| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.i.4.1 | And more thirsts after. | And more thirsts after. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.23 | for bread, not in thirst for revenge. | for Bread, not in thirst for Reuenge. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.5 | No more the thirsty entrance of this soil | No more the thirsty entrance of this Soile, |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.18 | Ha, art thou bedlam? Dost thou thirst, base Troyan, | Ha, art thou bedlam? doest thou thirst, base Troian, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.33.2 | To me, bloodthirsty lord; | To me, blood-thirstie Lord: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.118 | Then be at peace, except ye thirst for blood. | Then be at peace, except ye thirst for blood. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.51 | The rascal people, thirsting after prey, | The Rascall people, thirsting after prey, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.15 | Thy brother's blood the thirsty earth hath drunk, | Thy Brothers blood the thirsty earth hath drunk, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.83 | Stifle the villain whose unstanched thirst | Stifle the Villaine, whose vnstanched thirst |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.158 | My heart is thirsty for that noble pledge. | My heart is thirsty for that Noble pledge. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.14 | Bloodthirsty and seditious Catilines, | Blood thirsty, and seditious Catelynes, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.57 | Whose soldiers drank up rivers in their thirst. | Whose souldiers drancke vp riuers in their thirst: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.63 | Yet, in respect thy thirst is all for gold, | Yet in respect thy thirst is all for golde, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.121 | And, like a thirsty tiger, suck'st her blood. | And like a thirstie tyger suckst her bloud. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.372 | When they are thirsty, fools would fain have drink. | When they are thirstie, fooles would faine haue drinke. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.90 | Would he were here! To all – and him – we thirst, | Would he were heere: to all, and him we thirst, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.129 | A thirsty evil, and when we drink we die. | A thirsty euill, and when we drinke, we die. |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.39 | Than to be thirsty after tottering honour, | Then to be thirsty after tottering honour, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.24 | And with satiety seeks to quench his thirst. | And with sacietie seekes to quench his thirst. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.143 | And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty | And while it is so, none so dry or thirstie |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.510.1 | I so much thirst to see. | I so much thirst to see. |