| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.32 | Mome, malthorse, capon, coxcomb, idiot, patch, | Mome, Malthorse, Capon, Coxcombe, Idiot, Patch, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.152 | Ah, what an idiot hast thou made of life, | Ah what an idiot hast thou made of lyfe, |
| King John | KJ III.iii.45 | Making that idiot, laughter, keep men's eyes | Making that idiot laughter keepe mens eyes, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.27 | Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, | Told by an Ideot, full of sound and fury |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.54 | What's here? The portrait of a blinking idiot | What's here, the portrait of a blinking idiot |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.84 | That Slender, though well landed, is an idiot; | That Slender (though well landed) is an Ideot: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.79 | An idiot holds his bauble for a god, | An Ideot holds his Bauble for a God, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.52 | Mars his idiot! Do, rudeness, do, camel; do, | Mars his Ideot: do rudenes, do Camell, do, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.19 | letter will make a contemplative idiot of him. Close, in | Letter wil make a contemplatiue Ideot of him. Close in |