| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.41 | We have yet many among us can gripe as hard as | We haue yet many among vs, can gripe as hard as |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.57 | To gripe the general sway into your hand, | To gripe the generall sway into your hand, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vi.22 | And, with a feeble grip, says, ‘ Dear my lord, | And with a feeble gripe, sayes: Deere my Lord, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.190 | And he that speaks doth gripe the hearer's wrist, | And he that speakes, doth gripe the hearers wrist, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.61 | And put a barren sceptre in my grip, | And put a barren Scepter in my Gripe, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.80 | Let vultures gripe thy guts! For gourd and fullam holds, | Let Vultures gripe thy guts: for gourd, and Fullam holds: |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.418 | And then, sir, would he gripe and wring my hand, | And then (Sir) would he gripe, and wring my hand: |
| Pericles | Per I.i.50 | Gripe not at earthly joys as erst they did, | Gripe not at earthly ioyes as earst they did; |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.189 | Seek you to seize and grip into your hands | Seeke you to seize, and gripe into your hands |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.80 | Can grip the sacred handle of our sceptre | Can gripe the sacred Handle of our Scepter, |