| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.11 | My music playing far off, I will betray | My Musicke playing farre off. I will betray |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.94 | 'Tis better playing with a lion's whelp | 'Tis better playing with a Lions whelpe, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.20 | o'erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, | ouer-done, is frõ the purpose of Playing, whose end |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.98 | If 'a steal aught the whilst this play is playing, | If he steale ought the whil'st this Play is Playing, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.202 | If all the year were playing holidays, | If all the yeare were playing holidaies, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.87.2 | meets him, playing upon his truncheon like a fife | meets him, playing on his Trunchion like a Fife. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.172 | Playing the mouse in absence of the cat, | Playing the Mouse in absence of the Cat, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iii.28.4 | The drum playing and trumpet sounding, enter | The Drumme playing, and Trumpet sounding. Enter |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.102 | Playing in the wanton air. | Playing in the wanton ayre: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.264 | shin th' other day with playing at sword and dagger with | shin th'other day, with playing at Sword and Dagger with |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.10 | 'Tis a playing day, I see. How now, Sir Hugh, no school | 'tis a playing day I see: how now Sir Hugh, no Schoole |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.67 | Playing on pipes of corn, and versing love | Playing on pipes of Corne, and versing loue |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.ii.21 | playing Pyramus, I'll be hanged. He would have deserved | playing Piramus, Ile be hang'd. He would haue deserued |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.24 | By playing it to me with so sour a face. | By playing it to me, with so sower a face. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.375.1 | Enter Ferdinand; and Ariel, invisible, playing and | Enter Ferdinand & Ariel, inuisible playing & |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.188.1 | Enter Ariel, playing solemn music | Enter Ariell playing solemne Musicke. |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.172.2 | playing at chess | playing at Chesse. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.1.1 | Hautboys playing loud music. A great banquet served | Hoboyes Playing lowd Musicke. A great Banquet seru'd |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.129.3 | playing | playing. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.1.1 | Enter at different entrances Viola, and Feste playing | Enter Viola and Clowne. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.31 | Playing one business in his hand, another | Playing ore busines in his hand, another |