| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.132 | To that destruction which I'll guard them from | To that destruction which Ile guard them from, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.235.1 | A sure destruction. | a sure destruction. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.213.1 | Into destruction cast him. | Into destruction cast him. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.33 | And winking leaped into destruction. | And (winking) leap'd into destruction. |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.4 | Or, like to men proud of destruction, | Or like to men prowd of destruction, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.27 | And pale destruction meets thee in the face. | And pale destruction meets thee in the face: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.21 | And hemmed about with grim destruction. | And hem'd about with grim destruction: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.149 | She'll gallop far enough to her destruction. | Shee'le gallop farre enough to her destruction. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.140.1 | And woo your own destruction. | And woe your owne destruction. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.13 | Incenses them to send destruction. | Incenses them to send destruction. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.265 | Blood and destruction shall be so in use | Blood and destruction shall be so in vse, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.12 | When envy and destruction is so nigh? | When enuie and destruction is so nigh, |
| King John | KJ II.i.409 | We from the west will send destruction | We from the West will send destruction |
| King John | KJ V.vii.77 | To push destruction and perpetual shame | To push destruction,and perpetuall shame |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.7 | Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. | Then by destruction dwell in doubtfull ioy. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.59 | Even till destruction sicken – answer me | Euen till destruction sicken: Answer me |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.175 | Destruction on my head, if my bad blame | Destruction on my head, if my bad blame |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.102 | Cry woe, destruction, ruin, and decay. | Cry Woe, Destruction, Ruine, Losse, Decay, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.138 | Destruction straight shall dog them at the heels. | Destruction straight shall dogge them at the heeles: |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.53 | Welcome destruction, blood, and massacre! | Welcome Destruction, Blood, and Massacre, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.39 | Death and destruction dog thee at thy heels; | Death and Destruction dogges thee at thy heeles, |
| Richard III | R3 V.i.9 | Even for revenge mock my destruction! | Euen for reuenge mocke my destruction. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.320 | To desperate adventures and assured destruction. | To desperate Aduentures, and assur'd Destruction. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.81 | what is amiss in them, you gods, make suitable for destruction. | what is amisse in them, you Gods, make suteable for destruction. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.23 | Destruction fang mankind. Earth, yield me roots. | Destruction phang mankinde; Earth yeeld me Rootes, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.63 | Hath in her more destruction than thy sword, | Hath in her more destruction then thy Sword, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.50 | Which dreads not yet their lives' destruction. | Which dreads not yet their liues destruction. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.169 | Writing destruction on the enemy's castle? | Writing destruction on the enemies Castle? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.21 | Swooning destruction, or some joy too fine, | Sounding distruction, or some ioy too fine, |