| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.146 | That this distempered messenger of wet, | That this distempered messenger of wet? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.310 | distempered. | distemper'd. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.41 | It is but as a body yet distempered, | It is but as a Body, yet distemper'd, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.154 | No scope of nature, no distempered day, | No scope of Nature, no distemper'd day, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.21 | Once more today well met, distempered lords! | Once more to day well met, distemper'd Lords, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.15 | He cannot buckle his distempered cause | He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.29 | Young son, it argues a distempered head | Young Sonne, it argues a distempered head, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.145 | Saw I him touched with anger so distempered. | Saw I him touch'd with anger, so distemper'd. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.170 | To the hot passion of distempered blood | To the hot passion of distemp'red blood, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.86 | with a distempered appetite. To be generous, guiltless, | with a distemper'd appetite. To be generous, guitlesse, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.119 | By no mean cross her; she is then distempered | By no meane crosse her, she is then distemperd |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.70 | distempered the other senses; they may return and settle | distemperd the / Other sences, they may returne and settle |