| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.51 | If their purgation did consist in words, | If their purgation did consist in words, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.43 | my purgation. I have trod a measure, I have flattered a | my purgation, I haue trod a measure, I haue flattred a |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.315 | purgation would perhaps plunge him into more choler. | Purgation, would perhaps plundge him into farre more Choller. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.152 | And fair purgation to the world than malice, | And faire purgation to the world then malice, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.124 | True, true, and now you will be my purgation | True, true, and now you will be my purgation, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.7 | Even to the guilt or the purgation. | Euen to the Guilt, or the Purgation: |