| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.15 | Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe. | Why, headstrong liberty is lasht with woe: |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.270 | Fear no more the lightning flash. | Feare no more the Lightning flash. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.33 | The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind, | The flash and out-breake of a fiery minde, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.50 | (aside) How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience! | How smart a lash that speech doth giue my Conscience? |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.187 | gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that | Gambals? Your Songs? Your flashes of Merriment that |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.50 | And flashing fire will follow. | and flashing fire will follow. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.52 | Even in the aim and very flash of it. | Euen in the ayme, and very flash of it. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.451 | Dark night seems darker by the lightning flash; | Darke night seemes darker by the lightning flash, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.129 | Breaks in extremity of lightning flash, | Breakes in extremitie of lightning flash, |
| King Lear | KL I.iii.5 | He flashes into one gross crime or other | He flashes into one grosse crime, or other, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.162 | Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thy own back. | why dost thou lash that Whore? Strip thy owne backe, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.692 | I'll slash; I'll do it by the sword. I bepray you, let me | Ile slash, Ile do it by the sword: I pray you let mee |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.142 | To lash the rascals naked through the world, | To lash the Rascalls naked through the world, |
| Pericles | Per III.i.6 | Thy nimble, sulphurous flashes! O, how, Lychorida, | Thy nimble sulphirous flashes: ô How Lychorida! |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.66 | With all good speed at Pleshey visit me. | With all good speed at Plashie visit mee. |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.90 | Sirrah, get thee to Pleshey to my sister Gloucester. | Sirra, get thee to Plashie to my sister Gloster, |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.119 | I should to Pleshey, too, | I should to Plashy too: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.329 | Lash hence these overweening rags of France, | Lash hence these ouer-weening Ragges of France, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.66 | Her whip, of cricket's bone; the lash, of film; | her Whip of Crickets bone, the Lash of Philome, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.23 | A shallow plash to plunge him in the deep, | A shallow plash, to plunge him in the deepe, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.90 | Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash, | Heers snip, and nip, and cut, and slish and slash, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.i.32 | Which flashes now a phoenix. Get you gone. | Which flashes now a Phoenix, get you gone. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.3 | Secure of thunder's crack or lightning flash, | Secure of Thunders cracke or lightning flash, |