| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.10 | The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, | the Racke dislimes, and makes it indistinct |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.482 | A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still, | A silence in the Heauens, the Racke stand still, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.3 | Even like a man new haled from the rack, | Euen like a man new haled from the Wrack, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.4 | That rack upon the carriage of the winds, | That racke vpon the carriage of the windes, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.312 | That would upon the rack of this tough world | That would vpon the wracke of this tough world |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.64.1 | And rack thee in their fancies. | And racke thee in their fancies. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.309 | Take him hence. To th' rack with him. We'll touse you | Take him hence; to th' racke with him: we'll towze you |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.313 | Dare rack his own. His subject am I not, | Dare racke his owne: his Subiect am I not, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.25 | For as I am, I live upon the rack. | For as I am, I liue vpon the racke. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.26 | Upon the rack, Bassanio? Then confess | Vpon the racke Bassanio, then confesse |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.32 | Ay, but I fear you speak upon the rack, | I, but I feare you speake vpon the racke, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.218 | Why, then we rack the value, then we find | Why then we racke the value, then we finde |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.332 | Avaunt! Be gone! Thou hast set me on the rack. | Auant, be gone: Thou hast set me on the Racke: |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.369 | What I command, I'll rack thee with old cramps, | What I command, Ile racke thee with old Crampes, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.156 | Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff | Leaue not a racke behinde: we are such stuffe |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.139 | Without the rack. | Without the racke. |