| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.79 | They shall be no more than needful there, | They shall bee no more then needfull there, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iv.3 | Shall be my surety; 'fore whose throne 'tis needful, | Shall be my suretie: for whose throne 'tis needfull |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.8 | So needful for this present. It strikes me, past | So needfull for this present? It strikes me, past |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.174 | As needful in our loves, fitting our duty? | As needfull in our Loues, fitting our Duty? |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.77 | Yet needful too, for youth no less becomes | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iv.34 | I hope no less, yet needful 'tis to fear, | I hope no lesse? Yet needfull 'tis to feare, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.70 | 'Tis needful that the most immodest word | 'Tis needfull, that the most immodest word |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.18 | Never so needful on the earth of France, | Neuer so needfull on the earth of France, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.146 | With aid of soldiers to this needful war. | With ayde of Souldiers to this needfull Warre. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.128 | And haste is needful in this desperate case. | And haste is needfull in this desp'rate case. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.53 | And, Clarence, now then it is more than needful | And Clarence, now then it is more then needfull, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.231 | The Queen being absent, 'tis a needful fitness | The Queene being absent, 'tis a needfull fitnesse, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.110 | O, let us pay the time but needful woe, | Oh let vs pay the time: but needfull woe, |
| King Lear | KL II.i.126 | Your needful counsel to our businesses, | Your needfull counsaile to our businesses, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.201 | Which shall be needful for your entertainment. | Which shall be needfull for your entertainement. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.25 | Therefore to's seemeth it a needful course, | Therefore to's seemeth it a needfull course, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.110 | Took off her life – this, and what needful else | Tooke off her life. This, and what need full else |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.55 | Matters of needful value. We shall write to you, | Matters of needfull value: We shall write to you |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.20 | The needful bits and curbs to headstrong weeds, | (The needfull bits and curbes to headstrong weedes,) |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.269.2 | It is but needful. | It is but needfull. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.24 | Let her have needful, but not lavish, means. | Let her haue needfull, but not lauish meanes, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iii.9 | I would do more than that, if more were needful. | I would do more then that, if more were needfull |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.23 | yourself; it is needful that you frame the season for your | your selfe, it is needful that you frame the season for your |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.283 | With what else needful your good grace shall think | With what else needfull, your good Grace shall think |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.68.1 | No needful thing omitted. | no needfull thing omitted. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.41 | And give him from me this most needful note. | And giue him from me, this most needfull Note. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.34 | To help me sort such needful ornaments | To helpe me sort such needfull ornaments, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.39 | To use as you think needful of the man. | To vse, as you thinke neeedefull of the man. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.138 | To our own selves bend we our needful talk. | To our owne selues bend we our needefull talke. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.99 | I'll bring you every needful thing; I pray you | Ile bring you every needfull thing: I pray you |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.48 | There's all things needful; files, and shirts, and perfumes. | Ther's all things needfull, files and shirts, and, perfumes: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.23 | 'Twere needful I denied it. My affairs | 'Twere needfull I deny'd it. My Affaires |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.40 | No noise, my lord, but needful conference | No noyse (my Lord) but needfull conference, |