| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.173 | And with what imitation you can borrow | (And with what imitation you can borrow |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.23 | Limps after in base imitation. | Limpes after in base imitation. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.150 | Which, slanderer, he imitation calls – | (Which Slanderer, he imitation call's) |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.185 | And in the imitation of these twain, | And in the imitation of these twaine, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.81.1 | I did by imitation. | I did by imitation. |