| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.18 | O, unbid spite! Is sportful Edward come? | Oh vnbid spight, is sportfull Edward come? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.255 | And then let Kate be chaste and Dian sportful. | And then let Kate be chaste, and Dian sportfull. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.335 | If not Achilles? Though't be a sportful combat, | If not Achilles; though't be a sportfull Combate, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.363 | How with a sportful malice it was followed | How with a sportfull malice it was follow'd, |