| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.107 | The ghostly father now hath done his shrift. | The Ghostly Father now hath done his Shrift. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.201 | shrift and advise him for a better place. Yet you are | shrift, and aduise him for a better place. Yet you are |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.24 | His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift; | His Bed shall seeme a Schoole, his Boord a Shrift, |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.95 | Make a short shrift; he longs to see your head. | Make a short Shrift, he longs to see your Head. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.159 | To hear true shrift. Come, madam, let's away. | To heare true shrift. Come Madam let's away. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.52 | Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift. | Ridling confession, findes but ridling shrift. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.177 | Some means to come to shrift this afternoon, | some meanes to come to shrift this afternoone, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.66 | Have you got leave to go to shrift today? | Haue you got leaue to go to shrift to day? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.15 | See where she comes from shrift with merry look. | See where she comes from shrift / With merrie looke. |