| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.88 | Let them pronounce the steep Tarpeian death, | Let them pronounce the steepe Tarpeian death, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.48 | Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven | Shew me the steepe and thorny way to Heauen; |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.128 | My lord, I'll steep this letter in sack and make | My Lord, I will steepe this Letter in Sack, and make |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.8 | And steep my senses in forgetfulness? | And steepe my Sences in Forgetfulnesse? |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.131 | What 'tis you go about. To climb steep hills | What 'tis you go about: to climbe steepe hilles |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.3.2 | Horrible steep. | Horrible steepe. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.7 | Four days will quickly steep themselves in night; | Foure daies wil quickly steep thẽselues in nights |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.61 | Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep; | Let fancie still my sense in Lethe steepe, |