| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.214 | Such is the simplicity of man to hearken after | Such is the simplicitie of man to harken after |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.22 | Twice-sod simplicity! Bis coctus! | Twice sod simplicitie, bis coctus, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.52 | The shape of Love's Tyburn, that hangs up simplicity. | The shape of Loues Tiburne, that hangs vp simplicitie. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.52 | Vilely compiled, profound simplicity. | Vildly compiled, profound simplicitie. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.78 | To prove, by wit, worth in simplicity. | To proue by Wit, worth in simplicitie. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.40 | But more, for that in low simplicity | But more, for that in low simplicitie |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.28 | You are a very simplicity 'oman. I pray you peace. | You are a very simplicity o'man: I pray you peace. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.171 | By the simplicity of Venus' doves, | By the simplicitie of Venus Doues, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.104 | Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity | Loue therefore, and tongue-tide simplicity, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.167 | I am as true as truth's simplicity, | I am as true, as truths simplicitie, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.103 | I with great truth catch mere simplicity; | I, with great truth, catch meere simplicitie; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.ii.48 | from whose simplicity I think it not uneasy to get the | from whose simplicity, I thinke it not vneasie to get the |