| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.x.18 | The noble ruin of her magic, Antony, | The Noble ruine of her Magicke, Anthony, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.51 | I'll not sleep neither. This mortal house I'll ruin, | Ile not sleepe neither. This mortall house Ile ruine, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.118.1 | The ruin of the state. | the ruin of the State. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.206.1 | In heaps and piles of ruin. | In heapes, and piles of Ruine. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.69.1 | Of what that want might ruin. | Of what that want might ruine. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.125 | Than thou of them. Come all to ruin. Let | Then thou of them. Come all to ruine, let |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.116 | Triumphantly tread on thy country's ruin, | Triumphantly treade on thy Countries ruine, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.354 | Without his top? The ruin speaks that sometime | Without his top? The ruine speakes, that sometime |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.22 | Attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone | Attends the boystrous Ruine. Neuer alone |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.176 | Whose ruin you have sought, that to her laws | Whose ruine you sought, that to her Lawes |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.11 | What ruin happened in revenge of him, | What ruine happened in reuenge of him, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.46 | By wasting ruin of the cruel foe; | By wasting Ruine of the cruell Foe, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.194 | There comes the ruin, there begins confusion. | There comes the ruine, there begins confusion. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.10 | Tendering my ruin and assailed of none, | Tendring my ruine, and assayl'd of none, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.ii.7 | Else ruin combat with their palaces! | Else ruine combate with their Pallaces. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.61 | Come, thou new ruin of old Clifford's house; | Come thou new ruine of olde Cliffords house: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.254 | And utter ruin of the house of York. | And vtter ruine of the House of Yorke. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.10 | Our ranks are broke, and ruin follows us. | Our rankes are broke, and ruine followes vs. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.73 | And seek their ruin that usurped our right? | And seeke their Ruine, that vsurp'd our Right? |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.98 | Ye tell me what ye wish for both – my ruin. | Ye tell me what ye wish for both, my ruine: |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.205 | He parted frowning from me, as if ruin | He parted Frowning from me, as if Ruine |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.242 | Ye appear in everything may bring my ruin! | Ye appeare in euery thing may bring my ruine? |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.369 | That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, | That sweet Aspect of Princes, and their ruine, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.40 | But where he meant to ruin, pitiful. | (But where he meant to Ruine) pittifull. |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.65 | Kneeling before this ruin of sweet life, | Kneeling before this ruine of sweete life, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.48 | Picked from the chaff and ruin of the times | Pickt from the chaffe and ruine of the times, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.173 | Let it presage the ruin of your love | Let it presage the ruine of your loue, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.142 | To cureless ruin. I stand here for law. | To endlesse ruine. I stand heere for Law. |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.37 | Soon fall to ruin, your noble self, | Soone fall to ruine: your noble selfe, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.102 | Cry woe, destruction, ruin, and decay. | Cry Woe, Destruction, Ruine, Losse, Decay, |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.49 | Ay me! I see the ruin of my house. | Aye me! I see the ruine of my House: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.409 | Death, desolation, ruin, and decay. | Death, Desolation, Ruine, and Decay: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.154 | And weigh thee down to ruin, shame, and death! | And weigh thee downe to ruine, shame, and death, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.206 | And bow this feeble ruin to the earth. | And bow this feeble ruine to the earth, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.167 | And formless ruin of oblivion; | And formelesse ruine of obliuion: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.58 | But by my ruin. | But by my ruine. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.27 | Meet you no ruin but the soldier in | Meete you no ruine, but the Soldier in |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.92 | Ruin to Thebes; who is at hand to seal | Ruine to Thebs, who is at hand to seale |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.189 | I find no anger to 'em, nor no ruin; | I finde no anger to 'em; nor no ruyn, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.240 | Might breed the ruin of my name, opinion. | Might breed the ruine of my name; Opinion, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.527 | As heavens forfend! – your ruin; marry her; | (As heauens forefend) your ruine: Marry her, |