| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.318 | might begin an impudent nation. Fare ye well, sir. I am | might begin an impudent Nation. Fare yee well sir, I am |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.3 | made all the unbaked and doughy youth of a nation in | made all the vnbak'd and dowy youth of a nation in |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.151 | give us gold. Methinks they are such a gentle nation | giue vs gold: me thinkes they are such a gentle Nation, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.132 | As most abated captives to some nation | As most abated Captiues, to some Nation |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.352 | sides, and the nation holds it no sin to tarre them to | sides: and the Nation holds it no sinne, to tarre them to |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.93 | And gem of all the nation. | And Iemme of all our Nation. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.99 | If one could match you; the scrimers of their nation | If one could match you |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.217 | nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common. | |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.137 | In equal rank with the best-governed nation; | In equall ranke, with the best gouern'd Nation, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.220 | Let us be worried, and our nation lose | Let vs be worried, and our Nation lose |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.117 | your correction, there is not many of your nation – | your correction, there is not many of your Nation. |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.118 | Of my nation? What ish my nation? Ish a | Of my Nation? What ish my Nation? Ish a |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.120 | ish my nation? Who talks of my nation? | ish my Nation? Who talkes of my Nation? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.23 | Nor should that nation boast it so with us, | Nor should that Nation boast it so with vs, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.62 | Who joinest thou with but with a lordly nation | Who ioyn'st thou with, but with a Lordly Nation, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.138 | In France, amongst a fickle, wavering nation; | In France, amongst a fickle wauering Nation: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.99 | Betwixt our nation and the aspiring French; | Betwixt our Nation, and the aspyring French; |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.146 | A famous war, and with so mighty a nation. | A famous Warre, and with so mighty a nation: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.51 | There comes a hare-brained nation, decked in pride, | There comes a hare braind Nation deckt in pride, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.33 | What, here? O nation, that thou couldst remove! | What heere? O Nation that thou couldst remoue, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.103 | No, not to live! O nation miserable, | No not to liue. O Natiõ miserable! |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.45 | He hates our sacred nation and he rails | He hates our sacred Nation, and he railes |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.51 | my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, | my gaines, scorned my Nation, thwarted my bargaines, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.78 | never fell upon our nation till now; I never felt it till | neuer fell vpon our Nation till now, I neuer felt it till |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.68 | The wealthy curled darlings of our nation, | The wealthy curled Deareling of our Nation, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.65 | And so in ours. Some neighbouring nation, | And so in ours, some neighbouring nation, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.108 | Well, if we had of every nation a traveller, we | Well, if we had of euerie Nation a traueller, wee |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.22 | Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation | Whose manners still our tardie apish Nation |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.30 | Hath yoked a nation strong, trained up in arms. | Hath yoak'd a Nation strong, train'd vp in Armes. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.181 | There is a law in each well-ordered nation | There is a Law in each well-ordred Nation, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.186 | Of nature and of nations speak aloud | Of Nature, and of Nation, speake alowd |