| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iii.28.4 | The drum playing and trumpet sounding, enter | The Drumme playing, and Trumpet sounding. Enter |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.1.1 | Enter trumpets, sounding; then two Aldermen, Lord | Enter Trumpets sounding: Then two Aldermen, L. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.160 | As cheerful sounding to my youthful spleen | As cheereful sounding to my youthfull spleene, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.150 | To whom he sung, in rude harsh-sounding rhymes, | To whom he sung in rude harsh sounding rimes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.150 | So far from sounding and discovery, | So farre from sounding and discouery, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.139 | have no gold for sounding. | haue no gold for sounding: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.26.1 | Trumpets sounding. A table brought in. They sit. Enter | Hoboyes. A Table brought in. Enter |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.21 | Swooning destruction, or some joy too fine, | Sounding distruction, or some ioy too fine, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.108 | With sounding ‘ Troilus.’ I will not go from Troy. | With sounding Troylus. I will not goe from Troy. |