| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.50 | was I about to say? By the mass, I was about to say | was I about to say? I was about to say |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.50 | Yea, this solidity and compound mass, | Yea this solidity and compound masse, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.47 | Witness this army of such mass and charge, | |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.55 | Mass, I cannot tell. | Masse, I cannot tell. Enter Hamlet and Horatio a farre off. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.17 | Like a tench! By the mass, there is ne'er | Like a Tench? There is ne're a |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.357 | By the mass, lad, thou sayest true, it is like we | By the Masse Lad, thou say'st true, it is like wee |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.65 | cannot help. By the mass, here comes Bardolph. | canot helpe. Looke, looke, here comes Bardolfe. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.4 | Mass, thou sayst true. The prince once set a | Thou say'st true: the Prince once set a |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.19 | By the mass, here will be old utis. It will be an | Then here will be old Vtis: it will be an |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.16 | By the mass, I was called anything, and I | I was call'd any thing: and I |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.199 | By the mass, I could anger her to th' heart. She | I could anger her to the heart: shee |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.13 | varlet, Sir John – by the mass, I have drunk too much | Varlet, Sir Iohn: I haue drunke too much |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.61 | By the mass, you'll crack a quart together – ha! | You'l cracke a quart together? Ha, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.115 | But, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim; | But by the Masse, our hearts are in the trim: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.129 | Have cost a mass of public treasury. | Haue cost a masse of publique Treasurie. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.100 | Mass, thou loved'st plums well, that wouldst venture so. | 'Masse, thou lou'dst Plummes well, that would'st venture so. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.7 | Mass, 'twill be sore law then, for he was | Masse 'twill be sore Law then, for he was |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.iii.16 | By th' mass, so did we all. I thank you, Richard. | By'th' Masse so did we all. I thanke you Richard. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.190 | Nay, by th' mass, that he did not. He | Nay by th'Masse that he did not: he |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.97 | Mass, and my elbow itched; I thought there | Mas and my elbow itcht, I thought there |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.49 | Yea, by mass, that it is. | Yea by th'masse that it is. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.280 | I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; | I remember a masse of things, but nothing distinctly: |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.367 | Content thyself awhile. By th' mass, 'tis morning: | Content thy selfe, a-while. In troth 'tis Morning; |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.163 | Not the world's mass of vanity could make me. | Not the worlds Masse of vanitie could make me. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.38 | Or shall I come to you at evening mass? | Or shall I come to you at euening Masse? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iv.20 | Mass! and well said. A merry whoreson, ha! | Masse and well said, a merrie horson, ha, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.404 | It is noised he hath a mass of treasure. | It is nois'd / He hath a masse of Treasure. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.29 | And what hath mass or matter by itself | And what hath masse, or matter by it selfe, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.345 | The baby figure of the giant mass | The baby figure of the Gyant-masse |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.108 | A moiety of that mass of moan to come. | A moity of that masse of moane to come. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.176 | Constringed in mass by the almighty sun, | Constring'd in masse by the almighty Fenne, |