| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.149 | Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad | Sighing like Furnace, with a wofull ballad |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.295 | sighing every minute and groaning every hour would | sighing euerie minute, and groaning euerie houre wold |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.325 | sighing and grief, it blows a man up like a bladder. | sighing and griefe, it blowes a man vp like a Bladder. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.104 | When through proud London he came sighing on | When through proud London he came sighing on, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.117 | My sighing breast shall be thy funeral bell; | My sighing brest, shall be thy Funerall bell; |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.240 | Musing and sighing, with your arms across; | Musing, and sighing, with your armes a-crosse: |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.38 | The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree, | The poore Soule sat singing, by a Sicamour tree. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.150 | To th' winds, whose pity sighing back again | To th' windes, whose pitty sighing backe againe |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.15 | Wound it with sighing, girl, kill it with groans, | Wound it with sighing girle, kil it with grones: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.169 | And farewell goes out sighing. O, let not virtue seek | And farewels goes out sighing: O let not vertue seeke |