| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.52 | To a most hideous object. Thence it came | To a most hideous obiect. Thence it came, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.54 | Making night hideous, and we fools of nature | Making Night hidious? And we fooles of Nature, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.474 | Stoops to his base, and with a hideous crash | Stoopes to his Bace, and with a hideous crash |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.35 | To look upon the hideous god of war | To looke vpon the hideous God of Warre, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.46 | Dogs howled, and hideous tempests shook down trees; | Dogs howl'd, and hiddeous Tempest shook down Trees: |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.90 | After the hideous storm that followed, was | After the hideous storme that follow'd, was |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.65 | Like a phantasma or a hideous dream: | Like a Phantasma, or a hideous Dreame: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.159 | And, if it had, the hideous noise was such | And if it had, the hideous noise was such, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.266 | Presented thee more hideous than thou art. | Presented thee more hideous then thou art. |
| King John | KJ V.iv.22 | Have I not hideous death within my view, | Haue I not hideous death within my view, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.151 | This hideous rashness. Answer my life my judgement, | This hideous rashnesse, answere my life, my iudgement: |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.257 | More hideous when thou showest thee in a child | More hideous when thou shew'st thee in a Child, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.79 | That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley | That such a hideous Trumpet calls to parley |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.63 | Which have for long run by the hideous law, | Which haue, for long, run-by the hideous law, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.32 | In a most hideous and dreadful manner. | In a most hideous and dreadfull manner. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.107 | Too hideous to be shown. Thou dost mean something. | Too hideous to be shewne. Thou dost mean somthing: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.60 | Such hideous cries that with the very noise | Such hiddeous cries, that with the very Noise, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.50 | Environed with all these hideous fears, | Inuironed with all these hidious feares, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.199 | Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver, | Sure you haue some hiddeous matter to deliuer, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.190 | – into a most hideous opinion of his rage, skill, fury, and | into a most hideous opinion of his rage, skill, furie, and |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.30 | me here in hideous darkness – | mee heere in hideous darknesse. |