| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.i.9 | Make boot of his distraction. Never anger | Make boote of his distraction: Neuer anger |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.552 | Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect, | Teares in his eyes, distraction in's Aspect, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.223 | How I am punished with a sore distraction. | how I am punisht / With sore distraction? |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.112 | Madam, this is a mere distraction. | Madam, this is a meere distraction, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.79 | distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket. | distraction, they conuey'd me into a bucke-basket. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.42 | You flow to great distraction; come, my lord. | You flow to great distraction: come my Lord? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.85 | Behold distraction, frenzy, and amazement | Behold distraction, frenzie, and amazement, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.65 | I know not what 'twas, but distraction. | I know not what 'twas, but distraction. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.311 | This savours not much of distraction. | This sauours not much of distraction. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.1 | Her distraction is more at some time of the moon | Her distraction is more at some time of the Moone, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.149 | As if you held a brow of much distraction. | as if you held a Brow of much distraction: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.47 | distraction that they were to be known by garment, not | distraction, that they were to be knowne by Garment, not |