| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.320.1 | Drink off this potion. | Drinke off this Potion: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.128 | patient. Your lordship may minister the potion of | Patient: your Lordship may minister the Potion of |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.406 | And give the bitter potion of reproach | And giue the bitter portion of reproch: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.264 | Out, loathed medicine! O hated potion, hence! | Out loathed medicine; O hated poison hence. |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.68 | That ministers a potion unto me | That ministers a potion vnto me: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.244 | A sleeping potion; which so took effect | A sleeping Potion, which so tooke effect |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.319 | I could do this, and that with no rash potion, | I could doe this, and that with no rash Potion, |