| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.97 | Burns with revenging fire, whose hopeful colours | Burnes with reuenging fire, whose hopefull colours |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.126 | That from his loins no hopeful branch may spring, | That from his Loynes no hopefull Branch may spring, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.419 | Thy hopeful service perish too. Good Cromwell, | Thy hopefull seruice perish too. Good Cromwell |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.59 | To th' hopeful execution do I leave you | To th' hopefull execution doe I leaue you, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.24 | May fright the hopeful mother at the view, | May fright the hopefull Mother at the view, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.15 | She's the hopeful lady of my earth. | Shee's the hopefull Lady of my earth: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.49 | Here comes a parcel of our hopeful booty, | Heere comes a parcell of our hopefull Booty, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.85 | His hopeful son's, his babe's, betrays to slander, | His hopefull Sonnes, his Babes, betrayes to Slander, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.39 | The mother to a hopeful prince, here standing | The Mother to a hopefull Prince, here standing |