| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.57 | On the catastrophe and heel of pastime, | On the Catastrophe and heele of pastime |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.58 | I'll tickle your catastrophe! | Ile tucke your Catastrophe. |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.133 | pat he comes, like the catastrophe of the old comedy. | Pat: he comes like the Catastrophe of the old Comedie: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.78 | catastrophe is a nuptial. On whose side? The king's. No; | catastrophe is a Nuptiall: on whose side? the Kings: no, |