| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.234 | Hop forty paces through the public street; | Hop forty Paces through the publicke streete, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.83 | A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats, | A Ring he hath of mine worth fortie Duckets, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.96 | For forty ducats is too much to lose. | For fortie Duckets is too much to loose. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.242.1 | I could beat forty of them. | I could beat fortie of them. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.364 | while my father lived give twenty, forty, fifty, a hundred | while my Father liued; giue twenty, forty, an hundred |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.265 | I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers | I lou'd Ophelia; fortie thousand Brothers |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.81 | of my grandfather's worth forty mark. | of my Grand-fathers, worth fortie marke. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.101 | of forty pound apiece, and a seal-ring of my | of fortie pound apeece, and a Seale-Ring of my |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.130.2 | Forty let it be. | Forty let it be, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.226 | cannot help herself. You shall have forty, sir. | cannot helpe her selfe: you shall haue fortie, sir. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iv.14 | Moy shall not serve: I will have forty moys, | Moy shall not serue, I will haue fortie Moyes: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.91 | I myself fight not once in forty year. | I my selfe fight not once in fortie yeere. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.89 | How tastes it? Is it bitter? Forty pence, no. | How tasts it? Is it bitter? Forty pence, no: |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.253 | Within these forty hours Surrey durst better | Within these fortie houres, Surrey durst better |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.51 | see from far some forty truncheoners draw to her | see from farre, some forty Truncheoners draw to her |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.62 | Repair to France within these forty days, | Repaire to France within these forty daies, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.56 | Behold, my liege, this knight and forty mo, | Behold my liege, this knight and fortie mo, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.41 | No less than forty thousand wicked elders | No lesse than fortie thousand wicked elders, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.42 | Have forty lean slaves this day stoned to death. | Haue fortie leane slaues this daie stoned to death. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.110 | With forty other serviceable knights, | With fortie other seruicable knights, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.39 | back forty-eight. | backe forty eight. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.17 | that stabbed Pots, and I think forty more, all great doers | that stabb'd Pots, and I thinke fortie more, all great doers |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.183 | I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book | I had rather then forty shillings I had my booke |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.176.1 | In forty minutes! | in forty minutes. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.4.1 | And mine, a hundred and forty. | And mine a Hundred fortie. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.439 | O, that the slave had forty thousand lives! | O that the Slaue had forty thousand liues: |
| Pericles | Per I.i.117 | Forty days longer we do respite you, | Fourtie dayes longer we doe respite you, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.159 | The language I have learnt these forty years, | The Language I haue learn'd these forty yeares |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.105 | Thou shalt continue two-and-forty hours, | Thou shalt continue two and forty houres, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.59 | Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have | Hold, there is fortie Duckets, let me haue |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.66 | list; an old hat, and the humour of forty fancies pricked | list; an old hat, & the humor of forty fancies prickt |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.196 | Rome, I have been thy soldier forty years, | Rome I haue bene thy Souldier forty yeares, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.19 | I had rather than forty shillings I had such a leg, and so | I had rather then forty shillings I had such a legge, and so |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.175 | your help! I had rather than forty pound I were at home. | your helpe, I had rather then forty pound I were at home. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.36 | But forty-thousandfold we had rather have 'em | But forty thousand fold, we had rather have 'em |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.275 | forty thousand fathom above water, and sung this ballad | fortie thousand fadom aboue water, & sung this ballad |