| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.142 | his own stomach. Besides, virginity is peevish, proud, | his owne stomacke. Besides, Virginitie is peeuish, proud, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.110 | 'Tis but a peevish boy. Yet he talks well. | 'Tis but a peeuish boy, yet he talkes well, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.94 | How now? A madman? Why, thou peevish sheep, | How now? a Madman? Why thou peeuish sheep |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.112 | What wilt thou do, thou peevish officer? | What wilt thou do, thou peeuish Officer? |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.54.1 | He's strange and peevish. | He's strange and peeuish. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.100 | Why should we in our peevish opposition | Why should we in our peeuish Opposition |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.192 | She is desperate here, a peevish self-willed | Shee is desperate heere: / A peeuish selfe-will'd |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.129 | What a wretched and peevish fellow is this King | What a wretched and peeuish fellow is this King |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.76 | I scorn thee and thy fashion, peevish boy. | I scorne thee and thy fashion, peeuish Boy. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.92 | You of my household, leave this peevish broil | You of my household, leaue this peeuish broyle, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.186 | To send such peevish tokens to a king. | To send such peeuish tokens to a King. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.18 | Why, what a peevish fool was that of Crete, | Why what a peeuish Foole was that of Creet, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.61 | A peevish schoolboy, worthless of such honour, | A peeuish School-boy, worthles of such Honor |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.23 | A ling'ring English siege of peevish love. | A lingring English seege of peeuish loue, |
| King John | KJ II.i.402 | Being wronged as we are by this peevish town, | Being wrong'd as we are by this peeuish Towne: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.86 | By being peevish? I tell thee what, Antonio, | By being peeuish? I tell thee what Anthonio, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.13 | prayer. He is something peevish that way, but nobody | prayer; hee is something peeuish that way: but no body |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.179 | Any beginning to this peevish odds; | Any begining to this peeuish oddes. |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.88 | Or else break out in peevish jealousies, | Or else breake out in peeuish Iealousies, |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.16 | We should have both lord and lown if the peevish | Wee should haue both Lorde and Lowne, if the peeuish |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.120 | you. If your peevish chastity, which is not worth a | you? if your peeuish chastitie, which is not worth a |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.193 | Should all but answer for that peevish brat? | Should all but answer for that peeuish Brat? |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.31 | Fie, what an indirect and peevish course | Fie, what an indirect and peeuish course |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.96 | When Richmond was a little peevish boy. | When Richmond was a little peeuish Boy. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.14 | A peevish self-willed harlotry it is. | A peeuish selfe-wild harlotry it is. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.156 | And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour, | And when she is froward, peeuish, sullen, sowre, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.16 | The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows; | The gods are deafe to hot and peeuish vowes; |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.290 | Run after that same peevish messenger, | Run after that same peeuish Messenger |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.68 | No, trust me; she is peevish, sullen, froward, | No, trust me, She is peeuish, sullen, froward, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.ii.49 | Why, this it is to be a peevish girl | Why this it is, to be a peeuish Girle, |