| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.133 | If thereon you rely. I'll take my leave. | If thereon you relye. Ile take my leaue. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.165 | And be not from his reason fallen thereon, | And be not from his reason falne thereon; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.116 | Thereon I pawn my credit and mine honour. | Thereon I pawne my Credit, and mine Honor. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.293 | And abstinence engenders maladies. | And abstinence ingenders maladies. / And where that you haue vow'd to studie (Lords) / In that each of you haue forsworne his Booke. / Can you still dreame and pore, and thereon looke. / For when would you my Lord, or you, or you, / Haue found the ground of studies excellence, / Without the beauty of a womans face; / From womens eyes this doctrine I deriue, / They are the Ground, the Bookes, the Achadems, / From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire. / Why, vniuersall plodding poysons vp / The nimble spirits in the arteries, / As motion and long during action tyres / The sinnowy vigour of the trauailer. / Now for not looking on a womans face, / You haue in that forsworne the vse of eyes: / And studie too, the causer of your vow. / For where is any Author in the world, / Teaches such beauty as a womans eye: / Learning is but an adiunct to our selfe, / And where we are, our Learning likewise is. / Then when our selues we see in Ladies eyes, / With our selues. / Doe we not likewise see our learning there? |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.403 | Thereon dependent, for your brother's life, | Thereon dependant for your Brothers life, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.272 | A pair of bleeding hearts; thereon engrave | A paire of bleeding hearts: thereon ingraue |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.445 | Than one condemned by the King's own mouth, thereon | Then one condemnd by the Kings owne mouth: / Thereon |