| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.viii.9 | Tell them your feats, whilst they with joyful tears | Tell them your feats, whil'st they with ioyfull teares |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iii.1 | Tomorrow is the joyful day, Audrey. | To morrow is the ioyfull day Audrey, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.51 | A joyful mother of two goodly sons; | A ioyfull mother of two goodly sonnes: |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iii.42 | I am joyful to hear of their readiness, and am the | I am ioyfull to heare of their readinesse, and am the |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.403 | Save these in bonds, let them be joyful too, | Saue these in bonds, let them be ioyfull too, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.35 | With joyful tidings, and, being better horsed, | With ioyfull tydings; and (being better hors'd) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.124 | O joyful day! I would not take a knighthood | O ioyfull day: I would not take a Knighthood |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.35 | Dear nurse of arts, plenties, and joyful births, | Deare Nourse of Arts, Plentyes, and ioyfull Births, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.144 | How joyful am I made by this contract! | How ioyfull am I made by this Contract. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.6.2 | I am joyful | I am ioyfull |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.93 | I am most joyful, madam, such good dreams | I am most ioyfull Madam, such good dreames |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.174 | Good man, those joyful tears show thy true heart. | Good Man, those ioyfull teares shew thy true hearts, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.163 | The joyful clamours of the people are, | The ioyfull clamours of the people are, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.209 | And I am joyful, Countess; else I die. | And I am ioyfull Countes els I die. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.74 | O joyful sight! Victorious Edward lives! | O ioyfull sight, victorious Edward liues. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.104 | But now, my lord, as this is joyful news, | But now my Lord, as this is ioyful newes, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.71 | what a joyful father wouldst thou make me! Go to, | What a ioyfull father wouldst thou make mee? Goe to, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.858 | Right joyful of your reformation. | Right ioyfull of your reformation. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iv.46 | I'll be myself the harbinger and make joyful | Ile be my selfe the Herbenger, and make ioyfull |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.45 | I know this is a joyful trouble to you, | I know this is a ioyfull trouble to you: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.49 | Got deliver to a joyful resurrections! – give, when she is | (Got deliuer to a ioyfull resurrections) giue, when she is |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.29 | No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home; | No ioyfull tongue gaue him his welcome home, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.19 | God make your majesty joyful, as you have been! | God make your Maiesty ioyful, as you haue bin |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.202 | O, make them joyful, grant their lawful suit! | O make them ioyfull, grant their lawfull suit. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.6 | A happy and a joyful time of day! | a happie / And a ioyfull time of day. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.99 | For joyful mother, one that wails the name; | For ioyfull Mother, one that wailes the name: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.171 | Lord, Lord! She will be a joyful woman. | Lord, Lord she will be a ioyfull woman. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.104 | But now I'll tell thee joyful tidings, girl. | But now Ile tell thee ioyfull tidings Gyrle. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.115 | Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride. | Shall happily make thee a ioyfull Bride. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.117 | He shall not make me there a joyful bride! | He shall not make me there a ioyfull Bride. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.2 | My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. | My dreames presage some ioyfull newes at hand: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.v.52 | We shall be joyful of thy company. | We shall be ioyfull of thy companie. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.250 | Show me this piece. I am joyful of your sights. | Shew me this peece, I am ioyfull of your sights. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.116 | If they did kill thy husband, then be joyful, | If they did kill thy husband then be ioyfull, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.65 | A joyful issue. | a ioyfull issue. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.135 | Right joyful, with some sorrow. (To Arcite) Arm your prize; | Right joyfull, with some sorrow. Arme your prize, |