| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.45 | To mend the petty present, I will piece | To mend the petty present, I will peece |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.34 | For such a petty war. His soldiership | For such a petty Warre: His Souldiership |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.49 | The petty difference, we yet not know. | The petty difference, we yet not know: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xii.8 | I was of late as petty to his ends | I was of late as petty to his ends, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.140 | Not petty things admitted. Where's Seleucus? | Not petty things admitted. Where's Seleucus? |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.116 | With other muniments and petty helps | With other Muniments and petty helpes |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.177 | But was a petty servant to the state, | But was a pettie seruant to the State, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.42 | Such parting were too petty. Look here, love; | Such parting were too petty. Looke heere (Loue) |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.93 | No more, you petty spirits of region low, | No more you petty Spirits of Region low |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.82 | And makes each petty artere in this body | And makes each petty Artire in this body, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.21 | Each small annexment, petty consequence, | Each small annexment, pettie consequence |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.108 | then the vital commoners, and inland petty spirits, | then the Vitall Commoners, and in-land pettie Spirits, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.177 | And pretty traps to catch the petty thieves. | And pretty traps to catch the petty theeues. |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.31 | Some petty and unprofitable dukedoms. | Some petty and vnprofitable Dukedomes. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.91 | Except some petty towns of no import. | Except some petty Townes, of no import. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.64 | Tut, these are petty faults to faults unknown, | Tut, these are petty faults to faults vnknowne, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.22 | Be counterpoised with such a petty sum! | Be counter-poys'd with such a pettie summe. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.44 | Particularities and petty sounds | Particularities, and pettie sounds |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.135 | Like a Colossus, and we petty men | Like a Colossus, and we petty men |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.82 | 'Tis not a petty dukedom that I claim, | Tis not a petty Dukedome that I claime, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.70 | Let it be seen, 'mongst other petty thefts, | Let it be seene mongest other pettie thefts, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.21 | And every petty disadvantage prompts | and euerie pettie disaduantage promptes |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.20 | Creeps in this petty pace from day to day | Creepes in this petty pace from day to day, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.112 | For every pelting, petty officer | For euery pelting petty Officer |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.12 | Do overpeer the petty traffickers | Do ouer-peere the pettie Traffiquers |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.307 | To pay the petty debt twenty times over. | To pay the petty debt twenty times ouer. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.91 | Have every pelting river made so proud | Hath euerie petty Riuer made so proud, |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.73 | nor caps, nor any petty exhibition. But for all the whole | nor Caps, nor any petty exhibition. But for all the whole |
| Pericles | Per IV.iii.22 | The petty wrens of Tarsus will fly hence | the pettie wrens of Tharsus will flie hence, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.332 | The petty rebel, dull-brained Buckingham, | The petty Rebell, dull-brain'd Buckingham, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.62 | This petty brabble will undo us all. | This pretty brabble will vndoo vs all: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.52 | And I for such like petty crimes as these. | And I, for such like petty crimes as these. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.71 | The shrug, the ‘ hum ’ or ‘ ha,’ these petty brands | The Shrug, the Hum, or Ha, (these Petty-brands |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.4 | Is as a meeting of the petty gods, | Is as a meeting of the petty Gods, |