| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iv.38 | A very serious business calls on him. | A verie serrious businesse call's on him: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.61 | Make trivial price of serious things we have, | Make triuiall price of serious things we haue, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.121 | Her length of sickness, with what else more serious | her length of sicknesse, / With what else more serious, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.29 | And make a common of my serious hours. | And make a Common of my serious howres, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.112 | cause to use thee with a serious industry, that is, | cause to vse thee with a serious industry, that is, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.231 | Which is so serious. Let us bury him, | Which is so serious. Let vs bury him, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.5 | Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing | Pitty me not, but lend thy serious hearing |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.47 | I'll hence to London on a serious matter. | Ile hence to London on a serious matter, |
| Henry VIII | H8 prologue.2 | That bear a weighty and a serious brow, | That beare a Weighty, and a Serious Brow, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.80 | He did it with a serious mind; a heed | He did it with a Serious minde: a heede |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.135.1 | His serious considering. | His serious considering. |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.137 | How now, brother Edmund! What serious | How now Brother Edmond, what serious |
| King Lear | KL IV.v.8 | Faith, he is posted hence on serious matter. | Faith he is poasted hence on serious matter: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.31 | On serious business craving quick dispatch, | On serious businesse crauing quicke dispatch, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.94 | head. And among other importunate and most serious | head: and among other importunate & most serious |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.90 | There's nothing serious in mortality. | There's nothing serious in Mortalitie: |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.264 | I will your serious and great business scant | I will your serious and great businesse scant |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.84 | more serious wooing. But I protest to thee, pretty one, | more serious wooing, but I protest to thee prettie one, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.78 | Our scene is altered from a serious thing, | Our Scene is alter'd from a serious thing, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.178 | O heavy lightness, serious vanity, | O heauie lightnesse, serious vanity, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.223 | I am more serious than my custom. You | I am more serious then my custome: you |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.215 | And so, intending other serious matters, | And so intending other serious matters, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.74 | For my most serious decking; had mine ear | For my most serious decking, had mine eare |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.246 | A servant grafted in my serious trust | A Seruant, grafted in my serious Trust, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.760 | for, if thou be'st capable of things serious, thou | for if thou bee'st capable of things serious, thou |