| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.43 | The praise of it by telling, you must know, | The praise of it by telling. You must know |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.31 | you say you have, I am one that, telling true under him, | you say you haue, I am one that telling true vnder him, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.88 | Is telling you that I am poor of thanks, | Is telling you that I am poore of thankes, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.56 | And telling me the sovereignest thing on earth | And telling me, the Soueraign'st thing on earth |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.10 | Wales yet I am the king of courtesy, and tell me flatly I | Wales, yet I am the King of Curtesie: telling me flatly I |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.55 | By telling truth. Tell truth, and shame the devil. | By telling truth. Tell truth, and shame the Deuill. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.143 | With telling me of the moldwarp and the ant, | With telling me of the Moldwarpe and the Ant, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.93 | in to borrow a mess of vinegar, telling us she had a good | in to borrow a messe of Vinegar: telling vs, she had a good |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.245 | with telling of discreet stories, and such other gambol | with telling of discreete stories: and such other Gamboll |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.52 | With Eleanor, for telling but her dream? | With Elianor, for telling but her dreame? |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.33 | tale in telling it, and deliver a plain message bluntly. | tale in telling it, and deliuer a plaine message bluntly: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.222 | telling true – but so. | telling true: but so. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.18 | Here, good my glass, take this for telling true; | Here (good my glasse) take this for telling true: |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.105 | Why, very well: I telling you then, if you be | Why, very well: I telling you then (if you be |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.51 | The wisest aunt telling the saddest tale | The wisest Aunt telling the saddest tale, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.408 | Telling the bushes that thou lookest for wars, | Telling the bushes that thou look'st for wars, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.138 | of thy tale into telling me of the fashion? | of thy tale into telling me of the fashion? |
| Othello | Oth II.i.217 | but for bragging and telling her fantastical lies. And | but for bragging, and telling her fantasticall lies. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.161 | Let your breath cool yourself, telling your haste. | Let your breath coole your selfe, telling your haste. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.100 | Gardener, for telling me these news of woe, | Gard'ner, for telling me this newes of woe, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.112 | What? Threat you me with telling of the King? | What? threat you me with telling of the King? |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.255 | Last longer telling than thy kindness' date. | Last longer telling then thy kindnesse date. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.131 | Come, come, you're mocking. We will have no telling. | Come, come, your mocking: we will haue no telling. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.100 | Who having into truth, by telling of it, | Who hauing into truth, by telling of it, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.268 | not have hit, I can watch you for telling how I took the | not haue hit, I can watch you for telling how I took the |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.52 | after a demure travel of regard – telling them I know my | after a demure trauaile of regard: telling them I knowe my |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.138 | prove as hard to you in telling your mind. Give her no | proue as hard to you in telling your minde. / Giue her no |