| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.i.15 | Myself in my incertain grounds to fail | My selfe in my incertaine grounds to faile |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.3 | But I shall lose the grounds I work upon. | But I shall loose the grounds I worke vpon. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.601 | Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds | Abuses me to damne me. Ile haue grounds |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.32 | And like a thief to come to rob my grounds, | And like a Theefe to come to rob my grounds: |
| Othello | Oth I.i.29 | At Rhodes, at Cyprus, and on other grounds | At Rhodes, at Ciprus, and on others grounds |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.139 | But that I did proceed upon just grounds | But that I did proceed vpon iust grounds |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.78 | The ground's the lowest and we are halfway there. | our grounds the lowest? / And wee are halfe way there: |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.28 | And know what ground's made happy by his breath. | Or know what ground's made happy by his breath: |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.144 | with excellencies, that it is his grounds of faith that all | with excellencies, that it is his grounds of faith, that all |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.351 | But when we know the grounds and authors of it, | But when we know the grounds, and authors of it, |