| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.189 | A most harsh one, and not to be understood | A most harsh one, and not to bee vnderstoode |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.45 | Let's not confound the time with conference harsh. | Let's not confound the time with Conference harsh; |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.54 | What counts harsh Fortune casts upon my face, | What counts harsh Fotune cast's vpon my face, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.62.1 | And harsh in sound to thine. | And harsh in sound to thine. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.134 | With that harsh, noble, simple nothing, | With that harsh, noble, simple nothing: |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.83 | Upon a valiant race thy harsh | Vpon a valiant Race, thy harsh, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.159 | Like sweet bells jangled, out of time and harsh, | Like sweet Bels iangled out of tune, and harsh, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.145.13 | poisoner woos the Queen with gifts. She seems harsh | Poysoner Wooes the Queene with Gifts, she seemes loath and vnwilling |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.342 | And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, | And in this harsh world draw thy breath in paine, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.177 | Yet oftentimes it doth present harsh rage, | Yet oftentimes it doth present harsh Rage, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.49 | Into the harsh and boisterous tongue of war, | Into the harsh and boystrous Tongue of Warre? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.312 | As curst, as harsh, and horrible to hear, | As curst, as harsh, and horrible to heare, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.86 | That Clarence is so harsh, so blunt, unnatural, | That Clarence is so harsh, so blunt vnnaturall, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.95.1 | They are harsh and heavy to me. | They are harsh and heauy to me. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.59 | To trouble heaven with such harsh resounds. | To trouble heauen wrth such harsh resounds, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.150 | To whom he sung, in rude harsh-sounding rhymes, | To whom he sung in rude harsh sounding rimes, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.289 | They will digest this harsh indignity. | They will digest this harsh indignitie. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.919 | The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs | The Words of Mercurie, / Are harsh after the songs |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.123 | Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, | Not on thy soale: but on thy soule harsh Iew |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.117 | And sweet revenge grows harsh. | And sweet Reuenge growes harsh. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.86 | Hell only danceth at so harsh a chime. | Hell onely daunceth at so harsh a chime: |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.97 | Loud music is too harsh for ladies' heads, | Lowd Musicke is too harsh for Ladyes heads, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.135 | With harsh-resounding trumpets' dreadful bray, | With harsh resounding Trumpets dreadfull bray, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.74 | How dares thy harsh rude tongue sound this unpleasing news? | How dares thy harsh rude tongue sound this vnpleasing newes |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.65 | That tempers him to this extremity. | That tempts him to this harsh Extremity. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.360 | Plain and not honest is too harsh a style. | Plaine and not honest, is too harsh a style. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.28 | Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps. | Straining harsh Discords, and vnpleasing Sharpes. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.104 | Tedious it were to tell, and harsh to hear – | Tedious it were to tell, and harsh to heare, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.182 | But a harsh hearing when women are froward. | But a harsh hearing, when women are froward, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.59 | The cygnet's down is harsh, and spirit of sense | The Cignets Downe is harsh, and spirit of Sense |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.94 | And mar the concord with too harsh a descant. | And marre the concord, with too harsh a descant: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.208 | For they are harsh, untuneable, and bad. | For they are harsh, vn-tuneable, and bad. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.104 | At simpering sirs that did; I have been harsh | At simpring Sirs that did: I have beene harsh |