| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.234 | Hop forty paces through the public street; | Hop forty Paces through the publicke streete, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iv.5 | To public ear; | To publicke eare, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.11.2 | This in the public eye? | This in the publike eye? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.20 | Not by a public minister of justice | Not by a publike minister of Iustice, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.42 | So near our public court as twenty miles, | So neere our publike Court as twentie miles, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.15 | And this our life, exempt from public haunt, | And this our life exempt from publike haunt, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.150 | No public benefit which you receive | No publique benefit which you receiue |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.175 | A foe to th' public weal. Obey, I charge thee, | A Foe to'th' publike Weale. Obey I charge thee, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.268 | Than the severity of the public power, | Then the seuerity of the publike Power, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.51 | Safely, I think: 'twas a contention in public, | Safely, I thinke, 'twas a contention in publicke, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.17 | Why to a public count I might not go | Why to a publike count I might not go, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.177 | And sit at chiefest stern of public weal. | And sit at chiefest Sterne of publique Weale. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.41 | To be a public spectacle to all. | To be a publique spectacle to all: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.78 | Pricked on by public wrongs sustained in France, | Prickt on by publike Wrongs sustain'd in France, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.197 | Join we together for the public good, | Ioyne we together for the publike good, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.129 | Have cost a mass of public treasury. | Haue cost a masse of publique Treasurie. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.41 | Defacers of a public peace than I do. | Defacers of a publique peace then I doe: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.7 | And public reasons shall be rendered | And publike Reasons shall be rendred |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.64 | Let him go up into the public chair; | Let him go vp into the publike Chaire, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.221 | That gave me public leave to speak of him. | That gaue me publike leaue to speake of him: |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.72 | But my desert and public law of arms. | But my desert and publike law at armes. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.129 | term of three years, he shall endure such public shame as | tearme of three yeares, hee shall indure such publique shame as |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.158 | Or whether that the body public be | Or whether that the body publique, be |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.96 | Lord Angelo hath to the public ear | Lord Angelo hath to the publike eare |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.7 | Cannot but yield you forth to public thanks, | Cannot but yeeld you forth to publique thankes |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.31 | Nor thrust your head into the public street | Nor thrust your head into the publique streete |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.13 | Yet once again, to make us public sport, | Yet once againe (to make vs publike sport) |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.300 | come to take hands, and then, with public accusation, | come to take hands, and then with publike accusation |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.72 | Committed? O, thou public commoner! | Committed? Oh, thou publicke Commoner, |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.104 | Who either by public war or private treason | Who either by publike warre, or priuat treason, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.49 | We talk here in the public haunt of men. | We talke here in the publike haunt of men: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.143 | Which now the public body, which doth seldom | Which now the publike Body, which doth sildome |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.62 | But shall be remanded to your public laws | But shall be remedied to your publique Lawes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.222 | In public question with their swords. Be wise then, | In publique question with their Swords; Be wise then |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.197 | We are to speak in public; for this business | We are to speake in publique: for this businesse |