| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.24 | pity his distress in my similes of comfort, and leave him | pittie his distresse in my smiles of comfort, and leaue him |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.92 | Art thou thus boldened, man, by thy distress | Art thou thus bolden'd man by thy distres? |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.96 | Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show | Of bare distresse, hath tane from me the shew |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.36 | Upbraid's with our distress. But sure, if you | Vpbraid's with our distresse. But sure if you |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.51.2 | He wrings at some distress. | He wrings at some distresse. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.178 | As one incapable of her own distress, | As one incapable of her owne distresse, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.87 | Again, in pity of my hard distress, | Againe, in pitty of my hard distresse, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.37 | Not fearing death nor shrinking for distress, | Not fearing Death, nor shrinking for Distresse, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.31 | Forsake your loving parents in distress. | For sake your louing parents in distresse. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.131 | Thou art a married man in this distress, | Thou art a married man in this distresse. |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.18 | In the good man's distress. Seek, seek for him, | In the Goodmans desires: seeke, seeke for him, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.174 | of the same strain were in the same distress. | of the same straine, were in the same distresse. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.264 | Were you in my distress – | Were you in my distresse. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.64 | Our fatherless distress was left unmoaned: | Our fatherlesse distresse was left vnmoan'd, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.14 | distress of his. It will show honestly in us, and is | distresse of his: / It will shew honestly in vs, / And is |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.38 | Who, though they cannot answer my distress, | Who though they cannot answere my distresse, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.105 | Heart-deep with your distress; let him consider. | Hart deepe with your distresse: Let him consider: |