| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.174 | We come within our awful banks again | Wee come within our awfull Banks againe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.86 | To pluck down justice from your awful bench? | To plucke downe Iustice from your awefull Bench? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.98 | And not to grace an awful princely sceptre. | And not to grace an awefull Princely Scepter. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.153 | And wring the awful sceptre from his fist, | And wring the awefull Scepter from his Fist, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.II.4 | That will prove awful both in deed and word. | That Will proue awfull both in deed and word: |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.76 | To pay their awful duty to our presence? | To pay their awfull dutie to our presence? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.108 | And awful rule, and right supremacy, | An awfull rule, and right supremicie: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.46 | Thrust from the company of awful men; | Thrust from the company of awfull men. |