| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.17 | Yet have I fierce affections, and think | Yet haue I fierce Affections, and thinke |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.59 | Even to Cato's wish, not fierce and terrible | Euen to Calues wish, not fierce and terrible |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.x.27 | Wash my fierce hand in's heart. Go you to th' city. | Wash my fierce hand in's heart. Go you to th' Citie, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.383 | When shall I hear all through? This fierce abridgement | When shall I heare all through? This fierce abridgment, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.9 | For England his approaches makes as fierce | For England his approaches makes as fierce, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.99 | Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming, | Therefore in fierce Tempest is he comming, |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.23 | When down the hill he holds his fierce career? | When downe the Hill he holds his fierce Carriere? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.14 | Than midday sun fierce bent against their faces. | Then mid-day Sunne, fierce bent against their faces. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.85 | Such fierce alarums both of hope and fear, | Such fierce alarums both of Hope and Feare, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ix.45 | For he is fierce and cannot brook hard language. | For he is fierce, and cannot brooke hard Language. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.54 | To do in these fierce vanities? I wonder | To do in these fierce Vanities? I wonder, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.19 | Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds | Fierce fiery Warriours fight vpon the Clouds |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.263 | Domestic fury and fierce civil strife | Domesticke Fury, and fierce Ciuill strife, |
| King John | KJ I.i.17 | The proud control of fierce and bloody war, | The proud controle offierce and bloudy warre, |
| King John | KJ II.i.68 | With ladies' faces and fierce dragons' spleens – | With Ladies faces, and fierce Dragons spleenes, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.12 | Such temperate order in so fierce a cause, | Such temperate order in so fierce a cause, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.73 | Even with the fierce looks of these bloody men. | Euen with the fierce lookes of these bloody men. |
| King John | KJ IV.i.119 | That mercy which fierce fire and iron extends – | That mercie, which fierce fire, and Iron extends, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.158 | To fierce and bloody inclination. | To fierce and bloody inclination. |
| King John | KJ V.vii.13 | O vanity of sickness! Fierce extremes | Oh vanity of sicknesse: fierce extreames |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.12 | More composition and fierce quality | More composition, and fierce qualitie, |
| King Lear | KL II.i.34 | Of my more fierce endeavour. I have seen drunkards | Of my more fierce endeauour. I haue seene drunkards |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.167 | Thee o'er to harshness. Her eyes are fierce; but thine | Thee o're to harshnesse: Her eyes are fierce, but thine |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.56 | Pluck out his poor old eyes; nor thy fierce sister | Plucke out his poore old eyes: nor thy fierce Sister, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.842 | With all the fierce endeavour of your wit | With all the fierce endeuour of your wit, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.82 | There is no following her in this fierce vein. | There is no following her in this fierce vaine, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.325 | And though she be but little, she is fierce. | And though she be but little, she is fierce. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.68 | But as the fierce vexation of a dream. | But as the fierce vexation of a dreame. |
| Pericles | Per epilogue.V.iii.4 | Although assailed with fortune fierce and keen, | Although assayl'de with Fortune fierce and keene. |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.33 | His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last; | His rash fierce blaze of Ryot cannot last, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.173 | In war was never lion raged more fierce, | In warre was neuer Lyon rag'd more fierce: |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.109 | That staggers thus my person. Exton, thy fierce hand | That staggers thus my person. Exton, thy fierce hand, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.71 | No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. | No Beast so fierce, but knowes some touch of pitty. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.38 | More fierce and more inexorable far | More fierce and more inexorable farre, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.ii.30 | O the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us! | Oh the fierce wretchednesse that Glory brings vs! |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.165 | But fierce Andronicus would not relent. | But fierce Andronicus would not relent, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.8 | Fierce to their skill, and to their fierceness valiant; | Fierce to their skill, and to their fiercenesse Valiant: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.v.6 | Renew, renew! The fierce Polydamas | Renew, renew, the fierce Polidamus |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.64 | Or what fierce sulphur else, to this end made, | Or what feirce sulphur else, to this end made, |