| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.39 | On pain of punishment, the world to weet | One paine of punishment, the world to weete |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.47 | The pleasing punishment that women bear, | The pleasing punishment that women beare) |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.116 | deserve more; a punishment too. | deserue more; a punishment too. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vi.11 | A punishment or trial? Yes; no wonder, | A punishment, or Triall? Yes; no wonder, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.335 | Your pleasure was my ne'er-offence, my punishment | Your pleasure was my neere offence, my punishment |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.344 | Having received the punishment before | Hauing receyu'd the punishment before |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.163 | punishment, though they can outstrip men they have no | punishment; though they can out-strip men, they haue no |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.130 | I never gave them condign punishment; | I neuer gaue them condigne punishment. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.183 | The foulness is the punishment. I presume | The fowlenesse is the punishment. I presume, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.17 | What torturing death or punishment you please, | What tortering death or punishment you please, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.71 | Judicious punishment! 'Twas this flesh begot | Iudicious punishment, 'twas this flesh begot |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.93 | And quit the house on purpose that their punishment | And quit the house on purpose, that their punishment |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.257 | receive the meed of punishment, by thy sweet grace's officer, | receiuethe meed of punishment by thy sweet Graces Officer |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.61 | Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment. | Vowes for thee broke deserue not punishment. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.39 | And not the punishment. Therefore, indeed, my father, | And not the punishment: therefore indeede (my father) |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.28 | He should receive his punishment in thanks. | He should receiue his punishment, in thankes: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.184 | another punishment? | another punishment? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.4 | Nay, that were a punishment too good for | Nay, that were a punishment too good for |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.294 | punishment. And also, the watch heard them talk of one | punishment, and also the watch heard them talke of one |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.266 | in his mood – a punishment more in policy than in | in his moode, (a punishment more in policie, then in |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.107 | And yet his punishment was bitter death. | And yet his punishment was bitter death. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.144 | As punishment for his most wicked life. | As punishment for his most wicked life. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.4 | O, 'twas a studied punishment, a death | Oh twas a studdied punishment, a death |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.44 | a very grievous punishment, as one would think, for | a very greevous punishment, as one would thinke, for |