| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.23 | poor, decayed, ingenious, foolish, rascally knave. I do | poore decayed, ingenious, foolish, rascally knaue. I doe |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.186.2 | My ingenious instrument – | My ingenuous Instrument, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.215 | For torturers ingenious: it is I | For Torturors ingenious: it is I |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.244 | Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense | Whose wicked deed, thy most Ingenious sence |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.279 | That I stand up and have ingenious feeling | That I stand vp, and haue ingenious feeling |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.27 | What, that an eel is ingenious? | What? that an Eele is ingenuous. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.56 | The meaning, pretty ingenious? Is not lead a | Thy meaning prettie ingenious, is not Lead a |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.77 | Mehercle! If their sons be ingenious, they | Me hercle, If their Sonnes be ingennous, they |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.155 | Bold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable. | Bold, quicke, ingenious, forward, capable: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.9 | A course of learning and ingenious studies. | A course of Learning, and ingenious studies. |