| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.19 | For which I hope thou feltest I was displeased. | For which I hope thou feltst I was displeas'd. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.120 | As will displease you. My Lord Northumberland: | As will displease ye. My Lord Northumberland, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.153 | There's reason he should be displeased at it. | There's reason he should be displeas'd at it: |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.257 | and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased | and hisse him, according as he pleas'd, and displeas'd |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.53 | Whereat the Queen is grievously displeased. | Whereat the Queene is greouously displeasd. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.227 | The heat and cold and what else might displease, | The heate and cold, and what else might displease |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.13 | My mirth it much displeased, but pleased my woe. | My mirth it much displeas'd, but pleas'd my woe. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.213 | And suffered him to go displeased away, | And suffer'd him to go displeas'd away: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.54 | May through the centre creep, and so displease | May through the Center creepe, and so displease |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.16 | We must not now displease him. | We must not now displease him. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.89 | Comfort, dear mother; God is much displeased | Comfort deere Mother, God is much displeas'd, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.233 | Having displeased my father, to Laurence' cell, | Hauing displeas'd my Father, to Lawrence Cell, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.76 | And let it not displease thee, good Bianca, | And let it not displease thee good Bianca, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.273 | Lavinia, you are not displeased with this? | Lauinia you are not displeas'd with this? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.66 | No matter who's displeased when you are gone. | No matter who's displeas'd, when you are gone: |