| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.12 | Sweet are the uses of adversity, | Sweet are the vses of aduersitie |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.34 | A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, | A wretched soule bruis'd with aduersitie, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.19 | Nay, 'tis for me to be patient. I am in adversity. | Nay 'tis for me to be patient, I am in aduersitie. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iv.14 | Who, ringed about with bold adversity, | Who ring'd about with bold aduersitie, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.24 | Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, | Let me embrace the sower Aduersaries, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.117 | To do himself good in adversity. | To do himselfe good in aduersitie, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.12 | Well said, adversity! And what need these | Well said aduersity, and what need these |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.12 | A man I am crossed with adversity; | A man I am, cross'd with aduersitie: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.23 | out. I do think they have patience to make any adversity | out: I / Doe thinke they have patience to make any adversity |