| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.33 | Have comfort, for I know your plight is pitied | Haue comfort, for I know your plight is pittied |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.27 | The loyal'st husband that did e'er plight troth. | The loyall'st husband, that did ere plight troth. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.37 | And, as thou seest, ourselves in heavy plight. | And (as thou seest) our selues in heauie plight. |
| King Lear | KL I.i.101 | That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry | That Lord, whose hand must take my plight, shall carry |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.117 | Bid her alight and her troth plight – | Bid her a-light, and her troth-plight, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.2 | As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt | As seemeth by his plight, of the Reuolt |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.162 | better plight for a lender than you are, the which hath | better plight for a Lender, then you are: the which hath |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.103 | Had I but seen thy picture in this plight | Had I but seene thy picture in this plight, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.32 | And rather comfort his distressed plight | And rather comfort his distressed plight, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.159 | To keep her constancy in plight and youth, | To keepe her constancie in plight and youth, |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.iii.26 | Plight me the full assurance of your faith, | Plight me the full assurance of your faith, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.34 | Freed of this plight and in their morning state, | Freed of this plight, and in their morning state |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.88 | I am in plight,’ there shall be at your choice | I am in plight, there shall be at your choyce |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.118 | My plight requires it. Do not weep, good fools: | My plight requires it. Doe not weepe (good Fooles) |