| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.120 | very strangler of their amity. Octavia is of a holy, cold, | very strangler of their Amity: Octauia is of a holy, cold, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.201 | Of vapours that did seem to strangle him. | Of vapours, that did seeme to strangle him. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.484 | as soon be strangled with a halter as another. | as soone be strangled with a Halter, as another. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.8 | And you three shall be strangled on the gallows. | And you three shall be strangled on the Gallowes. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.170 | Staring full ghastly like a strangled man; | Staring full gastly, like a strangled man: |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.156.2 | He has strangled | He ha's strangled |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.129 | Will serve to strangle thee; a rush will be a beam | Will serue to strangle thee: A rush will be a beame |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.587 | Thus did he strangle serpents in his manus. | Thus did he strangle Serpents in his Manus: |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iv.7 | And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp; | And yet darke Night strangles the trauailing Lampe: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.30 | Finger of birth-strangled babe, | Finger of Birth-strangled Babe, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.206 | Do it not with poison; strangle her in her bed, even | Do it not with poyson, strangle her in her bed, / Euen |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.35 | And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes? | And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.36 | Our locked embrasures, strangles our dear vows | Our lockt embrasures; strangles our deare vowes, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.145 | That makes thee strangle thy propriety. | That makes thee strangle thy propriety: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.47 | Strangle such thoughts as these with anything | Strangle such thoughts as these, with any thing |