| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.142 | I will weep for nothing, like Diana in the fountain, and I | I will weepe for nothing, like Diana in the Fountaine, & I |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.77 | Which, like a fountain with an hundred spouts, | Which like a Fountaine, with an hundred spouts |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.95 | The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood | The Spring, the Head, the Fountaine of your Blood |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.29 | By fountain clear or spangled starlight sheen – | By fountaine cleere, or spangled star-light sheene, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.84 | By paved fountain or by rushy brook, | By paued fountaine, or by rushie brooke, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.58 | The fountain from the which my current runs, | The Fountaine from the which my currant runnes, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.60 | Thou sheer immaculate and silver fountain | Thou sheere, immaculate, and siluer fountaine, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.141 | A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, | A woman mou'd, is like a fountaine troubled, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.23 | Like to a babbling fountain stirred with wind, | Like to a bubling fountaine stir'd with winde, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.123 | And thou and I sit round about some fountain, | And thou and I sit round about some Fountaine, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.127 | And in the fountain shall we gaze so long | And in the Fountaine shall we gaze so long, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.65 | sweet lady in the fountain of our love? | sweete Lady in the fountaine of our loue? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.308 | My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred, | My minde is troubled like a Fountaine stir'd, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.310 | Would the fountain of your mind were clear | Would the Fountaine of your minde were cleere |