| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.102 | And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer, | And gorgeous as the Sunne at Mid-summer, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.44 | This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, | This new, and gorgeous Garment, Maiesty, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.64 | So seems this gorgeous beauty to mine eyes. | So seemes this gorgeous beauty to mine eyes. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.263 | If only to go warm were gorgeous, | If onely to go warme were gorgeous, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.264 | Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, | Why Nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.221 | At the first opening of the gorgeous east, | At the first opening of the gorgeous East, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.148 | My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, | My gorgeous Pallace, for a Hermitage, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.85.1 | In such a gorgeous palace! | In such a gorgeous Pallace. |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.152 | The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, | The Clowd-capt Towres, the gorgeous Pallaces, |