| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.8 | The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper, | The Buckles on his brest, reneages all temper, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.90 | You keep a constant temper. | You keepe a constant temper. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.4 | But not every man patient after the noble temper | But not euery man patient after the noble temper |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.250 | To temper poisons for her, still pretending | To temper poysons for her, still pretending |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.164 | He holds your temper in a high respect | He holds your temper in a high respect, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.93 | A sword whose temper I intend to stain | a Sword, / Whose worthy temper I intend to staine |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.79 | man of good temper would endure this tempest of | man of good temper would endure this tempest of |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.36 | His temper therefore must be well observed. | His temper therefore must be well obseru'd: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.15 | O that the living Harry had the temper | O, that the liuing Harrie had the temper |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.146 | temper, Kate, whose face is not worth sunburning, that | temper, Kate, whose face is not worth Sunne-burning? that |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.13 | Between two blades, which bears the better temper; | Between two Blades, which beares the better temper, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.311 | And temper clay with blood of Englishmen; | And temper Clay with blood of Englishmen. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.70 | Sword, hold thy temper; heart, be wrathful still; | Sword, hold thy temper; Heart, be wrathfull still: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.29 | For few men rightly temper with the stars. | For few men rightly temper with the Starres: |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.11.2 | Hearts of most hard temper | Hearts of most hard temper |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.165 | I know you have a gentle, noble temper, | I know you haue a Gentle, Noble temper, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.129 | A man of such a feeble temper should | A man of such a feeble temper should |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.175 | Of brothers' temper, do receive you in | Of Brothers temper, do receiue you in, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.405 | The king's great name will temper thy misdeeds, | The kings great name will temper their misdeeds, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.222 | We temper it with Audley's gravity, | We temper it with Audlys grauitie, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.47 | By the soft temper of a Frenchman's sword. | By the soft temper of a French mans sword: |
| King John | KJ V.ii.40 | A noble temper dost thou show in this, | A noble temper dost thou shew in this, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.301 | To temper clay. Yea, is't come to this? | To temper Clay. Ha? |
| King Lear | KL I.v.44 | Keep me in temper; I would not be mad! | keepe me in temper, I would not be mad. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.51 | And to that dauntless temper of his mind | And to that dauntlesse temper of his Minde, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.185 | Once stir my temper; but this virtuous maid | Once stir my temper: but this vertuous Maid |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.18 | blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree, such a | blood, but a hot temper leapes ore a colde decree, such a |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.19 | The poison of that lies in you to temper. Go | The poyson of that lies in you to temper, goe |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.251 | It is a sword of Spain, the ice-brook's temper. | It was a Sword of Spaine, the Ice brookes temper: |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.29 | To stain the temper of my knightly sword. | To staine the temper of my Knightly sword. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.115 | And in my temper softened valour's steel! | And in my temper softned Valours steele. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.97 | To bear a poison, I would temper it – | To beare a poyson, I would temper it; |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.72 | His comfortable temper has forsook him. He's | His comfortable temper has forsooke him, he's |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.109 | And temper him with all the art I have | And temper him with all the Art I haue, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.198 | And with this hateful liquor temper it, | And with this hatefull Liquor temper it, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.64 | Where you may temper her, by your persuasion, | Where you may temper her, by your perswasion, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.66 | If any day it rain; their valiant temper | If any day it rayne: Their valiant temper |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.28 | As if he had lost his mother; a still temper, | As if he had lost his mother; a still temper, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.103 | He shows no such soft temper. His head's yellow, | He shewes no such soft temper, his head's yellow, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.464 | You know your father's temper. At this time | You know my Fathers temper: at this time |