| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.273 | Thou hast finished joy and moan. | Thou hast finish'd Ioy and mone. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.198 | And we cast away moan. | and we cast away mone, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.43 | Laughest thou, wretch? Thy mirth shall turn to moan. | Laughest thou Wretch? / Thy mirth shall turne to moane. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.110 | Was ever father so bemoaned his son? | Was euer Father so bemoan'd his Sonne? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.10 | Whiles, in his moan, the ship splits on the rock, | Whiles in his moane, the Ship splits on the Rock, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.26 | O Prince, thy sweet bemoaning speech to me | O Prince thy sweet bemoning speech to me. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.126 | Nor do I now make moan to be abridged | Nor do I now make mone to be abridg'd |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.23 | Many that have at times made moan to me. | Many that haue at times made mone to me, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.185 | O wall, full often hast thou heard my moans | O wall, full often hast thou heard my mones, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.326 | Lovers, make moan – | Louers make mone: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iii.16 | Midnight, assist our moan; | Midnight assist our mone, |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.42 | The fresh streams ran by her and murmured her moans; | The fresh Streames ran by her, and murmur'd her moanes |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.27 | That still records with moan; or when | That still records with mone, or when |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.90 | So longest way shall have the longest moans. | So longest Way shall haue the longest Moanes. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.157 | To hear the piteous moan that Rutland made | To heare the pittious moane that Rutland made |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.60 | Thine being but a moiety of my moan, | (Thine being but a moity of my moane) |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.64 | Our fatherless distress was left unmoaned: | Our fatherlesse distresse was left vnmoan'd, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.113 | That bear this heavy mutual load of moan, | That beare this heauie mutuall loade of Moane, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.58 | And makes her pew-fellow with others' moan! | And makes her Pue-fellow with others mone. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.15 | Or, wanting that, with tears distilled by moans. | Or wanting that, with teares destil'd by mones; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.108 | A moiety of that mass of moan to come. | A moity of that masse of moane to come. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.28 | and down. Now come I to my sister. Mark the moan she | and downe: Now come I to my sister; marke the moane she |