| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.115.1 | To our confusion. | To our confusion. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.122 | Peace, ho! I bar confusion. | Peace hoa: I barre confusion, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.189 | Infect thy sap, and live on thy confusion. | Infect thy sap, and liue on thy confusion. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.110 | Neither supreme, how soon confusion | Neither Supreame; How soone Confusion |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.29.1 | Crying confusion. | Crying Confusion. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.66 | Receive it from me, then. War and confusion | Receyue it from me then. Warre, and Confusion |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.92 | Nay, to thy mere confusion, thou shalt know | Nay, to thy meere Confusion, thou shalt know |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.41 | A rout, confusion thick: forthwith they fly | A Rowt, confusion thicke: forthwith they flye |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.2 | Get from him why he puts on this confusion, | Get from him why he puts on this Confusion: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.82 | Of pell-mell havoc and confusion. | Of pell-mell hauocke, and confusion. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.77 | You may behold confusion of your foes. | You may behold confusion of your foes. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.194 | There comes the ruin, there begins confusion. | There comes the ruine, there begins confusion. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.182 | Heaping confusion on their own heads thereby! | Heaping confusion on their owne heads thereby. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.31 | Shame and confusion! All is on the rout; | Shame and Confusion all is on the rout, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.33 | Cowardly works confusion on itself. | Cowardly workes confusion on it selfe. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.152 | So intricate the dark confusion was, | So intricate the darke confusion was, |
| King John | KJ II.i.359 | Then let confusion of one part confirm | Then let confusion of one part confirm |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.152 | Meet in one line; and vast confusion waits, | Meet in one line: and vast confusion waites |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.90.2 | Vengeance, plague, death, confusion! | Vengeance, Plague, Death, Confusion: |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.86 | Come to great confusion. | come to great confusion: |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.63 | Confusion now hath made his masterpiece; | Confusion now hath made his Master-peece: |
| Macbeth | Mac III.v.29 | Shall draw him on to his confusion. | Shall draw him on to his Confusion. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.177 | And there is such confusion in my powers | And there is such confusion in my powers, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.149 | So quick bright things come to confusion. | So quicke bright things come to confusion. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.109 | And mark the musical confusion | And marke the musicall confusion |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.65 | The master calls and trebles their confusion. | the Maister calles and trebles their confusion. |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.19 | Show nothing but confusion; eyed awry, | Shew nothing but confusion, ey'd awry, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.21 | And yet confusion live. Plagues, incident to men, | And yet Confusion liue: Plagues incident to men, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.128 | Make large confusion; and, thy fury spent, | Make large confusion: and thy fury spent, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.326 | Wouldst thou have thyself fall in the confusion of | Would'st thou haue thy selfe fall in the confusion of |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.52 | And not as our confusion, all thy powers | And not as our Confusion: All thy Powers |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.184.1 | Confusion fall – | Confusion fall--- |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.8 | And work confusion on his enemies. | And worke confusion on his Enemies. |