| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.31 | Then in the midst a tearing groan did break | Then in the midd'st a tearing grone did breake |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.102 | The son, the husband, and the father tearing | The Sonne, the Husband, and the Father tearing |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.140 | them. You a captain? You slave! For what? For tearing | them. You a Captaine? you slaue, for what? for tearing |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.155 | No tearing, lady! I perceive you know it. | No tearing Lady, I perceiue you know it. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.49 | Tearing the Thracian singer in their rage. | Tearing the Thracian singer, in their rage? |