| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.211 | Egregious murderer, thief, any thing | Egregious murtherer, Theefe, any thing |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.261 | So you must take your husbands. – Begin, murderer. | So you mistake Husbands. / Begin Murderer. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.272 | choice Italian. You shall see anon how the murderer | choyce Italian. You shall see anon how the Murtherer |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.97.2 | A murderer and a villain, | A Murderer, and a Villaine: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.128 | Unless it were a bloody murderer | Vnlesse it were a bloody Murtherer, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.254 | Who being accused a crafty murderer, | Who being accus'd a craftie Murtherer, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.92 | Yet Aeolus would not be a murderer, | Yet Aeolus would not be a murtherer, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.58 | What's worse than murderer, that I may name it? | What's worse then Murtherer, that I may name it? |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.90.1 | Thou art a murderer. | Thou art a Murtherer. |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.102 | Second a villain and a murderer? | Second a Villaine, and a Murtherer? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.8 | That we must stand and play the murderer in? | That we must stand and play the murtherer in? |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.15 | Who should against his murderer shut the door, | Who should against his Murtherer shut the doore, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.8 | Enter First Murderer | Enter first Murtherer. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.12 | He rises and goes to the Murderer | |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.31 | Exit Murderer | Exit Murderer. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.59 | Being a murderer, though he were my brother. | Being a Murtherer, though he were my brother. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.39 | That Angelo's a murderer, is't not strange? | That Angelo's a murtherer, is't not strange? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.57 | So should a murderer look; so dead, so grim. | So should a mutrherer looke, so dead, so grim. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.58 | So should the murdered look, and so should I, | So should the murderer looke, and so should I, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.60 | Yet you, the murderer, look as bright, as clear, | Yet you the murderer looks as bright as cleare, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.291 | An honourable murderer, if you will: | An honourable Murderer, if you will: |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.38 | A present murderer does prepare | A present murderer does prepare |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.52 | With Leonine, a murderer. | With Leonine a murtherer. |
| Richard II | R2 V.vi.40 | I hate the murderer, love him murdered. | I hate the Murtherer, loue him murthered. |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.40 | Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be. | Of Edwards heyres the murtherer shall be. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.64 | Either heaven with lightning strike the murderer dead; | Either Heau'n with Lightning strike the murth'rer dead: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.267 | (To Second Murderer) | |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.277 | Enter First Murderer | Enter 1. Murtherer |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.185 | Is there a murderer here? No. Yes, I am. | Is there a Murtherer heere? No; Yes, I am: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.138 | Tybalt, that murderer, which way ran he? | Tibalt that Murtherer, which way ran he? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.94 | Doth not she think me an old murderer, | Doth not she thinke me an old Murtherer, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.84 | That is because the traitor murderer lives. | That is because the Traitor liues. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.178 | Do this, and be a charitable murderer. | Doe this, and be a charitable murderer. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.54 | Out on thee, murderer! Thou kill'st my heart. | Out on the murderour: thou kil'st my hart, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.93 | Show me a murderer, I'll deal with him. | Shew me a Murtherer, Ile deale with him. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.100 | Good Murder, stab him: he's a murderer. | Good Murder stab him, hee's a Murtherer. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.72 | school i'the church. I have dogged him like his murderer. | Schoole i'th Church: I haue dogg'd him like his murtherer. |