| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.454 | The lofty cedar, royal Cymbeline, | The lofty Cedar, Royall Cymbeline |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.152 | Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat | Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding Throate |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.97 | Sound all the lofty instruments of war, | Sound all the lofty Instruments of Warre, |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.13 | Breasting the lofty surge. O, do but think | Bresting the loftie Surge. O, doe but thinke |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.35 | And that we are most lofty runaways. | And that we are most loftie Run-awayes. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.54 | It is of such a spacious lofty pitch, | It is of such a spacious loftie pitch, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.25 | That France must vail her lofty-plumed crest | That France must vale her lofty plumed Crest, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.45 | Thus droops this lofty pine and hangs his sprays; | Thus droupes this loftie Pyne, & hangs his sprayes, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.96 | And lofty, proud, encroaching tyranny, | And lofty proud incroaching tyranny, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.53 | Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, | Lofty, and sowre to them that lou'd him not: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.112 | Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, | Shall this our lofty Scene be acted ouer, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.44 | And lofty Poland, nurse of hardy men, | And lofty Poland, nurse of hardie men, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.171 | Until their lofty tops were seen no more. | Vntill their lofty tops were seene no more. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.113 | Some two leagues hence, there is a lofty hill | Some two leagues hence there is a loftie hill, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.10 | lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his | lofty, his discourse peremptorie: his tongue filed, his |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.35 | This was lofty! – Now name the rest of the players. – | This was lofty. Now name the rest of the Players. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.35 | That look too lofty in our commonwealth. | That looke too loftie in our Common-wealth: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.143.3 | Amazon, and all dance, men with women, a lofty | Amazon, and all Dance, men with women, a loftie |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.11 | Because they died in honour's lofty bed; | Because they died in honours lofty bed. |