| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.22 | I'll never trouble you if I may spy them. | Ile neuer trouble you, if I may spye them. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.240 | And, when I spy advantage, claim the crown, | And when I spy aduantage, claime the Crowne, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iii.4 | I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud, | I spy a black suspicious threatning Cloud, |
| King Lear | KL I.v.23 | what a man cannot smell out he may spy into. | what a man cannot smell out, he may spy into. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.242 | For now I spy a danger, I entreat you | (For now I spie a danger) I entreate you |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.129 | Acquaint you with the perfect spy o'the time, | Acquaint you with the perfect Spy o'th' time, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.39 | I spy comfort, I cry bail. Here's a gentleman and | I spy comfort, I cry baile: Here's a Gentleman, and |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.40 | Ford's wife. I spy entertainment in her. She discourses, | Fords wife: I spie entertainment in her: shee discourses: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.182 | I like not when a 'oman has a great peard. I spy a great | I like not when a o'man has a great peard; I spie a great |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.19 | And forth my mimic comes. When they him spy – | And forth my Mimmick comes: when they him spie, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.182 | Thisbe's cue. She is to enter now, and I am to spy her | Thisbies cue; she is to enter, and I am to spy / Her |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.190 | To spy an I can hear my Thisbe's face. | To spy and I can heare my Thisbies face. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.237 | Beatrice. By this day, she's a fair lady! I do spy some | Beatrice: by this day, shee's a faire Lady, I doe spie some |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.146 | To spy into abuses, and of my jealousy | To spy into Abuses, and of my iealousie |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.271 | I spy life peering; but I dare not say | I spie life peering: but I dare not say |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.26 | Unless to spy my shadow in the sun | Vnlesse to see my Shadow in the Sunne, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.267 | My friend, I spy some pity in thy looks. | My Friend, I spy some pitty in thy lookes: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.21 | would spy out such a quarrel? Thy head is as full of | would spie out such a quarrell? thy head is as full of |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.68 | Hold, daughter. I do spy a kind of hope, | Hold Daughter, I doe spie a kind of hope, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.456 | Upon this island as a spy, to win it | Vpon this Island, as a spy, to win it |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.50 | Lest they should spy my windpipe's dangerous notes. | least they should spie my wind-pipes dangerous noates, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.140 | And she takes upon her to spy a white hair on | And shee takes vpon her to spie a white haire on |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.90 | I spy. | I spie. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.91 | You spy? What do you spy? – Come, give me | You spie, what doe you spie: come, giue me |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.115 | What is in Silvia's face, but I may spy | What is in Siluia's face, but I may spie |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.133 | To spy advantages, and where he finds 'em, | To spy advantages, and where he finds 'em, |