| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.124 | Would not be purged, she sent you word she was dead; | Would not be purg'd, she sent you word she was dead: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.13 | Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid | Are burnt and purg'd away? But that I am forbid |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.136 | And but in purged judgement trusting neither? | And but in purged iudgement trusting neither, |
| King John | KJ II.i.372 | Be by some certain king purged and deposed. | Be by some certaine king, purg'd and depos'd. |
| King John | KJ III.i.239 | And shall these hands, so lately purged of blood, | And shall these hands so lately purg'd of bloud? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.811 | | Hence euer then, my heart is in thy brest. / Ber. And what to me my Loue? and what to me? / Ros. You must be purged too, your sins are rack'd. / You are attaint with faults and periurie: / Therefore if you my fauor meane to get, / A tweluemonth shall you spend, and neuer rest, / But seeke the wearie beds of people sicke. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.75 | Ere humane statute purged the gentle weal; | Ere humane Statute purg'd the gentle Weale: |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.9 | By heaven, my soul is purged from grudging hate, | By heauen, my soule is purg'd from grudging hate |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.191 | Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; | Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in Louers eyes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.107 | Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purged. | Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purg'd. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.21 | Methought she purged the air of pestilence. | Me thought she purg'd the ayre of pestilence; |