| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.18 | To drench the Capitol, but that they would | To drench the Capitoll, but that they would |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.113 | than a horse-drench. Is he not wounded? He was wont | then a Horse-drench. Is he not wounded? he was wont |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.105 | today?’ ‘ Give my roan horse a drench,’ says he, and | to day? Giue my Roane horse a drench (sayes hee) and |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.19 | A drench for sur-reined jades, their barley broth, | A Drench for sur-reyn'd Iades, their Barly broth, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.75 | So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs | So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbes |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.14 | And in that sea of blood my boy did drench | And in that Sea of Blood, my Boy did drench |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.3 | Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks! | Till you haue drench'd our Steeples, drown the Cockes. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.68 | Their drenched natures lie as in a death, | Their drenched Natures lyes as in a Death, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.46 | It is such crimson tempest should bedrench | It is, such Crimson Tempest should bedrench |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.65 | drenched in the sea, hold, notwithstanding, their | drencht in the Sea, hold notwithstanding their |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.52 | They lie indrenched. I tell thee I am mad | They lye indrench'd. I tell thee, I am mad |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.79 | And drenched me in the sea, where I am drowned. | And drench'd me in the sea, where I am drown'd. |