| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.35 | Distracted clouds give way; so stand thou forth: | Distracted clouds giue way, so stand thou forth, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.39 | To fetch my poor distracted husband hence. | To fetch my poore distracted husband hence, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.97 | In this distracted globe. Remember thee? | In this distracted Globe: Remember thee? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.5 | He does confess he feels himself distracted, | He does confesse he feeles himselfe distracted, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.4 | He's loved of the distracted multitude, | Hee's loued of the distracted multitude, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.21.IV.v. | Enter Ophelia | Enter Ophelia distracted. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.105 | hath distracted her. But, for these foolish officers, I | hath distracted her: but for these foolish Officers, I |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.101 | Upon their pillows; they stared and were distracted; | Vpon their Pillowes: they star'd, and were distracted, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iv.2 | In most uneven and distracted manner. His | In most vneuen and distracted manner, his |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.31 | I led them on in this distracted fear, | I led them on in this distracted feare, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.249 | And silence those whom this vile brawl distracted. | And silence those whom this vil'd brawle distracted. |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.12 | His brother, and yours, abide all three distracted, | His Brother, and yours, abide all three distracted, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.114 | You only speak from your distracted soul; | you onely speake from your distracted soule; |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.247 | Hath a distracted and most wretched being, | Hath a distracted and most wretched being, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.192 | Accept distracted thanks. | Accept distracted thankes. |