| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.194 | Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious | Now hee'l out-stare the Lightning, to be furious |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.270 | Fear no more the lightning flash. | Feare no more the Lightning flash. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.93.1 | Jupiter descends in thunder and lightning, sitting upon an | Iupiter descends in Thunder and Lightning, sitting vppon an |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.395 | And she – like harmless lightning – throws her eye | And she (like harmlesse Lightning) throwes her eye |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.40.1 | Thunder and lightning. Exit Spirit | Thunder and Lightning. Exit Spirit. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.128 | Their weapons like to lightning came and went; | Their Weapons like to Lightning, came and went: |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.1.1 | Thunder and lightning | Thunder, and Lightning. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.50 | And when the cross blue lightning seemed to open | And when the crosse blew Lightning seem'd to open |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.1.1 | Thunder and lightning | Thunder & Lightning. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.451 | Dark night seems darker by the lightning flash; | Darke night seemes darker by the lightning flash, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.129 | Breaks in extremity of lightning flash, | Breakes in extremitie of lightning flash, |
| King John | KJ I.i.24 | Be thou as lightning in the eyes of France; | Be thou as lightning in the eies of France; |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.35 | Of quick cross lightning? To watch, poor perdu, | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.115 | Thy eye Jove's lightning bears, thy voice his dreadful thunder, | Thy eye Ioues lightning beares, thy voyce his dreadfull thunder. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.i.1 | Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches | Thunder and Lightning. Enter three Witches. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.i.2 | In thunder, lightning, or in rain? | In Thunder, Lightning, or in Raine? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.145 | Brief as the lightning in the collied night, | Briefe as the lightning in the collied night, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.79 | Be swift like lightning in the execution, | Be swift like lightning in the execution, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.43 | And darts his light through every guilty hole, | And darts his Lightning through eu'ry guiltie hole, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.64 | Either heaven with lightning strike the murderer dead; | Either Heau'n with Lightning strike the murth'rer dead: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.119 | Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be | Too like the lightning which doth cease to be |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.172 | And to't they go like lightning. For, ere I | And too't they goe like lightning, for ere I |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.90 | A lightning before death. O, how may I | A lightning before death? Oh how may I |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.91 | Call this a lightning? O my love, my wife! | Call this a lightning? O my Loue, my Wife, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.1.1 | A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard | A tempestuous noise of Thunder and Lightning heard: |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.201 | Then meet and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursors | Then meete, and ioyne. Ioues Lightning, the precursers |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.16 | Work not so hard. I would the lightning had | Worke not so hard: I would the lightning had |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.54.1 | Thunder and lightning. Enter Ariel, like a harpy, | Thunder and Lightning. Enter Ariell (like a Harpey) |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.3 | Secure of thunder's crack or lightning flash, | Secure of Thunders cracke or lightning flash, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.78 | These hands shall never draw 'em out like lightning | These hands shall never draw'em out like lightning |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.85 | The lightning of your valour. Stay a little; | The lightning of your valour: Stay a little, |