| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.145 | God shorten Harry's happy life one day! | Heauen shorten Harries happy life, one day. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.227 | Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, | Shorten my dayes thou canst with sudden sorow, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.13 | Have been so brief with you to shorten you, | Haue beene so briefe with you, to shorten you, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.260 | With dry convulsions, shorten up their sinews | With dry Convultions, shorten vp their sinewes |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.419 | But shorten thy life one week. – And thou, fresh piece | But shorten thy life one weeke. And thou, fresh peece |