| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.125 | You are a merciful general. Our General | You are a mercifull Generall: Our Generall |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.47 | O, let us yet be merciful. | O let vs yet be mercifull. |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.22 | Be merciful, great Duke, to men of mould! | Be mercifull great Duke to men of Mould: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.117 | The King is merciful, if you revolt. | The King is mercifull, if you reuolt. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.61 | You are so merciful. I see your end: | You are so mercifull. I see your end, |
| Henry VIII | H8 epilogue.10 | The merciful construction of good women, | The mercifull construction of good women, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.7 | And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers, | And yet I would not sleepe: Mercifull Powers, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.207.2 | Merciful heaven! | Mercifull Heauen: |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.114 | Nothing but thunder. Merciful heaven, | Nothing but thunder: Mercifull heauen, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.182 | Your honour is accounted a merciful man, good my | your Honor is accounted a mercifull man: good my |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.179.2 | Then must the Jew be merciful. | Then must the Iew be mercifull. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.230 | Nearest the merchant's heart. Be merciful, | Neerest the Merchants heart; be mercifull, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.59 | You have been always called a merciful man, | You haue bin alwaies cal'd a merciful mã |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.88 | I, that am cruel, am yet merciful: | I that am cruell, am yet mercifull, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.12 | Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say ‘ death.’ | Ha, banishment? be mercifull, say death: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.72 | O, I am slain! If thou be merciful, | O I am slaine, if thon be mercifull, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.178 | Though the seas threaten, they are merciful. | Though the Seas threaten they are mercifull, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.121 | Draw near them then in being merciful; | Draw neere them then in being mercifull. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.184 | Had been more merciful. Come on, poor babe, | Had beene more mercifull. Come on (poore Babe) |