| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.46 | First, for his weeping into the needless stream: | First, for his weeping into the needlesse streame; |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.116 | Their needless vouches? Custom calls me to't. | Their needlesse Vouches: Custome calls me too't. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.66 | with needless jealousy; | with needlesse ielousy, |
| King John | KJ V.v.5 | When with a volley of our needless shot, | When with a volley of our needlesse shot, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.146 | and nobles, needless diffidences, banishment of friends, | |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.92 | In brief, to set the needless process by, | In briefe, to set the needlesse processe by: |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.87 | Pray God, I say, I prove a needless coward! | Pray God (I say) I proue a needlesse Coward. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.94 | have need of 'em? They were the most needless | haue need of 'em? They were the most needlesse |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.71 | That matter needless, of importless burden, | That matter needlesse of importlesse burthen |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.35 | At each his needless heavings – such as you | At each his needlesse heauings: such as you |