| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.300 | the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, | the Ayre, look you, this braue ore-hanging, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.62 | There is no fellow in the firmament. | There is no fellow in the Firmament. |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.132 | firmament twinkled on my bastardizing. Edgar – | Firmament twinkled on my bastardizing. |
| Richard II | R2 II.iv.20 | Fall to the base earth from the firmament. | Fall to the base Earth, from the Firmament: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.17 | What, hath the firmament more suns than one? | What, hath the Firemament more Suns then one? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.83 | betwixt the firmament and it you cannot thrust a bodkin's | betwixt the Firmament and it, you cannot thrust a bodkins |