| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.349 | And these two Dromios, one in semblance, | And these two Dromio's, one in semblance: |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.109 | Where there is beauty: truth, where semblance: love, | Where there is Beauty: Truth, where semblance: Loue, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.40 | With cheerful semblance and sweet majesty; | With chearefull semblance, and sweet Maiestie: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.193 | Repeat their semblance often on the seas, | Repeate their semblance often on the Seas, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.162 | Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale, and bloodless, | Of ashy semblance, meager, pale, and bloodlesse, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.198 | As he made semblance of his duty, would | (As he made semblance of his duty) would |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.83 | For if thou path, thy native semblance on, | For if thou path thy natiue semblance on, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.4 | This ship-boy's semblance hath disguised me quite. | This Ship-boyes semblance hath disguis'd me quite. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.185 | Into a madman's rags, t' assume a semblance | Into a mad-mans rags, t'assume a semblance |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.20 | In purchasing the semblance of my soul | In purchasing the semblance of my soule; |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.62 | If you go out in your own semblance, | If you goe out in your owne semblance, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.10 | in the semblance of a fowl – think on't, Jove, a foul fault! | in the semblance of a Fowle, thinke on't (Ioue) a fowle-fault. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.35 | reputation, who is thus like to be cozened with the semblance | reputation, who is thus like to be cosen'd with the semblance |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.31 | She's but the sign and semblance of her honour. | Shee's but the signe and semblance of her honour: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.239 | In the rare semblance that I loved it first. | In the rare semblance that I lou'd it first. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.37 | Tell thee with speechless tongues and semblance pale | Tell thee with speachlesse tongues, and semblance pale, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.71 | That's the least fear, for by the semblance | That's the least feare. For by the semblance |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.51 | But now two mirrors of his princely semblance | But now two Mirrors of his Princely semblance, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.74 | An ill-beseeming semblance for a feast. | An ill beseeming semblance for a Feast. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.304 | that induced me to the semblance I put on; with the which | that induced mee to the semblance I put on; with the which |