| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.34.1 | There's honour in the theft. | There's honour in the theft. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.60 | If 'a be in debt and theft, and a sergeant in the way, |
If I be in debt and theft, and a Serieant in the way, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.22 | Worse than a theft, no less than a traducement, | worse then a Theft, / No lesse then a Traducement, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.342 | Whom for the theft I wedded – stole these children | (Whom for the Theft I wedded) stole these Children |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.99 | And 'scape detecting, I will pay the theft. | And scape detecting, I will pay the Theft. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.58 | I think, to steal cream indeed, for thy theft | I thinke to steale Creame indeed, for thy theft |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.48 | And useth it to patronage his theft. | And vseth it, to patronage his Theft. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.79 | Yet seeks elsewhere: and basest theft is that | Yet seekes elsewhere and basest theft is that, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.44 | Yields to the theft. Had he been where he thought, | Yeelds to the Theft. Had he bin where he thought, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.312 | When the suspicious head of theft is stopped. | When the suspicious head of theft is stopt. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.142 | But shift away. There's warrant in that theft | But shift away: there's warrant in that Theft, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.429 | In holier shapes. For there is boundless theft | In holier shapes: For there is boundlesse Theft |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.446 | Has unchecked theft. Love not yourselves. Away. | Ha's vncheck'd Theft. Loue not your selues, away, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.93 | Richer than sea and land? O, theft most base, | Richer then Sea and Land? O Theft most base! |