| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.128.1 | I am wrapped in dismal thinkings. | I am wrap'd in dismall thinkings. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.454 | With heraldry more dismal. Head to foot | With Heraldry more dismall: Head to foote |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.361.2 | The sight is dismal, | The sight is dismall, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.105 | I must inform you of a dismal fight | I must informe you of a dismall fight, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.41 | Whose dismal tune bereft my vital powers; | Whose dismall tune bereft my Vitall powres: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.18 | Like to a dismal clangour heard from far, | Like to a dismall Clangor heard from farre, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.58 | Now death shall stop his dismal threatening sound | Now death shall stop his dismall threatning sound, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.48 | And chattering pies in dismal discords sung. | And chatt'ring Pies in dismall Discords sung: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.71 | The dismal charge of trumpets' loud retreat. | The dismall charge of Trumpets loud retreat: |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.55 | The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict, | The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismall Conflict, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.v.21 | Unto a dismal and a fatal end. | Vnto a dismall, and a Fatall end. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.12 | Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir | Would at a dismall Treatise rowze, and stirre |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.74 | Makes me look dismal, will I clip to form, | makes mee looke dismall, will I clip to forme, |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.63 | And Bolingbroke my sorrow's dismal heir. | And Bullinbrooke my sorrowes dismall heyre: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.7 | So full of dismal terror was the time. | So full of dismall terror was the time. |
| Richard III | R3 III.iii.12 | And, for more slander to thy dismal seat, | And for more slander to thy dismall Seat, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.44 | This torture should be roared in dismal hell. | This torture should be roar'd in dismall hell, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.19 | My dismal scene I needs must act alone. | My dismall Sceane, I needs must act alone: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.107 | Unto the body of a dismal yew | Vnto the body of a dismall yew, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.260 | Gnawing with thy teeth, and be this dismal sight | Gnawing with thy teeth, and be this dismall sight |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.66 | A joyless, dismal, black, and sorrowful issue. | A ioylesse, dismall, blacke &, sorrowfull issue, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.113 | And, dainty Duke, whose doughty dismal fame | And daintie Duke, whose doughtie dismall fame |