| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.30 | Perhaps it will be thought a heinous thing | Perhaps it will be thought a heynous thing, |
| King John | KJ III.i.40 | Which harm within itself so heinous is | Which harme within it selfe so heynous is, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.90 | You hold too heinous a respect of grief. | You hold too heynous a respect of greefe. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.71 | The image of a wicked heinous fault | The image of a wicked heynous fault |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.56 | Exampled by this heinous spectacle. | Exampled by this heynous spectacle. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.93 | Thy heinous, manifest, and many treasons, | Thy heynous, manifest, and many Treasons, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iii.16 | Alack, what heinous sin is it in me | Alacke, what hainous sinne is it in me |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.5 | Due to this heinous capital offence, | due to this heynous / Capitall offence, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.131 | Should show so heinous, black, obscene a deed! | Should shew so heynous, black, obscene a deed. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.232 | There shouldst thou find one heinous article, | There should'st thou finde one heynous Article, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.33 | If on the first, how heinous e'er it be | If on the first, how heynous ere it bee, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.58 | O, heinous, strong, and bold conspiracy! | Oh heinous, strong, and bold Conspiracie, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.53 | If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds, | If thou delight to view thy heynous deeds, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.451 | Which Rome reputes to be a heinous sin, | Which Rome reputes to be a hainous sinne. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.487 | I do remit these young men's heinous faults. | I doe remit these young mens haynous faults. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.79 | Performers of this heinous, bloody deed? | Performers of this hainous bloody deed? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.123 | Art thou not sorry for these heinous deeds? | Art thou not sorry for these hainous deedes? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.4 | To join with him and right his heinous wrongs. | To ioyne with him and right his hainous wrongs: |