| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.6 | Good sister, let us dine, and never fret. | Good Sister let vs dine, and neuer fret; |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.379 | though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me. | though you can fret me, you cannot play vpon me. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.77 | Fret fetlock-deep in gore, and with wild rage | Fret fet-locke deepe in gore, and with wilde rage |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.ii.20 | Let Henry fret and all the world repine. | Let Henry fret, and all the world repine. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.228 | So York must sit and fret and bite his tongue, | So Yorke must sit, and fret, and bite his tongue, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.91 | Stamp, rave, and fret, that I may sing and dance. | Stampe, raue, and fret, that I may sing and dance. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.105 | I would 'twere something that would fret the string, | I would 'twer somthing yt would fretthe string, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.104 | That fret the clouds are messengers of day. | That fret the Clouds, are Messengers of Day. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.42 | All this? Ay, more: fret till your proud heart break; | All this? I more: Fret till your proud hart break. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.282 | With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks, | With cadent Teares fret Channels in her cheekes, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.13 | me the honey bag. Do not fret yourself too much in the | mee the hony bag. Doe not fret your selfe too much in the |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.227 | Nay, look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret, | Nay, looke not big, nor stampe, nor stare, nor fret, |