| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.16 | Whose beauty did astonish the survey | Whose beauty did astonish the suruey |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.335 | O wonderful son, that can so 'stonish a mother! | Oh wonderfull Sonne, that can so astonish a Mother. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.146 | They may astonish these fell-lurking curs: | They may astonish these fell-lurking Curres, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.56 | Such dreadful heralds to astonish us. | Such dreadfull Heraulds, to astonish vs. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.201 | Astonish and transform thy gazing foes | Astonish and transforme thy gazing foes |