| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.x.11 | Whom leprosy o'ertake! – i'th' midst o'th' fight, | (Whom Leprosie o're-take) i'th'midst o'th'fight, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.31 | Then in the midst a tearing groan did break | Then in the midd'st a tearing grone did breake |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.104 | Our helpful ship was splitted in the midst; | Our helpefull ship was splitted in the midst; |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.97 | I'th' midst o'th' body, idle and unactive, | I'th midd'st a th' body, idle and vnactiue, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.28.1 | Cleave in the midst and perish. | Cleaue in the midd'st, and perish. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.24 | But that they left me 'midst my enemies. | But that they left me 'midst my Enemies. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.60 | through the very midst of you! And heavens and | through the verie middest of you, and heauens and |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iii.3 | But, in the midst of this bright-shining day, | But in the midst of this bright-shining Day, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.66 | And in the midst our nation's glittering host; | And in the midst our nations glittering hoast, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.139 | And in the midst, like to a slender point | And in the midst like to a slender poynt, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.142 | A hazel wand amidst a wood of pines, | A Hasle wand a midst a wood of Pynes, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.10 | Both sides are even. Here I'll sit i'the midst. | Both sides are euen: heere Ile sit i'th' mid'st, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.96 | Make periods in the midst of sentences, | Make periods in the midst of sentences, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.296 | Our archers shall be placed in the midst; | Our Archers shall be placed in the mid'st; |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.133 | What, in the midst of the street? | What in the midst of the streete? |