| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.ii.27 | Have you, I say, an answer of such fitness for | Haue you, I say, an answere of such fitnesse for |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.242 | Of no more soul nor fitness for the world | Of no more Soule, nor fitnesse for the World, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.i.6 | fitness comes by fits. Therein I must play the workman, | fitnesse comes by fits: therein I must play the Workman, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.196 | King's pleasure. If his fitness speaks, mine is ready, | |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.231 | The Queen being absent, 'tis a needful fitness | The Queene being absent, 'tis a needfull fitnesse, |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.63 | Be-monster not thy feature. Were't my fitness | |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.53 | They have made themselves, and that their fitness now | They haue made themselues, and that their fitnesse now |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.23 | Of necessary fitness? | Of necessary fitnesse? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.202 | When fitness calls them on, and know by measure | When fitnesse call them on, and know by measure |