| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.20 | With striving less to be so. Lesser had been | With striuing lesse to be so: Lesser had bin |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.28 | Within her womb, which for enlargement striving | Within her Wombe: which for enlargement striuing, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.98 | Advance our half-faced sun, striving to shine, | Aduance our halfe-fac'd Sunne, striuing to shine; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.98 | The fatal colours of our striving houses; | The fatall Colours of our striuing Houses: |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.40 | Than striving to rebate a tyrant's pride | Then stryuing to rebate a tyrants pride, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.343 | Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. | Striuing to better, oft we marre what's well. |
| King Lear | KL II.i.107 | This hurt you see, striving to apprehend him. | This hurt you see, striuing to apprehend him. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.25 | Striving to make an ugly deed look fair. | Striuing to make an vgly deed looke faire: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.9 | At least to frustrate striving; and to follow | At least to frustrate striving, and to follow |