| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.63 | Horrible villain, or I'll spurn thine eyes | horrible Villaine, or Ile spurne thine eyes |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.72 | And there assume some other, horrible form, | And there assumes some other horrible forme, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.80 | O, horrible! O, horrible! Most horrible! | Oh horrible, Oh horrible, most horrible: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.359 | not thou horrible afeard? Thou being heir apparent, | not thou horrible afear'd? thou being Heire apparant, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.362 | Glendower? Art thou not horribly afraid? Doth not thy | Glendower? Art not thou horrible afraid? Doth not thy |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.366 | Well, thou wilt be horribly chid tomorrow | Well, thou wilt be horrible chidde to morrow, |
| 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 VIII | H8 I.ii.206 | He did discharge a horrible oath, whose tenor | He did discharge a horrible Oath, whose tenor |
| King John | KJ IV.i.95 | Your vile intent must needs seem horrible. | Your vilde intent must needs seeme horrible. |
| King John | KJ V.vi.20 | Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible. | Blacke, fearefull, comfortlesse, and horrible. |
| King Lear | KL II.iii.17 | And with this horrible object, from low farms, | And with this horrible obiect, from low Farmes, |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.19 | Your horrible pleasure. Here I stand, your slave, | Your horrible pleasure. Heere I stand your Slaue, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.3.2 | Horrible steep. | Horrible steepe. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.137 | Are less than horrible imaginings. | Are lesse then horrible Imaginings: |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.105 | The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow! | The Baby of a Girle. Hence horrible shadow, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.121 | Horrible sight! Now I see 'tis true, | Horrible sight: Now I see 'tis true, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.131 | Imagine howling, 'tis too horrible. | Imagine howling, 'tis too horrible. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.114 | Some horrible conceit. If thou dost love me, | Some horrible Conceite. If thou do'st loue me, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.25.2 | What horrible fancy's this? | What horrible Fancie's this? |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.202 | I know this act shows horrible and grim. | I know this acte shewes horrible and grim. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.37 | The horrible conceit of death and night, | The horrible conceit of death and night, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.234 | And more diversity of sounds, all horrible, | And mo diuersitie of sounds, all horrible. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.119 | But set them down horrible traitors. Spare not the babe | But set them down horrible Traitors. Spare not the Babe |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.94 | My niece is horribly in love with a thing you | My Neece is horrible in loue with a thing you |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.175 | thou seest him, draw, and as thou drawest, swear horrible; | thou seest him, draw, and as thou draw'st, sweare horrible: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.151 | Which being so horrible, so bloody, must | Which being so horrible, so bloody, must |