| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iii.1 | Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course, | Thus farre our fortune keepes an vpward course, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.36 | Upward of twenty years, and have been blessed | Vpward of twenty yeares, and haue bene blest |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.93.1 | Titinius' face is upward. | Titinius face is vpward. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.71 | one that goes upward, let him draw thee after. When a | one that goes vpward, let him draw thee after: when a |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.61 | Four score and upward, not an hour more nor less, | Fourescore and vpward, / Not an houre more, nor lesse: |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.134 | And, from th' extremest upward of thy head | And from th'extremest vpward of thy head, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.278 | O, vile! Then, as she goes, what upward lies | O vile, then as she goes what vpward lyes? |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.24 | Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward | Things at the worst will cease, or else climbe vpward, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.52 | I have lived fourscore years and upward. I | I haue liued foure-score yeeres, and vpward: I |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.34 | upward, no doublet. Unless he have a fancy to this | vnlesse hee haue a fancy to this |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.191 | Teem with new monsters, whom thy upward face | Teeme with new Monsters, whom thy vpward face |