| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.77 | Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt. | Some Innocents scape not the thunderbolt: |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.201 | If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye, I can tell who | If I had a thunderbolt in mine eie, I can tell who |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.93.2 | eagle: he throws a thunderbolt. The Ghosts fall on their knees | Eagle: hee throwes a Thunder-bolt. The Ghostes fall on their knees. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.120 | Who is to bear me like a thunderbolt | Who is to beare me like a Thunder-bolt, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.81 | Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts, | Be ready Gods with all your Thunder-bolts, |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.5 | Vaunt-curriers of oak-cleaving thunderbolts, | Vaunt-curriors of Oake-cleauing Thunder-bolts, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.36 | thunderbolt. | Thunderbolt: |