| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.161 | And ruthless slaughters as are daily seen | And ruthlesse slaughters as are dayly seene |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.34 | The ruthless flint doth cut my tender feet, | The ruthlesse Flint doth cut my tender feet, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.31 | Ay, to such mercy as his ruthless arm | I, to such mercy, as his ruthlesse Arme |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.156 | See, ruthless Queen, a hapless father's tears; | See, ruthlesse Queene, a haplesse Fathers Teares: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.61 | The ruthless Queen gave him to dry his cheeks | The ruthlesse Queene gaue him, to dry his Cheekes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.25 | And what is Edward but a ruthless sea? | And what is Edward, but a ruthlesse Sea? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.36 | More than with ruthless waves, with sands and rocks. | More then with ruthlesse Waues, with Sands and Rocks. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.170 | And tottering sink into the ruthless flood, | And tottering sink into the ruthlesse floud, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.108 | Why, what a ruthless thing is this in him, for the | Why, what a ruthlesse thing is this in him, for the |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.5 | To do this piece of ruthless butchery, | To do this peece of ruthfull Butchery, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.128 | The woods are ruthless, dreadful, deaf, and dull. | The Woods are ruthlesse, dreadfull, deafe, and dull: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.53 | Forced in the ruthless, vast, and gloomy woods? | Forc'd in the ruthlesse, vast, and gloomy woods? |