| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ii.21 | Scant not my cups, and make as much of me | Scant not my Cups, and make as much of me, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.281.2 | He's fat and scant of breath. | He's fat, and scant of breath. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.159 | Such as, but scant them of their chines of beef, | Such as but scant them of their chines of beefe, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.135.1 | Than she to scant her duty. | Then she to scant her dutie. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.170 | To bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes, | To bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.112 | In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess, | In measure raine thy ioy, scant this excesse, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.141 | Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy. | Therefore I scant this breathing curtesie. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.264 | I will your serious and great business scant | I will your serious and great businesse scant |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.90 | Or scant our former having in despite – | Or scant our former hauing in despight) |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.98 | And she shall scant show well that now seems best. | And she shew scant shell, well, that now shewes best. |