| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.101 | To make a loathsome abject scorn of me. | To make a loathsome abiect scorne of me: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.33 | Came like itself, in base and abject routs, | Came like it selfe, in base and abiect Routs, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.49 | That he should be so abject, base, and poor | That he should be so abiect, base, and poore, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.11 | The abject people gazing on thy face | The abiect People, gazing on thy face, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.105 | Upon these paltry, servile, abject drudges. | Vpon these paltry, seruile, abiect Drudges: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.25 | I am so angry at these abject terms; | I am so angry at these abiect tearmes. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.127 | Me as his abject object. At this instant | Me as his abiect obiect, at this instant |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.22 | The fear-possessed abject soul to fly. | The feare possessed abiect soule to flie, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.92 | You use in abject and in slavish parts, | You vse in abiect and in slauish parts, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.31 | And banish hence these abject lowly dreams. | And banish hence these abiect lowlie dreames: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.128 | Most abject in regard, and dear in use! | Most abiect in regard, and deare in vse. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.162 | Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, | Lye there for pauement to the abiect, neere |