| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.42 | O'er the vast world to seek a single man, | O're the vast world, to seeke a single man, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.152 | Meet in one line; and vast confusion waits, | Meet in one line: and vast confusion waites |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.9 | One sees more devils than vast hell can hold. | One sees more diuels then vaste hell can hold; |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.139 | Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, | Wherein of Antars vast, and Desarts idle, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.60 | In that vast tennis-court, hath made the ball | In that vast Tennis-court, hath made the Ball |
| Pericles | Per III.i.1 | The god of this great vast rebuke these surges, | The God of this great Vast, rebuke these surges, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.39 | To find the empty, vast, and wandering air, | To find the empty, vast, and wand'ring ayre: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.83 | As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, | As that vast-shore-washet with the farthest Sea, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.327 | Shall for that vast of night that they may work | Shall for that vast of night, that they may worke |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.439 | Robs the vast sea. The moon's an arrant thief, | Robbes the vaste Sea. The Moones an arrant Theefe, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.78 | Taught thee to make vast Neptune weep for aye | Taught thee to make vast Neptune weepe for aye |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.53 | Forced in the ruthless, vast, and gloomy woods? | Forc'd in the ruthlesse, vast, and gloomy woods? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.36 | No vast obscurity or misty vale | No Vast obscurity, or Misty vale, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.51 | Comets prewarn, whose havoc in vast field | Comets prewarne, whose havocke in vaste Feild |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.i.29 | together, though absent; shook hands as over a vast; | together, though absent: shooke hands, as ouer a Vast; |