| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.22 | terrible shows in the wrack of maidenhood, cannot for | terrible shewes in the wracke of maiden-hood, cannot for |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.115 | Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests, | Gaue healthfull welcome to their ship-wrackt guests, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.49 | Hath he not lost much wealth by wrack of sea? | Hath he not lost much wealth by wrack of sea, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.350 | Besides her urging of her wrack at sea – | Besides her vrging of her wracke at sea, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.16 | A pair of tribunes that have wracked for Rome | A paire of Tribunes, that haue wrack'd for Rome, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.84 | You look on me: what wreck discern you in me | You looke on me: what wrack discerne you in me |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.366 | In this sad wreck? How came't? Who is't? | In this sad wracke? How came't? Who is't? |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.113 | And meant to wrack thee. But beshrew my jealousy. | And meant to wracke thee: but beshrew my iealousie: |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.165 | With sunken wrack and sunless treasuries. | With sunken Wrack, and sum-lesse Treasuries. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.95 | Even as men wrecked upon a sand, that | Euen as men wrackt vpon a Sand, that |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.135 | Hence grew the general wrack and massacre; | Hence grew the generall wrack and massacre: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.3 | Even like a man new haled from the rack, | Euen like a man new haled from the Wrack, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.56 | Moved with compassion of my country's wrack, | Mou'd with compassion of my Countries wracke, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.8 | Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive | Either to suffer Shipwracke, or arriue |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.105 | Hume's knavery will be the Duchess' wrack, | Humes Knauerie will be the Duchesse Wracke, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.122 | The commonwealth hath daily run to wrack, | The Common-wealth hath dayly run to wrack, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.82 | Was I for this nigh wrecked upon the sea, | Was I for this nye wrack'd vpon the Sea, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.5 | Ay, as the rocks cheer them that fear their wrack: | I, as the rockes cheare them that feare their wrack, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.23 | From shelves and rocks that threaten us with wrack. | From Shelues and Rocks, that threaten vs with Wrack. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.149 | Shipwrecked upon a kingdom, where no pity, | Shipwrack'd vpon a Kingdome, where no Pitty, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.437 | Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in, | Found thee a way (out of his wracke) to rise in: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.151 | Give earnest penny of a further wrack, | Giue earnest peny of a further wracke, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.85 | And better some do go to wrack, than all. | And better some do go to wrack then all. |
| King John | KJ III.i.92 | But on this day let seamen fear no wrack; | But (on this day) let Sea-men feare no wracke, |
| King John | KJ V.iii.11 | Are wracked three nights ago on Goodwin Sands. | Are wrack'd three nights ago on Goodwin sands. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.312 | That would upon the rack of this tough world | That would vpon the wracke of this tough world |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.26 | Shipwracking storms and direful thunders; | Shipwracking Stormes, and direfull Thunders: |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.28 | Wracked as homeward he did come. | Wrackt, as homeward he did come. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.113 | He laboured in his country's wrack, I know not; | he labour'd / In his Countreyes wracke, I know not: |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.51 | Ring the alarum bell! – Blow wind, come wrack, | Ring the Alarum Bell, blow Winde, come wracke, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.218 | her brother Frederick was wrecked at sea, having in that | her brother Fredericke was wrackt at Sea, hauing in that |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.3 | hath a ship of rich lading wrecked on the narrow seas, | hath a ship of rich lading wrackt on the narrow Seas; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.95 | wrack. | wracke. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.23 | Hath seen a grievous wrack and sufferance | Hath seene a greeuous wracke and sufferance |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.II.32 | Should house him safe is wracked and split, | Should house him safe; is wrackt and split, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.134 | I thank thee for't. My shipwreck now's no ill, | I thanke thee for't, my shipwracke now's no ill, |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.85 | And after shipwreck driven upon this shore. | and after shipwracke, driuen vpon this shore. |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.50.1 | 'Tis of some wreck. | tis of some wracke. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.12 | That monster envy, oft the wrack | That monster Enuie oft the wracke |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.267 | We see the very wrack that we must suffer, | We see the very wracke that we must suffer, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.269 | For suffering so the causes of our wrack. | For suffering so the causes of our wracke. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.127 | These eyes could not endure that beauty's wrack; | These eyes could not endure yt beauties wrack, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.24 | Methoughts I saw a thousand fearful wracks; | Me thoughts, I saw a thousand fearfull wrackes: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.96 | And each hour's joy wracked with a week of teen. | And each howres ioy wrackt with a weeke of teene. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.26 | The direful spectacle of the wrack, which touched | The direfull spectacle of the wracke which touch'd |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.236 | Supposing that they saw the King's ship wracked, | Supposing that they saw the Kings ship wrackt, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.391 | Weeping again the King my father's wrack, | Weeping againe the King my Fathers wracke. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.415 | Was in the wrack; and, but he's something stained | Was in the wracke: and but hee's something stain'd |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.437.1 | The King my father wracked. | The King my Father wrack't. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.489 | The wrack of all my friends, nor this man's threats | The wracke of all my friends, nor this mans threats, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.137 | Were wracked upon this shore; where I have lost – | Were wrackt vpon this shore? where I haue lost |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.161 | Upon this shore, where you were wracked, was landed | Vpon this shore (where you were wrackt) was landed |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.190 | One that rejoices in the common wrack, | One that reioyces in the common wracke, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.24 | And see his shipwreck and his commonweal's. | And see his shipwracke, and his Commonweales. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.77 | Did I redeem; a wrack past hope he was. | Did I redeeme: a wracke past hope he was: |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.263 | I shall have share in this most happy wrack. | I shall haue share in this most happy wracke, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.145 | Go, go, be gone, to save your ship from wreck, | Go, go, be gone, to saue your Ship from wrack, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.67 | Wracked the same instant of their | Wrackt the same instant of their |