| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.129 | To lay on me a cruelty by taking | To lay on me a Cruelty, by taking |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.39 | Yet heard too much of Phebe's cruelty. | Yet heard too much of Phebes crueltie. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.77 | The cruelty and envy of the people, | The Cruelty and Enuy of the people, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.45 | Audacious cruelty. If that the King | Audacious Crueltie. If that the King |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.109 | for when lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the | for when Leuitie and Crueltie play for a Kingdome, the |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.130 | Thy cruelty in execution | Thy Crueltie in execution |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.134 | Come, soldiers, show what cruelty ye can, | Come Souldiers, shew what cruelty ye can. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.60 | In cruelty will I seek out my fame. | In cruelty, will I seeke out my Fame. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.76 | For what they have been. 'Tis a cruelty | For what they haue beene: 'tis a cruelty, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.41 | Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood; | Of direst Crueltie: make thick my blood, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.71 | To do worse to you were fell cruelty, | To do worse to you, were fell Cruelty, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.21 | From out the state of hellish cruelty. | From out the state of hellish cruelty, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.21 | Than is thy strange apparent cruelty; | Than is thy strange apparant cruelty; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.64 | To excuse the current of thy cruelty. | To excuse the currant of thy cruelty. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.59 | Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty. | Pierst through the heart with your stearne cruelty: |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.329 | If there be any cunning cruelty | If there be any cunning Crueltie, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.277 | Placed in contempt. Farewell, fair cruelty! | Plac'd in contempt: Farwell fayre crueltie. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.79 | Get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty. | Get thee to yond same soueraigne crueltie: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.62 | great presage of cruelty. | great presage of cruelty. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.249 | Despise my cruelty, and cry woe worth me, | Despise my crueltie, and cry woe worth me, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.6 | Shall never curse my cruelty. Good heaven, | Shall never curse my cruelty: Good heaven, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.190 | Against this cruelty fight on thy side, | Against this Crueltie, fight on thy side |