| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.73 | Now, Dian, from thy altar do I fly, | Now Dian from thy Altar do I fly, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.116 | The mailed Mars shall on his altar sit | The mayled Mars shall on his Altar sit |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.45 | Let's to the altar. Heralds, wait on us. | Let's to the Altar: Heralds wayt on vs; |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.83 | Came to the altar, where she kneeled, and saint-like | Came to the Altar, where she kneel'd, and Saint-like |
| King John | KJ V.iv.18 | Upon the altar at Saint Edmundsbury; | Vpon the Altar at S. Edmondsbury, |
| King John | KJ V.iv.19 | Even on that altar where we swore to you | Euen on that Altar, where we swore to you |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.193 | o'er the altar. It hath done meritorious service. | ore the Altar, it hath done meritorious seruice. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.89 | Or on Diana's altar to protest | Or on Dianaes Altar to protest |
| Pericles | Per V.i.240 | And do upon mine altar sacrifice. | and doe vppon mine Altar sacrifice, |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.17 | If you have told Diana's altar true, | if you haue tolde Dianaes Altar true, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iii.8 | Think it an altar, and thy brother Troilus | Thinke it an Altar, and thy brother Troylus |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.73 | Say that upon the altar of her beauty | Say that vpon the altar of her beauty |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.62 | By Mars's altar, you were that time fair; | By Marsis Altar, you were that time faire; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.20 | To Mars's so scorned altar? I do bleed | To Marsis so scornd Altar? I doe bleede |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.61 | Be made the altar where the lives of lovers – | Be made the Altar, where the lives of Lovers, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.49.1 | They prostrate themselves, then kneel before the altar | They kneele. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.62.4 | the altar | the Altar. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.77.2 | to the altar of Venus | |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.137.6 | being set upon the altar of Diana, her maids standing | being set upon the Altar her maides standing |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.143 | Am humbled 'fore thine altar. O, vouchsafe | Am humbled fore thine Altar, O vouchsafe |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.163.1 | Here the hind vanishes under the altar, and in the | Here the Hynde vanishes under the Altar: and in the |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.164 | Out from the bowels of her holy altar | Out from the bowells of her holy Altar |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.105 | The powerful Venus well hath graced her altar, | The powerfull Venus, well hath grac'd her Altar, |