| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.213 | His means of death, his obscure funeral – | His meanes of death, his obscure buriall; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.22 | Of purpose to obscure my noble birth. | Of purpose, to obscure my Noble birth. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.50 | Obscure and lousy swain, King Henry's blood, | Obscure and lowsie Swaine, King Henries blood. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.81 | Some obscure precedence that hath tofore been sain. | Some obscure precedence that hath tofore bin faine. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.71 | base and obscure vulgar! – videlicet, he came, see, and | base and obscure vulgar; videliset, He came, See, and |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.56 | New-hatched to the woeful time. The obscure bird | New hatch'd toth' wofull time. / The obscure Bird |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.51 | To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave. | To rib her searecloath in the obscure graue: |
| Othello | Oth II.i.249 | Lechery, by this hand: an index and obscure prologue | Leacherie by this hand: an Index, and obscure prologue |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.154 | A little, little grave, an obscure grave; | A little little Graue, an obscure Graue. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.77 | And wandered hither to an obscure plot, | And wandred hither to an obscure plot, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.148 | I will drop in his way some obscure epistles of | I will drop in his way some obscure Epistles of |