| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.35 | Distracted clouds give way; so stand thou forth: | Distracted clouds giue way, so stand thou forth, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.43 | Distract your army, which doth most consist | Distract your Armie, which doth most consist |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.76 | His power went out in such distractions as | His power went out in such distractions, / As |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.i.9 | Make boot of his distraction. Never anger | Make boote of his distraction: Neuer anger |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.42 | The fellow is distract, and so am I, | The fellow is distract, and so am I, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.39 | To fetch my poor distracted husband hence. | To fetch my poore distracted husband hence, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.97 | In this distracted globe. Remember thee? | In this distracted Globe: Remember thee? |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.552 | Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect, | Teares in his eyes, distraction in's Aspect, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.5 | He does confess he feels himself distracted, | He does confesse he feeles himselfe distracted, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.4 | He's loved of the distracted multitude, | Hee's loued of the distracted multitude, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.2 | She is importunate, indeed distract. | She is importunate, indeed distract, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.21.IV.v. | Enter Ophelia | Enter Ophelia distracted. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.223 | How I am punished with a sore distraction. | how I am punisht / With sore distraction? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.105 | hath distracted her. But, for these foolish officers, I | hath distracted her: but for these foolish Officers, I |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.318 | Mine hair be fixed on end, as one distract; | Mine haire be fixt an end, as one distract: |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.112 | Madam, this is a mere distraction. | Madam, this is a meere distraction, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.153 | That tidings came. With this she fell distract, | That tydings came. With this she fell distract, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.5 | Are quite distract with gazing on the crows, | are quite distract with gazing on the crowes, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.280 | Of my huge sorrows! Better I were distract; | Of my huge Sorrowes? Better I were distract, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.101 | Upon their pillows; they stared and were distracted; | Vpon their Pillowes: they star'd, and were distracted, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iv.2 | In most uneven and distracted manner. His | In most vneuen and distracted manner, his |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.130 | This news distracts me. | this newes distracts me. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.79 | distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket. | distraction, they conuey'd me into a bucke-basket. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.31 | I led them on in this distracted fear, | I led them on in this distracted feare, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.320 | one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to | one gender of Hearbes, or distract it with many: either to |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.249 | And silence those whom this vile brawl distracted. | And silence those whom this vil'd brawle distracted. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.91 | In their distractions. They now are in my power; | In their distractions: they now are in my powre; |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.12 | His brother, and yours, abide all three distracted, | His Brother, and yours, abide all three distracted, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.114 | You only speak from your distracted soul; | you onely speake from your distracted soule; |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.247 | Hath a distracted and most wretched being, | Hath a distracted and most wretched being, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.26 | To see thy noble uncle thus distract? | To see thy Noble Vnckle thus distract? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.42 | You flow to great distraction; come, my lord. | You flow to great distraction: come my Lord? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.192 | Accept distracted thanks. | Accept distracted thankes. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.85 | Behold distraction, frenzy, and amazement | Behold distraction, frenzie, and amazement, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.ii.21 | For she did speak in starts, distractedly. | For she did speake in starts distractedly. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.65 | I know not what 'twas, but distraction. | I know not what 'twas, but distraction. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.277 | They say, poor gentleman, he's much distract. | They say poore Gentleman, he's much distract. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.311 | This savours not much of distraction. | This sauours not much of distraction. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.1 | Her distraction is more at some time of the moon | Her distraction is more at some time of the Moone, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.149 | As if you held a brow of much distraction. | as if you held a Brow of much distraction: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.47 | distraction that they were to be known by garment, not | distraction, that they were to be knowne by Garment, not |