| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.136 | With an importing visage, and she told me, | With an importing visage, and she told me |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.23 | Importing the surrender of those lands | Importing the surrender of those Lands |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.80 | Importing health and graveness. Two months since, | Some two Monthes hence |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.21 | Importing Denmark's health, and England's too, | Importing Denmarks health, and Englands too, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.2 | Comets, importing change of times and states, | Comets importing change of Times and States, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.124 | Forsooth, an inventory, thus importing | Forsooth an Inuentory, thus importing |
| Othello | Oth II.ii.2 | General, that upon certain tidings now arrived importing | Generall. That vpon certaine tydings now arriu'd, importing |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.67 | No less importing than our general good, | No lesse importing then our generall good, |