| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.146 | is a goodly increase, and the principal itself not much | is a goodly increase, and the principall it selfe not much |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.338 | Can you remember any of the principal evils | Can you remember any of the principall euils, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.340 | There were none principal, they were all like | There were none principal, they were all like |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.4 | Culling the principal of all the deer. | Culling the principall of all the Deere. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.26 | Forgive a moiety of the principal, | Forgiue a moytie of the principall, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.333 | Give me my principal, and let me go. | Giue me my principall, and let me goe. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.339 | Shall I not have barely my principal? | Shall I not haue barely my principall? |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.78 | Why, hath your principal made known | Why, hath your principall made knowne |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.80 | Who is my principal? | Who is my principall? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.92 | But with her most vile principal – that she's | But with her most vild Principall: that shee's |