| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iv.31 | Go to, thou art a witty fool: I have found thee. | Go too, thou art a wittie foole, I haue found thee. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.110 | Pretty and witty; wild, and yet, too, gentle. | Prettie and wittie; wilde, and yet too gentle; |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.9 | invent, or is invented on me; I am not only witty in | inuent, or is inuented on me. I am not onely witty in |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.43 | Witty, courteous, liberal, full of spirit. | Wittie, courteous, liberall, full of spirit. |
| Henry VIII | H8 epilogue.6 | Abused extremely, and to cry ‘ That's witty!’ – | Abus'd extreamly, and to cry that's witty, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.4 | without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious | without scurrillity, witty without affection, audacious |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.25 | A marvellous witty fellow, I assure you; but | A maruellous witty fellow I assure you, but |
| Othello | Oth II.i.130 | Well praised! How if she be black and witty? | Well prais'd: How if she be Blacke and Witty? |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.42 | The deep-revolving witty Buckingham | The deepe reuoluing wittie Buckingham, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.258 | A witty mother, witless else her son. | A witty mother, witlesse else her sonne. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.29 | But were our witty Empress well afoot, | But were our witty Empresse well afoot, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.29 | straight. You must be witty now. She does so blush, | straight; you must be witty now, she does so blush, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.25 | Sir Toby would leave drinking, thou wert as witty a | sir Toby would leaue drinking, thou wert as witty a |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.32 | man. For what says Quinapalus? ‘ Better a witty fool | man. For what saies Quinapalus, Better a witty foole, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.41 | brief. It is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and | briefe: it is no matter how wittie, so it bee eloquent, and |