| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.74 | Are of a most select and generous chief in that. | Are of a most select and generous cheff in that. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.134 | Most generous, and free from all contriving, | Most generous, and free from all contriuing, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.236 | Free me so far in your most generous thoughts | Free me so farre in your most generous thoughts, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.8 | My mind as generous, and my shape as true, | My minde as generous, and my shape as true |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.86 | The posterior of the day, most generous | The posterior of the day, most generous |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.626 | This is not generous, not gentle, not humble. | This is not generous, not gentle, not humble. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.vi.13 | The generous and gravest citizens | The generous, and grauest Citizens |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.277 | Your dinner, and the generous islanders | Your dinner, and the generous Islanders |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.156 | Should once set footing in your generous bosoms? | Should once set footing in your generous bosomes? |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.86 | with a distempered appetite. To be generous, guiltless, | with a distemper'd appetite. To be generous, guitlesse, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.50 | By any generous bond to follow him | By any generous bond to follow him |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.54 | To show in generous terms your griefs, since that | To shew in generous termes, your griefes, since that |