| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.64 | Destroy our friends and after weep their dust; | Destroy our friends, and after weepe their dust: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iv.19 | Prays, and destroys the prayer; no midway | Prayes, and distroyes the prayer, no midway |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.viii.26.1 | Destroyed in such a shape. | Destroyed in such a shape. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.146 | To fright them ere destroy. But come in | To fright them, ere destroy. But come in, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.232 | more bastard children than war's a destroyer of men. | more bastard Children, then warres a destroyer of men. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.42.1 | Destroy what lies before 'em. | Destroy, what lies before 'em. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.133 | To save the Romans, thereby to destroy | To saue the Romanes, thereby to destroy |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.147 | Destroyed his country, and his name remains | Destroy'd his Country, and his name remaines |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.207 | Their own enactures with themselves destroy. | Their owne ennactors with themselues destroy: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.231 | Meet what I would have well, and it destroy, | Meet what I would haue well, and it destroy: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.61 | Which many a good tall fellow had destroyed | Which many a good Tall Fellow had destroy'd |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.43 | Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroyed? | Or guiltie in defence, be thus destroy'd. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.115 | To slay your sovereign and destroy the realm. | To slay your Soueraigne, and destroy the Realme. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.147 | Destroyed themselves and lost the realm of France! | Destroy'd themselues, and lost the Realme of France? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.25 | Here, purposing the Bastard to destroy, | Here purposing the Bastard to destroy, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.8 | How the French navy is destroyed at sea, | How the French Nauy is destroyd at Sea, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.229 | Made it no conscience to destroy a prince. | Made it no conscience to destroy a Prince. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.230.1 | That must destroy thee. | That must destroy thee. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.68 | Approach the chamber and destroy your sight | Approch the Chamber, and destroy your sight |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.6 | 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy | 'Tis safer, to be that which we destroy, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.84.1 | Destroying them for wealth. | Destroying them for wealth. |
| Pericles | Per II.v.88 | And being joined, I'll thus your hopes destroy, | and being ioynd, / Ile thus your hopes destroy, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.242 | And in the sentence my own life destroyed. | |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.105 | Seen how his son's son should destroy his sons, | Seene how his sonnes sonne, should destroy his sonnes, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.139 | Have felt the worst of death's destroying wound, | Haue felt the worst of Deaths destroying hand, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.184 | And fight and die is death destroying death, | And fight and die, is death destroying death, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.290 | How soon my sorrow hath destroyed my face. | How soone my Sorrow hath destroy'd my Face. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.291 | The shadow of your sorrow hath destroyed | The shadow of your Sorrow hath destroy'd |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.119 | Dost thou teach pardon pardon to destroy? | Dost thou teach pardon, Pardon to destroy? |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.246 | 'Tis he that sends us to destroy you here. | 'Tis he that sends vs to destroy you heere. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.139.1 | That hour destroy us? | That howre destroy vs? |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.46 | I would my valiant master would destroy thee! | I would my valiant Master would destroy thee. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.115.1 | Wilt thou destroy him then? | Wilt thou destroy him then? |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.147 | When Prospero is destroyed. | When Prospero is destroy'd. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.95 | Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, | Curteous Destroyers, affable Wolues, meeke Beares: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.59 | So thou destroy Rapine and Murder there. | So thou destroy Rapine and Murder there. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.243 | Shall I destroy him? – whether there, or there, or there? – | Shall I destroy him? Whether there, or there, or there, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.23 | I would destroy th' offender, coz; I would, | I would destroy th' offender, Coz, I would |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.11 | Destroyed the sweet'st companion that e'er man | Destroy'd the sweet'st Companion, that ere man |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.15 | heard of a world ransomed, or one destroyed. A notable | heard of a World ransom'd, or one destroyed: a notable |