| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iv.35 | pleasure and the increase of laughter. | pleasure, and the encrease of laughter. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.31 | O, for the love of laughter, let him fetch | O for the loue of laughter, let him fetch |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.37 | O, for the love of laughter, hinder not the | O for the loue of laughter hinder not the |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.52.1 | Scars to move laughter only. | scarres to moue / Laughter onely. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.74 | Ay, madam, with his eyes in flood with laughter: | I Madam, with his eyes in flood with laughter, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.93 | London, it would be argument for a week, laughter for a | London, it would be argument for a Weeke, Laughter for a |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.8 | to invent anything that intends to laughter more than I | to inuent any thing that tends to laughter, more then I |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.72 | this Shallow to keep Prince Harry in continual laughter | this Shallow, to keepe Prince Harry in continuall Laughter, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.72 | Were I a common laughter, or did use | Were I a common Laughter, or did vse |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.49 | I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter, | Ile vse you for my Mirth, yea for my Laughter |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.113 | To be but mirth and laughter to his Brutus, | To be but Mirth and Laughter to his Brutus, |
| King John | KJ III.iii.45 | Making that idiot, laughter, keep men's eyes | Making that idiot laughter keepe mens eyes, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.284 | To laughter and contempt, that she may feel | To laughter, and contempt: That she may feele, |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.6 | The worst returns to laughter. Welcome, then, | The worst returnes to laughter. Welcome then, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.73 | By virtue, thou enforcest laughter; thy silly | By vertue thou inforcest laughter, thy sillie |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.80 | O, I am stabbed with laughter! Where's her grace? | O I am stab'd with laughter, Wher's her Grace? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.116 | With such a zealous laughter, so profound, | With such a zelous laughter so profound, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.844 | To move wild laughter in the throat of death? | To moue wilde laughter in the throate of death? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.80 | With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, | With mirth and laughter let old wrinckles come, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.70 | The passion of loud laughter never shed. | the passion of loud laughter / Neuer shed. |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.99 | From the excess of laughter. Here he comes. | From the excesse of Laughter. Heere he comes. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.132 | And how my men will stay themselves from laughter | And how my men will stay themselues from laughter, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.35 | A laughter. | A Laughter. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iii.21 | So it may prove an argument of laughter | So it may proue an Argument of Laughter |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.488 | But thorough lust and laughter. Pity's sleeping. | But thorow Lust and Laughter: pittie's sleeping: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.113 | And almost broke my heart with extreme laughter. | And almost broke my heart with extreame laughter. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.46 | Present mirth hath present laughter, | Present mirth, hath present laughter: |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.364 | May rather pluck on laughter than revenge, | May rather plucke on laughter then reuenge, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.287 | Of laughing with a sigh? – a note infallible | Of Laughter, with a sigh? (a Note infallible |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.198.2 | To laughter, as I take it, | To laughter, as I take it, |