| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.165 | That ends this strange eventful history, | That ends this strange euentfull historie, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.70 | By history, report, or his own proof, | By History, Report, or his owne proofe |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.100 | This paper is the history of my knowledge | This Paper is the historie of my knowledge |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.396 | tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, | Tragedie, Comedie, Historie, Pastorall: Pastoricall-Comicall- |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.306 | Sir, a whole history. | Sir, a whole History. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.76 | There is a history in all men's lives | There is a Historie in all mens Liues, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.201 | That may repeat and history his loss | That may repeat, and Historie his losse, |
| Henry V | H5 I.chorus.32 | Admit me Chorus to this history, | Admit me Chorus to this Historie; |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.231 | Either our history shall with full mouth | Either our History shall with full mouth |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.28 | Than can my ears that tragic history. | Then can my eares that Tragicke History. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.40 | Hath almost ended his life's history. | Hath almost ended his liues History: |
| King Lear | KL I.i.236 | Which often leaves the history unspoke | Which often leaues the history vnspoke |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.28 | That to th' observer doth thy history | That to th' obseruer, doth thy history |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.133 | Could ever hear by tale or history, | Could euer heare by tale or historie, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.138 | And portance in my travels' history: | And portance in my Trauellours historie. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.250 | to the history of lust and foul thoughts. They met | to the History of Lust and foule Thoughts. They met |
| Pericles | Per V.i.118 | If I should tell my history, it would seem | If I should tell my hystorie, it would seeme |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.28 | The history of all her secret thoughts. | The Historie of all her secret thoughts. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.139 | It is a kind of history. | It is a kinde of history. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.108.2 | And what's her history? | And what's her history? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.35 | Than history can pattern, though devised | Then Historie can patterne, though deuis'd, |