| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.72 | To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little | The taste of Sweetnesse, whereof a little |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.127 | The sweetness of affiance! Show men dutiful? | The sweetnesse of affiance? Shew men dutifull, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.180 | The man that starves the sweetness of a feast, | The man that starues the sweetnes of a feast, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.182 | That followed me so near – O, our life's sweetness, | That follow'd me so neere, (O our liues sweetnesse, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.45 | Their saucy sweetness that do coin God's image | Their sawcie sweetnes, that do coyne heauens Image |
| Pericles | Per V.i.195 | And drown me with their sweetness. O, come hither, | and drowne me with their sweetnesse: Oh come hither, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.22 | Too subtle-potent, tuned too sharp in sweetness, | Too subtile, potent, and too sharpe in sweetnesse, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.178 | Her twinning cherries shall their sweetness fall | Her twyning Cherries shall their sweetnes fall |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.11 | Upon the sweetness of a noble beauty | Vpon the sweetenes of a noble beauty, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.13 | Of what a fiery sparkle and quick sweetness, | Of what a fyry sparkle, and quick sweetnes, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.53 | That having two fair gauds of equal sweetness, | That having two faire gawdes of equall sweetnesse, |