| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.142 | To bear the extremity of dire mishap, | To beare the extremitie of dire mishap: |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.196 | And brings the dire occasion in his arms | And brings the dire occasion in his Armes, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.268 | Thy natural magic and dire property | Thy naturall Magicke, and dire propertie, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iv.34 | Il me commande à vous dire que vous faites vous prêt | Il me commande a vous dire que vous faite vous prest, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.41 | And mine shall ring thy dire departure out. | And mine shall ring thy dire departure out. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.165 | With hope of sharp unheard-of dire revenge. | With hope of sharpe vnheard of dyre reuenge, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.55 | Of dire combustion and confused events | Of dyre Combustion, and confus'd Euents, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.188.1 | To doff their dire distresses. | To doffe their dire distresses. |
| Othello | Oth I.i.76 | Do, with like timorous accent and dire yell, | Doe, with like timerous accent, and dire yell, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.127 | And for our eyes do hate the dire aspect | And for our eyes do hate the dire aspect |
| Richard II | R2 V.vi.16 | That sought at Oxford thy dire overthrow. | That sought at Oxford, thy dire ouerthrow. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.5 | A dire induction am I witness to, | A dire induction, am I witnesse to, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.143 | And the dire death of my poor sons and brothers? | And the dyre death of my poore Sonnes, and Brothers. |
| Richard III | R3 V.v.28 | Divided in their dire division; | Diuided, in their dire Diuision. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.247 | That he should hither come as this dire night | That he should hither come, as this dyre night, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.6 | To ruminate strange plots of dire revenge; | To ruminate strange plots of dire Reuenge, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.177 | That hath been breeder of these dire events. | That hath beene breeder of these dire euents. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.135 | All fears attending on so dire a project. | All feares attending on so dire a proiect. |