| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.24 | pity his distress in my similes of comfort, and leave him | pittie his distresse in my smiles of comfort, and leaue him |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.92 | Art thou thus boldened, man, by thy distress | Art thou thus bolden'd man by thy distres? |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.96 | Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show | Of bare distresse, hath tane from me the shew |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.57 | O that thou wert not, poor distressed soul! | Oh that thou wer't not, poore distressed soule. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.36 | Upbraid's with our distress. But sure, if you | Vpbraid's with our distresse. But sure if you |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.51.2 | He wrings at some distress. | He wrings at some distresse. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.47 | This youth, howe'er distressed, appears he hath had | This youth, how ere distrest, appeares he hath had |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.178 | As one incapable of her own distress, | As one incapable of her owne distresse, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.263 | Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread; | Gets him to rest, cram'd with distressefull bread, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.87 | Again, in pity of my hard distress, | Againe, in pitty of my hard distresse, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.37 | Not fearing death nor shrinking for distress, | Not fearing Death, nor shrinking for Distresse, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.30 | O, send some succour to the distressed lord! | O send some succour to the distrest Lord. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.126 | To ease your country of distressful war | To ease your Countrie of distressefull Warre, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ix.31 | Thus stands my state, 'twixt Cade and York distressed; | Thus stands my state, 'twixt Cade and Yorke distrest, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.213 | But by thy help to this distressed Queen? | But by thy helpe to this distressed Queene? |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.110 | Being distressed, was by that wretch betrayed, | Being distrest; was by that wretch betraid, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.41 | Requires, when friends are any way distressed, | Requires when friends are any way distrest, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.31 | Forsake your loving parents in distress. | For sake your louing parents in distresse. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.17 | We are distressed poor inhabitants | Wee are distressed poore inhabitants, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.29 | Poor silly men, much wronged, and more distressed! | Poore silly men, much wrongd, and more distrest, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.131 | Thou art a married man in this distress, | Thou art a married man in this distresse. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.112 | Did travel that way, finding him distressed, | Did trauaile that way, finding him distrest, |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.38 | Well, sir, the poor distressed Lear's i'the town, | |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.18 | In the good man's distress. Seek, seek for him, | In the Goodmans desires: seeke, seeke for him, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.188.1 | To doff their dire distresses. | To doffe their dire distresses. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.174 | of the same strain were in the same distress. | of the same straine, were in the same distresse. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.156 | When I did speak of some distressful stroke | When I did speake of some distressefull stroke |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.7 | O my distressed lord, even such our griefs are. | O my distressed Lord, euen such our griefes are, |
| Pericles | Per II.v.45 | A stranger and distressed gentleman, | A Stranger, and distressed Gentleman, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.264 | Were you in my distress – | Were you in my distresse. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.64 | Our fatherless distress was left unmoaned: | Our fatherlesse distresse was left vnmoan'd, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.86 | Alas, you three on me, threefold distressed, | Alas! you three, on me threefold distrest: |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.184 | A beauty-waning and distressed widow, | A Beautie-waining, and distressed Widow, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.98 | For happy wife, a most distressed widow; | For happy Wife, a most distressed Widdow: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.318 | And all the ruins of distressful times | And all the Ruines of distressefull Times, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.59 | Despised, distressed, hated, martyred, killed! | Despis'd, distressed, hated, martir'd, kil'd, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.14 | distress of his. It will show honestly in us, and is | distresse of his: / It will shew honestly in vs, / And is |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.106 | The eldest son of this distressed queen. | The eldest Son of this distressed Queene. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.38 | Who, though they cannot answer my distress, | Who though they cannot answere my distresse, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.32 | And rather comfort his distressed plight | And rather comfort his distressed plight, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.6 | Tune my distresses, and record my woes. | Tune my distrestes, and record my woes. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.32 | For us and our distresses! This good deed | For us, and our distresses: This good deede |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.36 | What woman I may stead that is distressed | What woman I may steed that is distrest, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.105 | Heart-deep with your distress; let him consider. | Hart deepe with your distresse: Let him consider: |