| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.124 | France should have torn and rent my very heart, | France should haue torne and rent my very hart, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.175 | That rents the thorns and is rent with the thorns, | That rents the Thornes, and is rent with the Thornes, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.176 | See what a rent the envious Casca made; | See what a rent the enuious Caska made: |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.132 | Prithee tell him; so much the rent of his | Prythee tell him, so much the rent of his |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.218 | What, did these rent lines show some love of thine? | What, did these rent lines shew some loue of thine? |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.168 | Where sighs and groans and shrieks that rent the air | Where sighes, and groanes, and shrieks that rent the ayre |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.230 | ten year, I'll rent the fairest house in it after threepence | ten yeare, ile rent the fairest house in it after three pence |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.19 | Lean, rent, and beggared by the strumpet wind. | Leane, rent, and begger'd by the strumpet winde? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.215 | And will you rent our ancient love asunder, | And will you rent our ancient loue asunder, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.126 | These nails should rent that beauty from my cheeks. | These Nailes should rent that beauty from my Cheekes. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.259 | Rend off thy silver hair, thy other hand | Rent off thy siluer haire, thy other hand |