| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.57 | O that thou wert not, poor distressed soul! | Oh that thou wer't not, poore distressed soule. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.47 | This youth, howe'er distressed, appears he hath had | This youth, how ere distrest, appeares he hath had |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.30 | O, send some succour to the distressed lord! | O send some succour to the distrest Lord. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ix.31 | Thus stands my state, 'twixt Cade and York distressed; | Thus stands my state, 'twixt Cade and Yorke distrest, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.213 | But by thy help to this distressed Queen? | But by thy helpe to this distressed Queene? |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.110 | Being distressed, was by that wretch betrayed, | Being distrest; was by that wretch betraid, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.41 | Requires, when friends are any way distressed, | Requires when friends are any way distrest, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.17 | We are distressed poor inhabitants | Wee are distressed poore inhabitants, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.29 | Poor silly men, much wronged, and more distressed! | Poore silly men, much wrongd, and more distrest, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.112 | Did travel that way, finding him distressed, | Did trauaile that way, finding him distrest, |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.38 | Well, sir, the poor distressed Lear's i'the town, | |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.7 | O my distressed lord, even such our griefs are. | O my distressed Lord, euen such our griefes are, |
| Pericles | Per II.v.45 | A stranger and distressed gentleman, | A Stranger, and distressed Gentleman, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.86 | Alas, you three on me, threefold distressed, | Alas! you three, on me threefold distrest: |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.184 | A beauty-waning and distressed widow, | A Beautie-waining, and distressed Widow, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.98 | For happy wife, a most distressed widow; | For happy Wife, a most distressed Widdow: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.59 | Despised, distressed, hated, martyred, killed! | Despis'd, distressed, hated, martir'd, kil'd, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.106 | The eldest son of this distressed queen. | The eldest Son of this distressed Queene. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.32 | And rather comfort his distressed plight | And rather comfort his distressed plight, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.36 | What woman I may stead that is distressed | What woman I may steed that is distrest, |