| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.64 | Destroy our friends and after weep their dust; | Destroy our friends, and after weepe their dust: |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.146 | To fright them ere destroy. But come in | To fright them, ere destroy. But come in, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.42.1 | Destroy what lies before 'em. | Destroy, what lies before 'em. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.133 | To save the Romans, thereby to destroy | To saue the Romanes, thereby to destroy |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.207 | Their own enactures with themselves destroy. | Their owne ennactors with themselues destroy: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.231 | Meet what I would have well, and it destroy, | Meet what I would haue well, and it destroy: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.115 | To slay your sovereign and destroy the realm. | To slay your Soueraigne, and destroy the Realme. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.25 | Here, purposing the Bastard to destroy, | Here purposing the Bastard to destroy, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.229 | Made it no conscience to destroy a prince. | Made it no conscience to destroy a Prince. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.230.1 | That must destroy thee. | That must destroy thee. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.68 | Approach the chamber and destroy your sight | Approch the Chamber, and destroy your sight |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.6 | 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy | 'Tis safer, to be that which we destroy, |
| Pericles | Per II.v.88 | And being joined, I'll thus your hopes destroy, | and being ioynd, / Ile thus your hopes destroy, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.105 | Seen how his son's son should destroy his sons, | Seene how his sonnes sonne, should destroy his sonnes, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.119 | Dost thou teach pardon pardon to destroy? | Dost thou teach pardon, Pardon to destroy? |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.246 | 'Tis he that sends us to destroy you here. | 'Tis he that sends vs to destroy you heere. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.139.1 | That hour destroy us? | That howre destroy vs? |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.46 | I would my valiant master would destroy thee! | I would my valiant Master would destroy thee. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.115.1 | Wilt thou destroy him then? | Wilt thou destroy him then? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.59 | So thou destroy Rapine and Murder there. | So thou destroy Rapine and Murder there. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.243 | Shall I destroy him? – whether there, or there, or there? – | Shall I destroy him? Whether there, or there, or there, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.23 | I would destroy th' offender, coz; I would, | I would destroy th' offender, Coz, I would |