| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.187 | gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that | Gambals? Your Songs? Your flashes of Merriment that |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.294 | and turn all to a merriment, if you take not the heat. | and turne all to a merryment, if you take not the heat. |
| King John | KJ III.iii.46 | And strain their cheeks to idle merriment, | And straine their cheekes to idle merriment, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.139 | They do it but in mockery merriment, | They doe it but in mocking merriment, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.461 | Knowing aforehand of our merriment, | Knowing aforehand of our merriment, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.713 | But that thou interruptest our merriment. | but that thou interruptest our merriment. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.779 | In their own fashion, like a merriment. | In their owne fashion, like a merriment. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.116 | A merriment than a vice. | A merriment, then a vice. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.190 | That purpose merriment. But fare you well; | That purpose merriment: but far you well, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.146 | To set against me for your merriment. | To set against me, for your merriment: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.83 | Yet nature's tears are reason's merriment. | Yet Natures teares are Reasons merriment. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.133 | And frame your mind to mirth and merriment, | And frame your minde to mirth and merriment, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.v.76 | For our first merriment hath made thee jealous. | For our first merriment hath made thee iealous. |