| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.94 | A strain of rareness: and I grieve myself | A straine of Rarenesse: and I greeue my selfe, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.117 | of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.59 | And won by rareness such solemnity. | And wonne by rarenesse such Solemnitie. |