| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.78 | Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue | Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.75 | It is a recreation to be by | It is a Recreation to be by |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.153 | true prince may – for recreation sake – prove a false | true Prince, may (for recreation sake) proue a false |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.159 | But is there no quick recreation granted? | But is there no quicke recreation granted? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.163 | their game, and we will to our recreation. | their game, and we will to our recreation. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.67 | For your best health and recreation. | For your best health, and recreation. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.131 | him a common recreation, do not think I have wit | him a common recreation, do not thinke I haue witte |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.238 | Shall be my recreation. So long as nature | Shall be my recreation. So long as Nature |