| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.32 | I have told him Lepidus was grown too cruel, | I haue told him Lepidus was growne too cruell, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.162 | your years. You have seen cruel proof of this man's | your yeares: you haue seene cruell proofe of this mans |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.32 | Why, 'tis a boisterous and a cruel style, | Why, tis a boysterous and a cruell stile, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.13 | find fame. To a cruel war I sent him; from whence he | finde fame: To a cruell Warre I sent him, from whence he |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.53 | More cruel to your good report than grateful | More cruell to your good report, then gratefull |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.1 | A father cruel, and a stepdame false, | A Father cruell, and a Stepdame false, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.41 | take me in his dominion – could not be so cruel to | take me in his Dominion) could not be so cruell to |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.32 | Which – being cruel to the world – concluded | Which (being cruell to the world) concluded |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.33 | Most cruel to herself. What she confessed | Most cruell to her selfe. What she confest, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.402 | Let me be cruel, not unnatural. | Let me be cruell, not vnnaturall, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.179 | I must be cruel only to be kind. | I must be cruell, onely to be kinde; |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.94 | What shall I say to thee, Lord Scroop, thou cruel, | What shall I say to thee Lord Scroope, thou cruell, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.25 | And of buxom valour, hath, by cruel fate, | and of buxome valour, hath by cruell Fate, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.46 | By wasting ruin of the cruel foe; | By wasting Ruine of the cruell Foe, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.5 | Must I behold thy timeless cruel death? | Must I behold thy timelesse cruell death: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iii.17 | And not with such a cruel threatening look! | And not with such a cruell threatning Looke. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.166 | As now I reap at thy too cruel hand! | As now I reape at thy too cruell hand. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.112 | Upon that Clifford, that cruel child-killer. | Vpon that Clifford, that cruell Child-killer. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.165 | I think you have hit the mark; but is't not cruel | I thinke / You haue hit the marke; but is't not cruell, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.100 | Out of the gripes of cruel men, and give it | Out of the gripes of cruell men, and giue it |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.129 | Thou hast a cruel nature and a bloody. | Thou hast a cruell Nature and a bloody. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.36 | O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, | O you hard hearts, you cruell men of Rome, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.165 | Though now we must appear bloody and cruel, | Though now we must appeare bloody and cruell, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.294 | The cruel issue of these bloody men; | The cruell issue of these bloody men, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.67 | O cruel father! Farewell Edward, then. | O cruell Father, farewell Edward then. |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.126 | To this most cruel act, do but despair; | To this most cruell Act: do but dispaire, |
| King John | KJ V.iv.59 | For I do see the cruel pangs of death | For I do see the cruell pangs of death |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.7 | Ha, ha! He wears cruel garters. Horses are tied by | Hah, ha, he weares Cruell Garters Horses are tide by |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.55 | Because I would not see thy cruel nails | Because I would not see thy cruell Nailes |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.69 | Give me some help! – O, cruel! O, you gods! | Giue me some helpe.----O cruell! O you Gods. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.85.2 | Too cruel, anywhere. | Too cruell, any where. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.31 | Their cruel parricide, filling their hearers | Their cruell Parricide, filling their hearers |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.18 | But cruel are the times when we are traitors | But cruell are the times, when we are Traitors |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.107 | Producing forth the cruel ministers | Producing forth the cruell Ministers |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.109 | Were not you then as cruel as the sentence | Were not you then as cruell as the Sentence, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.255 | Shame to him whose cruel striking | Shame to him, whose cruell striking, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.68 | There died this morning of a cruel fever | There died this morning of a cruell Feauor, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.205 | This is that face, thou cruel Angelo, | This is that face, thou cruell Angelo |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.316 | my creditors grow cruel, my estate is very low, my bond | my Creditors grow cruell, my estate is very low, my bond |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.214 | And curb this cruel devil of his will. | And curbe this cruell diuell of his will. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.12 | and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe. | and most cruell death of Pyramus and Thisbie. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.156 | And you sat smiling at his cruel prey. | And yet sat smiling at his cruell prey. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.80 | Extremely stretched, and conned with cruel pain, | Extreamely stretcht, and cond with cruell paine, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.21 | But they are cruel tears: this sorrow's heavenly – | But they are cruell Teares: This sorrow's heauenly, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.88 | I, that am cruel, am yet merciful: | I that am cruell, am yet mercifull, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.247 | Moor, she was chaste; she loved thee, cruel Moor, | Moore, she was chaste: She lou'd thee, cruell Moore, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.172 | Till cruel Cleon with his wicked wife, | Till cruel Cleon with his wicked wife, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.21 | I have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the | I haue fought with the men, I will bee ciuill with the |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.48 | And cruel death hath catched it from my sight. | And cruell death hath catcht it from my sight. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.57 | By cruel, cruel thee quite overthrown. | By cruell, cruell thee, quite ouerthrowne: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.182 | Ah, Tranio, what a cruel father's he! | Ah Tranio, what a cruell Fathers he: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.61 | Religious canons, civil laws are cruel; | Religious Cannons, ciuill Lawes are cruell, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.133 | O cruel, irreligious piety. | O cruell irreligious piety. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.455 | The cruel father and his traitorous sons | The cruell Father, and his trayt'rous sonnes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC prologue.5 | Of cruel war. Sixty-and-nine that wore | Of cruell Warre: Sixty and nine that wore |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.3 | That find such cruel battle here within? | That finde such cruell battell here within? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.184 | Labouring for destiny, make cruel way | Labouring for destiny, make cruell way |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.23 | And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, | And my desires like fell and cruell hounds, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.53 | I am slain by a fair cruel maid. | I am slaine by a faire cruell maide: |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.109.1 | Still so cruel? | Still so cruell? |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.125 | Him will I tear out of that cruel eye | Him will I teare out of that cruell eye, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.40 | The wrath of cruel Creon; who endured | The wrath of cruell Creon; who endured |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.41.2 | That were too cruel. | That were too cruell. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.242 | That were a cruel wisdom; do men prune | That were a cruell wisedome, doe men proyne |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK epilogue.3 | I am cruel fearful. Pray yet stay awhile, | I am cruell fearefull: pray yet stay a while, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.116 | But this most cruel usage of your queen – | But this most cruell vsage of your Queene |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.437 | I will devise a death as cruel for thee | I will deuise a death, as cruell for thee |