| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.193 | Why then, let grievous, ghastly, gaping wounds | why then let grieuous, gastly, gaping Wounds, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.170 | Staring full ghastly like a strangled man; | Staring full gastly, like a strangled man: |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.23 | Upon a heap a hundred ghastly women, | Vpon a heape, a hundred gastly Women, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.27 | Which is so ghastly printed in thy face. | Which is so gastly printed in thy face, |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.8 | Intending deep suspicion, ghastly looks | Intending deepe suspition, gastly Lookes |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.314.1 | Wherefore this ghastly looking? | Wherefore this ghastly looking? |