| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.44 | Sluttery, to such neat excellence opposed | Sluttery to such neate Excellence, oppos'd |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.49 | But his neat cookery! He cut our roots in characters, | But his neate Cookerie? Arui. He cut our Rootes in Charracters, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.32 | Came there a certain lord, neat and trimly dressed, | Came there a certaine Lord, neat and trimly drest; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.443 | good, but to taste sack and drink it? Wherein neat and | good, but to taste Sacke, and drinke it? wherein neat and |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.14 | As doth a lion in a herd of neat; | As doth a Lyon in a Heard of Neat, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.39 | Stand, rogue! Stand, you neat slave! Strike! | stand rogue, stand you neat slaue, strike. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.102 | companions, is all ready, and all things neat? | companions, is all readie, and all things neate? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.10 | As of a knight well-spoken, neat, and fine; | As of a Knight, well-spoken, neat, and fine; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.123 | We must be neat – not neat but cleanly, captain. | We must be neat; not neat, but cleanly, Captaine: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.125 | Are all called neat. Still virginalling | Are all call'd Neat. Still Virginalling |