| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.42 | Contagious blastments are most imminent. | Contagious blastments are most imminent. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.196 | Who doth permit the base contagious clouds | Who doth permit the base contagious cloudes |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.34 | Is in base durance and contagious prison, | is in base Durance, and contagious prison: |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.31 | O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds | O're-blowes the filthy and contagious Clouds |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.21 | God for it! – a most contagious treason come to light, | God for it, a most contagious Treason come to light, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.7 | Breathe foul contagious darkness in the air. | Breath foule contagious darknesse in the ayre: |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.26 | To one man's honour, this contagious sickness, | To one mans Honour, this contagious sicknesse; |
| King John | KJ V.iv.33 | But even this night, whose black contagious breath | But euen this night, whose blacke contagious breath |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.90 | Contagious fogs which, falling in the land, | Contagious fogges: Which falling in the Land, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.52 | A contagious breath. | A contagious breath. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.53 | Very sweet and contagious, i'faith. | Very sweet, and contagious ifaith. |