| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.8 | Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs | Nor bruise her Flowrets with the Armed hoofes |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.57 | Was parmacity for an inward bruise, | Was Parmacity, for an inward bruise: |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.120 | thought not good to bruise an injury till it were full | thought not good to bruise an iniurie, till it were full |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.146 | Which, for they yet glance by and scarcely bruise, | Which for they yet glance by, and scarely bruise, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.397 | Bruise me with scorn, confound me with a flout, | Bruise me with scorne, confound me with a flout. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.6 | Than fall, and bruise to death. Alas, this gentleman, | Then fall, and bruise to death: alas, this gentleman |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.65 | And with grey hairs and bruise of many days, | And with grey haires and bruise of many daies, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.4 | Most true. The law shall bruise him. | Most true; the Law shall bruise 'em. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.88.1 | A bruise would be dishonour. | A bruise would be dishonour. |