| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.319 | Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, | Heere thou incestuous, murdrous, / Damned Dane, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.34 | | [Q1 replaces this scene with the following] Enter Horatio and the Queene. HOR. Madame, your sonne is safe arriv'de in Denmarke, This letter I euen now receiv'd of him, Whereas he writes how he escap't the danger, And subtle treason that the king had plotted, Being crossed by the contention of the windes, He found the Packet sent to the king of England, Wherein he saw himselfe betray'd to death, As at his next conuersion with your grace, He will relate the circumstance at full. QUEENE. Then I perceiue there's treason in his lookes That seem'd to sugar o're his villanie: But I will soothe and please him for a time, For murderous mindes are alwayes jealous, But know not you Horatio where he is? HOR. Yes Madame, and he hath appoynted me To meete him on the east side of the Cittie To morrow morning. QUEENE. O faile not, good Horatio, and withall, commend me A mothers care to him, bid him a while Be wary of his presence, lest that he Faile in that he goes about. HOR. Madam, neuer make doubt of that: I thinke by this the news be come to court: He is arriv'de, obserue the king, and you shall Quickely finde, Hamlet being here, Things fell not to his minde. QUEENE. But what became of Gilderstone and Rossencraft? HOR. He being set ashore, they went for England, And in the Packet there writ down that doome To be perform'd on them poynted for him: And by great chance he had his fathers Seale, So all was done without discouerie. QUEENE. Thankes be to heauen for blessing of the prince, Horatio once againe I take my leaue, With thowsand mothers blessings to my sonne. HORAT. Madam adue. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.161 | Of murderous subornation – shall it be | Of murtherous subornation? Shall it be, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.49 | Upon thy eyeballs murderous tyranny | Vpon thy eye-balls, murderous Tyrannie |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.220 | I would, false murderous coward, on thy knee | I would, false murd'rous Coward, on thy Knee |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.185 | To do a murderous deed, to rob a man, | To do a murd'rous deede, to rob a man, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.193 | And set the murderous Machiavel to school. | And set the murtherous Macheuill to Schoole. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.265 | This is a sleepy tune; O murderous slumber, | This is a sleepy Tune: O Murd'rous slumbler! |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.255 | The dreadful motion of a murderous thought; | The dreadfull motion of a murderous thought, |
| King Lear | KL II.i.61 | Bringing the murderous coward to the stake; | Bringing the murderous Coward to the stake: |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.274 | Of murderous lechers; and in the mature time | Of murtherous Letchers: and in the mature time, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.138.2 | This murderous shaft that's shot | This murtherous Shaft that's shot, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.231 | O murderous coxcomb, what should such a fool | Oh murd'rous Coxcombe, what should such a Foole |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.94 | Thy murderous falchion smoking in his blood; | Thy murd'rous Faulchion smoaking in his blood: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.133 | A murderous villain, and so still thou art. | A murth'rous Villaine, and so still thou art. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.55 | Whose unavoided eye is murderous. | Whose vnauoided Eye is murtherous. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.227 | No doubt the murderous knife was dull and blunt | No doubt the murd'rous Knife was dull and blunt, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.267 | In pleasing smiles such murderous tyranny. | In pleasing smiles such murderous Tyrannie. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.87 | Stay, murderous villains, will you kill your brother? | Stay murtherous villaines, will you kill your brother? |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.144 | A murderous guilt shows not itself more soon | A murdrous guilt shewes not it selfe more soone, |