| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.20 | The country base than to commit such slaughter, | The Country base, then to commit such slaughter, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.78 | Once touch my shoulder. Great the slaughter is | Once touch my shoulder. Great the slaughter is |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.72 | That their good souls may be appeased with slaughter | That their good soules may be appeas'd, with slaughter |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.446 | when he speaks of Priam's slaughter. If it live in your | where he speaks of Priams slaughter. If it liue in your |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.170 | Wherein you would have sold your King to slaughter, | Wherein you would haue sold your King to slaughter, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.7 | slaughter. Besides, they have burnt and carried away | slaughter: besides they haue burned and carried away |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.59 | Of loss, of slaughter, and discomfiture: | Of losse, of slaughter, and discomfiture: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.103 | After the slaughter of so many peers, | After the slaughter of so many Peeres, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.190 | But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter? | But will suspect, 'twas he that made the slaughter? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.197 | I wear no knife to slaughter sleeping men; | I weare no Knife, to slaughter sleeping men, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.105 | How will my wife for slaughter of my son | How will my Wife, for slaughter of my Sonne, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.ii.24 | And seize himself; I say not ‘ slaughter him ’, | And seize himselfe: I say not, slaughter him, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.59 | Ay, and for much more slaughter after this. | I, and for much more slaughter after this, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.55 | Have added slaughter to the sword of traitors. | Haue added slaughter to the Sword of Traitors. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.51 | Slaughter and mischief walk within your streets, | Slaughter and mischiefe walke within your streets. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.117 | And all our prospect as a slaughter-house. | And all our prospect as a slaughter house, |
| King John | KJ II.i.323 | Dyed in the dying slaughter of their foes. | Dide in the dying slaughter of their foes, |
| King John | KJ II.i.349 | With slaughter coupled to the name of kings. | With slaughter coupled to the name of kings. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.316 | Should sure to the slaughter, | Should sure to the Slaughter, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.226 | Fell slaughter on their souls. Heaven rest them now! | Fell slaughter on their soules: Heauen rest them now. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.134 | Governed a wolf who, hanged for human slaughter, | Gouern'd a Wolfe, who hang'd for humane slaughter, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.40 | Might stand peerless by this slaughter. | Might stand peerlesse by this slaughter. |
| Pericles | Per IV.iii.2 | O Dionyza, such a piece of slaughter | O Dioniza, such a peece of slaughter, |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.37 | On whom foul death hath made this slaughter. | On whom fowle death hath made this slaughter. |
| Richard II | R2 V.vi.35 | A deed of slander with thy fatal hand | A deede of Slaughter, with thy fatall hand, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.88 | Which didst unworthy slaughter upon others. | That did'st vnworthy slaughter vpon others. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.228 | Provoke us hither now to slaughter thee. | Prouoke vs hither now, to slaughter thee. |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.124 | Have done a drunken slaughter and defaced | Haue done a drunken Slaughter, and defac'd |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.142 | The slaughter of the prince that owed that crown | The slaughter of the Prince that ow'd that Crowne, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.201 | For thee to slaughter. For my daughters, Richard, | For thee to slaughter. For my Daughters ( Richard) |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.210 | So she may live unscarred of bleeding slaughter, | So she may liue vnscarr'd of bleeding slaughter, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.12 | Hath nothing been but shapes and forms of slaughter. | Hath nothing beene but shapes, and formes of slaughter. |