| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.95 | You touched my vein at first: the thorny point | You touch'd my veine at first, the thorny point |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.20 | I am glad to see you in this merry vein. | I am glad to see you in this merrie vaine, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.78 | It is no shame. The fellow finds his vein, | It is no shame, the fellow finds his vaine, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.380 | King Cambyses' vein. | King Cambyses vaine. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.95 | And now to Paris in this conquering vein! | And now to Paris in this conquering vaine, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.38 | The blood of malice in a vein of league, | The bloud of malice, in a vaine of league, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.72 | This is the liver vein, which makes flesh a deity, | This is the liuer veine, which makes flesh a deity. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.541 | Cannot pick out five such, take each one in his vein. | Cannot pricke out fiue such, take each one in's vaine. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.70.2 | Ay, touch him; there's the vein. | I, touch him: there's the veine. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.36 | This is Ercles' vein, a tyrant's vein. A lover is more | This is Ercles vaine, a tyrants vaine: a louer is more |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.82 | There is no following her in this fierce vein. | There is no following her in this fierce vaine, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.115 | I am not in the giving vein today. | |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.117 | Thou troublest me; I am not in the vein. | Thou troublest me, I am not in the vaine. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.198 | O, this is well; he rubs the vein of him. | O this is well, he rubs the veine of him. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.32 | I am today i'the vein of chivalry. | I am to day ith'vaine of Chiualrie: |