| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.198 | In good sadness, I do not know; either it is | In good sadnesse I do not know, either it is |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.4 | breed me well; and there begins my sadness. My | breed mee well: and there begins my sadnesse: My |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.18 | often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness. | often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadnesse. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.62 | He did incline to sadness, and oft-times | He did incline to sadnesse, and oft times |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.160 | no more tavern-bills, which are often the sadness of | no more Tauerne Bils, which are often the sadnesse of |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.147 | Fell into a sadness, then into a fast, | Fell into a Sadnesse, then into a Fast, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.46 | Brothers, you mix your sadness with some fear. | Brothers, you mixe your Sadnesse with some Feare: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.77 | Accords not with the sadness of my suit: | Accords not with the sadnesse of my suit: |
| King John | KJ II.i.546 | Will give her sadness very little cure. | Will giue her sadnesse very little cure: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.4 | Why, sadness is one and the selfsame thing, | Why? sadnesse is one and the selfe-same thing |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.7 | How canst thou part sadness and melancholy, | How canst thou part sadnesse and melancholy |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.6 | And such a want-wit sadness makes of me | and such a Want-wit sadnesse makes of mee, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.48 | sadness in his youth. I had rather be married to a death's-head | sadnesse in his youth.) I had rather to be married to a deaths head |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.113 | In good sadness, sir, I am sorry that for my sake | In good sadnesse Sir, I am sorry, that for my sake |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.86 | Ay, in good sadness, is he, and talks of | I in good sadnesse is he, and talkes of |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.4 | breeds; therefore the sadness is without limit. | breeds, therefore the sadnesse is without limit. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.163 | It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? | It was: what sadnes lengthens Romeo's houres? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.199 | Tell me in sadness, who is that you love. | Tell me in sadnesse, who is that you loue? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.202 | Bid a sick man in sadness make his will. | A sicke man in sadnesse makes his will: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.204 | In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman. | In sadnesse Cozin, I do loue a woman. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.130 | Seeing too much sadness hath congealed your blood, | Seeing too much sadnesse hath congeal'd your blood, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.63 | Now, in good sadness, son Petruchio, | Now in good sadnesse sonne Petruchio, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.42 | Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness. | Is like that mirth, Fate turnes to sudden sadnesse. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.51 | But Palamon's sadness is a kind of mirth, | But Palamons sadnes is a kinde of mirth, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.53 | And sadness merry. Those darker humours that | And sadnes, merry; those darker humours that |