| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.12 | Of worthy Frenchmen. Let higher Italy – | Of worthy French men: let higher Italy |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.41 | he travel higher, or return again into France? | he trauaile higher, or returne againe into France? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.191 | Higher than both in blood and life, stands up | Higher then both in Blood and Life, stands vp |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.36 | The higher our opinion, that our stirring | The higher our Opinion, that our stirring |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.iii.16 | Say to me, whose fortunes shall rise higher, | Say to me, whose Fortunes shall rise higher |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.20 | Or foison follow. The higher Nilus swells, | Or Foizon follow. The higher Nilus swels, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.113 | Than crave the hire which first we do deserve. | Then craue the higher, which first we do deserue. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.39 | Then afterward up higher: but there is | Then afterward vp higher: but there is |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iv.8 | We'll higher to the mountains, there secure us. | Wee'l higher to the Mountaines, there secure v.. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.122 | Set your entreatments at a higher rate | Set your entreatments at a higher rate, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.75 | Steps me a little higher than his vow | Step me a little higher then his Vow |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.33 | It shall serve, among wits of no higher | It shall serue among wittes of no higher |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.3 | We will our youth lead on to higher fields, | Wee will our Youth lead on to higher Fields, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.104 | affections are higher mounted than ours, yet when they | affections are higher mounted then ours, yet when they |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.11 | Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch; | Between two Hawks, which flyes the higher pitch, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.14 | That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. | That mounts no higher then a Bird can sore: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.56 | And swell so much the higher by their ebb. | And swell so much the higher, by their ebbe. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.109 | Some two months hence, up higher toward the north | Some two moneths hence, vp higher toward the North |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.20 | Go, Pindarus, get higher on that hill; | Go Pindarus, get higher on that hill, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.100 | Shall climb the higher ground another way; | Shall clyme the higher ground an other waye: |
| King John | KJ II.i.295 | Up higher to the plain, where we'll set forth | Vp higher to the plaine, where we'l set forth |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.163 | No higher than thyself, the judge's clerk, | No higher then thy selfe, the Iudges Clearke, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.98 | As thoughts do blow them, higher and higher. | As thoughts do blow them higher and higher. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.105 | I pray you, come, hold up the jest no higher. | I pray you come, hold vp the iest no higher. |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.6 | Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher. | Throwes downe one mountaine to cast vp a higher: |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.9 | But like to groves, being topped, they higher rise. | But like to Groues, being topt, they higher rise. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.40 | Advance thy halberd higher than my breast, | Aduance thy Halbert higher then my brest, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.103 | praised him above, his complexion is higher than his; | prasi'd him aboue, his complexion is higher then his, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.104 | he having colour enough, and the other higher, is too | he hauing colour enough, and the other higher, is too |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.112 | Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, | Should lift their bosomes higher then the Shores, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.266 | That holds his honour higher than his ease, | That holds his Honor higher then his ease, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.133 | caper. Ha! Higher! Ha! Ha! Excellent! | caper. Ha, higher: ha, ha, excellent. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.v.5 | Higher than all the rest spreads like a plane, | Higher than all the rest, spreads like a plane |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.125 | With their contentious throats, now one the higher, | With their contentious throates, now one the higher, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.78 | That Arcite's legs, being higher than his head, | That Arcites leggs being higher then his head |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.72 | And our weak spirits ne'er been higher reared | And our weake Spirits ne're been higher rear'd |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.200.2 | The higher powers forbid! | The higher powres forbid. |