| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.149 | Touching the weal o'th' common, you shall find | Touching the Weale a'th Common, you shall finde |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.180 | I'th' body of the weal; and now, arriving | I'th' Body of the Weale: and now arriuing |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.175 | A foe to th' public weal. Obey, I charge thee, | A Foe to'th' publike Weale. Obey I charge thee, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.14 | That spirit upon whose weal depends and rests | That Spirit, vpon whose spirit depends and rests |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.177 | And sit at chiefest stern of public weal. | And sit at chiefest Sterne of publique Weale. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.66 | The special watchmen of our English weal, | The speciall Watch-men of our English Weale, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.92 | And will be partner of your weal or woe. | And will be partner of your weale or woe. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.27 | Tends to God's glory and my country's weal. | Tends to Gods glory, and my Countries weale. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.65 | Than whereupon our weal, on you depending, | Then, whereupon our weale on you depending, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.66 | Counts it your weal he have his liberty. | Counts it your weale: he haue his liberty. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.206 | Which in the tender of a wholesome weal | Which in the tender of a wholesome weale, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.75 | Ere humane statute purged the gentle weal; | Ere humane Statute purg'd the gentle Weale: |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.27 | Meet we the medicine of the sickly weal, | Meet we the Med'cine of the sickly Weale, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.51 | Brief sounds determine of my weal or woe. | Briefe, sounds, determine of my weale or wo. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.161 | Smells from the general weal. Make curled-pate ruffians bald, | Smels from the generall weale. Make curld' pate Ruffians bald |