| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.14 | make me merry. I was as virtuously given as a gentleman | make me merry; I was as vertuously giuen, as a Gentle-man |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.7 | They that mean virtuously and yet do so, | They that meane vertuously, and yet do so, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.229 | We are so virtuously bound – | We are so vertuously bound. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.117 | Not virtuously of his own part beheld, | Not vertuously of his owne part beheld, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iii.38 | Which since I know they virtuously are placed, | Which, since I know they vertuously are plac'd, |