| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.57 | O braggart vile, and damned furious wight! | O Braggard vile, and damned furious wight, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.175 | Armado is a most illustrious wight, | Armado is a most illustrious wight, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.19 | O base Hungarian wight! Wilt thou the spigot wield? | O base hungarian wight: wilt yu the spigot wield. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.34 | I ken the wight. He is of substance good. | I ken the wight: he is of substance good. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.155 | She was a wight, if ever such wight were – | She was a wight, (if euer such wightes were) |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.88 | He was a wight of high renown, | He was a wight of high Renowne, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.I.39 | So for her many a wight did die, | So for her many of wight did die, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.34 | Till the disaster that one mortal night | Till the disaster that one mortall wight |