| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.152 | Go, masters, get you home. Be not dismayed; | Go Masters get you home, be not dismaid, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.45 | My soul is full of discord and dismay. | My soule is full of discord and dismay. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.50 | Be not dismayed, for succour is at hand. | Be not dismay'd, for succour is at hand: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.72 | Be not dismayed, fair lady, nor misconster | Be not dismay'd, faire Lady, nor misconster |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.1 | Dismay not, princes, at this accident, | Dismay not (Princes) at this accident, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.7 | But, straight retiring, so dismayed the rest | But straite retyring so dismaide the rest, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.20.2 | All dismayed. | All dismaid. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.35 | Upon the quaking and dismayed world. | Vpon the quaking and dismaied world, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.19 | Dismayed, and distraught; swift-starting fear | Dismayed, and distraught, swift starting feare |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.20 | Hath buzzed a cold dismay through all our army, | Hath buzd a cold dismaie through all our armie, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.564 | The conqueror is dismayed. Proceed, good Alexander. | The Conqueror is dismaid: / Proceede good Alexander. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.33.2 | Dismayed not this | Dismay'd not this |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.177 | Come on. In this there can be no dismay; | Come on, in this there can be no dismaie, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.61 | Live thou, I live. With much, much more dismay | Liue thou, I liue with much more dismay |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.9.1 | And ran dismayed away. | And ranne dismayed away. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.26 | Be not dismayed. | Be not dismaid. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.27 | No, she shall not dismay me. I care not for | No, she shall not dismay me: / I care not for |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.267 | Do you go back dismayed? 'Tis a lost fear: | Do you go backe dismaid? 'Tis a lost feare: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.175 | But cheer thy heart and be thou not dismayed; | But cheere thy heart, and be thou not dismayde: |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.147 | As if you were dismayed. Be cheerful, sir. | As if you were dismaid: be cheerefull Sir, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.14 | Brimful of sorrow and dismay; but chiefly, | Brim full of sorrow, and dismay: but chiefly |