| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.229 | vexation. | vexation. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.140 | Give him deserved vexation. Let a guard | Giue him deseru'd vexation. Let a guard |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.65 | Harm not yourself with your vexation, | Harme not your selfe with your vexation, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.41 | Away! Vexation almost stops my breath | Away, vexation almost stoppes my breath, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.22 | Full of vexation come I, with complaint | Full of vexation, come I, with complaint |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.68 | But as the fierce vexation of a dream. | But as the fierce vexation of a dreame. |
| Othello | Oth I.i.73 | Yet throw such chances of vexation on't, | Yet throw such chances of vexation on't, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.305 | Your children were vexation to your youth | Your Children were vexation to your youth, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.16 | It would be much vexation to your age. | It would be much vexation to your age. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.326 | To appoint my self in this vexation; sully | To appoint my selfe in this vexation? / Sully |