| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.26 | 'Tis fond to wail inevitable strokes, | 'Tis fond to waile ineuitable strokes, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.51 | And none but women left to wail the dead. | And none but Women left to wayle the dead. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.216 | And can do naught but wail her darling's loss; | And can doe naught but wayle her Darlings losse; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.1 | Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, | Great Lords, wise men ne'r sit and waile their losse, |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.70 | Tom will make him weep and wail; | Tom will make him weepe and waile, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.744 | From what it purposed; since to wail friends lost | From what it purpos'd: since to waile friends lost, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.121 | Whose loves I may not drop, but wail his fall | Whose loues I may not drop, but wayle his fall, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.8.2 | What I believe, I'll wail; | What I beleeue, Ile waile; |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.22 | Find shapes of grief more than himself to wail, | Finde shapes of greefe, more then himselfe to waile, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.178 | My lord, wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, | My Lord, wise men ne're waile their present woes, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.179 | But presently prevent the ways to wail. | But presently preuent the wayes to waile: |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.300 | Me cause to wail, but teachest me the way | Me cause to wayle, but teachest me the way |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.203 | Long mayst thou live to wail thy children's death | Long may'st thou liue, to wayle thy Childrens death, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.11 | It were lost sorrow to wail one that's lost. | It were lost sorrow to waile one that's lost. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.34 | Ah, who shall hinder me to wail and weep, | Ah! who shall hinder me to waile and weepe? |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.102 | To wail the dimming of our shining star; | To waile the dimming of our shining Starre: |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.60 | Misconstrue us in him and wail his death. | Misconster vs in him, and wayle his death. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.392 | Ungoverned youth, to wail it in their age; | Vngouern'd youth, to waile it with their age: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.394 | Old barren plants, to wail it with their age. | Old barren Plants, to waile it with their Age. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.31 | Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail, | Death that hath tane her hence to make me waile, |