| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.112 | Under the shade of melancholy boughs, | Vnder the shade of melancholly boughes, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.114 | Into a bush: under which bush's shade | Into a bush, vnder which bushes shade |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.187 | Ere in our own house I do shade my head, | Ere in our owne house I doe shade my Head, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.193 | Will drive away distemper. To some shade, | Will driue away distemper. To some shade, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.26 | gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon. And let | Gentlemen of the Shade, Minions of the Moone; and let |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.28 | Under the sweet shade of your government. | Vnder the sweet shade of your gouernment. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.89 | But darkness and the gloomy shade of death | But darknesse, and the gloomy shade of death |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.54 | For in the shade of death I shall find joy, | For in the shade of death, I shall finde ioy; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.323 | Their sweetest shade, a grove of cypress trees! | Their sweetest shade, a groue of Cypresse Trees: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.42 | Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade | Giues not the Hawthorne bush a sweeter shade |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.49 | His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, | His wonted sleepe, vnder a fresh trees shade, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.ii.13 | Under whose shade the ramping lion slept, | Vnder whose shade the ramping Lyon slept, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.160 | Fly o'er thy royal head, and shade thy person | Fly o're thy Royall head, and shade thy person |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.139 | Then presently we fall; and, as a shade | Then presently we fall, and as a shade |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.41 | Sweet leaves, shade folly. Who is he comes here? | Sweet leaues shade folly. Who is he comes heere? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.89 | Under the cool shade of a sycamore | Vnder the coole shade of a Siccamore, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.92 | Toward that shade I might behold addressed | Toward that shade I might behold addrest, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.1 | Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there | Let vs seeke out some desolate shade, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.95 | Trip we after night's shade. | Trip we after the nights shade; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.147 | And Thisbe, tarrying in mulberry shade, | And Thisby, tarrying in Mulberry shade, |
| Richard II | R2 V.vi.43 | With Cain go wander thorough shades of night, | With Caine go wander through the shade of night, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.265 | And turns the sun to shade – alas! alas! | And turnes the Sun to shade: alas, alas, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.266 | Witness my son, now in the shade of death, | Witnesse my Sonne, now in the shade of death, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.16 | Under their sweet shade, Aaron, let us sit, | Vnder their sweete shade, Aaron let vs sit, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.51 | And flies fled under shade, why then the thing of courage, | And Flies fled vnder shade, why then / The thing of Courage, |