| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.210 | Do not plunge thyself too far in anger, lest thou | Do not plundge thy selfe to farre in anger, least thou |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.315 | purgation would perhaps plunge him into more choler. | Purgation, would perhaps plundge him into farre more Choller. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.105 | Accoutered as I was, I plunged in | Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.78.1 | He lunges at him | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.74 | thought, my spleen; the heaving of my lungs provokes | thought, my spleene, the heauing of my lunges prouokes |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.48 | Being o'ershoes in blood, plunge in the deep, | Being oreshooes in bloud, plunge in the deepe, |
| 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 Tempest | Tem I.ii.211 | Plunged in the foaming brine, and quit the vessel, | Plung'd in the foaming bryne, and quit the vessell; |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.13 | To those that without heed do plunge into't. | To those that (without heede) do plundge intoo't. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.256 | Freely command, thou wouldst have plunged thyself | Freely command'st: thou would'st haue plung'd thy self |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.74 | When neither curb would crack, girth break, nor differing plunges | When neither Curb would cracke, girth breake nor diffring plunges |