| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.33 | Our strength is all gone into heaviness, | Our strength is all gone into heauinesse, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.ii.1 | The heaviness and guilt within my bosom | The heauinesse and guilt within my bosome, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.166 | purse too light, being drawn of heaviness. O, of this | Purse too light, being drawne of heauinesse. Oh, of this |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.211 | Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness, | Charming your blood with pleasing heauinesse; |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.82 | But heaviness foreruns the good event. | But heauinesse fore-runnes the good euent. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.9 | I am here, brother, full of heaviness. | I am here (Brother) full of heauinesse. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.130 | Did thrice so much increase our heaviness. | Did thrice so much increase our heauines, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.21 | Ay, madam; in the heaviness of sleep | I Madam: in the heauinesse of sleepe, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.viii.52 | And quicken his embraced heaviness | And quicken his embraced heauinesse |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.84 | So sorrow's heaviness doth heavier grow | So sorrowes heauinesse doth heauier grow: |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.3 | To lay aside life-harming heaviness, | To lay aside selfe-harming heauinesse, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iv.11 | Tonight she's mewed up to her heaviness. | To night, she is mewed vp to her heauinesse. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.108 | One who, to put thee from thy heaviness, | One who to put thee from thy heauinesse, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.307.1 | Heaviness in me. | Heauinesse in me. |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.200.1 | A heaviness that's gone. | A heauinesse that's gon. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.49 | Doth weep to see his grandsire's heaviness. | Doth weepe to see his grandsires heauinesse. |