| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.52 | Lament nor sorrow at, but please your thoughts | Lament nor sorrow at: but please your thoughts |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.29 | That nature must compel us to lament | That Nature must compell vs to lament |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.40 | In the whole world. But yet let me lament | In the whole world. But yet let me lament |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.177 | my friends no wrong, for I have none to lament me; the | my friends no wrong, for I haue none to lament me: the |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.ii.52 | Leave this faint puling and lament as I do, | Leaue this faint-puling, and lament as I do, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.145.11 | with some three or four, comes in again, seem to condole | with some two orthree Mutes comes in againe, seeming to lament |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.208 | Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament. | Where Ioy most Reuels, Greefe doth most lament; |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.108 | Why then, lament therefore. | Why then Lament therefore. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.85 | I should lament thy miserable state. | I should lament thy miserable state. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.38 | 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. | 'Twere childish weakenesse to lament, or feare. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.12.1 | Melt and lament for her. | Melt and lament for her. |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.64 | Why lament you, pretty one? | Why lament you prettie one? |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.58 | Lament we may, but not revenge thee dead. | Lament we may, but not reuenge thee dead. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.301 | How to lament the cause. I'll beg one boon, | How to lament the cause. Ile begge one Boone, |
| Richard II | R2 V.vi.47 | Come mourn with me for that I do lament, | Come mourne with me, for that I do lament, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.3 | Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament | Whil'st I a-while obsequiously lament |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.32 | Rest you, whiles I lament King Henry's corse. | Rest you, whiles I lament King Henries Coarse. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.9 | I do lament the sickness of the King, | I do lament the sicknesse of the King, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.43 | If you will live, lament; if die, be brief, | If you will liue, Lament: if dye, be breefe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.82 | For though fond nature bids us all lament, | For though some Nature bids all vs lament, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.205 | That ever eye with sight made heart lament. | That euer eye with sight made heart lament. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.27 | O noble father, you lament in vain: | Oh noble father, you lament in vaine, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.217 | But yet let reason govern thy lament. | But yet let reason gouerne thy lament. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.241 | Cease to lament for that thou canst not help, | Cease to lament for that thou canst not helpe, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.135.1 | Lament till I am lost. | Lament, till I am lost. |