| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.65 | Under thy own life's key. Be checked for silence, | Vnder thy owne lifes key. Be checkt for silence, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.104 | Give her this key, and tell her in the desk | Giue her this key, and tell her in the Deske |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.311 | Knows not my feeble key of untuned cares? | Knowes not my feeble key of vntun'd cares? |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.7 | By th' sure physician, Death; who is the key | By'th'sure Physitian, Death; who is the key |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.86 | And you yourself shall keep the key of it. | And you your selfe shall keepe the key of it. |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.96 | Thou that didst bear the key of all my counsels, | Thou that didst beare the key of all my counsailes, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.167 | There's my key. If you do stir abroad, go armed. | there's my key: if you do stirre abroad, goe arm'd. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.51 | Ne'er turns the key to the poor. | nere turns the key to th'poore. |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.63 | Thou shouldst have said, ‘ Good porter, turn the key; | Thou should'st haue said, good Porter turne the Key: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.4 | Sweet air! Go, tenderness of years, take this key, | Sweete Ayer, go tendernesse of yeares: take this Key, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.2 | hell-gate, he should have old turning the key. | Hell Gate, hee should haue old turning the Key. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.18 | That had he Duncan's sons under his key – | That had he Duncans Sonnes vnder his Key, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.8 | Turn you the key, and know his business of him. | Turne you the key, and know his businesse of him; |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.30 | That makes his opening with this bigger key. | That makes his opening with this bigger Key: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.120 | Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, | Shall I bend low, and in a bond-mans key |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.59 | Lies all within. Deliver me the key. | Lies all within. Deliuer me the key: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.51 | I will assume desert. Give me a key for this, | I will assume desert; giue me a key for this, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.261 | her as the key of the cuckoldy rogue's coffer – and | her as the key of the Cuckoldly-rogues Coffer, & |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.18 | But I will wed thee in another key: | But I will wed thee in another key, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.206 | Both warbling of one song, both in one key, | Both warbling of one song, both in one key; |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.173 | carpenter? Come, in what key shall a man take you to go | Carpenter: Come, in what key shall a man take you to goe |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.295 | Deformed; they say he wears a key in his ear and a lock | Deformed, they say he weares a key in his eare and a lock |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.21 | A closet lock and key of villainous secrets; | A Closset Locke and Key of Villanous Secrets, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.93 | I pray you turn the key, and keep our counsel. | I pray you turne the key, and keepe our counsaile. |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.35 | Then give me leave that I may turn the key | Then giue me leaue, that I may turne the key, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.83 | Or else new formed 'em; having both the key | Or els new form'd 'em; hauing both the key, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.53 | And with an accent tuned in selfsame key | And with an accent tun'd in selfe-same key, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.36 | The key whereof myself have ever kept; | The key whereof, my selfe haue euer kept: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.94 | Speak't in a woman's key, like such a woman | Speak't in a womans key: like such a woman |