| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.201 | That his contempt shall not be bruising to you | That his Contempt shall not be brusing to you, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.105 | To bloody battles, and to bruising arms. | To bloody Battailes, and to brusing Armes. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.324 | But by the loss and bruising of thine honour. | But by the losse and bruising of thine honour, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.111 | Put in their hands Thy bruising irons of wrath, | Put in their hands thy bruising Irons of wrath, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.111 | I throw thy name against the bruising stones, | I throw thy name against the bruzing-stones, |