| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.84 | I have tonight dispatched sixteen businesses a | I haue to night dispatch'd sixteene businesses, a |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.85 | Be singly counterpoised. At sixteen years, | Be singly counter-poys'd. At sixteene yeeres, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.199 | Have skipped from sixteen years of age to sixty: | Haue skipt from sixteene yeares of Age, to sixty: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.538 | need study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, | need study a speech of some dosen or sixteene lines, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.170 | Sixteen at least, my lord. | Sixteene, at least, my Lord. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.87 | There are but sixteen hundred mercenaries; | There are but sixteene hundred Mercenaries: |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.82 | I have been begging sixteen years in court, | I haue beene begging sixteene yeares in Court |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.13 | Thy mistress is o'th' brothel. Son of sixteen, | Thy Mistris is o'th'Brothell. Some of sixteen, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.20 | Some sixteen months, and longer might have stayed, | Some sixteene moneths, and longer might haue staid, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.i.6 | O'er sixteen years, and leave the growth untried | Ore sixteene yeeres, and leaue the growth vntride |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.31 | Which lets go by some sixteen years and makes her | Which lets goe-by some sixteene yeeres, and makes her |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.50 | Which sixteen winters cannot blow away, | Which sixteene Winters cannot blow away, |