| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ix.16 | Against the flint and hardness of my fault, | Against the flint and hardnesse of my fault, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.91 | May hang upon your hardness. Therefore hear us. | May hang vpon your hardnesse, therefore heare vs. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vi.21 | Plenty and peace breeds cowards: hardness ever | Plentie, and Peace breeds Cowards: Hardnesse euer |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.432 | Is so from sense in hardness, that I can | Is so from sense in hardnesse, that I can |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.231 | I find in hardness; and do undertake | I finde in hardnesse: and do vndertake |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.34 | Well, my good lady. (Aside) O, hardness to dissemble! | Well my good Lady. Oh hardnes to dissemble! |