| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.154.1 | To th' worst of discontent. | To'th'worst of discontent. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.201 | For what's more miserable than discontent? | For what's more miserable then Discontent? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.301 | Heart's discontent and sour affliction | Hearts Discontent, and sowre Affliction, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.173 | Mine, full of sorrow and heart's discontent. | Mine full of sorrow, and hearts discontent. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.203 | Acquaint me with your cause of discontent. | Acquant me with theyr cause of discontent. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.133 | I bind my discontent to my content, | I bynd my discontent to my content, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.179 | What may be wrought out of their discontent, | What may be wrought out of their discontent, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.53 | Doth move the murmuring lips of discontent | Doth moue the murmuring lips of discontent |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.9 | Hath often stilled my brawling discontent. | Hath often still'd my brawling discontent. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.35 | Can you make no use of your discontent? | Can you make no vse of your discontent? |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.330 | I see your brows are full of discontent, | I see your Browes are full of Discontent, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.1 | Now is the winter of our discontent | NOw is the Winter of our Discontent, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.80 | Sister, content you in my discontent. | Sister content you, in my discontent. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.71 | take't of my soul, my lord leans wondrously to discontent. | tak't of my soule, my Lord leanes wondrously to discontent: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.270 | Rest on my word, and let not discontent | Rest on my word, and let not discontent |