| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.44 | Did he not moralize this spectacle? | Did he not moralize this spectacle? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.41 | To be a public spectacle to all. | To be a publique spectacle to all: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.146 | O, barbarous and bloody spectacle! | O barbarous and bloudy spectacle, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.67 | The saddest spectacle that e'er I viewed. | The saddest spectacle that ere I view'd. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.73 | O, piteous spectacle! O, bloody times! | O pitteous spectacle! O bloody Times! |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.223 | Or else were this a savage spectacle. | Or else were this a sauage Spectacle: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.199 | O piteous spectacle! | O pitteous spectacle! |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.56 | Exampled by this heinous spectacle. | Exampled by this heynous spectacle. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.26 | The direful spectacle of the wrack, which touched | The direfull spectacle of the wracke which touch'd |