| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.53 | And quietness, grown sick of rest, would purge | And quietnesse growne sicke of rest, would purge |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.8 | To purge himself with words. Dispatch. | To purge himselfe with words. Dispatch. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.20 | As well as I am doubtless I can purge | As well as I am doubtlesse I can purge |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.163 | grow less, for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live | grow lesse? For Ile purge, and leaue Sacke, and liue |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.65 | And purge th' obstructions which begin to stop | And purge th' obstructions, which begin to stop |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.124 | Now, neighbour confines, purge you of your scum! | Now neighbor-Confines, purge you of your Scum: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.27 | To purge this field of such a hilding foe, | To purge this field of such a hilding Foe; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.135 | Whereof you cannot easily purge yourself. | Whereof you cannot easily purge your selfe. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.iii.23 | And from his bosom purge this black despair. | And from his bosome purge this blacke dispaire. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.88 | And then, to purge his fear, I'll be thy death. | And then to purge his feare, Ile be thy death. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.102 | You cannot with such freedom purge yourself | You cannot with such freedome purge your selfe, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.28 | And with him pour we in our country's purge | And with him poure we in our Countries purge, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.52 | And purge it to a sound and pristine health, | And purge it to a sound and pristine Health, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.151 | And I will purge thy mortal grossness so | And I will purge thy mortall grossenesse so, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.46 | We would purge the land of these | We would purge the land of these |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.153 | Let's purge this choler without letting blood. | Let's purge this choller without letting blood: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.226 | And here I stand, both to impeach and purge | And heere I stand both to impeach and purge |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.23 | To get the soldier work, that peace might purge | To get the Soldier worke, that peace might purge |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.38 | Honest as either, to purge him of that humour | (Honest, as either;) to purge him of that humor, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.759 | aboard a new ship, to purge melancholy and air himself: | aboord a new Ship, to purge Melancholy, and ayre himselfe: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.168 | Purge all infection from our air whilst you | Purge all Infection from our Ayre, whilest you |