| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.1 | My desolation does begin to make | My desolation does begin to make |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.366 | desolation. But you are no such man: you are rather | desolation: but you are no such man; you are rather |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.206 | one mind good: O, there were desolation of gaolers | one minde good: O there were desolation of Gaolers |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.173 | And his whole kingdom into desolation. | And his whole Kingdome into desolation: |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.18 | Enlinked to waste and desolation? | Enlynckt to wast and desolation? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.364 | And where thou art not, desolation. | And where thou art not, Desolation. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.68 | To leave a desolation where they come. | To leaue a desolation where they come, |
| King John | KJ II.i.386 | Even till unfenced desolation | Euen till vnfenced desolation |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.153 | Well, if ever I do see the merry days of desolation | Well, if euer I do see the merry dayes of desolation |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.357 | O, you have lived in desolation here, | O you haue liu'd in desolation heere, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.89 | And seen the desolation of your streets; | And seene the desolation of your streets, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.409 | Death, desolation, ruin, and decay. | Death, Desolation, Ruine, and Decay: |