| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.79 | Opposing laws with strokes, and here defying | Opposing Lawes with stroakes, and heere defying |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.60 | And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep – | And by opposing end them: to dye, to sleepe |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.67 | In a rich chair of state, opposing freely | In a rich Chaire of State, opposing freely |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.17 | By the four opposing coigns | By the fower opposing Crignes, |