| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.19 | He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere; |
He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.53 | palate adversely, I make a crooked face at it. I cannot | Palat aduersly, I make a crooked face at it, I can |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.38 | have crooked noses, but to owe such straight arms, | haue crook'd Noses, but to owe such straite Armes, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.478 | And let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils | And let our crooked Smoakes climbe to their Nostrils |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.184 | By what by-paths and indirect crooked ways | By what by-pathes, and indirect crook'd-wayes |
| Henry V | H5 I.chorus.15 | O, pardon! since a crooked figure may | O pardon: since a crooked Figure may |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.94 | Than amply to imbare their crooked titles | Then amply to imbarre their crooked Titles, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.158 | As crooked in thy manners as thy shape! | As crooked in thy manners, as thy shape. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.79 | Let hell make crooked my mind to answer it. | Let Hell make crook'd my Minde to answer it. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.44 | Envy and crooked malice nourishment | Enuy, and crooked malice, nourishment; |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.123 | Wounding her bosom with her crooked beak, | Wounding her bosome with her crooked beak, |
| King John | KJ III.i.46 | Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious, | Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.133 | And thy unkindness be like crooked age, | And thy vnkindnesse be like crooked age, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.21 | If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. | If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. |