| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| King Lear | KL V.i.60 | Exasperates, makes mad, her sister Gonerill, | Exasperates, makes mad her Sister Gonerill, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.38 | Hath so exasperate the King that he | Hath so exasperate their King, that hee |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.27 | No! Why art thou then exasperate, thou idle | No? why art thou then exasperate, thou idle, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.18 | only to exasperate you, to awake your dormouse valour, | onely to exasperate you, to awake your dormouse valour, |