| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.49 | Should have ascended to the roof of heaven, | Should haue ascended to the Roofe of Heauen, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.17 | Come not within these doors; within this roof | Come not within these doores: within this roofe |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.304 | To bring the roof to the foundation, | To bring the Roofe to the Foundation, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.87.2 | The roof o'th' chamber | The Roofe o'th'Chamber, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.121 | His radiant roof. Away! And to be blest | His radiant Roofe: Away, and to be blest |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.301 | this majestical roof fretted with golden fire – why, it | this Maiesticall Roofe, fretted with golden fire: why, it |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.55 | Your roof were not sufficient to contain't. | Your Roofe were not sufficient to contayn't. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.121 | Honour our roof; my husband in the wars, | Honor our roofe: my husband in the warres, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.92 | have not yet. The roof of this court is too high to be | haue not yet: the roofe of this Court is too high to bee |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.46 | under her roof as come to – | vnder her Roofe, / As come to |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.204 | And swearing till my very roof was dry | And swearing till my very rough was dry |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.86 | My visor is Philemon's roof; within the house is Jove. | My visor is Philemons roofe, within the house is Loue. |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.36 | Like goodly buildings left without a roof, | Like goodly Buyldings left without a Roofe, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.281 | That every day under his household roof | That euery day, vnder his House-hold Roofe, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.30 | My tongue cleave to my roof within my mouth, | My tongue cleaue to my roofe within my mouth, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.6 | freeze to my teeth, my tongue to the roof of my mouth, my | freeze to my teeth, my tongue to the roofe of my mouth, my |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.iii.25 | And underneath that consecrated roof | And vnderneath that consecrated roofe, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.52 | That for our crowned heads we have no roof, | That for our crowned heades we have no roofe, |