| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.295 | sighing every minute and groaning every hour would | sighing euerie minute, and groaning euerie houre wold |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.258 | It would cost you a groaning to take off mine | It would cost you a groaning, to take off my |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.199 | Many a groaning throe. Thus hulling in | Many a groaning throw: thus hulling in |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.61 | And groaning underneath this age's yoke, | And groaning vnderneath this Ages yoake, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.275 | With carrion men, groaning for burial. | With Carrion men, groaning for Buriall. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.172 | His knell, the groaning cries of dying men; | His knell the groning cryes of dying men, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.841 | With groaning wretches; and your task shall be | With groaning wretches: and your taske shall be, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.15 | What shall be done, sir, with the groaning Juliet? | What shall be done Sir, with the groaning Iuliet? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.86 | Why, is not this better now than groaning for | Why is not this better now, then groning for |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.129 | T' appease their groaning shadows that are gone. | T'appease their groaning shadowes that are gone. |