| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.197 | To unbuild the city and to lay all flat. | To vnbuild the Citie, and to lay all flat. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.203 | That is the way to lay the city flat, | That is the way to lay the Citie flat, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.20 | which else an easy battery might lay flat, for | which else an easie battery might lay flat, for |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.133 | How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable | How weary, stale, flat, and vnprofitable |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.31 | That we are made of stuff so flat and dull | That we are made of stuffe, so flat, and dull, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.248 | Till of this flat a mountain you have made | Till of this flat a Mountaine you haue made, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.216.2 | Nay, I will. That's flat! | Nay, I will: that's flat: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.38 | with them, that's flat. Nay, and the villains march wide | with them, that's flat. Nay, and the Villaines march wide |
| Henry V | H5 I.chorus.9 | The flat unraised spirits that have dared | The flat vnraysed Spirits, that hath dar'd, |
| King John | KJ III.i.298.1 | Rebellion, flat rebellion! | Rebellion, flat rebellion. |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.7 | Smite flat the thick rotundity o'the world, | Strike flat the thicke Rotundity o'th'world, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.99 | The boy hath sold him a bargain, a goose, that's flat. | The Boy hath sold him a bargaine, a Goose, that's flat |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.291 | Flat treason 'gainst the kingly state of youth. | Flat treason against the Kingly state of youth. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.131 | Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. | Which in the Souldier is flat blasphemie. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.5 | flat, and fatal, where the carcasses of many a tall ship | flat, and fatall, where the carcasses of many a tall ship, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.203 | The flat transgression of a schoolboy, who, | The flat transgression of a Schoole-boy, who |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.40 | flat perjury, to call a Prince's brother villain. | flat periurie, to call a Princes brother villaine. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.48 | Flat burglary as ever was committed. | Flat Burglarie as euer was committed. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.32 | Why, this is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's | why this is flat knauerie to take vpon you another mans |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.16 | For bringing wood in slowly. I'll fall flat. | For bringing wood in slowly: I'le fall flat, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.63 | And flat meads thatched with stover, them to keep; | And flat Medes thetchd with Stouer, them to keepe: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.159 | Down with it flat, take the bridge quite away | Downe with it flat, take the Bridge quite away |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.63 | The lees and dregs of a flat tamed piece; | The lees and dregs of a flat tamed peece: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.93 | Nay, now you are too flat; | Nay, now you are too flat; |