| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.95 | And gives his potent regiment to a trull | And giues his potent Regiment to a Trull |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.166 | A land itself at large, a potent dukedom. | A land it selfe at large, a potent Dukedome. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.84 | and potent injuries. | and potent iniuries: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.600 | As he is very potent with such spirits, | As he is very potent with such Spirits, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.347 | The potent poison quite o'ercrows my spirit. | The potent poyson quite ore-crowes my spirit, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.11 | No man so potent breathes upon the ground | No man so potent breathes vpon the ground, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.76 | Induced by potent circumstances, that | (Induc'd by potent Circumstances) that |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.75 | More potent than the first. | More potent then the first. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.87 | Potent at court. He, none but he, shall have her, | Potent at Court: he, none but he shall haue her, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.76 | Most potent, grave and reverend signors, | Most Potent, Graue, and Reueren'd Signiors, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.72 | potent in potting. Your Dane, your German, and your | potent in Potting. Your Dane, your Germaine, and your |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.61 | O you most potent gods, what's here? A corse? | Oh you most potent Gods! what's here, a Corse? |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.275 | By help of her more potent ministers, | By helpe of her more potent Ministers, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.34 | What would my potent master? Here I am. | What would my potent master? here I am. |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.50 | By my so potent art. But this rough magic | By my so potent Art. But this rough Magicke |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.22 | Your potent and infectious fevers heap | Your potent and infectious Feauors, heape |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.22 | Too subtle-potent, tuned too sharp in sweetness, | Too subtile, potent, and too sharpe in sweetnesse, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.192 | The reasons are more potent and heroical. | The reasons are more potent and heroycall: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.200 | But such a headstrong, potent fault it is, | But such a head-strong potent fault it is, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.51 | As potent as a lord's. Will you go yet? | As potent as a Lords. Will you goe yet? |