| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.197 | Mine eyes to sweat compassion. But, good sir, | Mine eyes to sweat compassion. But (good sir) |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.120 | Compassion on the King commands me stoop, | Compassion on the King commands me stoupe, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.56 | Moved with compassion of my country's wrack, | Mou'd with compassion of my Countries wracke, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.125 | Of mere compassion and of lenity, | Of meere compassion, and of lenity, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.88 | Let him come back, that his compassion may | Let him come backe, that his compassion may |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.174 | It boots thee not to be compassionate. | It boots thee not to be compassionate, |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.48 | And in compassion weep the fire out; | And in compassion, weepe the fire out: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.7 | Melting with tenderness and mild compassion, | Melted with tendernesse, and milde compassion, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.27 | The very virtue of compassion in thee, | The very vertue of compassion in thee: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.5 | Honour, health, and compassion to the Senate! | Honor, health, and compassion to the Senate. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.217 | Aaron is gone, and my compassionate heart | Aaron is gone, / And my compassionate heart |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.124 | And not relent, or not compassion him? | And not relent, or not compassion him? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.231 | Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire – | Could penetrate her vncompassionate Sire; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.213 | Compassion to 'em both, how would you place it? | Compassion to 'em both, how would you place it? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.239 | To all but your compassion – how their lives | To all but your compassion) how their lives |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.271 | What may be done? For now I feel compassion. | What may be done? for now I feele compassion. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.11 | His rash oath or the sweet compassion | His rash o'th, or the sweet compassion |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.132 | Which yields compassion where he conquers; sharp | Which yeelds compassion where he conquers: sharpe |