| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.79 | Or what is he of basest function, | Or what is he of basest function, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.34 | Follow your function, go and batten on | Follow your Function, go, and batten on |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.553 | A broken voice, and his whole function suiting | A broken voyce, and his whole Function suiting |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.173 | Each hath his place and function to attend; | Each hath his Place and Function to attend: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.50 | Touching thy spiritual function, not thy life. | Touching thy Spirituall Function, not thy Life. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.45.1 | Distinctly his full function. | Distinctly his full Function: |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.187 | Your brain and every function of your power, | Your Braine, and euery Function of your power, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.140 | That function is smothered in surmise, | That Function is smother'd in surmise, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.39 | Mine were the very cipher of a function, | Mine were the verie Cipher of a Function |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.238 | You have paid the heavens your function, and | You haue paid the heauens your Function, and |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.177 | Dark night that from the eye his function takes | Dark night, that from the eye his function takes, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.338 | With his weak function. How am I then a villain | With his weake Function. How am I then a Villaine, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.26 | Some of your function, mistress. | Some of your Function Mistris: |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.6 | a gown. I am not tall enough to become the function | a gowne. I am not tall enough to become the function |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.159 | Sealed in my function, by my testimony; | Seal'd in my function, by my testimony: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.143 | And own no other function. Each your doing, | And owne no other Function. Each your doing, |