wealth of all our states | to set the exact wealth of all our states |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.262 | And in the most exact regard support | And in the most exact regard, support |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.134.1 | Exact the penalty. | Exact the penalties. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.99 | But what my power might else exact, like one | But what my power might els exact. Like one |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.180 | Severals and generals of grace exact, | Seuerals and generals of grace exact, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.232 | I have with exact view perused thee, Hector, | I haue with exact view perus'd thee Hector, |