| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.138 | Seeming to bear it lightly. Take me up. | Seeming to beare it lightly. Take me vp, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.5 | And will not lightly trust the messenger | And will not lightly trust the Messenger, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.29 | Believe't not lightly – though I go alone, | Beleeu't not lightly, though I go alone |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.89 | Hath, for a few light crowns, lightly conspired, | Hath for a few light Crownes, lightly conspir'd |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.54 | Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro | Was euer Feather so lightly blowne too & fro, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.146 | they are but lightly rewarded. | they are but lightly rewarded. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.45 | By holy Paul, they love his grace but lightly | By holy Paul, they loue his Grace but lightly, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.94 | (aside) Short summers lightly have a forward spring. | Short Summers lightly haue a forward Spring. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.121 | I weigh it lightly, were it heavier. | I weigh it lightly, were it heauier. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.3 | My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne, | My bosomes L. sits lightly in his throne: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.289 | I beg this boon, with tears not lightly shed, | I beg this boone, with teares, not lightly shed, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.142 | O, could their master come and go as lightly, | Oh, could their Master come, and goe as lightly, |