| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.78.1 | That does afflict each other! | That does afflict each other. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.33 | Afflict me with thy mocks, pity me not, | Afflict me with thy mockes, pitty me not, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.106 | That does afflict our natures. I am sorry. | That does afflict our Natures. I am sorrie, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.107 | O, how this discord doth afflict my soul! | Oh, how this discord doth afflict my Soule. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.177 | Ambitious churchman, leave to afflict my heart. | Ambitious Church-man, leaue to afflict my heart: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.38 | Scorning whate'er you can afflict me with. | Scorning what ere you can afflict me with. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.288 | Never afflict yourself to know more of it; | Neuer afflict your selfe to know more of it: |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.11 | Hourly afflict. Merely, thou art death's fool, | Hourely afflict: Meerely, thou art deaths foole, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.180 | O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! | O coward Conscience! how dost thou afflict me? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.336 | wolf, thy greediness would afflict thee, and oft thou | Wolfe, thy greedinesse would afflict thee, & oft thou |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.444 | Nor with sour looks afflict his gentle heart. | Nor with sowre lookes afflict his gentle heart. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.63 | We will afflict the Emperor in his pride. | We will afflict the Emperour in his pride. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.75.1 | I could afflict you farther. | I could afflict you farther. |