| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.140 | That desperately he hurried through the street, | That desp'rately he hurried through the streete, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.178 | But toiling desperately to find it out – | But toyling desperately to finde it out, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.290.1 | And desperately are dead. | And desperately are dead |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.142 | of mortality, and desperately mortal. | of mortality, and desperately mortall. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.274 | A bloody deed, and desperately dispatched! | A bloody deed, and desperately dispatcht: |