| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.206 | A grievous fault. Say, woman, didst thou so? | A greeuous fault: say woman, didst thou so? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.431 | The complaints I hear of thee are grievous. | The complaints I heare of thee, are grieuous. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.16 | He cannot come, my lord, he is grievous sick. | He cannot come, my Lord, He is greeuous sicke. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.193 | Why then, let grievous, ghastly, gaping wounds | why then let grieuous, gastly, gaping Wounds, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.152 | Girding with grievous siege castles and towns; | Girding with grieuous siege, Castles and Townes: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.129 | That malice was a great and grievous sin; | That Mallice was a great and grieuous sinne: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.247 | And torture him with grievous lingering death. | And torture him with grieuous lingring death. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.370 | For suddenly a grievous sickness took him, | For sodainly a greeuous sicknesse tooke him, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.98 | Heard many grievous – I do say, my lord, | Heard many greeuous. I do say my Lord |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.99 | Grievous – complaints of you; which, being considered, | Greeuous complaints of you; which being consider'd, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.80 | If it were so, it was a grievous fault, | If it were so, it was a greeuous Fault, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.49 | To season his courage with those grievous thoughts | To season his courage with those greeuous thoughts, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.187 | like, which else would stand under grievous imposition, | like, which else would stand vnder greeuous imposition: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.407 | Of grievous penalties, in lieu whereof | Of greeuous penalties, in lieu whereof, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.23 | Hath seen a grievous wrack and sufferance | Hath seene a greeuous wracke and sufferance |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.54 | Old John of Gaunt is grievous sick, my lord, | Old Iohn of Gaunt is verie sicke my Lord, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.246 | The commons hath he pilled with grievous taxes, | The Commons hath he pil'd with greeuous taxes |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.222 | These accusations and these grievous crimes | These Accusations, and these grieuous Crymes, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.141 | 'Tis very grievous to be thought upon. | 'Tis very greeuous to be thought vpon. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.216 | If heaven have any grievous plague in store | If Heauen haue any grieuous plague in store, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.325 | I lay unto the grievous charge of others. | I lay vnto the greeuous charge of others. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.193 | By Christ's dear blood shed for our grievous sins, | |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.276 | Of this most grievous murder! | Of this most greeuous murther. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.50 | That Anne my wife is grievous sick. | That Anne my Wife is very grieuous sicke, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.168 | A grievous burden was thy birth to me; | A greeuous burthen was thy Birth to me, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.188 | Therefore take with thee my most grievous curse, | Therefore take with thee my most greeuous Curse, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.33 | If lost, why then a grievous labour won; | If lost, why then a grieuous labour won; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.44 | a very grievous punishment, as one would think, for | a very greevous punishment, as one would thinke, for |