| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.53 | Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, | Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.34 | We should by this, to all our lamentation, | We should by this, to all our Lamention, |
| Henry V | H5 V.chorus.36 | As yet the lamentation of the French | As yet the lamentation of the French |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.804 | Raining the tears of lamentation | Raining the teares of lamentation, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.230 | on her own lamentation, which she yet wears for his sake, | on her owne lamentation, which she yet weares for his sake: |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.23.3 | whereat Pericles makes lamentation, puts on sackcloth, | whereat Pericles makes lamentation, puts on sacke-cloth, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.66 | Give me no help in lamentation; | Giue me no helpe in Lamentation, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.88 | And I will pamper it with lamentation. | And I will pamper it with Lamentation. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.14 | And hear your mother's lamentation! | And heare your mothers Lamentation. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.120 | Which modern lamentation might have moved? | Which moderne lamentation might haue mou'd. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.154 | Than thou wentest forth in lamentation. | Then thou went'st forth in lamentation. |