| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.40 | In piteous chase; and thus the hairy fool, | In pitteous chase: and thus the hairie foole, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.73 | And piteous plainings of the pretty babes, | And pitteous playnings of the prettie babes |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.82 | And with a look so piteous in purport | And with a looke so pitious in purport, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.94 | He raised a sigh so piteous and profound | He rais'd a sigh, so pittious and profound, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.129 | Lest with this piteous action you convert | Least with this pitteous action you conuert |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.12 | Or piteous they will look, like drowned mice. | Or pitteous they will looke, like drowned Mice. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.163 | And say ‘ Alas, it was a piteous deed!’ | And say, Alas, it was a pittious deed. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.73 | O, piteous spectacle! O, bloody times! | O pitteous spectacle! O bloody Times! |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.199 | O piteous spectacle! | O pitteous spectacle! |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.212 | Told the most piteous tale of Lear and him | |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.125 | Or in thy piteous heart plant thou thine ear, | Or in thy pitteous heart, plant thou thine eare, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.157 | To hear the piteous moan that Rutland made | To heare the pittious moane that Rutland made |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.2 | The most arch deed of piteous massacre | The most arch deed of pittious massacre |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.74 | Ensues his piteous and unpitied end. | Insues his pittious and vnpittied end. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.54 | A piteous corse, a bloody piteous corse; | A pitteous Coarse, a bloody piteous Coarse: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.87 | Piteous predicament! Even so lies she, | Pittious predicament, euen so lies she, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.180 | But the true ground of all these piteous woes | But the true ground of all these piteous woes, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.14 | No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart | No more amazement: Tell your pitteous heart |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.56 | Yea, and a woeful and a piteous nullity. | Yea, and a woefull, and a pittious nullity. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.182 | Most piteous to be wild – I have dispatched in post | Most pitteous to be wilde) I haue dispatch'd in post, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.88 | point. O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls! Sometimes | point: Oh, the most pitteous cry of the poore soules, sometimes |