| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.i.15 | Which lay nice manners by, I put you to | Which lay nice manners by, I put you to |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.179 | Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives | Were nice and lucky, men did ransome liues |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.14 | lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these: | Ladies, which is nice: nor the Louers, which is all these: |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.178 | Nice longing, slanders, mutability; | Nice-longing, Slanders, Mutability; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.48 | On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? | On the nice hazard of one doubtfull houre, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.145 | Are thrice themselves. Hence, therefore, thou nice crutch! | Are thrice themselues. Hence therefore thou nice crutch, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.40 | To hold your honour more precise and nice | To hold your Honor more precise and nice |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.189 | Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason, | Yea, euery idle, nice, and wanton Reason, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.265 | O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings. | O Kate, nice Customes cursie to great Kings. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.270 | upholding the nice fashion of your country in denying | vpholding the nice fashion of your Countrey, in denying |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.17 | But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, | But in these nice sharpe Quillets of the Law, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vii.58 | Why, brother, wherefore stand you on nice points? | Why Brother, wherefore stand you on nice points? |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.8 | That every nice offence should bear his comment. | That euery nice offence should beare his Comment. |
| King John | KJ III.iv.138 | Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. | Makes nice of no vilde hold to stay him vp: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.21 | these betray nice wenches, that would be betrayed | these betraie nice wenches that would be betraied |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.219 | We'll not be nice. Take hands. We will not dance. | Wee'll not be nice, take hands, we will not dance. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.222 | More measure of this measure! Be not nice. | More measure of this measure, be not nice. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.232 | Nay then, two treys, an if you grow so nice, | Nay then two treyes, an if you grow so nice |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.325 | This is the ape of form, Monsieur the Nice, | This is the Ape of Forme, Monsieur the nice, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.174.1 | Too nice and yet too true. | too nice, and yet too true. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.i.14 | By nice direction of a maiden's eyes. | By nice direction of a maidens eies: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.75 | Despite his nice fence and his active practice, | Despight his nice fence, and his actiue practise, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.15 | Or feed upon such nice and waterish diet, | Or feede vpon such nice and waterish diet, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.174 | But the respects thereof are nice and trivial, | But the respects thereof are nice, and triuiall, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.154 | How nice the quarrel was, and urged withal | How nice the Quarrell was, and vrg'd withall |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.ii.18 | The letter was not nice, but full of charge, | The Letter was not nice, but full of charge, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.78 | Old fashions please me best. I am not so nice | Old fashions please me best, I am not so nice |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.250 | As to prenominate in nice conjecture | As to prenominate in nice coniecture |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.82 | Whom I affect; but she is nice, and coy, | Whom I affect: but she is nice, and coy, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.77 | To marry us, for here they are nice and foolish. | To marry us, for here they are nice, and foolish; |