| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xii.8 | His fretted fortunes give him hope and fear | His fretted Fortunes giue him hope and feare |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.88 | With golden cherubins is fretted. Her andirons – | With golden Cherubins is fretted. Her Andirons |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.301 | this majestical roof fretted with golden fire – why, it | this Maiesticall Roofe, fretted with golden fire: why, it |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.77 | When they are fretten with the gusts of heaven; | When they are fretted with the gusts of heauen: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.104 | clothes that fretted in their own grease. Think of that, a | Cloathes, that fretted in their owne grease: thinke of that, a |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.167 | Till they have fretted us a pair of graves | Till they haue fretted vs a payre of Graues, |