| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.60 | observing him, do bear themselves like foolish justices; | obseruing of him, do beare themselues like foolish Iustices: |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.112 | Stood here observing him. Some strange commotion | Stood heere obseruing him. Some strange Commotion |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.149 | Devour up my discourse, which I observing | Deuoure vp my discourse. Which I obseruing, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.58.6 | and there stand charmed; which Prospero observing, | and there stand charm'd: which Prospero obseruing, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.127 | And underwrite in an observing kind | And vnder write in an obseruing kinde |