| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.30.2 | Enter Martius, cursing | Enter Martius Cursing. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.78 | Beating your officers, cursing yourselves, | Beating your Officers, cursing your selues, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.584 | And fall a-cursing like a very drab, | And fall a Cursing like a very Drab, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.372 | Blaspheming God, and cursing men on earth. | Blaspheming God, and cursing men on earth. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.200 | you be a cursing hypocrite once, you must be looked to. | you be a cursing hypocrite once, you must be lookt to. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.52 | Filled it with cursing cries and deep exclaims. | Fill'd it with cursing cries, and deepe exclaimes: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.v.31 | Is arming, weeping, cursing, vowing vengeance; | Is arming, weeping, cursing, vowing vengeance; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.32 | hissing, howling, chattering, cursing – O, they have | hissing, / Howling, chattring, cursing, oh they have |