| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.142 | You ne'er oppressed me with a mother's groan, | You nere opprest me with a mothers groane, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.51 | grief; in fine, made a groan of her last breath, and now | greefe: in fine, made a groane of her last breath, & now |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.31 | Then in the midst a tearing groan did break | Then in the midd'st a tearing grone did breake |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iv.4 | Have I heard groan and drop. Then know me not, | Haue I heard groane, and drop: Then know me not, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.69 | Could not find death where I did hear him groan, | Could not finde death, where I did heare him groane, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.6 | Groan so in perpetuity than be cured | Groane so in perpetuity, then be cur'd |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.23 | Did the king sigh, but with a general groan. | Did the King sighe, but with a generall grone. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.104 | Hear, hear how dying Salisbury doth groan. | Heare, heare, how dying Salisbury doth groane, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.221 | His fortunes I will weep, and 'twixt each groan | His fortunes I will weepe, and 'twixt each groane, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.310 | Would curses kill, as doth the mandrake's groan, | Would curses kill, as doth the Mandrakes grone, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.43 | A deadly groan, like life and death's departing. | A deadly grone, like life and deaths departing. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.ii.46 | I well might hear, delivered with a groan, | I well might heare, deliuered with a groane, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.106 | And with that blood will make 'em one day groan for't. | And with that bloud will make 'em one day groane for't. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.124 | Did lose his lustre; I did hear him groan; | Did loose his Lustre: I did heare him grone: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.23 | Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan, | Horsses do neigh, and dying men did grone, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.i.22 | To groan and sweat under the business, | To groane and swet vnder the Businesse, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.68 | Talking of grief, to make thee ready groan, | Talking of griefe, to make thee ready grone, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.118 | I would you heard it groan. | I would you heard it grone. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.201 | Well, I will love, write, sigh, pray, sue, and groan; | Well, I will loue, write, sigh, pray, shue, grone, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.19 | comes one with a paper. God give him grace to groan! | comes one with a paper, God giue him grace to grone. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.180 | Or groan for Joan? Or spend a minute's time | Or grone for Ioane? or spend a minutes time, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.16 | And, sorrow wag, cry ‘ hem!’ when he should groan, | And sorrow, wagge, crie hem, when he should grone, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iii.17 | Help us to sigh and groan, | helpe vs to sigh and grone. |
| Othello | Oth V.i.42 | Two or three groan. It is a heavy night. | Two or three groane. 'Tis heauy night; |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.56 | That I do groan withal. Thou art to die. | That I do grone withall. Thou art to dye. |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.103 | but he made a groan at it, and swore he would see | but he made a groane at it, and swore he would see |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.138 | And future ages groan for this foul act. | And future Ages groane for his foule Act. |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.91 | Twice for one step I'll groan, the way being short, | Twice for one step Ile groane, ye Way being short, |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.100 | That I may strive to kill it with a groan. | That I may striue to kill it with a groane. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.200.1 | What, shall I groan and tell thee? | What shall I grone and tell thee? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.200.2 | Groan! Why, no. | Grone, why no: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.123 | O heavens, can you hear a good man groan | O heauens! Can you heare a good man grone |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.231.1 | Groan under such a mastery. | Grone under such a Mastry. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.35.2 | Made her groan a month for't – | Made her groane a moneth for't; |