| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.44 | A second night of such sweet shortness which | A second night of such sweet shortnesse, which |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.82 | To spend that shortness basely were too long | To spend that shortnesse basely, were too long. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.354 | Such as the shortness of the time can shape; | Such as the shortnesse of the time can shape, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.39 | Your plainness and your shortness please me well. | Your plainnesse and your shortnesse please me well: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.88 | The prejudice of disparity, value's shortness, | The prejudice of disparity values shortnes |