| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.65 | Gave any tragic instance of our harm. | Gaue any Tragicke Instance of our harme: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.397 | historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, | Historicall-Pastorall: Tragicall-Historicall: Tragicall-Comicall-Historicall-Pastorall: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.61 | Foretells the nature of a tragic volume. | Fore-tels the Nature of a Tragicke Volume: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.126 | Why look you still so stern and tragical? | Why looke you still so sterne, and tragicall? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.4 | That drag the tragic melancholy night; | That dragge the Tragicke melancholy night: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.28 | Than can my ears that tragic history. | Then can my eares that Tragicke History. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.63 | Do tread the measures of their tragic march: | Do tread the measuers of their tragicke march, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.105 | So must my voice be tragical again, | So must my voice be tragicall againe, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.57 | And his love Thisbe; ‘ very tragical mirth.’ | And his loue Thisby; very tragicall mirth. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.58 | Merry and tragical? Tedious and brief? | The. Merry and tragicall? Tedious, and briefe? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.66 | And ‘ tragical ’, my noble lord, it is, | And tragicall my noble Lord it is: |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.359 | Look on the tragic loading of this bed: | Looke on the Tragicke Loading of this bed: |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.39 | To make an act of tragic violence. | To make an act of Tragicke violence. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.7 | Will prove as bitter, black, and tragical. | Will proue as bitter, blacke, and Tragicall. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.47 | This is the tragic tale of Philomel, | This is the tragicke tale of Philomel? |