| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.88 | He's shrewdly vexed at something. Look, he | He's shrewdly vext at something. Looke he |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.ii.2 | The nobility are vexed, whom we see have sided | The Nobility are vexed, whom we see haue sided |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.i.17 | I am not vexed more at any thing in th' earth: a pox | I am not vext more at any thing in th'earth: a pox |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.26 | Is with a kind of colic pinched and vexed | Is with a kinde of Collick pincht and vext, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.104.2 | He is vexed at something. | He is vex'd at something. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.107.1 | Of this man to be vexed? | Of this man to be vex'd? |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.39 | Merely upon myself. Vexed I am | Meerely vpon my selfe. Vexed I am |
| King John | KJ II.i.336 | Whose passage, vexed with thy impediment, | Whose passage vext with thy impediment, |
| King John | KJ III.i.17 | With my vexed spirits I cannot take a truce, | With my vext spirits, I cannot take a Truce, |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.2 | As mad as the vexed sea, singing aloud, | As mad as the vext Sea, singing alowd, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.192 | Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. | Being vext, a Sea nourisht with louing teares, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.158 | Now, afore God, I am so vexed that every part | Now afore God, I am so vext, that euery part |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.95 | Is my poor heart so for a kinsman vexed. | Is my poore heart so for a kinsman vext: |