| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.4 | My arm is sore; best play with Mardian. | My arme is sore, best play with Mardian. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.65 | If you went in pain, master, this knave would go sore. | If you went in paine Master, this knaue wold goe sore. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.244 | Only for bearing burdens, and sore blows | Onely for bearing Burthens, and sore blowes |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.234.2 | For 'tis a sore upon us | For 'tis a Sore vpon vs, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.i.23 | to a sore purpose! Fortune, put them into my hand! | to a sore purpose: Fortune put them into my hand: |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.225 | With charitable bill – O bill, sore shaming | With Charitable bill (Oh bill sore shaming |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.75 | Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task | Why such impresse of Ship-wrights, whose sore Taske |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.169 | water is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body. | water, is a sore Decayer of your horson dead body. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.223 | How I am punished with a sore distraction. | how I am punisht / With sore distraction? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.76 | I hear the King my father is sore sick. | I heare the King, my Father, is sore sicke. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.26 | Are every one a woe, a sore complaint | Are euery one, a Woe, a sore Complaint, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.284 | Shall stand sore charged for the wasteful vengeance | Shall stand sore charged, for the wastefull vengeance |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.14 | That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. | That mounts no higher then a Bird can sore: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.7 | Mass, 'twill be sore law then, for he was | Masse 'twill be sore Law then, for he was |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.88 | A salve for any sore that may betide. | A salue for any sore, that may betide. |
| King John | KJ V.ii.12 | I am not glad that such a sore of time | I am not glad that such a sore of Time |
| King John | KJ V.iv.6 | They say King John, sore sick, hath left the field. | They say King Iohn sore sick, hath left the field. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.219 | A plague-sore, an embossed carbuncle, | A plague sore, or imbossed Carbuncle |
| King Lear | KL III.v.21 | my course of loyalty, though the conflict be sore between | my course of Loyalty, though the conflict be sore betweene |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.58 | Some say a sore, but not a sore till now made sore with shooting. | Some say a Sore, but not a sore, till now made sore with shooting. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.59 | The dogs did yell; put ‘ L ’ to sore, then sorel jumps from thicket; | The Dogges did yell, put ell to Sore, then Sorell iumps from thicket: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.60 | Or pricket, sore, or else sorel, the people fall a-hooting. | Or Pricket-sore, or else Sorell, the people fall a hooting. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.61 | If sore be sore, then ‘ L ’ to sore makes fifty sores o' sorel: | If Sore be sore, then ell to Sore, makes fiftie sores O sorell: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.62 | Of one sore I an hundred make, by adding but one more ‘ L.’ | Of one sore I an hundred make by adding but one more L. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.38 | The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, | The death of each dayes Life, sore Labors Bath, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iv.3 | Hours dreadful and things strange; but this sore night | Houres dreadfull, and things strange: but this sore Night |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.307 | So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring. | So sore, as keeping safe Nerrissas ring. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.100 | The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear | The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see cleare: |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.32 | Besides, the sore terms we stand upon with the gods will | besides the sore tearmes we stand vpon with the gods, wilbe |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.303 | Than when he bites, but lanceth not the sore. | Then when it bites, but lanceth not the sore. |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.265 | We see the wind sit sore upon our sails | We see the winde sit sore vpon our salles, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.42 | Awaked you not with this sore agony? | Awak'd you not in this sore Agony? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.19 | I am too sore empierced with his shaft | I am too sore enpearced with his shaft, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.140 | And time to speak it in. You rub the sore, | And time to speake it in: you rub the sore, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.11 | Upon a sore injunction. My sweet mistress | Vpon a sore iniunction; my sweet Mistris |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.289 | I should have been a sore one, then. | I should haue bin a sore one then. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.117 | But tickles still the sore. | But tickles still the sore: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.29 | flap for a sore eye, thou tassel of a prodigal's purse, | flap for a sore eye, thou tassell of a Prodigals purse |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.v.14 | Sore hurt and bruised; the dreadful Sagittary | Sore hurt and bruised; the dreadfull Sagittary |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.30 | barley-break, we of the blessed. Alas, 'tis a sore life they | Barly breake, / We of the blessed; alas, tis a sore life they |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.49 | My lord, your sorrow was too sore laid on, | My Lord, your Sorrow was too sore lay'd-on, |